The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 8, 1936, Page 1

~ ‘ y é a o 4 mm a) ‘ ee is +e ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1936 Mostly cloudy tonight warmer tonight; colder The Weather | and uureday PRICE FIVE CENTS ,FDR Seeks Funds to Pay Farmers t ied Rent Plan Proposed As New Farm Relief Step MDWEST FARNE FARMERS, CALM DURING CRISS, SEEK NEW MEASURE Old McNary-Haugen Proposal Also Is Getting Serious Atterition JUSTICES BURNED IN EFFIGY Northwest Agrarian Chiefs Will Attend Wallace's Capital Conference ‘With midwestern farmers appar- ently unanimous that a substitute for the AAA is necessary to farm pros- perity, farm leaders Wednesday turned toward Washington and the ae which may develop a new Most prominently urged was a plan suggested in Iowa whereby the gov- ernment would rerit land from each farmer for the purpose of improving it and maintaining its fertility, thus taking it out of production in exactly the same manner, but presumably for @ different reason, as the AAA sys- tem which was held unconstitutional. ‘The suggestion was made last sum- mer by a “grass roots” meeting of Iowa farmers who were considering the possibilities of a long-time pro- gram for the benefit of agriculture. By the judicious renting of land, it was claimed, the government could ie down the production of major ps to what the market could ab- D aad, at the same time protect the soil, its greatest asset. Would Rotate Crops Land heavily Noned tere to corn and wheat, for example, would be rotated with leguminous and other soil-build- ing crops and benefit payments would be on the basis of the legumes and ———. other grasses produced. No provision for financing such a program has been advanced but the; money presumably would be raised from general taxation and appro- priated by congress. ‘Often mentioned, of course, was the old McNary-Haugen plan, twice ve- toed by President Coolidge. This plan provides for payment to farmers of an equalization fee, derived from sale, either in this country or abroad, of surplus stocks withdrawn from gen- eral markets. There would.be no di- rect control of production. The general attitude expressed by farm leaders, according to an Associ- ated Press survey, was one of sober concern with a deep-seated resolution to find a law which can pass through | - the “supreme court sieve,” if it is pos- sible to do so. Constitution Not Attacked To date there has been little advo- cacy of a constitutional amendment to permit wider exercise. of . govern- ment authority, the initial search be- ing made to find a plan which can operate under the constitution as it now exists. Students at the lowa State Agri- cultural college at. Ames. burned in effigy the six supreme court justices who held the AAA unconstitutional in the only incident approaching vio- lence in the farm country, but this generally was discounted: as a college boy’s prank and not representative of the general attitude, Neither was there any suggestion of farm revolts such as those engincerea some states two years ago. These dem- onstrations, it was pointed out, were led by the more radical element of (Continued on Page Seven) PIONEER BISMARCK , WOMAN SUCCUMBS = Mrs. Harry E. Rittgers, 47, Dies of Apoplexy in James- town Home Jamestown, N. D., Jan. 8—(?)— Mrs. Ethel Rittgers, wife of Harry E. Rittgers, Jamestown attorney and Stutsman county assistant states at- torney, passed away early Wednesday from a stroke of apoplexy. Mrs. Rittgers was born in Bismarck, Dec. 1, 1888, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Anderson Healy, having been among the very early settlers in Bis- marck high school. Mr. and Mrs. Rittgers were married in May 1912. For the first three years of their married life they made their home in Medina where Mr. Rittgers practiced law. Since that time a ey have lived in Jamestown. Eastern Star. Survivors are her hus- band an adopted son, Paul, and | iDodge Farm Woman brother, Harry Healy of Seattle. Puneral services will be held here Friday afternoon. Sieamer Founders Without Loss of Life ine entrance to the harbor of Las Palmas, Canary Islands, radio dis- patches from Palms, Mallorca, said, | ee ee ee ee Spanish vessel were rescued, x Hayshaker Strengthens Haymakers Here is Handsome Charley