The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 25, 1936, Page 3

“ROBINSON LEAVES T0 SUPERINTEND MINE Well Known Engineer to Direct Activities for Syndicate in Nevada Harris Robinson, former head of chief engineer for WPA, left Monday for Austin, Nev. where he will be superintendent and chief engineer for the Last Chance Mining syndicate, gold and silver mining property own- ed by North Dakota investors. Mrs. Robinson and their daughter, Marjorie Lou, will join him in Nevada after school closes here in the spring. Robinson was one of the best known engineers in the state, having long been associated with public as well we te. Born in 1889 in Walshville town- ship, Walsh county, Robinson took his preparatory work at the Univer- sity of North Dakota and graduated from the college of engineering there in 1914. While at the university he was a leading athlete, winning two football letters, three basketball let- ters and four baseball letters. He captained the basketball team one year and the baseball team two years. For two years in succession he was selected as a member of the all-state basketball team and the last year was its honorary captain. While st the university he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. Following his graduation from col- lege he worked for the Interstate Commerce commission on railroad valuations and from 1914 to 1917 was assistant state engineer. From 1917 to 1927 he was superintendent of highways for McLean county with the exception of five months spent in the army in 1918. From 1927 to 1933 he was assistant division engineer in charge of high- way maintenance in the Bismarck division of the highway department. In 1933 he was employed for two months by a contractor and then spent five months as a CCC camp superintendent. He was chief engi- neer for the Civil Works administra- tion from November, 1933, to March, 1934; chief engineer for FERA from March, 1934, to September, 1935, and for WPA from September, 1935, to the time of his resignation. His new postoffice address will be Fallon, Nevada. Otto Sees Himself as Austria Peace Maker Paris, Feb. 25.—(?)—Archduke Otto of Hapsburg proposed an enthrone- ment of himself as a-solution to Aus- tria’s problems and preservation of European peace in an interview at his Steenockerzeel palace published Tues- day by the Petit Journal. Make Your Correspondence STAND OUT! ae Let us submit Letterhead Ideas! TT tight kind of design and careful choice of type face make your business or professional stationery much more impressive. We are spe- leeterheads, invoices, and printed forms of all types. Call on us to submit ideas to Gt your requirements. Just telephone—ano obligation. Attorneys for Former Officers Claim Sentence Based on Erroneous. Judgment The North Dakota supreme court next month will have before it an ap- peal by two Ward county officials, convicted of extortion and faced with Prison terms, The two officials are Fred L. An- a|derson, Ward county justice of the Peace and T. C. Wilde, Ward county constable, convicted before District Judge A. J. Gronna July 19, 1935. The two were charged with extort- ing an automobile from H. V. Ward, traveling salesman. A jury convicted the pair. Anderson was sentenced to three years in the state penitentiary and Wilde to two years. c. L. Crum, Bismarck, Ben A. Johnson, and G. W. Twiford, both of Minot, attorneys for the appelants, in their brief cite 14 claimed errors of law on the part of the court as basis for the appeal. Call Judgment Erroneous Among other contentions, the de- fendants’ attorneys maintain in their brief, the offense “was only a mis- demeanor and the judgment of the court in sentencing the defendants, as felons, to the state penitentiary was clearly erroneous.” Four other cases are among those to be heard by the court as part of its March calendar. Among the group is an appeal in- volving a Barnes county family, di- vided in a legal battle over property left by the mother of the children who seek final adjudication of their differences, Pauline Noecker, Julia Latt, Caro- line Lettenmaier, and Ida Mung, sur- viving children of Mrs. Julia Brock, appeal from the judgment of Dis- trict Judge P. G. Swenson of Barnes county, in bereft ue apse cit a 120-acre farm belonged to