The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 31, 1936, Page 2

om AM o Me autem PROPERTY V and Drouth Main Factors in Decline North Dakota farm, city, railroad personal and utility property declined in value more then 50 per cent since 1926, a‘study by the state tax com- missiorfer's office disclosed Tuesday. With the total assessment base of all classes of property set at $998,180,- 492, a decline of 53.54 per cent in farm land values, 56.04 in railroad proper- ties, and 41.59 per cent of all other properties was shown at the end of 1935, the survey claimed. In part, officials explained, the drop ‘was. caused by enactment of the in itlated measure in 1932 requiring taxes to be figured om 50 per cent of the assessed valuation, rather than 75 per oent, effective in prior years. In 1936, farm real estate's assest+ tment base was set at $617,926,038, all other property, which included per- sonal, city and utility property, was valued for tax purposes, at $229,632,+ 658, while the assessment base for railroads was ‘fixed at $15,621,796. By 1936, the assessnent base for farm real estate had dropped to $287,+ 089,157, for all other property, to $134.- 149,465, and for railroads, to $68,656,- 984, the survey revealed. Other factors in the decline, tax Officials said, were drouth conditions which pulled the value of farm lands down ‘sharply, and depression which effected valuations of city and im- proved properties, together with in- come producing properties, such as utilities and railroads. FEBRUARY JOB GAIN PLACED AT 214,000 AFL Reperts' Jobless Totaled 12,550,000, Including 3,970,000 on Relief Washington, March 31.—An_ esti- mate of 13,550,000 unemployed in the ‘United States in February, a reduc- tion of 214,000 from February, 1935, ‘was made by an American Federation of Labor report given out by President ‘William Green. ‘ The federation figure includes 3,- 853,000 workers on WPA projects and 117,000 on PWA, @ total of 3,970,000. Deducting this from the total of 12,- 550,000 would leave 8,580,000 or 1,268, 000 less:than the estimate of 9,848,000 ‘s announced in New York by the Na- URS IN] NORTH DAKOTA DOWN ONE HALF SINCE 1926 Taxpayers’ Action, Depression ~ Mark Twain to Be in King Arthur's Court,” Labor Party Possibilities in Na- tional Picture With Club Formations Washington, Mareh 31. -- (?) — Friends of Gov. Alf M. Landon of broad frent to crystalize support for him in the Republican presidential convention next June, Party conventions in Rentucky and Missourl Monday registered further endorsement of the prairie state ex- ecutive who has made no announce ment that he seeks the nomination at Cleveland in June. Landon conferred with three prom- nent Republicans Monday at Topeka. One of them, John D. M. Hamilton, national organizer for Landon supr porters, planned another meeting Tuesday before hastening back to ‘Washington for activities designed to help along the boom. Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, who will be seen in the city auditorium Thursday in two performances of “A Connecticut Yankee ‘The marionette show is under sponsor- ship of the Bismarck bit American Association of University omen, Party Conventions for Landon in Two States Kansas Tuesday moved ahead on (extraction. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1936 ITALIAN BOBSLEDDER NOW FINDS THRILL IN FIGHTING ETHIOPIANS . | Tells of Hearing Soldier Give Seen as Marionette questioning, and the results of it, were not divulged. ‘There was no indication what or when further legal steps would be taken concerning Wendel. The reports concerning an “accom- plice” of Wendel persisted, even to the designation of the man as @ “swarthy” man of foreign birth or ‘There was one definite way in which the electrocution eould be delayed. That was through a decision by the prison warden, Mark O. Kimberling, to postpone the execution until later in the week. Such an action was within his power, for the death sen- tence merely designated “the week of March 30.” Brightness Belies Gloom ‘When Hauptmann walks in tenight at: perhaps 8:20 o’clock he will see, if he can see anything beside the death chair itself, a room with dirty white walls whose comparative brightness belies the fact that they have looked down upon scores of men walking— Poor Marksman Bronx Cheer as Death Salute By EDWARD J. NEIL (Associated Press Foreign Staff) Front