Retzlaff, Leonard, North Dakota, rancher- farmer when he is not trading clouts with heavyweights. Charley is pictured in the barn of his Sand bred livestock and where he got in Hills farm where he ito the best condition raised pure- if his career for his impending fight with the world’s No. 1 heavyweight, Joe Louis. Some farmers will notice Charley isn't holding the pitchfork in the best accepted farm style, but we all have different styles. Joe Louis may find that out. North Dakota hopes so. Charley Unafraid Of Brown Bomber, CONSUMER SHOUD PAY LESS NOW'POR HIS FAVORITE PORK Wholesale Flour Prices Cut But So Far Bread Costs Re- main Same H 2 iff. May.Dim Bucks Cffice Magic of No. 1 Title Challenger Chicago, Jan. &—After going back | to his North Dakota ranch for his health, Charley Retzlaff will fight Joe Louis at the huge Chicago stadium, ' Jan, 17. The scrap is listed for 15 rounds. It isn’t likely to go more than three, but the promoters are confident that it will gross the $108,000 that the house lis scaled to at a $7.50 top. This is just (By the Associated Press) The Mog definite indication that; the ‘ultimate consumers of pork will! benefit from removal of the process- ing tax.on hogs with invalidation of the AAA appeared in market prices ‘Wednesday. Farmers already have benefited from a aarp increase in the price of Chicago wholesale-pork prices Wed- nesday moved lower. Market observ-; ers, while pointing out that the change in prices was slight, said the significance of this movement was important in the face of a sharp in- | crease in hog prices. “Cuts Packers” Costs Elimination of the processing tax removed $2.25 from the packers’ cost of 100 pounds of live hog. Prices for hogs Tuesday shot up $1 and more) by the Farm Holiday associations in| in | the principal livestock centers. Demands from consumer interests that they be given some benefit were met Wednesday with declines of ap- proximately 50 cents per hundred; pourids in the wholesale prices of choles pork cuts. This is equivalent to %..cent a pound. The tax was oruralent § to 2% cents per pound. rs pointed out that fluctu- Bicomgh in wholesale and retail pork prices are cushioned toa great extent | the effect of competition with | oe meats, Loin Cuts Prices Drop Chicago wholesale pork quotations. were unchanged to 50 cents lower than Tuesday and Monday, with the more. desirable loin cuts showing the decrease. Choice fresh light loins} were quoted at 20% to 22 cents per, compared to 21 to 22% Tues- day. Heavier loin cuts also were lower but shoulders and butts were unchanged and spareribs and trim- mings % cent higher: Corresponding decreases were reported by the de- partment of agriculture in the New York and Philadelphia markets, Wholesale flour prices $1.00 to $1.38: lower, depending on the quality of | wheat used to make the flour, pre- vailed in the northwest Wednesday after millers acted to bring prices in line with removal of the processing tax. There was no immietiiate action to lower bread prices. can be made from a barrel of flour. Is Claimed by Death Mrs. G. M. House, 65, Dunn county farm woman, died at 8:20 a. m., Wed- nesday in a local hospital after a! Ungering iliness, The cause of death was diabetes. She had been in the hospital only three days. Funeral ar- rangements have not yet been made. The body will be taken to Dodge for burial. Mrs. House was born May 19, 1870 in Pennsylvania. She with her husband have lived on a farm seven miles southwest of Dodge, N. D., for many years, all principal livestock mar- | It was pointed | The deceased was a member of te! out that only 300 loaves of bread! janother tribute to the bucks office ‘magic of Louis. Although it was only a question of how far old Paulino Uzcudun would go at Madison Square Garden, the place practically was sold out at a , $16.50 maximum, with receipts total | ton. ‘ing $128,000, Louis has more turn- stile magnetism than any warrior; , since Jack Dempsey. The Brown Bomber promises to ;make his operation against Retzlaff ‘as painless as possible. It may be }his last until he blasts Schmeling from the picture at the Yankee stad- ium in June, although there is a chance of his placing a lily in the hand of young Abe Feldman of { Schenectady, in Detroit, Jan. 31. Good Business Man Retzlaff