Brock, a brother, riaee igethatet a agreement with his mother many years before her death. Bank Action Listed A third action involved Frank H. Johnson, state examiner and super- intendent of banks in Montana, and O. N. Dunham of Burleigh county. Johnson brought suit against Dun- ham in Burleigh county district court, | 9 to collect $2,500, assertedly due as re- sult of insolvency of the Security State bank of Terry, Mont. Johnson claimed Dunham to be the holder of $2,500 in stock of the bank, and as such, liable under Montana law for an assessment of an equal amount. Dunham denied the power of John- son to bring suit in North Dakota, and demurred to the latter’s com- plaint, which was overruled by Dis- trict Judge Fred Jansonius. Dunham claims the court erred in overruling the demurrer. Land Title Case Revolving around dismissal of an action to. collect. $150 damages, grow- ing out of an alleged defective land title, the appeal of August G. Peter- son, Mountrail county farmer, also will be heard next month. A Renville county district court de- Smelt determining a mortgage suit, also will be reviewed by the high court. The Security Building and Loan association brought suit to collect a claimed 54,164.96 balance on a mort- gage held by them on property of the Northern Motor company. The latter claimed the balance due to be $2,- 642.23. The court granted judgment in favor of the building and loan as- sociation amounting to $2,938.37. The latter appealed seeking the entire amount of its original claim. TWO BLOWS AIMED AT NEW FARM ACT House Appropriations eee: tee Decides to Withhold | Shelterbelt Monies | é { Washington, Feb. 25. — (®) — Two; phases of New Deal farm activity — the vast tree belt projected for the Plains states and a cotton production report—were surrounded by contro- versay Tuesday. The house appropriations commit- tee decided that $1,000,000 Soules to carry on the tree planting this year should be withheld. Representative Treadway ment had “doctored” the cotton re- port, released on Feb. 4, because por- tions of the original document might have caused adverse reaction to the AAA program. From Dr. A. G. Black, chief of the bureau af agricultural economics, came the statement that only “some very minor changes” had been made and that Secretary Wallace had not suggested any of them. | Treadway demanded that the house be given “a complete and unexpur- gated copy,” which Black indicated would be done. Earlier the senate had adopted.a resolution by Senator Gore (Dem., Okla.), calling on Secretary Wallace for a copy of the report. Besides lopping off $1,000,000 asked to carry on the tree shelter belt the house appropriations committee acted to make sure the money is not ob- tained by transferring other funds. It stipulated that no’ money provid- ed in the agriculture department sup- ply bill, which went to the house floor Monday, shall be used for the pur- pose. There was no indication that mem- | bers from the plains states or other areas would conduct a general fight for the $1,000,000, though Represent- ative Werner (Dem., 8. D.), believed the sum should be restored. Sabotage of British Destroyer Reported London, Feb. 25.—(7)--The British admiralty announced Tuesday detec- | tion of the fourth case of suspecteo sabotage this winter aboard Britains werships. The destroyer Velox was the latest vessel affected by alleged sab- Otage. It’s mine-releasing apparatus was understood to have been’ dam- aged. THE BISMARCK ‘TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1936 2 Extortionists Appeal'BANK STOCKS BILL'S From Ward Conviction PASSAGE IN SENATE Law to Protect Press Is His Aim ___————————— | Guarantee of the right of a newspaperman to hold in confi- dence the source of any news he may gather will be asked of Congress in a bill sponsored by Representative Edward W. Cur- ley (Democrat, N. Y.), shown in a new picture. He declares the freedom of the press is menaced by lack of a law giving this protection to reporters. editors, and bd ree enema ie GOVERNMENT UNITS FACE SENATE PROBE Purpose Is to See What Agen- cies Can Be Coordinated or Abolished fashington, Feb. 25.—()—Sena- tors Byrd (Dem.