Lines, Ethiopis, March 6—(By Airmail and Boat to New York, March 31)—(7)— Remember Count Theo Rossi, the young Vermouth millionaire who was such a sensation at Lake’ Placid in 1932 as captain of the Italian bobsled SARG MARIONETTES TO ENACT FAMOUS TWAIN STORY HERE A. A. U. W. Announces Time for Two Performances in Au- ditorium Thursday Tickets have been placed on sale at the Woodmansee Stationery and with members of the Bismarck. chapter, American Association of University Women, for the performance of Mark ‘wain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court,” by the Tony Sarg Marionettes. The attraction is coming Thursday team in the winter Olympics? Also|®nd will be staged only twice, per- drove an‘ outboard motorboat in the|ormances being scheduled at 4:15 and international races off New Smyrna,|°® care in the city auditorium. Fla.,.a year ago this winter? led as “the world’s greatest mar- 1, Count Rossi isn’t competing|{onette show,” the work will bring the in the the pass of “The Soli the Battle in the Great Valley. ‘When this war is over he plans to get @ couple of Italy’s Schneider Cup airplane engines, build a boat around them and try to lift George Reis’ Gold Cup on Leake G he'd like @ crack at the Harmsworth trophy, He's not only a nice guy, but he knows where you can get American for about $1,000 a pack. He has an amazing Philosophy of life which bobbed out when in a tent the other night, with jackals and the wind howling outside, the candles fluttering inside, an Ita- lian newspaperman challenged his sports. he said, “that the only relief is in danger. You never know how nice it is to be elive until jcigarettes in Africa ... interest in such a “Life is so dull,’ you've been close to'death . ..” Rossi told me about the most amaz- ing reaction he'd seen in batle . an Ethiopian popped from behind rock, took a shot with his rifle at Ttalian soldier less than 10 feet away soe id... and over the lull in the battle that followed sounded 9 perfect Bronx cheer as the Italian soldier paused long enough to waft out the traditional American salute before shooting the Ethiopian dead. itary Tree” in Gar Wood and “this year. He commands|immortal story of Mark Twain, who Jack shirt battalion that held| himself has been puppetized, to Bis- marck in @ new form. It will be the second Sarg show brought here under A.A.U.W. auspices. The other well-known characters in the show are Tom Sawyer, Huckle- berry. Finn, the Connecticut Yankee, Clarence, King Arthur, Queen Guin- evere, Merlin, Launcelot, Sir Kay, Sir Avoirdupois, Sir Gawaine, Sir Sable, Sandy and the Abbot. Has Large Company ‘The play is produced under the per- sonal supervision of Tony Sarg and is puppetized from Mark Twain's story by A. C. McAvoy. Talking and mane ipulating the strings will be Denise Dooley, Dick Kraus, David Pritchard and Donald George. The staging, designing and opera- tion of marionettes is a fascinating study. The audience sces the mar- jonettes, which have toured this coun- try for about 20 years, through an opening on their special stage 10 feet wide and 4%% feet deep, with a back- ground designed to scale to give the illusion of life size actors and actresses, animals and properties. Requires Much Skill The puppeteers, young men and women, operate the strings of the pup- pets from a bridge over the stage, looking down into a pit-like stage which is 27 inches wide and 10 feet long. The operators stand on bridges and throw their voices into the audi- ence so that all speaking seems to be done by the marionettes on the stage. Perfect sound arrangements in the stage settings make this possible. The strings which control the bodies, heads, arms, legs, hands and feet of the puppets are invisible to the audi- Pence Maitre esa of Mr, ste Mrs. | ence. ar’ man, &r., of Mandan has e strings left for Minneapolis where at the tise of dtaropeentouar istedhed td University of Minnesota he will pur-| cial instruments which lift, lower and sue his engineering studies under | tit to control puppet movements. It federal scholarship, requires quick thinking, agility and skill to operate the dolls. without Choice of a'secretary for the revived tangling the strings. Each puppeteer Mandan Chamber of Commerce wes| operates several marionettes and postponed Monday due to absence|speaks the lines for several charac- 100 Per Cent Increase In Tax Revenues