is a tall, thin-chested heavyweight out of Leonard, N. D. Charley may not be the most formid- able gladiator in the world, but he’s a jnamiter, as he is advertised, was of- | fered $600 to engage Louis in Chicago ‘shortly after the embalmer turned Professional, July 4, 1934, Retzlaff and his manager came to Chicago to look Louis over the night the black meteor took on Adolph | Wiater. After observing the Michigan Negro jin action, Retzlaff and his handler i decided that if they waited a while ; they could collect far more than $600. It was a wise decision. In place of $600, Retzlaff and the three pilots he now has are due to drag down some- jthing like $15,000, which if one is (Continued on Page Seven) Forest Ranger Buried Alive by Avalanche Livingston, Mont., Jan. 8.—(®)— ;Search through snowdrifts for John Norby, 32, missing forest ranger, ap- | peared hopeless Wednesday. A snowslide on Independence moun- tain buried Norby Sunday while he and a companion ranger, Ray Engle, j Were searching for Jack Tracy, miss- jing trapper. Engle dug his way out of the snow but was unable to find Norby. Mean- time Tracy telephoned from the Buf- falo ranger station that he was safe. Montgomery Ward’s Sales Set New Mark Chicago, Jan. 8.—(#)—Montgomery Ward Co. Tuesday reported sales for the 11 months ended Dec. 31 were the highest for any corresponding period in the company’s history. Ward's fiscal year ends Jan. 31. The 11 months total was given at $287,593,356, an in- crease of 17 per cent over the cor- responding period in 1934. RUDOLPH MELCHERT DIES East Grand Forks, N. D., Jan. Rudolph Melchert, 58, a resident of East Grand Forks the past eight years, died in a Grand Forks hospital |Tuesday following a brief illness, good business man. The Dakota Dy-| ‘LARGEST POULTRY OPENED 10 PUBLIC 541 Birds Entered in Competi- tive Classes, Breaking Former Records JUDGES BEGIN HUGE TASK First School Sessions Conduct- ed;N. D. A. C. Exhibit Attracts Attention Doors of North Dakota's largest poultry show were thrown open to the public here Wednesday with 541 chickens and turkeys, prize birds of the state's feathered aristocracy, com- peting for the blue ribbons and cash prizes offered by the Slope Boultry association. When the final leg band had been fastened on the entry and the last bird pushed into the exhibition coop. Secretary Phil Starkle made a hasty check of the lists and announced that all previous records for total entries had been broken. Starkle had 429 birds listen in the regular sections and 112 more in the {4-H club sections. Last year there were 373 in the regular classes and 53 in the club division. Particularly gratifying to the Asso- ciation officials was the remarkable increase in the number and quality of the 4-H club exhibits, which more than doubled last year’s total. Part of the increase has been attributed to the program of the Bismarck Asso- ciation of Commerce which loaned money to the club members last spring with which they purchased baby chicks, turkey poults and feed. City Residents Urged to Attend Carl Nelson, president of the asso- ciation, Wednesday urged all Bis- narck residents to take fevants of, -he opportunity to see est Dakota poultry during the two days; admission charge and the time spent will be well worth while, Nelson said. A. J. Weisner, poultry extension agent of the South Dakota Agricul- ‘tural college at Brookings, 8. D., as- iristed by Frank Moore of the N. D. A. C. extension department and {Stanley Francis show superintendent. began the task of judging the entries Wednesday afternoon. They expect to complete the judging Thursday after- noon and winners will be announced Friday. Poultry from three states— North Dakota, Montana and Minnesota—are exhibited at the ese the largest ever \held in this state. Harold Thomford, ‘editor of the ‘neon ronid Daal: trymen’s r pul ed al pe ton metiane sent th 14 Bantam chick- ens to compete while from Montana {came entries from G. C. Branzel, jregular emerges from Ollie, just across the state line. School Session Held First sessions of the poultry school were conducted Wednesday afternoon with Weisner and Moore in charge. A second school will be held Thurs- jday, starting at 2 p. m. | Aside from the exhibits themselves, ichief interest of the poultry producers {that were present at the show open- jing was centered on the special ex- hibit of the Agricultural college ex- periment station. The exhibit, planned and arranged by Moore, consists of two miniature poultry farms, one showing the prop- ler methods of poultry and turkey \ production and the other depicting \the slip-shod manner of producing poultry for market. Model feeding pens, brood houses, watering troughs and chicken yard arrangement are shown in the display. Annual Meeting Called The annual meeting of all exhibi- tors, directors and officers of the Slope Poultry. Show has been called for 12 o'clock noon at the Grand Pa- cific hotel dining room, Nelson an- nounced. Election of officers, annual reports and plans for next year will be made at the meeting. Each person attend- ing will pay for his own dinner, he said. A.P. HEARING POSTPONED New York,. Jan. 8—(?)—Federal Judge William Bondy Tuesday post- poned until Jan. 17 @ hearing on the Associated Press’ motion for a Lae porary restraining order against national labor relations board in the employe discharge case. SHOW IN STATE IS | DOESNOT JBE WITH WITNESS’ ACCOUNT Formar ‘Howsetconger | Declares | She Saw No Club in | Murder Room | i 1 TELLS OF FAMILY QUARRELS| Each is complete to the smallest de-} ebhissnuniotcin | ‘You'll Suffer for This,’ Boy! Cries as He Sees Father Dying Schafer, N. D., Jan. 8—(#)—Testi- mony of Mrs. Fay Lapier, 41, former housekeeper in the farm home, Tues- day attacked the self defense plea of Mrs. Emma Hags, on trial for the slaying of her husband. Mrs. Lapier, star state witness, in- sisted on the witness stand that she saw no evidence of a club when she entered the room after John Haga, Fairview beet farmer, uttered a cry of pain following a gunshot. Tried on murder charges, Mrs. Haga claims her husband threatened her with a stick of firewood before she fired a .22 calibre pistol at him. Mrs. Lapier testified she saw nothing of the firewood in the room. Stood Behind Husband Upon looking into the room, Mrs. Lapier testified, she saw Haga take one step and stop with his hands on the dresser. Mrs. Haga, the witness said under questioning by Assistant Attorney General T. A. Thompson, stood behind her husband, hands on his back, apparently pushing him to the floor. The housekeeper said she screamed and Wilbur, the Hagas’ 14-year old son, sleeping in the room, awakened. “Now, ma, see what you've done— you'll suffer for this,” Mrs. Lapier said the boy cried out. Mrs, Lapier held to her account under cross ex- amination by defense counsel. In her story, Mrs. Lapier said Haga nd his wife often quarreled. The that rem2in of the show. There ts no | wife, she said, accused her husband |learned the printer's trade. ‘of getting drunk with another woman. Lay Sleepless on Cot The witness testified she lay sleep- less on her cot in the kitchen of the two-room house when she heard Mrs. Haga walk to the bed, asking who mussed the pillows. Suddenly, Mrs. Lapier said, she heard the farmer shout, “Don’t you dare.” A moment later, she said, came the shot and a cry of pain. Mrs, Lapier said she saw a gun in Mrs. Haga’s hand while she apparently was trying to push her husband to the floor. The son, Mrs. Lapier said, urged 'his mother to get a doctor but Mrs. Haga was deliberate in complying with this. ‘When mother, son and housekeeper went to the car to drive to town, Mrs. Lapier said, the defendant returned to the house before rejoining the two on the trip for a doctor. Reports Shooting At Fairview, Mrs. Haga reported the shooting to Special Deputy Charles Moore, who, with Dr. Carrol Lund, ac- companied her to the farm. Mrs. Haga previously has said she shot her husband with a pistol taken from beneath the bed pillow when he rushed at her with a club from the woodbox in the kitchen. Throughout the testimony Mrs. Haga sat calmly with her attorneys. . Dr. Lund testified Haga was dead when he arrived. The bullet, Dr. Lund |g. said, severed the aorta, and lodged |© near the skin surface in the back. He Said he assumed death occurred in about two minutes. Coal Miners’ Rescue Delayed by Weather Alpine, Wyo., Jan. 8.—(?)