The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 24, 1936, Page 1

(a=. | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1936 The Weather Mostly cloud: t; Satur- a Fe fair and Solder: PRICE FIVE CENTS House Over-Rides FDR’s Bonus Veto Welford Proclaims Personal, Hail Taxes Moratorium GIVEN EXTENSION OF TIME 10 PAY LEVIES Hail Interest and Penalties Waived Until May 1 by Governor’s Order OTHER DEADLINE IS SEPT. 1 Chief Executive Motivated by Desire to Ease Burden on Taxpayer Gov. Walter Welford by proclama- tion Friday extended time for pay- ment of both personal property and hail taxes for 1934 and prior years without interest or penalty. Welford declared it to be his belief county commissioners should author- ize payment of hail insurance taxes for 1934 and prior years without pen- alty or interest until 1. Likewise, he proclaimed county commissioners should accept payment of personal property taxes for the same years with similar exemptions until Sept. 1, His proclamation provided for ac- ceptance of the face of the taxes as assessed. Follows Previous Act The governor previously proclaimed that all delinquent real estate taxes should be accepted by the counties without interest or penalty, until Sept. 1. “It is believed a search should be made of the rolls of the various coun- ties that those persons entitled to the exemption under chapter 256 of the 1933 session laws should be granted ’ the said expemtion and so notified,” the proclamation stated. Chapter 256 provides for exemption from taxes on personal property of needy persons, whose total personal property at time of assessment did not exceed $100, ‘and whose income for the 12 months had been less than $600. Settlement of the personal property taxes would be submitted to state tax commissioner Lee Nichols for approval while settlement of the hail taxes would be submitted to Lars J. Siljan, state hail insurance department man- ager. Welford said he was prompted to is- sue the proclamation “because our citizens should secure the benefits contemplated under the various re- cently enacted laws providing for the abatement or reduction in certain in- stances.” Burden Too Great “Under present economic conditions, property values and farm values are such they cannot produce an amount sufficient to carry the burden of addi- tional penalties and interest on per- sonal property taxes, or on the hail insurance taxes which are now assessed against the property and encourage- ment should be given to pay the taxes by relieving these burdens.” Welford drew attention to provis- fons of Chapter 272 of the 1935 ses- sion laws, which directed personal property taxes for the year 1933 and prior years should be adjusted for pay- ment without penalty or interest. “I do hereby proclaim,” he said, “that it is in the interest of the pub- lic welfare of the state that the face of accumulated taxes be accepted without penalty and interest on per- sonal property taxes and on hail in- surance accrued for the year 1934 and prior years and to allow for payment of these taxes without penalty or in- terest, in full settlement thereof.” DEMOCRATIC WOMAN CHIEF HERE TONIGHT Miss Mary Dewson to Speak at Memorial Building; Con- ference Saturday Members of Bismarck’s Democratic women’s organization Friday had completed arrangements for the mass here at 8:30 o'clock tonight at which Miss Mary Dewson, director of the advisory committee of the na- tional Democratic women’s organi- zation, will be the principal speaker. Miss Dewson, long a leader in social service work, is to the origin and benefits of the new. social security law which provides for pensions to the aged, widowed and blind and for unemployment insur- ance benefits. Mrs. Thomas J. Haggerty will pre- side and Miss Dewson will be intro- duced by Senator W. D. Lynch. Saturday a round of meetings will Missouri Slope counties. Tonight's meeting will be held in the lower gymnasuim of the World War Memorial building. Saturday's conferences will be held in the dining room at the Memorial buils Should Edward ViIt, Britain’s “Bachelor king,” choose to marry, the law provides he may wed. only a royal princess. Only five girls seem eligible. They are, left to right, top: erine, both of Greece. Left to right, bottom: Princess Irene and Princess Kath. Grand Duchess Kira of Russia; Princess Juliana of Holland and Princess Eugenie of Greece. (Associated Press Photos) Pilgrims File Past King’s Catafalque California Has _ Bi Nothing on N. D. | eee, California has nothing on North Dakota when it comes to sunny days, says O. W. Roberts, federal meteorologist here. Old sol showed his face during 318 of the 365 days of 1935. On the 47 days the sun failed to break through the clouds above the state, rain fell almost continuously. LEGION TO ASSIST WAR VETERANS IN COLLECTING MONEY Bismarck Post Will Have Rep- resentative in Each Town to Help in Work Arrangements to assist Burleigh county men to collect their bonus were announced Friday by Milton Rue, commander of Bismarck’s American Legion