Seen /Sffers Face Iniurics No Accurate Account Possible of Total Amount of Mon- ies Received so Far State income tax returns for 1935 probably will increase 100 per cent over those for the preceding year, of- ficials of the state tax commissioner’s office declared Tuesday, ‘A large increase in the number of those making only partial payments of the total tax is the “most impres- sive” result of the new, stepped-up tates passed by the 1935 legislature, officials of the department said. No accurate count. has yet been’ made of the total amount of monies received, because of the last minute rush of returns o¢casioned by hun- dreds awaiting the supreme court, de- cision before sending in income tax statements department attaches ex- plained. pi! A-complete tally of monies and re- turns probably will not be available until April 15, they expected. The law, upheld by the state su- preme court early this month, faces @ referendum vote in the primary election June 24. CONTINUED from page one Trenton Prison Is Lure for Morbid to behave, and then in silence will walk through the prison yard to the little brick house where Hauptmann and Charles Zied, Philadelphia gang- ster, wait the hour of going to the chair. Zied is to go first. Room Small and Dirty The room is small with dirty white walls, brilliantly lighted, with seats at one end, the chair just off center. Hauptmann will wear a white shirt CAPITOL TODAY and WED. Take THE LAUGH-CURE! If you have a steal heart,letEddieHorton | tell you about his as\ he takes you on the laugh-love-and-thrill e of your life! _ | and blue denim trousers, slit in the right leg, and the top of his head will in place, the electrode against his leg, the steel cap against his shorn head. The mask will drop. One moment—life. Then the wheel will, turn, the current will whine and the body leap out against the straps. It, will relax, The wheel. will turn again and once more. The state's work will be done, save to. dress the hody of the man who was Bruno Richard Hauptmann in s cheap Se da eae cea a Uae er, Estate Row Recalls Early Days of 1900s Chitago, March 31.—(#)—Memories Of the early 1900s were revived in Probate court, as: Mrs. Mary J. Camp testified in behalf of her. sister, Lu- cille Camden Fargo, in the latter's ‘hearing to prove hersélf the common Pd wife of the late Livingston Wells gO. Mrs. Camp Monday told of the sis- ters’ fe in New York after Lucille Fargo claimed she became the come mon law wife of Fargo in Philadely phia in 1906. She denied her sister was @ manicurist then, or that any ene else paid the rent of their Man- hettan flat. Both now live in Chi- can Express company, 1934 at the age of 74. ENDS TONIGHT Matinee 26c; Evening 360 CLARK GABLE JEAN HARLOW MYRNA LOY Helly gayest love mokers in thelr reciest romance! in with claims of $360,000 against Lucille Fargo is seeking dower rights. Lark, N. D., March 31.—When their car become stuck in a snowdrift, Jack wheel tossed the board into loyes’ face, breaking his nose and knocking out some teeth. Ajl prunes are plums, but very few plums are prunes, Only those plums that will dry without souring are MODERN WOMEN Not Soffer: _ GaicbertemBumcodBrandPilsarecacese, Slercasaisfocovce eyecare. Aakley gf m@ CHICHESTERS PILLS “*7H8 MANON Y BRANO*. Were These Things Expensive? The furniture in your home cost real money and should be adequately insur- ed. Don’t negleet to.protect all your possessions. Adequate insurance on your property means free- dom from worry about fire. Make certain that you are completely protected with sufficient dependable insur- ance through this agency. MURPHY “The Man Who Knows Insurance” Kentucky For Landon some brave, others desperately afraid tional Industries Conference board. ‘The conference board’s estimate said that unemployment decreased by $24,000 in February, 1936, as compared with Febsuary, 1935, while the Ameri- cen Federation of Labor estimate was Mr. Green’s estimate also stated that 1,500,000 cases were on relief, most of them depending on state and loca} funds. » { Federation Estimate’ The federation statement put the number of unemployed since 1933 as follows: January, 1933, 15,166,000; February, 1938, 16,319,000; January, 1934, 13,- 382,000; February, 1934, 12,964, January, 1935, 13,068,000; February, 1935, 12,764,000; January, 1936, 646,000; February, 1936, 12,550,000. ‘The statement said: “Industry as yet shows no signs of re-employing any significant portion of the unemployed. In February the spting upturn had not yet started and business activity still registered a de- cline. Slight employment. gains on the railroads (52,000) and in manu- - “In agriculture alone, was there any significant re-employment, where 172,000: were taken on in preparation foc the.spring season. Due chiefly to this farm work, unemployment in the country as a whole was reduced in February, but only by 95,000. Cites Com: ; | tinued his activity preliminary to the Republican party conventions of seven of Kentucky's nine congres- sional districts favored the Kansan. The state conyention was expected to be asked to give him its endorsement. Kentucky has 22 convention votes. Two more district delegates pledged to Landon were selected in convention in Missouri, bringing the Kansan’s score up to eight, out of the ten dele- gates so far picked. Others who conferred Monday with Landon were Gov. C. Douglas Buck of Delaware and J. Reuben Clark, former ambassador to Mexico. Senator Borah of Idaho, avowed candidate for the nomination, con- primaries in Ohio, Illinois and Wis- consin. He planned to return to the hustings over the week-end, with a speech in Milwaukee Monday night, on the eve of the state ballot. Labor Party Talked Into the political picture also came talk of Labor party possibilties, after @ survey by Francis J. Gorman, vice president of the united textile work- ers. While Gorman said he had no idea of putting a Labor party into the field in the forthcoming campaign, he said “Labor party clubs are being formed daily by union locals throughout the country.” President Roosevelt Monday was as- sured Oklahoma's 22 Democratic con- vention votes. The state convention instructed the delegates to vote for Roosevelt and Garner, : parison “Remembering that the answer to —to their deaths. Across the room there will be stretched a rope. On one side will ve four rows of geats, an » dividing them into two sections. will sit the execution jurors—official wit- nesses. There are chairs for 32, Behind the chairs is space where others will be standing—as many, probably, as there is room for—when Hauptmann enters the death room a pace or two behind his spiritual ad- viser, the Lutheran clergyman, the Rey. John Matthiesen. On the opposite side of the room, against the far wall, will stand three doctors who will be called upon to pronounce dead. Door Leads to Room of Death To the right of where the doctors will stand and in the wall behind the death chair, is a door. It leads into a eee room—the room of the executed lead. In that room, the interior of which 4s closed to the spectators by the door, are slabs. When the of Hauptmann Is carried in there tonight, after the doctors have formally pro- nounced him dead, another body will lle there; the body of the Philadelphia bad man, Charles Zied, who’ killed a Hauptmann officially death for it. a clemency plea. As he sits down in the walnut tim- policeman and was condemned te No justices of the United States supreme court have twice heard Zied plead to escape the chair, nor has the state pardons court twice considered from the city of several directors, J. H. Newton, board president an- nounced. Seeking to bar all but WPA plast- erers- from the job, workers on the new Mandan country clubhouse forced dejay in resumption of ‘construction Monday. Park board authorities took the protests under advisement. Tuesday (today) was the last day that Mandan residents could register in order to vote at the biennial city election April 7, 8. E. Arthur, city auditor announced. Registrations are recorded in the Memorial building. Expenses of trips of the Mandan debate teams be defrayed by a benefit performance of “Collegigte,” talking picture to be shown in a Man- dan theater,. April 2, under auspices of the Gavel club of the high school. At 7:20 p. m. today (Mandan time) in the Masonic temple, six contestants from Mandan, Hazen and Flasher will vie for the right to enter the regional contest at Hebron in the oratorical contests conducted by the Magon:c lodges of North Dakots. For the benefit of horse breeders of the state, the North Dakota Stallion Registration board located at the Ag- ricultural college has compiled an ex- tensive list of purebred ‘and grade stallions for sale and exchange. ac- cording to E. J, Thompson, secretary. The list is being distributed free to ters, which means a highly developed skill in impersonation. ° “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” is one of the most elaborate productions which the Tony Sarg marionettes have attempted. It has four acts and 13 scenes, special music, lighting and staging, and fol- lows exactly the characterizations and plot of the famous and popular Mark Twain book of the same name. HINDUS PLAN MILITARY SCHOOL Nasik, India, March 31.