—Sub-zero temperatures Wednesday delayed the irescue of a score of coal miners and their families from a snow bound mountain cabin, 26 miles southeast of here. Civilian conservation corps workers and road crews worked throughout the night coaxing a giant tractor over the last mile of snow blocked road to the cabin, They were hampered by the cold. The party was marooned last Sun- day while on the way down the moun- tain from the Blind Bull coal mine. POWERS LAKE WOMAN DIES Minot, N. D., Jan. 8.—()—Mrs. Charlotte Knutson, 43, Powers Lake resident, died of cancer in a hospital here Tuesday. Welfare Board Seeks Plan U. S. Will Okay Formation of an old age pension plan acceptable to the federal gov- ernment uhder terms of the national social security act will be sought here Thursday by members of the state The board will meet in a two-day session to scan various plans out of, Which members hope program will come which will bring North Dakota and within the national enactment. working on a plan which will be sub- mitted to the board. Several other plans also will be ‘submitted, Willson said, from which it is expected to draw a final pro- posal for submission to the national social securities board. North Dakota’s present old age pen- | sion act, passed in 1933, is inadequate not acceptable to the national under terms of the social se- 'H, Jewell, MRS. HAGA STORY Editors to Honor Marshall H. Jewell {Col Frank Knox Will Give Principal Address at Press Convention cigarette Hanging of a portrait of Marshall former publisher of The Bismarck Tribune, and an address by Colonel Frank Knox, publisher of the Chicago News and prominently men- joned as the possible Republican pres- idential nominee of 1936, will headline {the midwinter meeting of the North Dakota Press association, opening at Grand Forks Friday. The unveiling of Jewell’s portrait will take place Friday afternoon with Kenneth W. Simons, present editor of The Tribune, giving the principal ad- dress. Colonel Knox will speak at the annual dinner of the association in the evening. Other speakers during the tw: ‘o-day program will include Highway Com- missioner W. J. Flannigan; R. B. Cummins, state director of the na- tional emergency council, and R. H. Pritchard, Weston, W. Va. M. H. Graham of Devils Lake, state presi- dent of the association, will preside. Born, Raised a Newspaper Man Jewell was named by the hall of fame committee as the next North Dakota newspaper man to be hon- ored with a place in the. hall of fame. He was born at Hector, N. Y., April 29, 1857, and was in the newspaper business from boyhood until his death, Feb. 11, 1911. His father was a newspaper man and in the 50's published the Seneca County Sentinel at Ovid, N. Y. In 1858 the family moved to Michigan where they became pioneers in the re- gion north of Grand Rapids. Marshall Jewell obtained his early education in a little log school house and then attended a more advanced institution in the village of Cedar Springs. His parents moved to Wheaton, a Chicago suburb, where Marshall attended college for part of one year. Learned Printer’s Trade While at Cedar Springs he worked part time in the office where he In 1876 he was made foreman of The Chicago Daily Courier and later became tele- graph editor of the Chicago Telegram whose presses first printed The Daily News. Jewell became associated with Stanley Huntley and came to Bis- marck in 1878. They secured control of The Bismarck Weekly Tribune from its founder, Colonel C. A. Lounsberry. A year later, Colonel Lounsberry re- turned as editor with Mr. Jewell in charge of the job printing depart- ment. In 1883 he assumed full control of the paper which he published until his death. The newspaper, mean- while, expanded into a daily. Served Bismarck Well More interested in serving the Cap- ital City and his friends than in building a fortune, Mr. Jewell was content to provide reasonable com- forts for himself and family and died @ comparatively poor man. Active in state politics for a time, he was made secretary of the Repub- lican state committee in 1893 and again during the McKinley campaign of 1896. He was a familiar figure at all statewide Republican gatherings. He was married to Kate T. Woods in Indianapolis and brought his bride to Bismarck to live. Mrs, Jewell still is alive and lives in Seattle, Wash. For the information of old friends who may be interested, her Re ARUEESS is 3264 Forty-first