The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 5, 1936, Page 1

(&] THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1936 Mostly cloudy, ‘with tempera- "uure totight and Pada, PRICE FIVE CENTS Trap Killer of Bismarck Man _ Rival Nonpartisan Groups Name Primary Slate . BROAD OUTLINES OF NEW AAA PROGRAM MADE BY WALLACE Would Replace 30,000,000 Acres of Crops With Soil Building Legumes TWO PAYMENTS PLANNED Land to Be Eliminated Same as Acreage Retired Under Old Relief Setup Chicago, March 5.—(?)—Removal from production of approximately 30,- 000,000 acres of soil depleting crops and an increase of that amount in soil building crops’ was disclosed Thursday by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace as the 1936 goal of the ad- ministration’s soil conservation pro- would be ample at average yields &@ supply of food ivisions—soil hausting—has been worked out and will be submitted to the two meet- First, a moderate payment would be made for each acre, up to 8 maximum, payment per acre would be made for land shifted from soil depleting crops to soil conserving crops, with the pro- vision that this payment be made only up to a specified percentage. Benefits to Vary The actual amounts which could be paid farthers per acre would vary ac- cording to the productivity of the soil, said Wallace. share proposal for the division of payments between landlords and those actually occupy- ing the land. The “definite top” available for the conservation program this year, said ‘Wallace, was $470,000,000. “If soil payments are made at the rate of 75 cents to $1 an acre, these payments would total from 75 to 100,- 000 million dollars,” the secretary ex- plained. Breakdown of Tariff Barriers Has Backing Minneapolis, March 5.—(?)—Advo- cating a breakdown of tariff barriers, Dr. Warren C. Waite of the University of Minnesota Thursday pictured the world’s nutrition level as sagging un- der the weight of nationalism. Re- cently returned from representing the United States on the League of Na- tions nutrition committee at Geneva, Dr. Waite said food deficiencies over portions of Europe followed unwise land use. “A national plan adapted to dairy ter and eggs of the first.” Constitution Changes Urged by Legal Mentor Minneapolis, March 5—(P)—A “re- meeting Wednesday night, show a of national legislative power. $30,000 Authorized For Bridge at Fargo Moorhead, Minn., March §.—(P)— The Clay county board of commis- sioners Wednesday night authorized use of not to exceed $30,000 as its share in construction expense of the new Front street bridge between Fargo and Moorhead. sons F000 RECEDES Racing Car Driver Takes a Dive 990 PRISON REBELS CONTINUE FAST ON BREAD AND WATER Back of Hunger Strike Appears to Be Broken as Hungry Inmates Accept Food CONVICTS KEPT LOCKED UP Three Leaders of Rebellion in St. Cloud Reformatory in Solitary Confinement St. Cloud, Minn. March 5.—(?)— Nime more convicts named as ring- leaders of approximately 950 rebellious 8t. Cloud reformatory inmates were ordered into solitary confinement Factions Moving Toward Fight in Primary Voting Lemke and Burdick Endorsed for Congressional Nominations by Both Factions; Welford and Langer to Be Main Contestants in June THORESEN GIVEN SECOND - PLACE JOB Walker Reminded of ‘Go Home ard Slop the Hogs’ by Treatment at Langer Session, He Tells Welford Supporters THE RIVAL NONPARTISAN TICKETS New Tax Raising | Birth Certificate Is Grave Marker Hartford, Conn., March 5.—()— The tombstone over his father's Grave served Thursday as birth certificate to assure an applicant of obtaining an old age pension. Edward H. Reeves, director of the Connecticut old age assistance bureau, assured the applicant, whose name he withheld, he would not have to bring the stone into the bureau to prove his date of birth was carved thereon. A birth record is s legal require- WPA WORKERS BACK ON BISMARCK JOB AFTER WALKOUTS Misinterpretation of Ruling Is Cleared Up at Conference With Tom Moodie Bismarck’s WPA strike ended Thursday as approximately 150 work- HOWARD LUCAS, 18, ARRESTED THURSDAY AT MISSOURI HOME Argument Over $12 Room and Board Bill Was Motive for Slaying, He Says MILLER SET TRAP FOR BOY Bismarck Man Shot Dead With Rifle; Murderer Had Been Hitch-Hiking Howard Lucas, 18-year-old self- styled cowboy, shot and killed L. G. Knowlen, Bismarck man, after an ar- gument over a $12 room and board bill, the Moberly, Mo., youth confessed after being trapped by police in his home early Thursday morning. A. C. Miller, head