The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 2, 1936, Page 1

(=| THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Generally fair it and rising temp. tonight; colder The Weather ‘Tuesdsy. ESTABLISHED 1878 Nonp Roosevelt Si DOES NOT REGARD IT (Two Found Dead in|BULDING ENPLOYES AS PANACEA BUT AS| MBAS TMM TNCs Snowdritt Plan Provides Justice for Farm and Conservation of Na- tural Resources FARMERS TO GET SUBSIDIES Major Aim Is to Take Millions of Acres Out of Commer- cial Crop Growing Washington, March 2.—(?)—High No Contracts to Sign Although the new law contains no production contro] contracts—the su- preme court ruled them out—Presi- Near Farm Home, Vic- tims of Storm Bismarck therometers touched 43 degrees above sero at 3 p. m., Monday, according te 0. W. Reb- erts, federal meteorologist. Moderating temperatures and im- Proved travel conditions Sunday re- sulted in the discovery near Leal, in Barnes county, of a man and his wife who evidently last week. bei hy ila E i eapze gee [ A biel Ff gf Crosby F NORTH DAKOTA CAR RISK RATES RAISED Private Auto Injury and Prope ty Damage Insurance to Cost More New York, Mar. 2.—()—Revised rates for private passenger automo- *} bile injury and property damage lia- Almost Loses Life Getting His Tobacco |#335 life getting afoot through deep snow to replenisa his supply at Roy, 14 miles from his ranch, became lost and wandered for 24 hours before coming to the De Silva ranch near Grass Range. His face was frozen and he was near collapse. He had walked 11 miles in the wrong direction. A brief rest and food, however, re- newed the desire for a smoke. He Crosson Sights ‘Lost’ Musher Near Crossing Fairbanks, Alaska, March 2.—(?)— A beauty contest threatened Mi to interrupt pretty Alice Joyce's ha- zardous dog team trek across the icy Alaskan wastelands. Anxiety over the safety of the 27- bility insurance for the entire state of North Dakota were announced Monday by the national bureau of casualty and surety underwriters. The new schedule is effective for ail business written on or after Monday territory and the size of the car in- sured, The national bureau announced 2 ar BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, MARCH 2; 1936 tisan ually in fury they did not leave for their own farm, three-fourths of a mile away until 9:30 that evening. They walked, pulling a hand sled. The Juliens were without children, At the same time the Bismarck weather station reported that the average temperature during was 11.4 degrees below zero, the low- est for any month on record during the 65 years weather records have been kept here. The previous low mark was -9.2 in January, 1875. The previous low mark for February was 3.8, also recorded in 1875. The mean temperature for the two months was '-7.6 which constituted a new record for any two months in led history. its inception but if so it had acquired a bite during its long journey over the western snowfields. Drifting Is Halted One effect of the thaw, the first \-1 mber, was to put a the snow drifts and will not be drifted new snow falls. At difficult to open roads which still are blocked since the snow now is much heavier and harder to move. The forecast was for warmer weath- er Monday night and colder Tuesday. The 13th death in South Dakota (Continued on Page Two) armer’s Bank Re to Honor ‘CD’ Until Due Date; Can't Collect $150,000 Minneapolis, March 32.—(?)—Still believing in his golden dream, Allen Person, wealthy Crosby, N. D., ranch: er Monday blames bankers, newspa- permen and his Minneapolis friends for frustrating his plans to make a $150,000 “killing’ on the racetracks in New Orleans. Blocked when his‘ North Dakota bank stood on its legal rights not to honor a $4,000 certificate of deposit until the due date, May 1, 1936, Per- gon gave up his plans for going to New. Orleans to collect his share of the huge racetreck bet which he says is waiting for him. “It’s a shame,” he said. “The news- papers and the bankers and all these People talking—they spoiled every- thing. The whole deal is off now. This gambler I met in New Orleans said he didn’t want any publicity, everything must be secret and now I know it’s all spoiled.” Believing that he was about to be- come the victim of a swindle Min. neapolis friends argued frantically with Person over the week-end to keep him from going to New Orleans. “All I had to do was show my $25,- 000 to them—show them I could have paid off if I lost, and I would have my share of the $156,000,” collected upon| Person said Monday. “There were Boy and Girl Found in Hotel as Man and Wife manding | day at Moffit. three of us in on the bet.” Persons, who owns 3,000 acre wheat farm, mortgages and consider- able real estate in Crosby, says he met his “friends” in New Orleans sev- eral weeks ago. Person says the New Orleans men Persons said he will travel until spring when he pl to return to his North Dakota farm. O’Connor Hurls Libel Suit Threat at Radio Washington, March 2.