Ave., FOSTER SLAYER SLAYER, 23, DIES HERE TUESDAY Hoffman, Lifer at Peni Lifer at Penitentiary, Succumbs After Emer- gency Operation George W. Hoffman, 23-year-old | \lifer at the state penitentiary, died at 3:15 p. m., Tuesday at a local hospital after an emergency operation for a Perforated ulcer. Hoffman, sentenced to life impri- sonment for the slaying of his father, @ Foster county farmer, was admitted to the hospital Monday. Physicians performed the emergency operation in an effort to save his life. The Bordulac, N. D. youth had been ill for only a short time. Prior to becoming sick he was working in} the twine plant at the prison. The body was taken to Carrington Tuesday by Mrs. Mary Kay Carlton of Valley City, an aunt, who was at Hoffman's bedside when death came. Rites’ will be held at the Carring- ton Congregational church Tuesday with Reverend Errington in charge. Burial will be made there. Hoffman was born Nov. 17, 1912 at Bordulac, He attended rural schools; in Foster county and later worked on} his father’s farm. During a family dispute he shot and killed his father. He was triedj in Carrington, convicted Jan. 23, 1934 and sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary. REPORT ITALIANS ROUTED Addis Ababa, Jan. 8.—(Reuters) — The government W claimed that Ethiopian forces had “completed” recapture of the Tembien district west of Makale Tuesday, with Ital- fan invaders inj flight. + > | InHallofFame | eit ect htt > A picture of the late Marshall Jewell, former publisher and editor of the Bismarck Tribune, will be unveiled in the University of North Dakota's Newspaper hall of fame Friday at the annual winter meeting of the North Da- kota Press association, LARGE TICKET SALE FORCES DEMOCRATS TO MAKE NEW PLANS Bismarck Dinner Will Be Held in War Memorial Build- .ing Tonight Unexpectedly large sale of tickets for the Jackson Day banquet of Bur- leigh county’s Young Democrats Wed- nesday caused them to change the place for the dinner from the Grand Pacific Hotel to the lower gymnasium at the World War Memorial build- ing. The affair is scheduled for 7 p. m., tonight. More than 175 tickets have been sold, according to Joseph Byrne, club president, and the facilities at the hotel cannot accommodate such a large number. Because of the inter- est shown the change became neces- sary in order that all who come may be served. Tickets for the dinner have been sold at $5 each, a part of the money going to the party’s campaign fund Byrne said he expects 200 or more when all persons selling tickets re- port. One Talk Nonpolitical One of the two speeches scheduled will be hardly of a political nature, although the dinner is a purely politi- cal affair, members of the committee said Wednesday. This is the address by Iver A, Acker, assistant to Howard Wood as resettlement administrator, who will outline the aims and plans of that organiaztion. The dinner here will be one of sev- eral thousand to be held throughout the country, with hundreds scheduled for North Dakota. The biggest of them all will be that at Washington which will be attended by President Roosevelt and the mem- \bers of his cabinet and will mark the formal launching of his campaign for re-election. But almost as conspicuous as the list of guests will be the names of absentees. Alfred E. Smith, once the Democratic presidential candidate, will not be there. Probably John W. Davis, another one-time party nom- inee, will not. Charge Law Violation Smith and Davis are members of the American Liberty League which Wednesday reiterated its charge that Democratic Chairman James A. Far- ley, in selling tickets to the dinner to federal officeholders, violated the law. The Washington dinner will be followed Thursday by a meeting of the national committee to select the time and place for the national con- vention, Philadelphia and Chicago are the leading contestants. More than 1,600 tickets for the din- ner have been sold at $50 each, President Roosevelt's words will be carried by short and long wave radio to diners in Puerto Rico and Hawai! and even vessels on the high seas. A second dinner is being held at Washington at the same time given by’the Young Democratic clubs. It will be attended by Mrs. Roosevelt. |The charge for this one will be $1¢ & plate. DRAKE CASE END SEEN Chicago, Jan. 8.