of the state bu- reau of criminal identification, was informed by Chief of Police J. B. Mc- Adams of Moberly, who made the ar- rest, that Lucas had made a full con- fession of the murder, which occurred here late in January, and had agreed to waive extradition and plead guilty to the charge of first degree murder on his return here. Lucas, who had been befriended by ers returned to six city projects affected | Knowlen and was living with the Bis- by Tuesday's walkout which followed|marck man in the small shack at the on the heels of an administrative rul-| east end of the city, is alleged to have Data S FARMER IS KILLED IN MAX CAR-BUS CRASH John Cleven, 53, Douglas, Die: Two Women Suffer Ser- ious Injuries Minot ND. March 5—”}—John Cleven, 53, farmer near Douglas, was killed and his two daughters seriously injured in a headon collision between an automobile and bus late Wednes- day on U. 8. Highway No. 83, north of Max. N.D. Traffic Toll Today ubmitted More Excise, Income and Farm Product Assessment Proced- ures Are Suggested Washington, March 5.—(#}—Admin- istration experts submitted to a house ways and means subcommittee Thursday suggestions for raising up to $446,000,000 additional revenue from income taxes and © $221,000,000 annually. from farm taxes, Chairman Samuel B. Hill .(Dem., Wash.), emphasized to reporters that the figures and schedules were mere suggestions for possible sources of revenue submitted to the subcommit- tee because it wants complete infor- mation on all methods of obtaining money to meet President Roosevelt's tax proposals. The treasury experts, Hill said, al- so turned in figures to show how a 1 per cent general manufacturers ex- cise tax would bring in around $180,- ; 000,000 a year, while a 5 per cent tax would yield about $910,000,000. Certain Ex Welford Slate Positon Langer Slate Thursday as authorities sought to!| winiam Lemke and Congress William Lemke and end a hunger strike which began two Usher L. Burdick Usher L. Burdick days ago. Walter Welford Governor William Langer They Joined three others who last|| 7. H. H. Thoresen Lieut. Gov. William Crockett night were given similar punishment Remainder to be Commisisoner of as remaining convicts participating|| endorsed Thursday Agr. and Labor John N. Hagan in the disturbance were placed on &|| afternoon. Secretary of State James D. Gronna bread and water diet. All but 200 of State Auditor Berta E. Baker the 1,150 inmates of the institution State Treasurer John Gray were involved in the strike for better Attorney General Owen T. Owen food, higher pay, longer visiting hours Insurance Com- and quicker parole action. missioner ©. E, Erickson Little disorder attended the protest Railroad Com- against food served in the prison, H. mission: 8. 8. McDonald H. Whittier, superintendent, said, Supt. of Public Mrs. Martha E. adding he believed a minority of the Instruct Bratcher prisoners forced the others to take part in the demonstration. The convicts first refused to eat Tuesday noon, when they slammed their plates upside down on tables as food was brought into the dining room. They filed peacefully to their cells when ordered to by guards, but repeated the demonstration at supper time. ‘Wednesday morning Superintend- ent Whittier ordered the prisoners kept in their cells, and three times during the day bread was passed to them. Whittier said most of the in- mates gladly took the food, but that others threw it out the bars. . Declaring he hadn't decided when meals would be served again in the dining room, Whittier said regarding the recalcitrant prisoners: “I don’t | know how many meals they'll get, but all they'll get is brea The breakfast the convicts missed Wednesday morning consisted of grid. dle cakes,-a cereal, syrup, milk, brea butter and coffee. DRENNEN FUNERAL Moving steadily toward the climax of their rival conven- tions here, members of two rival Nonpartisan League factions Thursday were girding themselves for a struggle in the primary election next June 24. The faction ruled by Former Governor William Langer had endorsed a slate for congress and all state office except that of snupreme court judge on the no-party ballot. The group supporting Governor Walter Welford had en- dorsed candidates for congress and for governor and lieutenant governor, ..., Wiliam Lemke.and. Usher L, Burdick, incumbents, received the support of both groups for congress. The Langer group supported them by acclama- tion but thé. Welford convention found them opposed by