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

[at] THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY &, 1936 The Weather break unsettled tonight and Sun- Sunday, day; not so cold 81 PRICE FIVE CENTS Former Vice President Curtis Dies ‘Court to Rule on Income Tax Law B efore March 15] : [ Former Vice President Succumbs TAXPAYERS HOL HOLDING | Hettinger Commissioners and New County Courthouse CHARLES CURTIS Olson Aids Gangs, M’Cormick Avers; ‘Fakir’ Is Answer! FDR POSTPONES NEW TAX MOVE TO STUDY NATIONAL REVENUES csr ssi If Income Lives Up to Treasury Estimates New Levies May Not Be Needed Washington, Feb. 8.—(?)—President Roosevelt was reported in farm program. Congressional leaders gerierally be- leved there could be no tax legisla- tion except the $500,000,000 program to replace the invalidated farm pro- cessing taxes. Some of the Democratic leaders e the opinion that if the re- turns next month should live up to treasury estimates the government could get by bal gg levying higher the enactment of for the next fiscal year. With the outward trickle of gold from the United States resuming after a temporary halt, Democratic leaders declared again there was no chance of inflation, POSTPONE CLASS A TILT Williston, N. D., Feb. 8—(#)—The high school basketball game sched- uled here Friday night between Dick- inson and Williston teams was post- poned. Famished Chase N. ‘The northwest’s current cold wave, severest in the last 20 years, Saturday swept a new tale of horror from the wind-swept North Dakota prairies. A pack of wolves, gaunt with hun- ger, attacked a Devils Lake region farmer bringing a sleigh load of milk and meat to the city, the Associated Press reported. Raymond Rutten of Crary told the story on his arrival in Devils Lake Saturday. As he was driving along the lake bottom seven miles from town, he explained, seven wolves, the leader a huge timber wolf, emerged from the brush and started in pur-/| suit. His horses, frightened, broke into a mad run. The youth said that at’ times the wolves were so close he con- sidered throwing out the supply of meat but the animals were outdis- tanced after a two-mile run. Heavy snows and severe cold,| Chicago Publisher and Minne- sota Governor Engage in * Mud Slinging Duel chine gun slaying of Walter Liggett, colorful Minneapolis editor, was an “subverters and ultra- radicals endeavoring to destroy the freedom of the press and to over- throw our form of government. “In Minneapolis,” he told the Ohio Newspaper association Friday night, “you find gangland murdering editors nd all who cross its path. “You find an ultra-radical gover- nor lending aid and assistance to gangland in its campaign.” Olson Says Charge False “Colonel Bertie McCormick's against me is false and he knows it,” Governor Olson replied. “He makes the charges because he is a czarist- minded reactionary and hates me for what he calls ‘ultra-radicalism.’ “He is a fakir in his alleged cham- pionship of the freedom of the press. Dorens of papers have been sup- because of economic views ex- Pressed in-their columns without a word from Bertie. It is only when a scandal sheet has difficulty that Bertie comes to the rescue. That is because Bertie is the owner of the world’s leading scandal sheet. “He is a fakir in his alleged war on crime. The Chicago Tribune has warred on crime only when Bertie’s political opponents have been in power. When his friends were in power, even though Chicago was the world’s worst cesspool of corruption and crime, Bertie was silent. Recalls Fair Epidemic “With all his talk about murder, (Continued on Page Three) Wolves D. Youth thought to have hampered the wolves’ rabbit hunting, was believed the cause of the unusual attack. Blinding blizzards buffeted parts of the northwest Saturday, piling several states deep in snow and paralyzing road and rail traffic. The brunt of the storm struck in| ee Minnesota, South Dakota and Iowa but North Dakota; Wyoming and Colorado also suffered from the se: vereness of the cold wave. Highway travel was virtually at al” standstill over the state Saturday as ‘a strong wind whipped Friday's heavy fall of snow into blizzard proportions and the highway department warned all motorists to stay off the highways. Planes and trains ‘were running be- hind schedule. Between Bismarck and Mandan tate Friday afternoon, two cars of 8 Northern Pacific freight train were! derailed by the snow and ice, causing (Continued on Page Three) tur-| file supplemental briefs, UP RETURNS UNTIL RULING 1S DECIDED Question of Validity Revolves Around Whether Or Not It Is a Property Levy ALLOW