—(?)—Repre- sentative O'Connor (Dem.- N.Y.) said Mrs. Elvira Porter Buried at Moffit Funeral services for Mrs. Elvira Porter. 80-year-old resident of Moffit, who died Saturday, were held Mon- Mrs, Porter was born April 23, 1855, in Ireland. She was married to Calvin Porter, who died some years ago. STRIKE IN NEW YORK PARALYZES ACTIVITY Only Skyscrapers Unaffected by Walkout Are Financial District Structures AGREEMENTS BEING SIGNED Union Chief Says 75,000 Men and 6,000 Buildings Will Be Idle at Sunset ployes’ strike which spread rapidly through Manhattan's residential and business sections. As the walkout spread shortly after noon through the crowded midtown business and Garment area, the may- or ordered all city departments to ar- range for deputization of all persons needed to provide building service as required by health and safety stan- Municipal emplayes encompassed by the proclamation total more than 40,- 000. When he took the action, the only buildings in which a walkout had not been ordered were the skyscrapers in the financial district. Possibility of hotel workers joining the strike : “aor aterwa, “Bet Hope’ Dashed and office buildings, he declared, would be without service. Bronx Affected Employes in the northwest section of Manhattan and the Bronx were called out Sunday, with others order- ed to join them Monday morning. Bambrick then ordered out work- ers between 42nd street, heart of the midtown area, and 14th street. In that district is London Terrace, one of the largest apartment buildings in the world. The Empire state building, tallest in the world, was not affected by the strike order. Trebled police details patrolled the city. + Officers were stationed in the lib- bies of every large building in the city, but. there were few disturbances, Countess Barbara Is Pronounced ‘Better’ London, March 2.—(%)—Countess Haugwits-Reventlow, the former Bar- bara Hutton who fell gravely ill after the birth of her first child last week, celled Monday and emerged from ‘anger. Her physicians issued a bulletin an- “Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow's condition continues to mend and the patient may now be regarded as out ot danger.” Operated upon last Thursday night for symptoms of an abdominal ob- Japan Seeks Man To Direct Cabinet Tokyo, March 2.—(#)—Three dis- tinguished near-victims of assassina- tion in Tokyo's short-lived army in- surrection met at the ho | lord keeper of the privy seal Viscount E f g Leagu ultural Relief Bill/Two Conventions e Northern Ethiopia Army Vanquished 10,000 Warriors of Ras Kassa Reported Killed in Amba Alaji Sector Ported loss of 10,000 men in the opian forces. Britain Makes Offer Great Britain offered Monday place an embargo against further shipments to Italy provided all other members of the League do the same, and the League of Nations council “committee of 13” was ordered to dis- cuss the possibility of concillating the Italo-Ethiopian war. The “committee of 13” is really the entire League council with Italy ex- cluded. It will be convoked Tuesday. An authoritative Italian source in Rome stated Italy was ready to en- CONTROVERSIAL TAX 1D REUBP SURI Gross Public Debt Expected to Reach New All-Time Peak in April to} oll Ras Kassa’s Ethiopian army on the northern front is reported to have been destroyed in dispatches Monday from the East African war zone. Washington, March 2.—(AP)—The fight over government spending shar- pened Monday as congress awaited President Roosevelt's $786,000,000 tax message and the treasury launched a $1,800,000,000 financing operation, of which $800,000,000 is new borrowing. ‘The loan operations will raise the gross public debt to $31,300,000,000 on April 15, a new all-time peak. The administration contends cash on hand, which estimates say will total more than $2,000,000,000 on April 15, should be subtracted from the gross debt to get the actual debt. ‘The Chamber of Commerce of the United States and the National Eco- nomy league published statements de- manding retrenchment, the latter as- sailing what it termed “soak the poor” taxation. Expect Message Tuesday The president's message, recom- mending taxation to cover the $500,- 000,000 farm program, the loss of the invalidated AAA processing taxes, and part of the bonus payment cost, was expected to reach congress by Tues- front, is believed to have escaped from the Fascist offensive which With such major issues as the bonus, farm relief and neutrality off 1 hands, the two para- mount topics remaining are taxes and relief, There have been indications that officials will seek to keep the relief appropriation below $2,000,000,- 000. A pessimistic unemployment sum- 4] mary published Monday by the Amer- jean Federation of Labor placed the number of jobless in January at 12,- 626,000, an increase of 1,229,000 over December. Asks Retrenchment Harper Sibley, Chamber of Com- merce president, sent a letter to legis- lators asking retrenchment and op- posing the billion-dollar Norris rural electrification bill. Inflationists hopefully were reviving Proposals to.pay the bonus in new currency and other money-expansion plans but Speaker Byrns declared “inflation hasn’t a chance.” Senator La Follette (Prog.