nominations of Adam A. Lefor, Lars J. Siljan, Former Governor Ole H. Olson, State Senator C. W. Fine, Ludwig Peterson and T. H. H Thoresen Lemke and Burdick were endorsed, however, on the first ballot. Welford was endorsed by a vote of 124 to 1, the dissenting ballot being cast for Senator Fine. Langer was endorsed by approximately the same score, a lone ballot against him being cast for Adam Lefor. It was agreed that the main contest in June would be between Welford and Langer for the governorship. Thoresen Favored for Lieutenant Governor Before recessing until afternoon, the Welford convention endorsed T. H. H. Thoresen, Grand Forks, for the lieutenant governorship. It took three ballots before Thoresen received endorsement for lieutenant governor. Among those receiving substantial votes for that office were E. H. Brant, Linton; Senator Wm. A. Thatcher, Bottineau; Senator Ole Ettestad, ing requiring that the men make up lost hours. Negotiations between Thomas H. Moodie, administrator for North Da- kota, and a committee of seven men from the Workers’ Labor club were completed Thursday morning and all workers, who had not previously re- turned, went back to their posts at 1 Pp. m, Gordon Moore, county work relief director, said that in all 164 men were back at work Thursday morning and that the remaining 154, representing the Workers’ labor club, had gone back to work in the afternoon, Misinterpreted Ruling The strike grew out of an inter- pretation of the WPA ruling, effective Feb. 20, which required the workers to make up “time equal to that lost from the time actually worked dur- ing the present pay period.” Believing that they would be forced to make up all lost time from Feb. 15, when cold brought a temporary halt to all local projects, the workers quit until an official interpretation of the Tule had been made. At Thursday morning's conference it was decided that the make-up rule applied only to hours lost after Feb. 20, the date on which the order was issued. Representatives of the Work- ers’ Labor club said this would leave only a few of the men with less than we required number of hours of la- fatally wounded Knowlen with a .22 rifle following an argument between we two over a $12 room and board ill. Buried Victim In his confession, Miller said, Lucas admitted the murder, stating that he carried the body about 200 feet from the house and buried it in a shallow grave on the Northern Pacific right- of-way, where it was unearthed Jan. 28 by Chief of Police W. R. Ebeling when James D. Knowlen, a brother, became alarmed over his absence from the house. Miller, who just recently returned from Moberly where he conducted a thorough investigation and set the trap which eventually led to Lucas’ arrest, and Sheriff Fred Anstrom planned to leave here Thursday to bring Lucas here on the murder charge. : Lucas told McAdams that he had been hitchhiking about the country since leaving Bismarck and had re- turned to Moberly from El Paso, Texas, where he went after being turned back by officers at the border of California. Committeed Murder Alone Miller said Lucas stated he had committed the murder alone. How- ever, Lucas said the shooting took place during the argument, while the condition of the bed at the shack and the bullet hole in the top of Knowlen’s Year ceptions Ago Hill said the proposed excise levies would not apply to liquor and tobac- i already taxed, nor to food, cloth- The injured were Doris Cleven, wh>|1ng and medicine. The present yield adel fractured left leg, and Mrs.| from excise taxes, he said, is about Wallace Skiple, believed to have suf-| $380,000,000. . fered a hip fracture and broken ribs.| In the income tax field, he said it Wallace Skipple, driver of the car,, was estimated $45,000,000 would come and Leo Boespflug, Bismarck, driver|in should the exemption of a single of the Interstate Transportation com-|man be lowered from $1,000 to $800 pany bus, were uninjured. Dr. E. C {and that af a married person from The Langer slate was selected in SET FOR SATURDAY open.” Banning Nye’s Speech Three Victims of Love-Crazed Youth Will Recover, Phy- Balfour; H. M. Pippin, Halliday, and R. H. Walker. voted against this idea and decided all ‘Stone, Ward county coroner, an- nounced an inquest would be held. The date was not set. : Stories Tell Conflicting Conflicting stories of the crash were told today by drivers of the two ma- chines. ‘The bus was traveling uphill, Leo. J.