The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 29, 1936, Page 1

(=&] THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1878 ‘Oka _GOP Smiles, #10 SLASH MLLIONS! Battlin FF BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1936 SOME LEADERS HOPE Barbara Hutton Is_|N0 FOREIGN MARKET OFF NEW REQUESTS Expect Income Tax Returns to Allow Material Reductions in Estimates . INFLATIONISTS TAKE HOPE Roosevelt Favors New Levies on Incomes to Meet Ex- pense of Bonus Washington, Feb. 29.—(?)—Presi- dent Roosevelt's tax plans calling for $786,000,000 a year for the next three it hundreds of millions off the requests. Others believed the president’s pro- gram would go through virtually in- tact. Democratic leaders hoped the in- Representative Bankhead (Dem., Ala.) said the president’s request would b> Suffers Stroke payers Fargo resident since 1888, suffer- ed a cerebral hemorrhage early Saturday and was in critical con- dition, the Associated Press re- Ported, RAILROAD COMPANY FOUND NEGLIGEN IN TOWNES DEAT Northern Pacific Held Careless Close to. Track Jamestown, N. D., Feb. 29.—(?)— At the inquest Saturday into the death of Dr. R. 8. Towne, Bismarck, fatally injured at the Northern De- pot here Monday night, the jury brought in a verdict of negligence office of Frank Kellogg, police mag- istrate and justice of the peace, R. D. Chase, state’s attorney for Stutsman county conducting it. Witnesses were L, B. Wheadon, Bis- marck, who was Dr. Towne's travel- ing companion, Dr. W. A. Gerrish, Jamestown physician, who attended ‘The verdict is as follows: __ “The death of Dr. R. 8. Towne was caused by the negligence of the this Northern Pacific railroad company in To Week-End Traffic|Frisy at Bowman and will be re-|drifts. Mrs. Neth is a - Patty Berg Loses in Final Round Again Ormond Beach, Fla., Feb. 29.—(?)}— Lueile Des leaving cream trucks in such a posi- tion as to be struck by the incoming #0 as.to crush the said ‘Towne between said truck car on the track south, said train No. 4, the nd liver of said Dr. on North- ern Pacific train No. 4 Monday eve- while on the loaded with was rushed to a local died in an hour, from internal Alleged Swindler Is Nabbed at Bowman Albert J. Jacobus, stock buyer said to be from Valley City, was arrested turned to Morton county for trial on charges of passing a bad check, ac- cording to information received Sat- urday by the state bureau of crim- inal identification. The check, for more than $100, was said to have been passed at Flasher. If proposed calendar changes are made eliminating the time-honored Leap Year day which occurs once in boy born at about 10:30 a. m., Satur- g for Life Intestinal Obstruction Follow- ing Baby's Birth Complicates Her Condition London, Feb. 29.— () —Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow, gravely ill after an operation follow- ing the birth of her first child, took @ sudden turn for the worse Saturday night. An authoritative source said the crisis in her illness was expected later in the evening. Lord Horder, physician in ordinary to King Edward, was called back to her bedside, together with Dr. James Slesinger, her personal physician, and two other doctors. She underwent her operation Thursday night for abdominal symp- toms of an obstructive nature, Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, Danish nobleman who married the 23-year-old heiress last May in Reno, ;announced the symptoms developed j definitely Thursday and the opera- tion was performed soon afterward. He was at the countess’ bedside as was the patient’s stepmother, Mrs. Franklin L, Hutton, ‘RUBBER THROAT’ IS USED 10 KEEP TINY CHICAGO BABY ALIVE Girl That Weighed 12 Ounces at Birth Now Tips Scales at 34 claim. the .title. of world’s. smallest, glaim. sbe 1. Jacqueline, who Dr. Edward P. estimated weighed 12 ounces at was so wee then that she could not swallow, and a 6-inch rubber tube had served as her esophagus at meal time ever since. Fifteen to 30 drops of mother’s milk constituted a meal at first. This amount increaesd slowly, until Satur- day the tiny girl was getting 10 cubic centimeters of milk almost every hour. Last week, Jacqueline’s fifth, nurses at St. Anne’s hospital risked the first change in her diet just as she was beginning