The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 21, 1936, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1878 N. D. Benefits From Wind-Driven Rain. ‘Draft Lehman’ Movement Launched by Democrats - ROOSEVELT LEADING ATTEMPT TO CHANGE GOVERNOR'S ACTION New Dealers Fear Loss of New York Strength by Banker’s Refusal to Run TWICE ELECTED GOVERNOR Democratic Leader to Recess Congress If in Session During Conventions ‘Washington, May 21.—()—Sharp political interest attached Thursday to efforts of Democrats, fed by Presi- dent Roosevelt, to persuade Gov. Her- bert H. Lehman of New York to run for re-election, . : ‘ ‘The sudden. announcement from the Empire state’s chief executive that he would not seek a third term, brought immediate expressions of hope that he would change his mind. Signs of a “draft Lehman” movement U were in evidence. In the 1934 election, he carried New ‘York state by more than 800,000 votes, ® record plurality. New Dealers were loathe to lose the strength they expected Lehman to lend to his party’s ticket next fall. i Severed Business Links It was recalled that when Lehman entered politics in 1928 under the wing of Mr. Roosevelt, then governor pf New York, he severed all connec- Vions with his vast business enter- prises. He had been a textile manu- facturer, banker and director of & dozen corporations. There was spec- ulation that the recent death of his brother, Arthur, member of the bank- ing firm of Lehman brothers, may have prompted his return to private retivities, President, Roosevelt Wednesday noi said he had known for some time of the governor’s intention. Farley Regrets Loss Chairman James A. Farley of the Democratic national committee at Grand Rapids that Lehman’s de- cision meant “a loss to the state and to the party.” { Other political developments Wed- \ nesday included a decision of Demo- j cratic leaders on reer sented recess ‘ congress during the nat conven- tions at Cleveland and Philadelphia if the session has not already adjourned. Democrats in state convention at Maryland Wednesday formally ( pledged the 16 convention votes to i! President Roosevelt. Democrats in Michigan Thursday { assembled to pick delegates at large. Murderous Lepers Still Elude Police Manila, May 21.—()—Four Muro lepers who left a trail of seven dead to mark their flight from Culion island, apparently had made good their escape, constabulary officials said Thursday. The bureau of non- Christian tribes and constabulary au- v Dirigible Hindenburg Heads Eastward Again Lakehurst, N. J., May 21.—(7)—The dirigible Hindenburg headed back BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1936 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE PRICE FIVE CENTS SO-MILE GALE HITS New Leipzig Bank Loot is $200 (Special to The Trirbune) New Leipzig, N. D., May 21.—Rob- bers entered the First Sta‘e bank here sometime after midnight Thurs- day and escaped with “something less than $200” which had been left lying in a till in the vault. No effort was made to open the safe which contained a much larger sum of money and police expressed the view that the burglary was either the work of amateurs or that the yeggs were frightened away before they could complete their task. The robbers broke into the building by breaking down the back door and used crowbars and other tools which had been stolen from the Milwaukee railroad section house, to pick their way through the brick wall which con- stituted the vault. It was only about three bricks in thickness, according to J. 8. Birdsall, bank president, and the job probably took only a little time. C. A. Miller, superintendent of the state bureau of criminal identifica- tion and apprehension, A. C. Jordan, secretary of the North Dakota Sher- iffs’ and Peace Officers’ association, and Herman Sortomme, bureau fin- expert, were here investigat- Initial speculation was that the crime had been perpetrated by some one living in this community. O. G. Sprecher is the bank cashier. MORTON TAXPAYERS WILL CARRY BATTLE TO DISTRICT COURT Commissioners Recommend Ac- tion; Unable to Rescind Order Under State Law Morton county jected Thursday count commissioners re- the petition of the ty ’ association asking that the 25 per cent increase in the erty be rescinded and the group appeal to the district court. 