-Wis.) and others were pushing for a broad- er income tax program, but some other legislators were opposed. Father of Bismarck Resident Succumbs Samuel E. Acheson of Fargo, father ot Robert Acheson of this city and a brother of T. D. Acheson, former member of the legislature from Bot- tuneau county and well known in Non- partisan political circles, died Satur- day at Fargo of heart disease. He was assistant manager of the J. I. Case company's Fargo branch and was widely known for his prowess in golf and bowling. . In addition to his widow, and his Saito, Gen. Jotaro Watanabe, | son living here, Mr. Acheson left three education, and Col.|other sons, Marlo and William, at home, and Leslie, Minneapolis; and two daughters, Mrs. Otto Thole, Moor- head, and Harriett, at home. Brothers and sisters, in addition to Performance of|T D. Acheson, are Gordon of Souris and Howard of Antler, Mrs. N. M. McKinnon, Los Angeles, Calif, and centers for four days before capi- ‘Mrs. Matt Fletcher, Coltervale, Man. PRICE FIVE CENTS e Divided —_—_—_——— To Open Tuesday Welford’s Friends to Dominate Session Called By Chairman Peterson; Langer Followers to Stage Other Factional Meeting Two Nonpartisan tions here Tuesday. by Harry Peterson, executive committee. League conventions will begin delibera- One will be called to order at 11 a. m. in the city auditorium chairman of the Nonpartisan League state The other will be called to order at 10 a. m. in Patterson hall, presumably by some other member of the executive com- mnittee. The convention at the city auditorium will be dominated by friends of Gov. Walter Welford. That at Patterson hall will be ruled by friends of Former Gov. William Langer. Following announcement of the second eonvention call, W. E. Hoopes of Carrington and Elwood Eck of Bismarck held a session of the executive committee of the Nonpartisan League Monday afternoon and declared Harry Peterson removed as chairman, electing Hoopes in his place. As a result Hoopes will call the Langer convention to .order, while Senator Peterson will open the Welford convention. The cleavage in the ranks of the league, now the dominant faction in the Republican party, became irrevocable Monday with announcement by Peterson of the second convention, called to eliminate the influence of William Langer from Nonpartisan affairs, Peterson’s statement, the leading development arising from a. host of political parleys Sunday and Monday, follows: “TO THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE DELEGATES CONVENING IN THE CITY OF BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA: “From information at hand and from my personal observation Tam convinced that many of the delegates who are here to attend the State Convention of the Nonpartisan League organization are Pledged to, or instructed for, the endorsement of William Langer for Governor or some other important State or National office. “From my personal observation, as well as from the opinion of unquestionable Leaguers of long standing, it is necessary for the fu- ture progress and welfare of the this influence from the ranks of our used in well known to B; all observing q Nonpartisan League to eliminate organization, The method and securing these pledged and instructed delegates are te need any statement by Leaguers this statement I do not wish it to be understood Practice in all counties—but I am in as to many counties. I feel in common with the majority of sincere Nonpartisan Leaguers that it is absolutely te eliminate well as from the zation, I i te support this influence from the farmer’s organization State Government. “Therefore, as chairman of the Nonpartisan League am calling a conference throughout the state, who do not feel themselves Mr. Langer, to gather for meeting at the City Organi- of all those delegates who may Auditorium on Tuesday morning, March 3rd, at 11 o'clock; there to endorse a. slate of candidates of state.” the Nonpartisan League in two whom we believe will truly represent the rank and file of the membership of our and adopt such policies and our Program as will best serve “Chairman, Nonpartisan League Executive Committee.” Peterson’s announcement marked the second split within years. In 