to learn to swallow. Arti: ficial sugar was added to the milk, }and the tube feedings were supple- mented by an eye-dropper placed in her mouth, . King, who delivered the baby to Mrs. Lester Benson, formerly of Peru, Ill., was optimistic for his tiny charge, but was taking no chances. An oxygen tent was kept over incubator, where she will remain un- til she weighs five pounds. Dr. King said the baby, dark blue at birth on Jan. 14, was so small he was afraid to risk exposing it long enough to weigh it. Friday Jacque- line weighed 34 ounces. Like the English child who now holds the world’s smallest baby rec- ord—13. ounces—Jacqueline, a print- er’s daughter, was a 6 months baby. Recovers in Hospital After Tortuous Trip Mrs. William Neth, rural Bismarck, is resting comfortably in the Bismarck hospital, where she is being treated for a fractured left hip sustained whel she slipped and fell in her hane Monday. The trip to the hospital was frought with hardship. Neth and his wife’s brother, Irvin Neugebauer, shov- eled shoulder-high drifts from the toad for a mile and a half to enable the ambulance to get to the home, lo- cated five miles north and three- fourths mile west of Bismarck. The ambulance stuck in a drift and it was necessary to make a two mile trip in order to get horses to free it from the daughter of Bismarck. Mrs. Selma Neugebauer, HENRY HARRISON DIES Jamestown, N. D., Feb. 29.—(7)}— Henry A, Harrison, 79, building con- tractor and a resident of the city since 1919, died early Saturday. Boy Born Here May Never Have Birthday every four years on Feb. 29, the baby | ing FOR PRODUCE FROM 00,000,000 ACRES New AAA Expected to Attempt to Retire Much of Nation’s Profitless Soil BEGIN PROGRAM NEXT WEEK Benefit Payments Wili Not Be As Large as Before But More Widespread Washington, Feb. 29—(7)—A hint of the gigantic operations to be un- dertaken under the new farm pro- gram was given Saturday when New Deal officials declared that 50,000,000 ‘acres of lands are now producing com- mercial crops for which there is no foreign market. The AAA is expected to work to- ward retiring much of this land. The new farm bill, now awaiting Presi- dent Roosevelt's signature, authorizes the payment of subsidies to farmers for diverting land to soil conservation growths or other “economic” use. ‘The program will be launched form- ally next week with the convening of regional meetings of farmers, prob- ably on Thursday at Memphis and Chicago. Details of the subsidies are lexpected to be announced then. The soil conservation bill's success- ful journey through congress brought glad tidings to AAA workers. Many of the 1,000 to 1.500 who were laid off are expected to get their jobs back. Officials said that under the new STATE INCOME TA RULING IS AWAITED Supreme Court’s Decision May Not Be Handed Down for Another Week With 15 days still remaining before payment of the first quarter's levy | becomes due, thousands of North Da- kotans Saturday were questioningly awaiting the decision of the state su- preme court on the constitutionality of the graduated individual income tax. ‘The court's decision was not ex- pected for at least a week, although members of the bench have had a number of conferences on the ques- tion. Chief Justice John Burke at the time the question was submitted said he anticipated the court would hand down its decision prior to March 15, final deadline for payment of the first quarter of the tax. A group of seven North Dakota citizens atttacked the 1935 amend- ments to the law, which stepped up rates to what was claimed to be the highest figure in the nation. The case was submitted Feb. 7. Opponents of the tax claimed it violated both federal and state con- stitutions. At least four of the five justices must agree, to declare the act uncon- stitutional, under North Dakota con- stitutional requirements, Olson Brands Jurist Assailant as ‘Tory’ Tucson, Ariz. Feb, 29.—(%)—Gov. Floyd B, Olson of Minnesota was on record Saturday with a heated de- nunciation of Federal Judge Gunnar H. Nordbye, as a “Tory” who had “thrown his judicial robes into a part- isan ash can.” The vacationing chief executive made the accusation in re- ply to Judge Nordbye’s chargess that state officials “permitted mobs to vi- olate the law with impunity.” Judge M’Farland to Seek Position Again Jamestown, N. D., Feb. 29. Helpless in Agony as Woman Is Swept to Death A scene of horrifying drama ts this, as three men wait in helpless anguish while a loved one ie swept away in death. 