1 ae ovenercit pie pean oe ernereer ition power change its action, the resolut stated. ‘i The resolution further pointed out the state four-mill levy had been spread over the increased valuation and that if the action was rescinded the board would be liable to the state for the difference due. Questions of validity and legality also were raised by the board which declared that the best interests of the taxpayers would be served by the ne- titioners continuing the action to the district court. John Sullivan of Mandan, attorney for the taxpayers’ association, said the group would continue the fight in = ONVICT WHO LED BREAK SURRENDERS Throws Guns Away as Blood- hound Leads Posse to Hid- ing Place in Brush McAlester, Okla., May 21.—(#)— Claude Beavers was brought back— alive—Thursday to the state peni- tentiary where he engineered a break in which a foreman was killed and = RURAL ELECTRIFYING | said} taxable valuation’ of all county prop- recommend QUINTS GETTING READY FOR THEIR SECOND BIRTHDAY PARTY Very much in, the swim these Five quins in a tub!” ‘water-sprite rising from some deep pool. ed Lindy Runs Out of | Gas on Anniversary Seven Oaks, Kent, Eng. May 21—(?)—On the ninth anniver- sary of his “Lone Eagle” flight across the Atlantic, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh ran out of gas Thurs- day. When his automobile motor “concked,” however, the only re- sultant inconvenience was a 150- qed walk to the nearest gas sta- mn. The colonel was driving, his small American car on morning spin through the countryside. He returned to his residence, Long Bart, to'upend the rest of the day with Mrs. Lindbergh and their son, Jon. BILL SIGNED BY FDR Act Designed to Extend Power Lines Into Country on Long Term Loans Washington, May 21.—(4)—Presi- dent Roosevelt Thursday signed the Norris bill authorizing expenditure of $410,000,000 over the next 1Q years for rural electrification. The first year the Reconstruction Finance corporation would be au- thorized to make loans up to $50,- 000,000 in the aggregate to the Rural Electrification administration. Ap- propriations of $40,000,000 a year for the nine years following were author- ized. ‘The act is designed to extend pow- er lines into rural areas with long They are salty Lacie one of term loans to farm groups, munici- palities, and private companies. While private concerns'can borrow, '@ provision of the new law says farm associations, cooperatives and other non-profit farm units should be given preference. The new law would direct that in- terest on the loans would be the same as the ent pays for long time: borrowing. It also provides that employees be selected and promoted strictly on merit and not on a po- Utical basis. Rural electrification officials said applications on file would absorb al- most all the $50,000,000 authorized for loans during the first year. Denbigh Rancher Dies Driving Auto to Minot Towner, N. D., May 21.— () — A attack suffered while driving a i | ct E i Hh i 8 days, with their second al) Lt 400 RURAL SCHOOL ‘KIDS’ SEE SIGHTS IN TOUR OF CAPITAL Free Pop and Ice Cream Cups Furnished by City at Noon Day Luncheon Packed two deep in automobiles or +) riding-in. echeol vansor work trucks:; over 400 Burleigh county rural school children journeyed to Bismarck Thursday to enjoy the hospitality and see the sights in the city. Bismarck’s World War Memorial building was a riot of activity at noon as the school children claimed their free pop and ice cream cups and gathered in groups at the specially- erected tables to their lunches. Arriving at 10 a. m., the youngsters were first taken to the new state capi- "tol and the historical society museum, where they were shown around by a special detail of Boy Scouts. Guided by Teachers From there they returned to the Memorial building to eat their lunches and split off into groups to visit other points of interest, guided by the teachers. Free tickets to the movies, fur- nished by the Association of Com- merce, were distributed during the luncheon and the theatres were jammed to capacity during the after- noon matinees. Details of the visitation were ar- ranged by the Association of Com- merce committee, composed of George Bird, chairman; Carol Ligon, F. G. Orr, John Peterson and Supt. H. O. Saxvik, with the cooperation of Miss Marie Huber, county superintendent of schools. Visit Tribune Plant Among those visiting the Tribune plant were: ry Ecklund school, No. 2, Eleanor Mar- tinson, teacher; Alex Hedberg and Robert Spitzer, drivers, and Aileen, Herbert and Frederick Spitzer, Allen Ollenberger, Joyce and Blanch Fisher, Virginia Engstrom, Roderick Monroe, Annie and Walter Vaskes, Doris and Kenneth Krotz, and Alice and Jose- phine Hedberg, students. Boyd school, No. 1, Catherine Mc- Lean, teacher; Robert Welch, Sr., school board member, and John Carol and Roberta Boyd, Lynn and Lester Stull, Fred Andre, Robert Welch, Jr., Laura, George and Donald Welch and Doris McMurrick, students. Parental Objections Becloud Honeymoon May 21.