post. Charles F. Martin, post adjutant, has been appointed bonus represent- ative and will receive all information pertaining to it, Rue said. H. J. Brownawell has been named bonus representative at Sterling and other Legionnaires will be appointed to perform similar service at other points in the county. Every Burleigh county veteran is asked to register with Martin that he may be placed on the Legion's mailing list to receive information re- garding the payment. Under the plan, Rue said, Martin will work in close cooperation with the Federal Veterans Administration which is expected to have general charge of the work of making pay- ment, Dead Beach Killer Is Buried Here Friday Rites for Mike Dennino, Beach, N. D., slayer, who died in the state peni- tentiary where he was serving a life sentence, were held Friday morning other relatives in Italy but as yet ef- forts to contact members of the fam- ily have failed. He began serving the life sentence in 1933. Father of Local Man ’ Dies in Fargo Friday Mile-Long Queue of Mourners Twists Way Into West- minster Abbey (Copyright, 1936, Associated Press) London, Jan. 24.— The first of 1,000,000 sorrowing pilgrims filed Fri- day past the bier of the late King George V — a black catafalque, ap- proached on purple-carpeted steps, in the ancient Palace of Westminster. There, the new King Edward VIII and the bereaved royal family left their liege for four days of public ho- mage before the final services and burial next Tuesday at Windsor. As Big Ben boomed at 2 a. m., CS.T., the nation’s pilgrimage began. When the famous clock strikes 10 Pp. m. Monday, authorities said, at Teast 1,000,000 of the dead sovereign’s subjects—men, women and children alike—will have joined in this last act of tribute. Crowds Gather at Night Long before Thursday midnight, crowds gathered in the streets about the medieval hall, sacrificing their sleep and braving a misty rain to be among the first to pay tribute to their late king. When a rain-washed dawn broke over the rooftops of London, the queue stretched nearly a mile. Through the great south window, the crowds could see the glow cast by the flickering candles where the dead monarch lay, alone with his guards. The flag draped catafalque, bearing the royal coffin, formed an island of light amid the shadowy spaces of the ancient hall which the late king once called “The Heart of Our Mighty Empire.” At each of the four corners of the catafalque stood a lifeguard, his head bowed. A little deeper in the gloom stood four yeomen. Flag Drapes Coffin The royal standard was draped over the coffin. At one end rested the Jeweled imperial crown and over the head were the crosses of flowers from King Edward and Queen Mary. It was this scene which the royal family left after the body was brought here Thursday from the Sandringham country estate where King George died Monday night. King Edward, his face flushed, prayed silently for a few moments late Thursday at the close of a brief service. ‘Amid this scene the body will re- main until Tuesday, when it will be taken again through the streets of .| London, as it was in Thursday's sol- emn procession from the King’s Cross railroad station. Businesses were not asked to close i] for the day of the funeral, Tuesday, but two minutes of silence will be ob- served throughout the empire during the final service at Windsor, just west of London, Clarke Will Attend Washington Meeting Earle E. Clarke, state director of workers education for works progress administration, will leave Saturday for ‘Washington to attend a national con- ference of directors and supervisors. Supervisors of workers education and other state directors will attend the conference, at which problems surrounding administration of the work and new plans for continuance of the schools will be discussed. CALLED RASCALS BY WASHINGTON SOLON Schwellenbach Denounces Lib- erty League on Eve of Long Awaited Speech EXPECTED TO TAKE STAND ‘No Man Can Successfully Turn Back on Friend,’ West- erner Warns Washington, Jan. 24.—(#)—Hostil- ities between the New Deal and the American Liberty league intensified Friday on the eve of an Alfred E. Smith speech which is expected to give at least a broad hint as to Smith’s role in the presidential campaign. Will Smith wage war to the hilt on the administration, or will he adopt @ policy of frigid silence with regard to the drive to reelect President Roose- velt? Politicians believe the answer may be indicated in the address the former New York governor will make to a Liberty League dinner here Sat- urday night. Senator Schwellenbach, (Dem. Wash.), declared Thursday that Smith, as a charter member of the League, was surrounded by “rascals, crooks, leeches and bloodsuckers.” John J. Raskob, Democratic chair- man for Smith’s 1928 campaign for the presidency, and Pierre Du Pont of Delaware were singled out by Sch- wellenbach for renunciation. Men- tioning the income tax controversy between them and the government, he charged they sought “to defraud.” Recalling the years