4 few moments before, as they fled from their Logansport, Ind., home to es- cape @ flood after an ice gorge in Eel river broke, Mrs. Thomas Penn, 43, had been torn from the Srasp of her companions by the swift current. Looking frantically about for help are Ralph Bar- serhuf, left, and Leroy Cox, son of the victim, right. Lying flat on the ice, peering into the water for a sign of the drowned woman, is her aged father-in-law, John W. Penn, 77. PRAZIER-LEMKE ACT |] wi Hi Erasure Delayed OO FRIENDS TO FORCE CAUCUSES ON BILL Reject Proposal to Compel Stand By Obstructing Other Legislation i Washington, Feb. 29.—(#)—Pinning, their hopes of bringing the inflation- ary Frazier-Lemke bill to a vote in the house on a new piece of strategy, lvocates. prepared. Saturday. to seek action through party caucuses, among majority — 2 signatures are required by both major parties— to call these caucuses. If successful: they will ask the four party confer- ences to take a stand on bringing the bill to a vote. of a maximum of $3,000,000,000 in new currency. Decision to employ caucus tactics was reached at a meeting of about 25 friends of the bill, who rejected a pro- posal to force action by obstruction of other legislation. Committees from all four parties— Republican, to circulate them for signatures. The meeting named Representatives White (Dem.-Ida.), Lemke (Rep.- N.D.), Boileau (Prog.-Wis.) and Lun- deen (F. L.-Minn.), to choose the par- The members, 10 in all, are pledged support the bill. Lemke and White said they would select the committees soon, Lemke predicted the new strategy would force an early vote, possibly next week. Proponents of the bill have been unable to muster the 218 signers nec- additions brought it to however. Mercer Faces Fight Over Clerk’s Salary Mercer county commissioners may have to get court permission to pay $25 a month toward the hire of a clerk whose services all of them believe is needed, The clerk will be located in the gov- ernment seed loan office at Mandan and is to be paid jointly by Mercer, Oliver and Morton counties on the theory that his services would ex- pedite action on applications for feed, seed and fuel loans. Nine taxpayers, including several Mercer county officials, have filed a petition with State’s Attorney Floyd Sperry asking him to ask the court to enjoin the county commissioners allocated —(P)— Judge R. G. McFarland of the Fourtn|from spending the money, judicial district, announced Saturday|from the county highway fund. he Kidder counties. M’GREGOR NAMED saulting his companion, ona night. 400 Doctors Await For Babies’ Birth Washington, Feb. 29.—(7)—Na- Sunes a gz TH ie final Borah Dickinson, Republican choices, pose liams Stigma | Boston, Feb. 29.—()—The name of Roger Williams, now centuries dead, must bear the stimga of his expulsion from Massachusetts a little longer. Gov. James M. Curley an- nounced he will delay until May signing a bill formally revoking the sentence of expulsion passed by the Massachusetts Bay colony 300 years ago. The occasion then will be the governor's participa- tion with Rhode Island in observ- ing the tercentenary of the found- ing of the state by Williams, POLITICAL PARTISAN REVILEMENT GROWS THROUGHOUT NATION Democrat Assails ‘Uppercrust’ as Republican Charges Pillage of Needy Washington, Feb. 29.—(#)—The on- rushing tide of events leading up to! November's election Saturday found a@ Democrat assailing the nation’s “upper crust,” a Republican demand- ing inquiry into charges that relief workers are being “exploited” polit- ically, and Senator Borah (Rep.-Ida.) preparing for the stump. The attack against the “upper crust” came from Senator Murray (Dem.- Mont.) “Tt is this class ... that is indulg- ing in the most unbridled vitupera- tion, and scandalously insulting the president of the United States,” he said. “We hear a great deal about the danger of setting class against class, but no. one seems to realize the revolutionary quality of the extraor- dinary statement made here in the capital a short time ago by America’s great ncier.” While Murray did not refer to J. P. Morgan by name, he discussed some of the financier’s remarks before the senate munitions committee here re- cently. Senator Vandenberg (Rep.