—(4)—Plans for the first Hindu military college at @ cost of approximately $250,000, have been announced by Dr. B. 8 financial support of the rich Hindu merchants 1s being solicited. It’s June in January when you eat regularly at the Prince. Bis, Assn. Univ. Wome Present MARK TWAIN’S A Conneeticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court BISMARCK THURSDAY AUDITORIUM APRIL 2 Afternoon Performance Reduced Price Tickets for Grade and igh School Students if pur- outside the control of the government, | Moonje, veteran Hindu leader. The| The sereamingly faney | EDWARD EVERETT HORTON « «Seven Heavenly Days _ of Glorious Romanee! anyene interested. OROROROM2OPACOMMA FPSO Mhbtoscos berly, who by law is the man charged |!ly home in Martinsburg, W. Va. Be> ‘unemployment bered chair, a guard on eit! j in Industry, ie is Mgoificant 10 ey Cc ONTINUE D will step forward quickly, allently ree] er ‘ : { that our relief rolls last year exceeded from page one attach the electrodes to his leg. Mrs. John Poynts Tyler, 11, widow! » | the payrolls of our five largest in-|Court of Pardons 5 Slips Mask Over Face of the late Episcopal bishop of North ~- Added -- dustries—textiles and clothing, rail- Another guard will slip the black|Dakota, died recently at the home of : ! roads, bullding, machinery, iron and| And Governor Deny [mask over Hauptmann’s tace, a daughter in Wellesley Hills, Mass “Paris in New York” steel and thelr products. ‘These in- While this is going on Colonel Kim-|Interment was made at her old fam- (Musical) e * Sei employed 4,737,000 (average) 1935, while relief rolls averaged 4,- ‘798,000 cases. “Unless a determined effort is made to create work, we may expect that Pesan veers aullons will be denied H. Pickard, ree birthday Further Clemency to interfere, the pardons court closed all but the small door of hope which some felt Governor Hoffman himself might open, even though he appeared to have no authority to do so. The governor then announced that the decision of the court was “final,” and that “there will be ne second repleve,” Bruno Hai bed and wes sleeping soundly, his .|guards, reported, shortly after o'clock. C, Lloyd Fisher, who has been chief upimann went early to|tr 9ltrode himself. The contact must be with carrying out the death sentence, |sides her daughter, Mrs. Denton Grif- will stand half way between the door |fiths of Wellesley Hills, she leaves two through which Hauptmann has enter-|other daughters, Mrs. Mary Cole of ed, and the chair. Oak Grove, Va., and Mrs. W. R. Moss, In a corner is a small wash bow! |Virginja Beach, Va. and two sons, When Hauptmann enters, if the usuaj|John Poynts Taylor, Jr. and Wa’ procedure {s followed, the executioner, |Henry Tyler, both of New York, Robert Elliott, will be soaking the Sponge which increases the effective. ness of the contact of the head elec- ‘ede. son, Elliott will attach the head eleer| Monday, St. rural, Alexius hospital. perfect so that the 2,000 volts he wifi 8. Boise, president of turn into the chair strike with deadly | the Auxjliary te Lleyd Spetz Post No, For Expert Plumbing pts : del, the 5l-year-old Trenton man, who is held in jail on a formal charge 1 io he murdered the Lindbergh aware, how- , that Wendel had heatedly repu- diated an alleged “confession” he is said to have made, and that prosecut- ting officers had openly expressed themselves as satisfied Wendel had no of the crime of the Sour- Quis Wendel Relatives evidence that the Wendel charge be thoroughly investigated, two tives were questioned at the state- house by Wilents. The nature of the STETSON HATS for Men at Rosen & Bro. Alex public, SWEEPS ENDOW HOSPITALS Bismarck Townsend club, 8 p. m., Dublin, March 31—(7/—A plan to| Tuesday, courthouse. There will be reorganize the hospitels of the Irish | talks and music by the Pioneer quartet. 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