—(?)— ymoon Thi K. Ince, son of the late Thomas H. Ince, film’ producer, and his 18-year- old bride, Charlotte Buford. The couple married Wednesday at Yuma, Ariz. Back: in Hollywood, the newly- gk i 5 i d only a week distant, eir two daily baths in high glee. Moodie Dog Bites Cat and Mothers Join Row Buckhannon, W. Va., May 21.— (®)—A dog biting a cat made news in Buckhannon, The children who owned the pets took up opposite sides and Then their mothers joined in, filing.assault and battery charges. Magistrate T. B. Drummons dis- missed the complaints. SENATE COMMITTEE BEATS PROPOSAL T0 BOOST INCOME TAX Compromise Calls for Flat 18 Per Cent Levy on Cor- porations’ Profits Washington, May 21.—(#)—Whip- ping all but one member into line, the senate finance committee Thursday reached agreement on a compromise plan for increasing corporation taxes but scuttled a proposal, at the loss of considerable revenue, for boosting the normal income tax rate. The vote was 18 to 1. along swiftly after days of delay, the committee thus reached accord on the vital part of the revenue bill. The compromise would call for a flat 18 per cent tax on corporation income, a flat 7 per cent on income withheld from distribution, exemption ot $1,000 from taxation for corpora- tions making no more than $20,000 a year, and retention of the present capital stock and excess profits taxes. Chairman Harrison said the com- promise corporation tax plan would raise “somewhere over $500,000,000” and said the treasury had been asked to submit exact estimates as to the yield. The indication was it would fall considerably short of the $623,000,000 of permanent revenue sought by President Roosevelt to meet the cost of the new farm program and pre- payment of the bonus. Harrison had no definite reply when he was asked where the committee would get the remainder of the money. ‘The committee, he said, also agreed to strengthen a section of existing law providing for penalty taxes on cor- hich build up “unreason- he Dionne quintuplets here give you their version of the nursery rhyme, ‘Rub-a-dub-dubt That's Emilie at left, overshadowed by ette and Marie watch with amusement as Yvonne raises herself half out of the tub, shrieking in Relief to Continue, Declares WPA Administrator Is Principal * Speaker at ‘Family. Par- ty’ of 1,200 Work relief programs must con- tinue in the United States “until all our people have assurance of em- Ployment at. detent, living wage,” Thomas H. Moodie, “Notth Dakota administrator for the ‘WPA told more than 1,200 persons, 90 per cent of them relief workers, gathered at the WPA Family party in the city audi- torium Wednesday night. “Today unemployment is the great- est challenge confronting the people of our country,” Moodie declared. “I do not know what the solution is, and I have not’ heard or read of a solu- tion that will pull us out of the econ- omic morass into which we have been whirled.” Turning to criticisms of the work relief program, Moodie asserted that there were three major charges hurl- ed at it—first that the projects were useless, second that the workers were useless, third that the project costs were excessive. 617 Projects in State Moodie then pointed out that there were 617 active projects in the state of which 43 per cent were work pro- grams for the improvement of high- ways and streets, 23 per cent were park betterment jobs, 17 per cent sanitary projects and the balance de- voted to adult education. That Bismarck is a better place to live in because of the elimination of the dumping of prison sewage on the open prairie by construction of a link by the WPA between the penitentiary and the city sewer system was his contention. Construction of new highways and underpasses or overpasses, leveling and improving of airport facilities all Cecile, who merriment at the photographer. BISMARCK LEAVING THIN LAYER OF MUD Minot Reports .80 Inches of Precipitation in Wednesday Night’s Storm CLEAR WEATHER FORECAST Only Minor Damage Reported in Wake of High Winds That Swept Slope Area Much of North Dakota benefited from rain which fell Wednesday night but all Bismarck got out of the atmos- Pheric disturbance