-Mich.), widely considered a possible con- tender for the presidential nomina- tion, Friday asked the relief admin- istration to investigate “in the name: of political decency,” whether relief workers are “pillaged” for Demo- cratic campaign contributions. is scheduled to open his ac- tive campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in Ohio in a couple of weeks, and follow it up with an invasion of Illinois, the home state of his rival, Col. Frank Knox. In Ohio he will be opposed by Robert A. Taft, the favorite son candidate of the Republican organization. Primary activity in Iowa, whence comes Senator » another man often listed among potential » included the state committee’s action in giving its 22 delegates a free hand at the forth- coming ex- pected the delegates favor Dickinson at the convention. Observers would outset. /WELFORD LEAGUERS STRIVING TO REACH DECISION ON FUTURE Question of Recognizing Con- vention Monday Is Pre- dominant Issue A conference of leaders in the ad- ministration of Governor Welford opened here Saturday afternoon. It was expected that out of the ses- sion would come @ definite decision whether or not Tuesday's Nonparti- san League convention would be rec- ognized. According to some of the leaders another convention may be called by State Senator Harry Peterson, chair- man of the League's executive com- mittee, as the “real” convention in view of the predominant strength of William Langer among delegates to the convention previously called. No decision was expected to be ar- rived at until Sunday or possibly Monday. Those attending the conference in- cluded Mr. Welford, Senator Peterson, A. F. Bonzer, Jr., manager of the state mill and elevator; Steve Ter- Horst, former regulatory department chief under Langer; J. C. Goll, grain storage commissioner; and a number of other state officials. A. C. Townley, Nonpartisan League founder, also was in Bismarck Satur- day and conferred with Governor Welford at the capitol. HAZELTON ELEVATOR j= FIRE LOSS $25,000 Second Bad Blaze in Six Weeks Rouses Fears Pyromaniac Is Active There Hazelton, N. D., Feb. 29.—Destruc- tion of the L. W. Berkholtz elevator with a loss estimated at $25,000 oc- curred here Wednesday morning. It was the second bad fire in Hazelton in little more than a month, the Occi- dent elevator having also been de- stroyed by fire Jan. 16. The flames were discovered at 4 a. m by Charles Gantka and Emmons Ross who had just returned from a dance at Linton. Flames were shoot- ing out of the roof of the feed mill, attached to the elevator. Firemen were unable to save the structure be- cause there was no city water supply available, and the fire had gone too far to be put out by chemicals. Coal sheds of the Victoria Elevator company 50 feet away were saved by the chemical engines and by shovel- ing snow on their roofs. The cause of the fire has not been determined and elevator men express the fear that a pyromaniac may be preying on the community. The ele- vator contained about 10,000 bushels of grain. Aurora Bachelors Are Called Public Enemies Aurora, Ill, Feb. 29.—(?)—Bache- lors became as scarce as hens’ teeth in this city Saturday as unmarried girls took over all executive jobs for Leap year day. The. women, and they must be neither married, widowed nor di- vorced, drew up a list of “public ene- mies,” as they described the city’s eligible bachelors. They served notice thet men so posted must either pro- to some girl or go to jail and “be fined one silk dress.” The matriarchy extended from the mayoral chair down to the dog catch-| s er. Even the stores and shops were included. ‘Two men dissented. They contended , that as women always held the posi- tions of jail matron and jail cook, marreid ter. Okada. The Weather Mostly ber tote tonight and Sunday; i temperature, PRICE FIVE CENTS da Escaped Killers’ Guns Democrats Divided on FDR’s Tax Plann tirours UNHURT AS DOCILE REBELS SURRENDER Man Slain By Insurgents Was Brother-in-Law Who Resem: bled Cabinet Chief NO AMERICANS MOLESTED Emperor Orders Okada to Keep Premiership Until Succes- sor Can Be Found (Copyright, 1936, Associated Press) Tokyo, Feb. 29.