TIME TO FILE BRIEFS Burr Questions State’s Right to Tax to Destroy as Justices Take Case North Dakota’s supreme court Sat- urday pondered the question of con- stitutionality of the state's individual income tax law, after listening to op- ponents decry it as “confiscatory” and supporters contend it to be a valid levy. The court took the question of validity of the law—originally passed in 1919—under advisement Friday following arguments by attorneys rep- resenting a group of seven taxpayers, and by Attorney General P. O, Sathre and his assistant, T. A. Thompson. Chief Justice John Burke indicated the court would hand down its de- cision before March 15, when first- quarter payments of the tax—in- creased heavily by the 1935 legisla- ture—are due. With the tax under fire by tax- Payers, returns to the office of the state tax commissioner have dropped sharply in the last two weeks. Ap- proximately $10,000 in returns on 1935 incomes have been received thus far, attaches of the office said. BE och mig Works Hardship Fargo attorney, enna the eae: on the law Friday, claiming it worked a hardship in some cases on taxpayers, and asserting the law violated both the federal and state constitutions. Both sides admitted the question of constitutlonallty of ree revolved around whether it was a vat appr ‘Opponents contend 1 -t¢ bea prop- Conary a tax, and in violation &f provi- sions of the constitution providing taxes shall be uniform on property. North Dakota’s income tax is gradu- ‘ated in proportion to income. Sathre, in his arguments to the court, declared but two questions were involved—where the tax was a prop- erty tax, and whether classifications under the law were discriminatory. Brief Filing Allowed At the conclusion of the hearing, the court gave Sathre five days to with the epoellnses anya aisonel five-aayet file answering brit Sathre sashes there were no Umitations in the state constitution the right to tax to destroy?” asked Judge A. G. Burr. Under the North Dakota laws, & measure to be declared unconstitu- tional must be by a four-to-one vote. ‘There are five justices. Bentley Farm Youth Succumbs in Hospital Rites for Oliver Gottfried Phillip Magstadt, 20-year-old Bentley farm youth who died here Friday, will be held at 2 p. m., Wednesday in the Seventh Day Adventist church at Bentley. Burial will be made in the Burt cemtery. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Makstadt. Born April 22, 1915, at Bentley, he attended the Hettin- ger county rural schools and Bentley high school. He had been at the hos- pital for three weeks when death came, He leaves, besides his parents, one sister, Daniella, and a brother, Ruben. Lumber Convention Will Open Tuesday ‘Through an error it was said in The Tribune Friday that the annual con- vention of the North Dakota Lumber jdealers would convene in Bismarck Monday and end Tuesday. The fact 4s the convention will open Tuesday and close Wednesday night. Coincidental with the convention will be the Bismarck housing show which will be open to the public Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons and all day Thursday. Serious Shortage of Skilled Labor Noted |!sdea Chicago, Feb. 8. — (7) — A serious shortage in skilled labor due to the business uptrend was reported Satur- day by the nation’s industrial execu- tives. The shortage was described as mom oa Leyes in the automobile and Missourian Ignores | North Dakota Cold C. H. McDonald of Kansas City Saturday whistled as happy as a meadow lark on a warm North Dakota spring day. An Associated: Press engineer in Bismarck and North Dakota for the first time, he scarcely noticed the 25 below weather, the coldest he ever had experienced. McDonald had received a tele- gram from Kansas City that Mrs. McDonald Friday night gave birth to their second son Hettinger County’s Beautiful New Courthouse Dedicated DESPERATE BATTLE TO AID ISLANDERS FELLS POLICEMAN Maryland Food-Bearer Suc- cumbs to Exposure; 5 Others Escape Death on Ice Floe Crisfield, Md., Feb. 8.