in which Mr. Roosevelt supported Smith for the presidency, Schwellenbach cautioned: “No man can successfully turn his back on a friend.” DISAPPROVES WHITE HOUSE DISAPPROVAL Deaths Mount to 275 As Cold] BY VOTE OF 32461 Wave Rides Lethal Way East Bismarck residents Friday got a brief respite from the frigid cold which in one way or another caus- ed 275 fatalities over the nation dur-| grij ing the last seven days, but the fore- cast was for mostly cloudy tonight, Saturday fair and colder, Thermometers at the federal weather bureau station, which record- ed 19 below zero at 8 a. m., this morn- ing fell off rapidly around noon and at 3 p. m,, stood at only two below, the warmest it has been since Tues- At least 177 persons died in snow covered northern states last Saturday, Sunday and Monday, mostly in traf- fic accidents on icy highways, a sur- vey of the Associated Press shows. Since then approximately 110 more have been frozen to death, died of ex-| posure or in fires in the last three; days as some of the most severe tem- peratures since the turn of the. cen- tury held the nation in a vice-like ip. The gripping cold took its eighth and ninth victims in the last three days from the Northwest states Fri- day as temperatures—still well below the zero point in most secti rising slowly. Cleo Everson, 27-year- old rural school teacher in Chippewa county, Minn., died from effects of exposure after a three-quarters mile walk to school, and Gabriel Paulson, the northwest from Canada, with little permanent relief due until after the week-end. In North Dakota Devils Lake had with-14. Rapid City, on the rim of a low pressure area centering in Den- ver, had 4 above. The cold abated somewhat in the east, but many communities re- mained snowbound. A milk shortage developed in upstate New York as a result of drifts piled up by the worst since 1888, 65, Embarrass, Minn., farmer, died | blizzard from exposure. Freakish weather persisted in sev- eral sections with Havre, Mont., ex- periencing a winter rainstorm, which soon turned to snow. Weather bureaus said another high Pressure area was drifting down over LAND UTILIZATION, SOIL CONSERVATION URGED BY FARMERS Burleigh Committeemen Sug- gest Substitute for In- validated AAA A substitute program of soil con- servation and land utilization to re- place the invalidated agricultural ad- justment act was recommended Thursday in resolutions drawn up by 22 members of the Burleigh county corn-hog and wheat allotment com- mittee, who met here at the call of Anti-New Dealers looked to a speech | 1 499 by John W. Davis ‘in New York Fri- day night for elaboration of their charges against the administration. Conjecture about Smith’s intentions Setobiey around four principal ques- ns. 1, Will he undertake to capture the Philadelphia convention? 2. That idea discarded, will he co- operate with a third party movement or independent tickets in key states? 3. Will he support the Republican. nominee on grounds of principle? 4. Or will he refrain from active Participation in the campaign. MRS. H.C. BENS, 83, DIES HERE FRIDA ° Had Been Partially Paralyzed for Several Years Pre- ceding Her Death Mrs. H. G. Bens, 83, wife of Rev . Bens, retired minister, died at Friday, in a local hospital long illness. Mrs. Bens had suffered from dis- betes for the last 10 years and toward the close of her life was partially paralyzed. Born at Hall, Germany, May 24, 1853, Mrs. Bens came to the United of this nature has been considered for several years, even prior to the pass- ing of the triple A. The recommendations urged that “land be rented, leased or purchased by representatives of the secretary of agriculture” in accomplishing three objectives, namely: 1, Encourage a decrease in farm tenancy, 2. Increase grass and pasture land. 3. To Present farming Practices to those practices having conservation of natural resources as the chief aim of agricultural produc- on oe and agreement with state or county lesignat Fa agencies. nge Records reveal that much of the farm land planted to wheat and corn most beneficial results, the commit- teemen pointed out. “Agriculture based on grass culture to a degree greater than at the pres- ent time, being less subject to climatic variations, will insure partial removal of the death grip climatic variation has on the food supply and national Prosperity.” States in 1881 and was married to| Pr Rev. Bens Oct. 19, 1884 in New York City. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary here a little more than a year ago Her maiden name was Pauline Arnold. Rev. Bens retired from the minis- try in 1932, his last charge having been at Scottsbluff, Neb., and came to Bismarck to live. Before going to Nebraska, however, Rev. and Mrs Bens had spent 30 years in the Da- kotas, their last charge in this area having been at Herreid, 8, D., where Rev. Bens built up a large congrega- tion during 16 years of service. Besides her husband, Mrs. Bens leaves six children. They are Mrs Ella Koth, Odessa, Wash.; Miss Santa Clara Bens, Bismarck; Walter E. Bens, Strandquist, Minn.; Paul A. Bens, Aberdeen, 8. D.; Miss Irene E Bens, Bismarck, and Henry O. Bens. Herreid, 8. D. One boy, Roy Bens. died in childhood. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Monday at the First Baptist church with Rev. E. L. Jackson in charge. He will be assisted by Rev. Benjamin Schlipf of the Bismarck Baptist church. Interment will be made in Fairview cemetery. Slope Men Chosen to launching the conserva- tion program with all possible expe- diency. Fire Destroys Four New Ulm Buildings New Ulm, Minn., Jan. 24.—(P)—A Hear U. 8, Court Case| "me ¢ Grand Forks, N. D., Jan, 24—(?)— A jury was selected in federal district court here late Thursday to hear the case of the United States against the International Elevator Co., Hansboro, N. D., to recover $6,157.49, the alleged forfeiture value of smuggled Canadian wheat received by the elevator. Jurors selected were Arthur Palm and C. C. Buechler, Kulm; C. Sam Cereal Mill Burns At Fargo; 20 Below Fargo, N. D., Jan. 26.—(?)—As Far- A new disaster of the storm was revealed on Delaware bay, with re- covery of a yacht near Cape May, N. Y. The crew of three which set out from Wilmington, Del., with it on an were found frozen to Friend of Judge Is Fined for Speeding “This hurts me worse than it does you,” exclaimed City Magis- trate Ed Allen as he slapped a $10 fine on the first speed law It “hurt” man to be brought before Allen on the charge of speeding, hap- one of the genial ALTERATIONS BEING MADE BY WALLACE IN NEW FARM PLAN Little AAA Program Drafted as Business Begins Debat- ing Measure Washington, Jan. 24.—(7)—The house today approved an appro- Priation of $296,185,000 to pay fits to the Jan. 6 supreme court de- Washington, Jan. 24.—(7)—A senate agriculture subcommittee of five Dem- ocrats Friday unanimously agreed on a revised farm bill to replace the AAA, but members were bound to secrecy on its details for the time being. This action was announced shortly after President Roosevelt set agriculture “as productive as it 100 years ago” as the New Deal's and expressed a hope it could be within the constitution. Chairman Smith (Dem., 8. C.) the senate subcommittee, who volted against the original draft stated flatly he would not support a new bill “until it conforms to the con- ane made this brief announce- ment: tee no statement will be given.” States to Cooperate Both Chester Davis and Secretary Wallace earlier had appeared before the house agriculture committee. Chairman Jones (Dem., Tex.)' told newsmen that in addition to canvass- ing the two-year stop-gap plan for direct subsidy payments for soil con- servation, “we included the question of endeavoring to add as a part of the program a plan for cooperation of the states in the ultimate pro- gram. This method has been referred to as “48 little AAA's”. It contemplates making a subsidy payment after the first two years, contingent upon state cooperation in the program. The be paid to the subsidy then would state. Jones reported as he hurried to the house to attempt to put in the defi- ciency appropriation bill an amend- ment providing $296,185,000 for pay- ment of past obligations under the AAA. Asked about suggested taxes to fi- mance a new farm program, Mr. Roosevelt said he was still studying this question and had no comment to make at this time. Set Joint Conference The agriculture committee of the », Chamber of Commerce of the United ‘States gathered for a joint conference ‘with leaders of farm organizations N. D. FACES LOSS OF U.S, HIGHWAY FUNDS ON MATCHING BASIS Roherty Proposes Raising Gas Tax to 5 Cents as One Move to Keep Cash North Dakota faces the loss of nearly $2,000,000 in federal aid roads funds within the next 18 months, with lttle hope it can be saved without legislative action, officials of the state highway department claimed Friday. In_ addition, s similar amount scheduled to come from the federal government likewise may be lost to the state under a 1937 allocation, un- less funds are forthcoming from the of the money already allocated the state will result from inability North Dakota to match the monies similar amounts, Highway Com- missioner W. J. Flannigan declared, Will Be Given Others “Remaining unexpended is a fed- eral aid appro} tion of $1,960,162,” Fisnnigan explained, “which we can- not make use of as it requires to be matched with state funds, similar to @ like amount which will be available July 1, 1936. These funds will revert to other states in 1937 and 1938, re- spectively, except for a small thereof as we may able to use on In- dian reservations where such match- ing is not required.” Federal bureau of roads officials here said the first allocation of monies will expire offically June 30, 1936, but will be available to the state for a period of a year thereafter, should funds be raised by North Da- kota July 1, 1937, for matching pur- “expended” and the state would have the benefit of the monies, federal roads officials stated. J. N. Roherty, research engineer of the highway department, said