-Boespflug, the driver, eoreay He Hi as it was rounding a ahead of him, and that the bus i é Hirota Charged With tarist attack on the Okada ministry. Hirota immeditely took up the task. 300 Farmers Slip Into Park River for Show Park River, N. D., March 5.—(P)— The annual state Potato Show, which opened Wednesday, brought 300 farmers into the city in bobsleds, as blocked highways halted more up-to-date vehicles. At a gen- eral assembly B. E. Groom of the Greater North Dakota association spoke on “our concern with shifts in southern agriculture.” Underpass Approved By Cass Commission Fargo, N. D., March 5.—(#)—The commission Wednesday with in West Fargo and agreed to pur- chase the necessary right of way. The underpass is a federal project. and! Forming New Cabinet! $2,500 to $2,000. Leaving exemptions as they are now, he said, and at the same time boosting the normal tax from 4 to 6 Per cent, would add an estimated $121,000,000 to the government's an- nual receipts. By lowering exemptions on surtaxes from $4,000 to $3,000, Hill asserted, ; 8nd sharply increasing the rates in itncome brackets up to $100,000, the ; treasury would get an extra $226,000,- 000 annually. 33 Products Aff Submitted by the agriculture de- partment were proposed taxes on ‘some 33 farm products and compet- ing products, or subdivisions of pro- ducts. Some eight or nine commodi- ties and products were subject to the invalidated processing taxes. Included in the new list were wheat. rye, flaxseed, hemp, seed oil, perilla ‘oll, barley, oats corn hogs, cattle and calves, sheep and lambs, paper bags, open mesh paper, rice, peanuts, sugar, tobacco, starches, spirits except «brandy, rayon and silk. In most instances the rates would Applied over two years and coupled , with a proposed “windfall” tax of per- haps 90 per cent on incomes derived from refunds of impounded processing taxes, or nonpayment of such taxes, Hill said the levies on the farm and competing products would bring in somewhere in the neighborhood of $157,000,000 which President Roose- velt suggested in temporary taxes. Chairman Doughton (Dem., N. C.) of the house ways and means com- mittee said “it would suit me” if congress could get enough revenue from corporation and “windfall” taxes to meet President Roosevelt's revenu: suggestions without resorting to proc- essing levies on farm products. He told reporters, too, “there might be some reduction” in a proposed av- erage tax of 33 1-3 per cent on un- divided corporation profits for those corporations which have not built up reserves. Doughton said he saw some merit in giving such corporations s ‘cushion” to fall back on in time of FDR Is Adamant A close advisor of the chief execu- tive forecast that Mr. Roosevelt would not readily abandon his proposal, de- (Continued on Page Two) be lowered on those products which] o¢ agreed here with delegations from Killdeer sicians Assert Puneral services for John Drennen, 26, who killed himself at his home| early Wednesday morning after shoot- ing and Mrs. Appolonia Baker and her two daughters at their home, will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday, it was announced Thursday. Rev. E.! L. Jackson, pastor of the First Bap- tist church, will officiate. The body is at the Perry funeral home. It was said at St. Alexius hospital that Agnes Baker, 19, and her sister, Betty, 13, would be discharged from the hospital Thursday, their wounds having proved to be only superficial. ‘Their mother, wounded in the neck and arm, was “doing as well as could be expected” and probably will re- cover. Dr. L. W. Larson, county coroner, said there will be no inquest into Drennen’s death since it plainly was @ case of suicide. Dunn County Dam Has Dickinson’s Support Dickinson, N. D, March 5—(P)— Dickinson Officials of the Association Commerce at a meeting and Dunn Center to support a pro- posed dam to be constructed between those two communities in Dunn county. The association voted to “do all in its power to aid the project which contemplates an artificial lake cover- ing 1,006 acres through impounding of water by a dam projected at a point two miles from Dunn on Highway 22. Deepest water would be 28 feet and the average about 8 feet, the dele- gates explained, Detroit, March 5.