--(#)—The end of the government’s case against 41 de- fendants in the Drake estate mail fraud case, on trial since Nov. 18, was in sight Wednesday. Prosecutor Austin Hall said his only remaining witnesses were Barrister Charles Chal- len of London, Eng., and Prof. Arthur Lyon Cross of the University of: Michigan. WALLACE. APPEALS FOR EVERY ONE 10 SCAN BOTH OPINIONS” Constitutional Amendment Drive Talk Has No Offi- cial Approval MAJORITY DECISION RAPPED AAA Owes $283,000,000 on Contracts Signed During Past Year AAA OPINION TEXTS The complete texts of both the majority and minority opinions on the constitutionality of the AAA will be found on Pages 6 and 7. Washington, Jan. 8.—(?)—Pres- ident Roosevelt and Secretary Wallace reserved decision Wed- nesday on attempts to replace the AAA but gave assurance “the gov- ernment still has a very real in- terest in the farmer's welfare.” Washington, Jan. 8—()—New Deal leaders speeded efforts Wednesday to find a new farm program. President Roosevelt and Secretary Wallace met at lunch to discuss what to do about AAA's supreme court des- truction and where funds could be found to pay present contracts calling for $283,000,000. The house agriculture committee, summoned to an unexpected meeting by Chairman Jones (Dem., Tex.)— one of those who has conferred with Mr. Roosevelt—directed the drafting of five tentative plans for its consider- ation. They were: 1. The domestic allotment plan. 2. The export debenture proposal. 3. Appropriations to various states on condition that such states estab- lish an adjustment program similar to the AAA. 4. Appropriations for a land leasing program. 5. Conditional appropriations to individual farmers who comply with the conditions, Plan Can Be Found “We feel,”. Jones said after the closed session, “that ways can be found under the limits set out tn the decision to fashion a farm program that will at least in a measure offset the disadvantages which the farmers have under the national tariff sys- tem.” New. Dealers, tacitly appealing from the supreme court to the electorate, hope the nation will reject the constitu- tional views of the court’s majority and eventually follow the course up- "| held by the minority. ) became increasingly clear Wednesday as Roosevelt administra- tion officials from the White House down emphasized again and again that the justices handed down two opin- ions in the case that wrecked AAA. Already Secretary Wallace, author of the phrase “America must choose,” has appealed to every family in the country to study both opinions. Condemnation of the majority de- cision continued to be heard from some Democrats in congress. Sen- jator Black (Dem., Ala.) said the court {has “thrown away the charts” and that the country now is “not ruled by laws but by men—five being enough to rule 120,000,000.” Roosevelt Remains Silent Whether the New Deal strategy would involve an active drive for a constitutional amendment remained undetermined. President Roosevelt was silent on this and most other AAA questions at his press conference Tuesday night. His only decision, he disclosed, is to ask congress to provide funds to pay farmers for performance under exist- ing crop reduction contracts. AAA owes some $283,000,000 on these. Six judges outlawed, as an invasion of states’ rights, the AAA pi (Continued on Page Seven) FATHER OF 6 KILLS HIMSELF IN CENTER Mike Kautzmann, 35, Strangles to Death in Oliver County Jail Cell Center, N. D., Jan. 8.—(?)—Mike Kautzmann, 35, father of six children, committeed suicide by strangulation early Wednesday in the Oliver county jail where he was being detained following arrest for drunkenness, A coroner’s jury se & Verdict of suicide according to H. ©. county coroner. The in the cell, with the head wedged bee tween the suspended cot and the chair which supported it. According to the inquest Kautzmann was sent to the state hospital for in-- sane at Jamestown a year ago for observation and later released. Surviving are the widow, six chise ren, his mother, Mrs. Rose and several brothers and sisters | ing in this community. be SARGENT VIEWS FUTURE _ Huron, 8. D., Jan, 8.—(?}—Fred W. | Sargent, president of the Northwestern Railway or inflation stand in the ¥ paralleled prosperity during 10 years.