-Va.) foresaw Tuesday @ possibility of saving “hundreds of millions of dollars yearly” as a result of a resolution passed by the senate. ‘The chamber, in response to a sug- gestion by Byrd, decided to set up a committee to study government agencies to see if any should be co- ordinated, abolished or their person- nel reduced. “There are approximately 107,000 employes in Washington now,” Byrd said, “as compared with 63,000 when President Roosevelt was inaugurated. “Over the whole country there are 200,000 more regular employes of the government than there were in March, 1933.” Indications Tuesday on Capitol Hill were that the presdient might send his tax suggestions to congress late this week, but many legislators ex- pect them to be confined largely to $500,000,000 to finance the new farm legislation. DRAWS COUZENS IRE Shows Democratic Chief Gets $90,000 a Year From Two RFC Borrowers Washington, Feb, 25.—(#)—Swept |' through the senate over the strenu- ous opposition of Senator Couzens (Rep., Mich.), the bill to exempt bank stocks held by the RFC from state and local taxation was ready Tuesday for quick consideration by the house. Couzens, asserting that Walter J. Cummings, treasurer of the Demo- cratic national committee, was re- ceiving $90,000 a year in salary from RFC borrowers, declared: “If the banks can pay these sal- aries they can certainly pay taxes on these preferred stocks.” The Michigan senator said Cum- mings receives $75,000 a year as chair- man of the board of the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust company of Chicago, to which the Re- construction corporation has lent $50,000,000, and $15,000 a year from the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific railroad. The records of the Interstate Com- mission disclosed Tuesdayday that before approving’ the appointment of Cummings as trustee for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the commission heard a protest from minority bondholders. The St. Paul case now is being investigated by the senate committee created to inquire into railroad financing. The RFC tax exemption measure was drawn up after a recent supreme court ruling which held that bank stocks held by RFC were subject to local taxation. Jesse H. Jones said Tuesday that “qualifications,” not “politics,” had dictated appointment of Cummings 12 two jobs paying aggregate salaries lot $90,000 a year. GRAND JURY PROBING N.B, TRIPLE TRAGEDY Woman “Who Had Had to Have Baby’ and Her Two Sons Face Murder Charges | inlaid Dorchester, N. B., Feb. 25.—(7)— New Brunswick's celebrated Bannis- ter case, involving the death of a abduction of his infant came Tuesday before a grand jury. The crown presented its case against Daniel and Arthur Bannister, charged with slaying Philip Lake, Jan. 5, and against Mrs. May Bannis- ter, their middleaged mother, alleged to have procured the kidndping of Betty Lake. Mrs. Bannister, the prosecution contended, “had to have a baby” to ened two men friends under obliga- OF RICH, RIPE- BODIED TOBACCO= BALANCE British Seek to Save San Quentin Convict 2 NTERNA- TIONAL in- mterest was stirred in the case of Alexan- der MacKay, San Quentin, Calif., convict, by the British foreign office clemency plea to Gov. Merri- am. MacKay was doomed to hang Feb. 28 for a 1955 es- MacKay cape attempt. tion to her, so that she might obtain financial support from them. The woman, who was given the op- tion of speedy trial before a judge stone, chose Monday to have a jury take, @ Pacific Junction squatter, was shot to death the night of Jan. 5, and his housekeeper, Mrs, Mar- shall Ring, died from a blow on the skull. Her 21-months old son Jackie died of exposure outside the Lake shack, which was destroyed by fire. The infant Betty Lake was first believed to have burned to death, but the crown charged she was found in the Bannister home Jan. 10, At Mrs. Bannister's preliminary _ hearing, Crown counsel contended kidnaping was the motive for the chided ital tragedy. (OUSTED TREASU TREASURER LOCKS STATE VAULT Talmadge’s Order Challenged by Georgia Officers Who Foil Successors Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 25.