he saw “only one possibility” the state could raise “sufficient monies” with which construct other types of Toads which may become necessary.” believed a small part of the might be used in the state of been acted upon, Roherty said. Miriam Taylor Named GOP Publicity Leader Taylor of LaMoure, N. Miss Miriam D., former society editor of The Bis- marck Tribune, was appointed region- ;al publicity director for the Young Republicans National Federation at a meeting of eight delegates in St. Paul Thursday, according to the Associated Improvement of agricultural con- ditions through constructive legisla- tion was demanded in a resolution, directed by the delegates of five states to the Republican national committee, calling for “permanent against inequality suffered by the farming population, The region comprises Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Wisconsin and Iowa. Seven Are Killed As Train Hits Car Fort Wayne, Ind. Jan. 24.—(%)— Seven persons were killed Friday aft- 82; Bismarck -16; Williston -12 andj Upper Chamber Will Not Ballot President’s Handwritten Note Reiterates His Previous Objections PREDICT SENATE PASSAGE til Monday Washington, Jan. 24.—()—Presle dent Roosevelt’s veto of immediate payment of the bonus was overridden Friday by the heavily-Democratic house. The vote was 324 to 61. It was the second time in a year the house had tossed aside a presi- dential bonus vote. The vote to sus- tain the veto Friday was only two greater than that cast against the bill's original passage. Members barely awaited to hear the reading of the brief, hand-written veto message before demands of “vote, vote” were shouted on the floor. Democratic leaders sought to delay the ballot until Monday but were voted down, 189 to 131. Final Action Delayed The senate does not meet until Monday so final action was delayed over the week-end. Leaders there Predicted the senators would join the representatives and make the $2,491,- 000,000 bill law over the president’s opposition. Mr. Roosevelt’s handwriting mes- ride returning ao ate! bill “with- my approval,” broke precedent of a quarter of a century. But Senator Harrison (Dem., Miss.), chairman of the finance committee and an administration stalwart, said: “It is my opinion that the veto will not be sustained. I shall vote to over- tide the veto.” Mr. Roosevelt, in his message, re- ferred senators and representatives “respectfully . . . to every word of what I said” in last year’s veto of a Sticks by His Guns “My convictions are as impelling today as they were then,” the presi- dent said. “Therefore I can not change them.” Mr. Roosevelt added: “The bill I now return differs from last year’s bill in only two important respects: First, it eliminates the is- sSuance of unsecured paper currency to make the payments required and substitutes interest bearing bonds, which, however, may be converted into cash for face value at any time; second it adds $26,000,000 to the total payments by forgiving interest after Oct, 1, 1931, of amounts borrowed. “In all respects, the circumstances, part} arguments and facts remain essenti- ally thé same as those fully covered and explained by me only months ago.” It'll Pass, Clark Says Indicative of the determination on capitol hill to make the bill law de- spite the veto was the comment of Senator Clark (Dem., Mo.), one of the authors: “We'll pass it over his veto.” One pertinent phrase from last year's veto which Mr. Roose- velt evidently had in mind Friday was: “The credit of the United States is safe but it can not ultimately be safe if we engage in a policy of yielding to each and all of the groups that are able to enforce upon the claims for special consideration.” The senate last year upheld the veto after the house had overridden the personally presented plea of the president against the legislation. TWO CITIES TO HOLD JOINT BIRTHDAY BALL Annual Charity Dance Will Be Given in Dome Pavilion dan. 30 eight Bismarck and Mandan residents will join together in staging the third an- nual President's Birthday Ball on January 30. This decision was made Thursday at a meeting of representatives from the Bismarck Association of Commerce ;|and the Gilbert 8. Furness post of the American Legion of 5 Plans have been underway for some time at Mandan to hold the dance at the Dome dance hall, midway between the two cities, but not until Thursday it decided that the two cities would join hands in celebrating the birth- day event, proceeds of which are used to combat infantile paralysis. Carl Keidel, commander of the Mandan Legion post, is chairman of the Birthday Ball committee. In ad- dition to Legion committees which he has already named, he will be as- sisted by two ticket sales committees in Bismarck and another group of local men who will assist with the program arrangements. Ticket sales will be launched here Tuesday morning. Seventy per cent of the proceeds will be kept here for use in curbing the dread malady and 30 per cent is given to the Warm Springs Foundation. PLAN MISSION FESTIVALS