was a first-class dust storm which struck the capital about 4 a, m. Tht fe The official recording at the weather bureau showed @ wind velocity of only 35 miles an hour but out on the prairie, observers said, the speed of the wind was undoubtedly greatly in excess of that figure. No serious damage was recorded in the city but the wind was strong enough to blow down a few trees, one of them on the grounds of the weather bureau, to blow limbs off of other trees and to cause garbage cans to disappear at a greater rate of speed than ever was the case on hallowe’en. i NEA Service, Inc. suggests some delicate JORDAN CHASES APARTMENT PHANTOM -Crime-conscious A. C. (Spark- plug) Jordan, secretary of the North Dakota Sheriffs’ and Peace Officers’ association, was awakened by the creaking of a door early ‘Thursday morning in his Bismarck Sidling out from under the bed cover half asleep, Jordan grasped a 45 calibre automatic pitsol from a bureau drawer and with his nightgown flapping around his legs, stealthily crept along the hall of his apartment towards the front door behind which he im- agined a sneak-thief was applying a skeleton key to obtain admit- Bang! Crash! The apartment hell |* rang with an ear-splitting noise. Jordan almost shot himself as he whirled to see whence came the pistol-shot, so he thought. Wide awake, he MINE UNION LEADER SWINGS BEHIND NEW COAL CONTROL BILL Efforts Will Be Made to Pass Second Law Before Adjourn. ment of This Congress ‘Washington, May 21—(/)—John hind the proposed new Gu control act Thursday in an effort to have congress pass it immediately in- stead of waiting until next session. The act concentrates on price-fix- ing and omits the labor provisi which were outlawed by the supreme court, Senator Guffey (Dem., Pa.) intro- duced the legislation Tuesday as a substitute for the original Guffey act. The supreme court had ruled that provisions for regulation of hours, wages and other labor conditions conflicted with states’ rights, Perkins Has Ideas Guffey conferred with Secretary of Labor Perkins on the bill. Miss Perkins also agreed it would be “ex- ceedingly difficult” but added that she was considering several ideas, the nature of which she did not disclose. There still was much uncertainty as to whether the bill actually would go to a vote at this congressional session, although leaders moved to start it through the legislative ma- chinery of the house. Shouse C! President Roosevelt said Tuesday the New Deal would keep trying to reach the invalidated act's objectives. This brought a statement Wednesday night from Jouett Shouse, American Liberty League president, challeng- ing Mr. Roosevelt to say “what, if any amendment to the constitution does the New Deal propose in order to attain its objectives.” A plea to all coal operators to sup- port the new bill was made by Charles O'Neill, legislative chairman Unless articles around residences were weighted down they were picked up by the wind and when daylight came Thursday they were gone, Silo Torn from Barn A 200-ton capacity silo at the state training school at Mandan was blown over, a huge steel chimney on the power plant was moved, and a hay rack was lifted off the wagon, over a chicken cook and badly smashed against a light pole. Branches were broken off many trees in this vicinity and other minor damage was done. Strong winds took the form of a small sheds were reported down, an 80-year-old woman was injured by a led, Mrs. Marcus Heggen was injured when the board entered her house, 14 miles south of Velva, through a window, and struck her in the face. The storm traveled in a northeasterly direction. sized, Refutes Accusations Refuting the accusations that work- ers are useless, Moodie declared that @ careful check of the background of Persons on relief showed that the average man had held his last job prior to the onset of the depression for 4% years, “Ninety per cent of the people on relief want real work. They are not desirous of continuing on the federal the program less than & year ago, that go to bettering the transportation to and from the Capital City, he empha- the money has been spent to perma- of the National Conference of Bitum- inous Coal Producers. ‘The bill is much the same as the old act, with the exception of the omission of the outlawed labor clauses. Court Case Against Bank Chain Shifted Reaches 65 M.P.H. Velocity At Towner, winds which observers estimated “reached a velocity of 60 i ® I ZR ite ‘i Es HH ite F i E at | f fi it