—()—Georgia fiscal affairs were snarled further Pe esnd at Head gucels of two ousted lock that bars ac- thee tee the tata, yeu until late Thursday night. Comptroller General William B. nation and State Treasurer George 'B. Hamilton, removed by national ee ian thedieed faa “suspension” Eugene Tal- image, aire they Sitios immediate court action to prevent successors already appointed from occupying their offices, Hamilton scotched effectively any quick effort to remove state-owned valuables by closing the treasury vault under a new combination and setting the time lock 80 hours ahead— the mechanical maximum. backwoods squatter and the alleged| The twin ouster, in the form of a! refused to honor treasury warrants is- sued to relieve an acute situation in eleemosynary institutions whieh were without appropriations due to failure of the legislature to pass such meas- ures at the last session. Hamilton wired all state depositor- ies a warning that “my attempted re- moval as state treasurer is iliegal” and checks drawn on the treasury will be “paid at your peril.” JOCKEY QUESTIONED IN WOMAN'S KILLING Florida Mother’s Body Found on New Orleans Railroad Station Lawn New Orleans, Feb. 25.—(#)—Police reported Tuesday they were holding Jack O'Day, 26-year-old free lance jockey, for questioning in connection with the mysterious slaying of Mrs. Estelle Hughes, whose body was ‘ound on the lawn of a downtown railroad station early Tuesday morning. O'Day has been staying in New Orleans during the current racing season where he has been employed at the fair grounds track. Mrs. Hughes was described by po- lice as being around 29 years old, the mother of a 9-year-old child. She was believed to be a native of Panama City, Fla. Her body was found lying on a small plot of grass near the railroad station with a bullet ‘wound in the head. LOEB RAZOR KILLER PLEADS NOT GUILTY Self Defense Will Be Convict’s Answer to Charge He Mur- dered Prison Mate Joliet, Ill, Feb, 25.—(?)—James Day, 21-year-old prison inmate, Pleaded innocent Tuesday to an in- dictment charging the murder of Richard Loeb, Day was arraigned before Circuit Judge Claude M. Saum, who set trial for March 9. Day's attorneys indi- cated they would ask a continuance. While Day was being arraigned, Governor Horner's commission aj pointed as a result of the Loeb sit ing Jan. 28, to investigate prison at ,Ministration, was questioning wit- nesses at the Stateville penitentiary. Day, who confessed killing Loeb with a razor in a prison bathroom, was brought to court manacled, but was uncuffed during the court ses- sion. His attorneys argued with State’s Attorney Will R. McCabe, who said that he would demand the trial March 9. Day's attorneys indicated selfde- fense would be his justification for the killing of Loeb, who, with Nathan Leopold, was serving a 99-year sen- tence for the kidnaping and murder in 1924 of Bobby Franks. The dining room’s good food daughter, “suspension,” came after the officials|has built traffic to the Prince. jrtheeepeleepag onder and delay duete Raila. seein sabr Hungry Magpies Are Attacking § S. D. Cows Isabel, 8. D., “Feb, 25.—()—Flocks of hungry Magpies have been attack- ing cattle in this territory it was re- ported Tuesday. Frank Eichelman who lives on the Moreau river said two of his best milk cows had been injured by the noisy birds which lit on the animals’ backs and tore their hides so badly that flesh was cpaee. He said there were about 50 birds in the flock. HOUSING PLAN DRAFT AWAITS FDR'S OKAY Program Would Involve Outlay of Less Than 100 Million First Year Washington, Feb. 25.—(7)—Comple- tion of a housing program involving treasury outlays of less than $100,000,- 000 the first year was disclosed Tues- day by Peter Grimm, assistant to Secretary Morgenthau. He said the draft now awaited President Roosevelt's approval and forecast the legislative plan will be forwarded to Capitol Hill'“soon.” Grimm said that as soon as a pro- gram becomes law he will leave the government service. “I'm not going to leave until we get ®@ housing program,” he said. “In that connection the situation looks better than it did last December.” Senator Wagner (Dem., N. Y.), re- cently told newsmen that while “the president, wants a program this session, he has not said what type of program he wants.” The program has been represented as embracing long-range, low-cost housing and slum clearance through federal loans and grants to local com- munities. 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