—(P)—A des- perate battle to penetrate a blinding blizzard and take food to marooned islanders over treacherous Chesa- peake bay ice left = state policeman | dead and five persons recovering Saturday from exhaustion and ex- posure. The six were members of a group of 15 who set out late Friday from Cris- field pushing a ton of food on sleds. They braved a bitter gale in an at- tempt to restock the larders of Tan- gier and Smith islands, isolated 10 miles out in the ice-choked bay. The man who lost his life was Sgt. William V . Hunter. He dropped ex- hausted and died on an ice floe. His body rested Saturday aboard the coast guard cutter Travis, whose crew recovered it and rescued three of those suffering from exposure in the daring relief mission. One of those exhausted was Major E. B. Garey, head of the Maryland state police and leader of the relief expedition. Garey along with Rich- ard McCready of Crisfield and State Policeman C. A. Disney was picked up unconscious on the ice and rescued by the Travis crew. Edward L. Thompson, Salisbury amateur radio operator, and Officer Ernst L, Tillet of coast guard boat 174, fell into a hidden airhole in the They pulled themselves out and were ecorted back to Crisfield. The first objective of the relief pa propelling two sleds heavily with provisions, was the Travis, anchored in an open stretch | of water mid-way to the islands. The to put them across on the island side and they were afoot. Soon after the six men turned back to Crisfield with Thompson and Tillet, the food sup- plies to be abandoned on the ice. There was no serious shortage of food as yet on the islands, it was said. Tiny Mite Holds Own Against Ty Twin Perils Oakland, Calif., f., Feb. 8.—()—Tiny Nancy Lee Vogt—she wegihs less than ® pound—was “holding her own” Saturday against the twin perils of jaundice and undernourishment the minute spark of life cutter was ice on the to press on in the six-day-old mite, Hourly doe- | being tors used a rubber tube to inject 45 drops of mother’s milk into the baby’s combat the undernourish. Dream of Pioneer Community of 1907 Comes to Fruition in Modern Structure (Special to The Tribune) Mott, N. D., Feb. 8.—Hettinger county's official family pag a gan the business of moving int new county memorial papine eng dedicated Friday with appropriate ceremonies, Cold weather cut down the attend- ance at the ceremony which signal- ized the development of Hettinger county from a pioneer community, organized in 1907, and which had since transacted its business in a frame courthouse which long since grew too small for the efficient con- duct of county affairs, The structure contains offices for all county officials, together with liv- ig quarters for the sheriff and a Jail and cost $110,000. Part of the money was obtained from a PWA grant. Ritterbush Brothers of Bis- marck were the architects and O. J. Weinberger, Bismarck, was the gen- eral contractor. Began Eight Years Ago Although the building was not launched until 1935, it took shape in the minds of county officials eight years ago when the then board of county commissioners set aside a building fund for the purpose of its construction. This was added to from time to time and the opportu- nity of. obtaining a federal grant brought the dream to reality last year. The first steps toward the actual construction were taken by the present board on December 11, 1933. Speakers at Friday’s program agreed that the new building marks an im- |Portant milestone in the development of Hettinger county, which was or- ganized by proclamation of Gov. John Burke in April, 1907. The law under which this was done divided what formerly was Hettinger county into two parts, one beco Adams county and the other continuing un- |der the old name. This explains the fact that Mott is the county seat of Hettinger county, while Hettinger be- came the county seat of Adams ; county. The transitions during the last 29 years have been obvious and many The community which then consisted of sod shacks, makeshift church and school buildings and uncharted trails now has splendid homes, all-weather roads and adequate housing for church, school and community pur- poses, Grew Too Small The courthouse which the new building replaces was built in 1907 at & cost of $4,488, Small additions were made from time to time but it long since grew too small for the efficient conduct of the county’s affairs. People from all parts of the coun- ty inspected the building during Fri- day’s celebration and there were many visitors from neighboring districts. The fete began at 10 a. m., a feature the serving of free coffee and Mght lunch in the American Legion room. A short dedication ceremony in the «Continued on Page Three) PERSONS NEVER ON RELIEF BEFORE NOW ARE SEEKING HELP Most Newcomers to Welfare Rolls Are City Folk, Their Savings Exhausted Persons never before on relief are appearing on the rolls of county wel- fare boards at the rate of 1,000 each month, E. A. Willson, executive direc- tor of the state welfare board, dis- closed Saturday. Many of them are unemployables— people too,aged and infirm, or other- wise physically incapable—whose per- sonal funds have vanished, while the bulk of them