1934 a group of state officers, who long had held office, refused to follow the leadership of Langer and two conventions were held, one at Valley City and the other at Jamestown. The slate endorsed at Valley City won at the primary election. The group which now is taking issue with the Langer influence in the league participated in the Valley City convention. At least five of the state officers who supported Langer in 1934 now are Gefinitely arrayed agains! it him. They are Gov. Walter Welford, Attorney ‘Theodore General P. O. Sathre, Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor Martell, Insurance Commissioner Harold Hopton and Railroad Commissioner C. W. McDonnell, The positions of Secretary of State James D. Gronna, State Auditor Berta Baker and State Treasurer John Gray were uncertain. National officeholders, elected with Nonpartisan endorsement, also were being called upon to take a stand in the controversy. In a telegram to Usher L, Burdick, Peterson asked that he declare him- self on the question of pro-or-anti-Langer and that he make his decision Congressman At the same time Welford, Sathre, fied their stand with the declaration that they are “unalterably opposed” to r. A. F. Bonzer, Jr., manager of the state mill and elevator, exhibited a Martell, Hopton and McDonnell clari- telegram which he said had been sent to Burdick by Peterson. At noon Mon- day no reply had been received from Burdick. Bonzer asserted Burdick had pledged support for Welford in conversa- tions with him during a trip to Washington. In the telegram to Burdick, Peterson said “Langer has control of a manipulated and highly questionable convention. The victory of Langer would spell defeat and ruin to the entire Nonpartisan League on the basis of past performances. Walter Welford has honesty to his credit.” Peterson claimed “practically all Welford and unconditionally Walter Welford.” Langer. The last straw to break the camel’s back would be the endorsement by Burdick and William Lemke to of the state officials have endorsed Peterson pointed out “there will be two tickets in the field; the issue will be Langerism and Langer will be defeated. There must be no delay in your decision. It is a moral question and I recommend you wire to the effect you endorse Walter Welford and those to be chosen as his supporters in campaign and that you join progressives of the state in the the coming battle to defeat Langerism.” TENDER RUNS WILD KILLING 12-14 MEN Winnipeg, Mar. 2.—(}—From 12 to 14 men were killed when a tender broke loose from an engine and crush- ed a gang of workers on the Canadian Pacific railway lines 25 miles east of Revelstoke, B. C., said a dispatch re- ceived at the railway's headquarters Monday afternoon. The toll of seven dead and eight injured, said the message, was in- creased when five other bodies were found beneath the tender. One of the injured, whose name was unknown here, was to have died in a hospital at Revelstoke. MBS. ROSE SNIDER DIES Jamestown, N. D., March 2.—(P)— Mrs. Rose Snider, 70, who has lived in Cleveland since 1905, died Sunday in a local hospital of apoplexy. Fu- neral services will be held at Cleve- land Wednesday. GIBBONS MATCHED Minneapolis, March 2,—(?)—Jack Gibbons, St. Paul, and Frankie Bat- taghia, Winnipeg, will meet in a return fight here March 16, Langer refused to comment on the second call issued by Peterson. His supporters declared “as far as we're concerned there is only one conven- tion—that regularly called by the state executive committee of the league.” Of the delegates elected to the con- vention opening Tuesday at Patterson Hall Langer claimed 126 of the 166 eligible to attend and the Welford forces were conceding that he would control it. Their assertion that this gathering is not truly representative of the League membership is based on con- trol of the League machinery by county chairmen, a majority of whom are friendly to Langer and the state- ment that, in many districts, only holders of Nonpartisan League mem- bership cards were permitted to vote at the precinct conventions. ince there are only about 2,000 such cards in existence, they said, this system resulted in minority con- trol. Could Not Buy Them It was being asserted Monday that Langer partisans were given member- ship tickets free, whereas anti-Lan- gerites could not even buy them in some districts on the ground that their political beliefs did not coincide with those of the county leaders. Their conference—a two day con- vention—was overshadowed by the coming Nonpartisan League conyen- tion Tuesday. ‘The league situation was complicat- ed by a demand on the part of a Farmer-Labor group, meeting Sunday and Monday, that the Nonpartisan convention make that organization an important part of a nation-wide (Continued on Page Two)