—()—Rev. Fred- erick G. Poole, director of religious education for the Detroit M. E. con- ference, said Thursday the group's program committee would meet Fri- day to consider moving the forth- coming meeting from Calumet, Mich., to another city unless an invitation to Sen. Gerald P. Nye (Rep., N. D.), to address the meeting is reinstated. The invitation to Nye, chairman of the senate munitions investigation committee, was cancelled at the re- quest of the board of stewards of the Calumet M. E. church on the grounds it was felt unwise “to inject politics into a church program.” February Automobile Sales in State Slump While automobile sales during Feb- ruary’s cold spell fell off somewhat, total new car purchases for the first two months of this year continued slightly over the similar period of 1935. Figures compiled by the Commer- cial Service, Inc., Bismarck, showed new car sales totaled 411 last month compared with 688 for February, 1935, while 1,308 sales for the first two months of this year compared with 1,242 for the same months of 1935. Cass county led all others with 69 passenger car sales and seven com- mercial vehicle sales, PROSPERITY PREDICTED Tucson, Ariz. March 5. — (7) — A two-year period of prosperity ahead of heavy industry, led by steel, was predicted Thursday by Gen. Charles G. Dawes, former vice president of the United States. Homesick Grand Forks Boy Killed in Car Crash Holbrook, Ariz. March 5.—(#)—| cisco to give him a ride as far as/to pay those debts with.” Homesickness beckoned Leo Casa- vant, 17, toward Grand Forks, N. D., but death in an automobile accident on the Painted Desert east of Hol- head had Thursday cut short the ip. Russell » Oklahoma City, owner of the car which was driven| by Acie Forston, Grand View, Texas, was traveling east and said he picked up Casavant Monday in San Pran-| { Oklahoma City, from where the received one vote. secret caucus but the Welford group Proceedings should be “out in the R. H. Walker addressed the Welford convention after having been denied the floor at the Langer meeting Wed- Stirs Up Church Row nesday and threstened with ejection He told the Welfordites, “I told them (the Langer meeting) that I hoped we would not be told once again to ‘go home and slop the hogs’ but in effect that is what took place yesterday.” Walker is a veteran leaguer and now is the chairman of the state workmen's compensation bureau. Finances Are Discussed At Thursday morning's session the Langer controlled convention plunged into a discussion of their financial condition, Criticism was levelled against State Highway Commissioner W. J. Fian- nigan and A. F. Bonzer, Jr., head of the state mill and elevator, for al- leged “failure to turn over monies col- lected ostensibly for the Nonpartisan League fund.” The audit c~mmittee’s report said the group spent more than $17,000 in the last year, most of which was tak- en by payment of deficits occuring during 1934. The fund received con- tributions of $15,873 from state em- ployes and the remainder from other sources, the report stated. Elwood Eck, member of the execu- tive committee, said there was a $1,- 000 balance on hand and declared the state mill had turned over no funds since Jan. 1, although “told to do 50.” The convention decided to leave | day, open the position of supreme court justice on the slate and then moved to a consideration of reports by the by-laws and resolutions committees. Langer Retains ‘Leader’ An attempt to obtain passage of a resolution calling for control of the “Leader” political organ, by the state advisory board and state executive committee, failed when mo- tions in support of the move were withdrawn. Frank A. Vogel, former state high- way commissioner, 5] the mo- tion but withdrew it after Ole B. Stray, old-time leaguer, had objected, de- claring “we must have confidence in the Leader.” Oscar Erickson, state senator and endorsee for state insurance commis- sioner and publisher of the Leader told the delegates “the paper has debts— for which I am personally responsible. I could have had the money sufficient Moris, was going home. Forston joined the'state regulatory chief had “told me party at Kingman. The car left the road and turned over when it struck loose gravel. Casa- 15 minutes later. The oth- and bruised. said “young Casavant talked fre- quently of how anxious he was to get. back home. He a relief project at San Francisco.” that if I would run a front-page edi- torial supporting Acting Governor Welford for Governor, he'd see that I got enough money to take care of the debts. I told him it couldn’t be done.” Change By-Laws The Tecoma convention had been working on) moved toward its final phase with the , (Continued « on Page Sky head led police to believe the act had been committed while Knowlen slept. Lucas told McAdams that