are men and women whose savings have kept them in- dependent of relief during drouth and depression, Small jobs have kept fhany of them self-supporting, aided by their sav- ings, but with disappearance of both, they have now become “clients” of re- Hef agencies, Willson said. Many of the new group are farm- ers, but for the most part they are city people, Willson said. Willson expected the majority of the new clients to disappear from the relief rolls as soon as spring work opens, possibly during the latter part of March and April. Although the total relief load of the various county boards was 19,614 Jan. 16, it has now dropped to 16,000, be- cause of tfansfers to WPA and Re- settlement administration, Willson sald. TRANSFER APPROVED ‘Transfer of various telephone prop- erties of the Utilities Company, Inc., to the Northern Telephone company, to be operated by M. H. Roseland, DuPre, 8. D., was approved Saturday by the state board of railroad com- missioners. Roseland will make his headquarters at Drayton, N. D. Bankers Agree rree It , | Pays to Advertise It does pay to advertise. When a local bank lost a pack- age of checks Thursday it knew they were of no use to the pos- sible finder but they did want them back. 8o they rushed into The Trib- une office Friday to tell their woes and insert a want ad telling of their loss, Priday evening, shortly after The Tribune carrying the ad wee delivered, Al Erickson, an em ploye of Gussner's grocery, Teo ported findirs the package of checks. Only one, evidently blown away by the wind, was missing. Erickson said he had. been waiting for the ad to appear 50 he could know what to do with his “find.” Pictured above are the com- missioners of Hettinger. county and the beautiful new courthouse constructed by them which was dedicated at Mott Friday. Reading from left to right they are William R. Lemke, Theodore Monke and E. A. Starks, members of the board of Hettinger county commissioners, and W. F. Gris- wold, county auditor. Below is shown the new court- house, constructed on a knoll overlooking the city of Mott and WAS FIRST MAN OF INDIAN DESCENT 10 ATTAIN HIGH OFFICE Lived Free Life of Kaws on. Plains of Kansas as a Small Boy in ’60s | } WAS SUCCESSFUL JOCKEY Eternal Diligence Earned Him Reputation of Hard Worker in Washington Washington, Feb. 8.—()—Charles Curtis, former vice president and long-time senator from Kansas, died Saturday at 76. A heart attack was the cause. Dr. George H. Calver, physician av the capitol, announced: “Honorable Charles Curtis, forme vice president of the United States of America, died of a heart attack at 10:25 a. m. this date.” For several days he had been suf. fering from a cold, but apparently was yecovering and ate his breakfast as usual Saturday morning. Feeling relieved, his sister — Mrs Dolly Gann—went down town to dc some shopping. The maid telephoned her to come home immediately. She also telephoned Mr. Gann at his law office. Only Maid at Bedside the valley of the Cannonball river, and modern in every detail. PREPARE PETITIONS T0 PUT WELFORD'S NAME ON BALLOTS Governor's Native Heath Rallies Around His Candidacy at Coming Election Neche, N. D., Feb. 8.—(?)—Circula- tion of petitions to place the name of Gov. Walter Welford on the Republi- can ballot for the gubernatorial nom- ination in the state primary June 24 was in motion here Saturday. The movement was initiated at a Welford day celebration here in con- nection with the opening of the Citi- zens State bank. Governor Welfora | 2! was the principal speaker and the bank charter was presented to K. O. Paulson, president, by Adam Lefor, state bank examiner. Listed as members of the commit- tee in charge of the circulation of pe- titions were W. H. Rickbeil, Pembina county Nonpartisan League eae J. H. Erhardt, Cavalier editor, and Representative Earl Symington of Neche. It was stated the circulation of pe- titions would not affect the precon- vention campaign of supporters of the acting governor for the Nonpartisan League convention at Bismarck, March 3. Governor Welford made no com- ment on the petitions and his speech was entirely non-poiltical. Rickbeil said the circulation of nom- ination petitions was caused by the general demand for such action by numerous Welford-for-Governor clubs in Pembina county. Previously, pe-| titions endorsing and recommending the election of Governor Welford had been circulated. The chairman said signers of these demanded that later Petitions be drawn up so that they would have “some effect.” Sources close to the acting governor said they hoped the intent of the Pembina county