—Premier Keisuke Okada, proclaimed throughout the world as a victim of assassins’ guns in Japan's military purge, reappeared alive and unhurt Saturday as the re- bellious movement collapsed. His “resurrection,” electrifying a nation which believed its chief cab- inet officer had been cut down by the bullets of revolting officers, remained an official secret until after the 1,000 rebels had surrendered. Then the cabinet secretariat dis- closed dramatically that the premier still lived and headed the government and that the man slain by the excited insurgents was his brother-in-law who closely resembled him. Hisatsune Sekomizu, the premier’s private secretary, told the Domei (Japanese) news agency that mem- bers of Okada’s family knew he was alive Thursday night but kept the matter a strict secret. Told to Remove Body The secretary said that when rebel officers who made the premier’s resi- dence their headquarters asked Sek- omizu to remove what the revolution- ists thought was the premier’s body, the secretary said he did so—fully aware that the body was that of someone other than the premier. “When I saw the body,” Sekomisu told the news agency, “I realized that it was that of Colonel Matsuo who pe the premier’s younger lar voices. The rebels appeared con- vinced that the body was that of community showed no Americans were harmed or molested seriously during the rebellion. against the restrictions of their move- ments under martial law, the em- bassy announced it found the Japan- ese military was markedly consid- erate of the safety of foreign diplom- ats and residents during the crisis. All the 1,000 rebels surrendered or were captured, the headquarters of law administration an- nounced, after Lieut. Gen. Kohei Kashil’s command advanced on the rebel positions in the center of the capital, and machine gun firing was heard. As far as could be determined im- mediately, however, the suppression was accomplished without bloodshed. The announecment that Premier Okada—one of the four liberal elder alive, came officially from the Ja- Panese cabinet. Goto Relieved of Post Fumio Goto, home minister who became acting premier while Emperor Hirohito, imperial princes, high mili- tarists and ministers sought a new premier under the insurgents’ insis- tence on their ideal of government, was formally relieved of his post. Okada’s reappearance unhurt, how- ever, was kept a secret until the re- bellion was quelled. No explanations or details of the escape of Okada from the assassins’ guns were issued, but government of- ficials announced they had known he was alive since Friday morning, and he was given an audience Friday night with Emperor Hirohito. The multiliated body which lay in the snow in the garden of the pre- mier’s residence, and hitherto assum- ed to have been that of Okada, was identified as that of the premier’s brother-in-law and secretary, Col. Denzo Matsuo. The insurgents apparently mistook the colonel for the premier in their dawn attack Wednesday. Disarmed Government communiques an- nounced the three-day siege of the rebels ended shortly after noon with the disarming of the rank and file of the insurgents—and the arrests of at least 15 officers—completed. The government insisted the subju- gation was achieved without the fir- ing of a shot and without bloodshed since the tragic Wednesday morning when—in the original belief—four of the empire's most venerated states- men were slaughtered and a fifth was these jobs should be taken over by| wounded gravely in the assassinations men for the day at least. Miss Margaret Esser, 24, a high school teacher, designated to replace Mayor Conrad M, Bjorseth, saw the which launched the coup. The cabinet announced Okada ap- peared unhurt, but Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito, former premier and logic in the claim and agreed that| lord keeper of the privy seal; Kore- Irwin Lisberg, a man, would replace Mrs. Charlotte Bell as police matron. kiyo Takahashi beloved 82-year-old minister of finance, and Gen. Jotare “There won't be any women in jail] Watanabe, chief of military educas today, anyway,” she (Continued on Page Three)