the rea- son for the quarrel was an agreement between him and Knowlen to share the cost of groceries. He said he was “gentlemanly manner in which all/ Unable to pay his share because of negotiations were handled.” the difficulty he was having in col- “All of the demands of the laborers | lecting wages from a former em- Moodie Praises Workers Moodie congratulated both the workers, haded by J. H. Miller who went back to work Wednesday, and the Workers’ Labor club for the were fair and reasonable,” Moodie | Ployer. said, “and I congratulate the men on the spirit shown.” Miller went to Moberly about 10 days ago after learning from war de- The strikers resumed work on the|P@rtment records that that was the regular six-hour day. Several city projects, including the “white collar” Jobs and women in the WPA sewing rooms were not affected by the strike. No untoward disturbances occurred while the men were not working. VALLEY PLANNING DAM CONSTRUCTION Water Conservation Linked With Industrial Development in Projected Program Grand Forks, N. D., March 5.—(7)— Water conservation project recom- mendations for Sargent, Cass, Traill, Grand Forks, Walsh, Cavalier and Pembina counties, involving construc- tion of more than 10 dams were dis- cussed at a meeting of government engineers and other officials Wednes- Cooperation of various agencies to insure and standardiza- tion of new dams was recommended, and further steps in this direction will be taken at the next meeting called by Dr. Irvin Lavine, Grand Forks, federal consultant of the state plan- boy’s home. There he learned that Lucas had been at Macon, Mo., with his grandfather for two days and had hid in his father’s coal mine at Mo- ;| berly from Jan. 19 to Feb. 4. He also found out that Lucas lefi there and went to El Paso, from where he wrote to his father on Feb. 22, giv- ing Los Angeles, Calif., as his next address and taking the name of Floyd Gaind as an alias. Refused entry into California, he returned to El Paso and from there went back home to walk into the trap set by Miller before he came back to Bismarck. Miller was virtually certain Lucas would return to Moberly because he was without money and until he came here in October last year had never been away from home. The arrest was made around 1:30 this morning and Lucas made his first confession at 4 p. m., Miller said. A nation-wide search has been con- ducted for him since Knowlen’s body was found, wrapped in a burlap sack and frozen in the ground. Miller praised the Moberly police department for the cooperation they gave him in clearing up the murder. The local sheriffs’ office lent valuable assistance in tracing down clues and distributing circulars throughout the country. Fairbanks Rebuffed ning board. At Marriage Effort Recommendations of the group will —_ be incorporated with those of Min-| Paris, March 5.—(?)—Douglas Fair- nesota experts in a Red river water| banks, Sr., movie actor, applied to conservation program for submission) the state's attorney Thursday for ex- to the national resources committee./emption under the law requiring a Need of adequate water supplies for | 30-day residence and 11-day publica- industrial expansion was emphasized,|tion of banns before marriage. Offi- and the problem of fluoride content| cials indicated that permission prob- in water supplies in southeastern|ably would be granted. The actor's North Dakota was discussed. The] application for exemption followed group recommended that municipali-]a refusal by attaches of the United’ tles be advised of the necessity for| States consulate to marry Fairbanks sewage disposal. and Lady Ashley, former actress. M., D. Hollis, Bismarck, state sain- itary engineer, pointed out that new FALL IS FATAL sewage systems already built in] Fargo, N. D. March 5.—(?)—Hugh Fargo and Moorhead, and under con-!McLean, 74, retired Erie, N. D. struction in Grand Forks, had solved|farmer, died in 9 Fargo hospital from the major part of the pollution prob-|complications setting in after he had lem. broken his hip falling downstairs. He leaves one son, Alfred, of Minot. Medina, N. D., March 5.—Funeral KEROSENE BLAST FATAL services were held in the Congrega-| Thief River Falls, Minn., March 5. tional church here Wednesday for|—(?)—Fire which followed explosion ZINCK CHILD DIES Gertrude ‘Adelia, 7-weeks-old daugh-;of a kerosene can took the life of ter of Mr. and Mrs. Rheinhold Zinck.| Mrs. T. Hegtvedt, 55, as her husband Burial was in the Medina cemetery.) was slightly burned. \ \