clubs was to place Welford’s name on the Republican primary ballot regardless of the action of the convention. ‘They expressed confidence that Wel- would receive the indorsement of the convention over Former Gov. William Langer, whom they regard as the chief opposition of Welford for the league indorsement. Mr. and Mrs. Gann and Dr. Calver hurried to the home but Mr. Curtis had died before they arrived. Only ee maid was reported at the death- Mrs. Gann said “he had been ill fos two or three days with a little cold. He said he would stay in bed unti) the doctor arrived. Up to several ae he had been at his office as usual.” Miss Lola Williams, Mr. Curtis’ sec- retary for many years, hurried to the home as quickly as possible. She notified Mr. Curtis’ two daughters and his son, Mrs, Webster ee 2nd at Providence, and Mrs. C. George at Fort Sam Houston, rush and Harry K. Curtis, at Taos, N. M. She telephone his sister, Mrs. Eliza« beth Colvin at Topeka, Kansas, “Only 10 days ago he returned from a —— trip to Chicago,” Miss Wil- Mams tok » “He still waa acutely interested in politics and had been doing ,all he could to back the candidacy of Governor Landon.” Delay Funeral Services Mr. and Mrs. Gann awaited word from members of the family before arrangements, Curtis was elected to the house in 1892 and served continuously until 1907. In that year he was appointed to the senate and with the exception of & period from 1912 to 1914 con- tinued in the senate until his election as vice president in 1928, Since expiration of his term as vics president, Curtis had practiced law in the capital. : He made his home with his sister, Mrs. Edward Everett Gann. He wag @ widower, Of Indian Ancestry Charles Curtis was the first man of Indian ancestry to occupy the vice presidency of the Unted States. In his youth he wore the blanket of his Indian forebears on the Kaw reservation in Kansas, and at the age of 47, by his efforts he attained the toga of a United States senator. Then with the inauguration of the Hoover administration in 1929, he presided as vice president over the senate, where he had served 20 years and in which he had risen to be Re- publican leader, A romantic and versatile career marked the life of Mr. Curtis, From the Indian reservation he went to become a jockey on the western race tracks, worked as a hack driver, em- barked on his life profession of law, was a crusader against vice as a county prosecuting attorney, and then was elected to the house of represent- atives and later to the United States senate, Immediately upon his elevation to the vice presidency he served notice that he would not pursue the course of his predecessor, Charles G. Dawes, in his efforts to revise the rules of the senate permitting unlimited debate. (Continued on Page Three) 41 Builders Given Exposition Space Plans for the Bismarck Housing show to be held next week in conjunc- tion with the state lumbermen’s con- vention were shaping up rapidly here Friday. Thirty-two foreign and nine Bis- marck building equipment and home furnishing concerns have already been allocated space for exhibits on the Memorial building floor with the pos- sibility that several more will come in before Tuesday, the opening day. Designed to acquaint Missouri Slope residents with the most modern and up-to-date methods and materials in the building industry, the show will be thrown open to the public Tues- day and Wednesday afternoons and evenings and all day Thursday, ac- cording to H. D. Keller, chairman in charge of local arrangements. More Homes Planned Over 50 new residences were con- structed in Bismarck in 1935 and plans have already been made to build many more homes this year. Because of this rapid expansion in the build- ing industry, it has been deemed par- ticuJarly advisable to acquaint all persons with the different types of building materials and the latest in equipment and furnishings before ths building time rolls around. Cooperating with the Lumbermen’s association and the Association of Commerce is the federal housing ad- ministration, headed by W. Ray Reich- ert, state director, An FHA booth will be erected under the supervision of Frank L. Glotzbach, associate di- rector, at which all persons may ob- tain information on the federal pro- gram for home building. Explanation of the FHA’s financing system, including Title I, which pro- vides for loans to modernize panes pair any type of property, and the pro: con single mortgage system, which vides for loans under Title II to struct new homes, refinance, purchase, and improve existing homes, and te | (Continued on Page Threa)