The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 16, 1936, Page 2

ee ( Aowueaune amas z OPERATING LOSS IS. | “SHOWN BY REPORT ~ONND, STATE MLL State Enterprise Ran at High Speed But Taxpayer Must * Foot the Bill Grand Forks, N. D., Dec, 16.—(?)— Operation of the North Dakota state mill and elevator in Grand Forks for the: fiscal year ended June 30, 1036, showed an operating loss of $96,819.15, and a total loss of $368,572.08, includ- ing depreciation and bond interest,; according to the official state audit released here Wednesday. Compiled by J. M. Shirek, auditor for the state, the report shows the mill and. elevator total sales for the 12- month period were $6,536,396.22, record mark, with the cost of ma- terials taking $5,530,311.69 of that amount, For the first six months of the fis- cal year, the institution showed an Operating profit of $58,856.02, but de- preciation and bond interest turned that into a nét loss of $74,982.65. The second six months showed an operat- ing loss of $155,675.15, with deprecia- tion and bond interest raising it to $293,589.43. Expense Items Divided Principal division of the expense items for the year, besides the ma- terial costs, include: mapufacturing expense, $308,661.31; delivery expense $445,936.13; selling $207,423.81; gen- eral and administrative $140,882.43; Gepreciation $71,002.68, and bond in- terest, $200,750.26, The average monthly sales under Manager Bonzer, Jr. were $483,- 746.48, as compared to $299,915.29 for the 10-year period. Cost of materials took 84.92 per cent of this total under Bongzer, as against 79.55 per cent under the 10-year average. For every dollar of income under the 10-year average, the expenditure for operation costs, depreciation and bond interest wes $1.0521, while dur- ing Bonzer’s tenure it was $1.0465, despite the increased cost of materials, Because of the greatly increased sales, however, the dollar and cents Joss was greater under Bonzer, the average monthly loss for the 10-year period being $15,613.71 as against $22,- 514.54 under Bonzer. Board Accepts Audit The audit was accepted by the state board of audit here Tuesday evening, at the same time as the state indus- trial commission, also meeting here, authorized payment to the state treas- urer of $301,239.78 from the refund of processing tax made to the mill by the federal government, This‘amount, to apply on retirement. of mill bonds, was that part of the federal refund on which no claim against the mill ts anticipated. The total refund was $575,049.82, from which $138,739.52 was deducted for expense in handing the entire pro- cessing tax matter, and $135,070.92 reserved for future claims. The mill's balance sheet shows a deficit, from the beginning of the enterprise to the close of the audit, of $3,585,873.19. Assets were listed at $4.326,029.50 and liabilities at $7.988;« 902.69. The deficit brings these into balance and of the deficit, the report shows $2,338,956.42 has been, paid by taxation.. Most of the tax money has gone to pay interest on bonds. Work on Richardton | Waterworks to Begin Work on the new Richardton water- works for which the contract was let Monday to the J. A. Shaw Construc- tion Co.; of Fargo will start as soon as a field office can be established and materials obtained, according to word received here by H. C. Knudson, state WPA director, The Shaw Construction Co. also sub- mitted the low bid on the Richardton sewage system but the contract will not be awarded until the city com- pletes arrangements for financing its share of the project cost. The firm’s bid on the waterworks project was $33,801.50 and on the sewage system the price was $21,081.25, T. R. Atkinson, city engineer here, was designing engineer on both pro- jects. .L, W. Burdick, engineer from the state office, was the PWA repre- sentative at the opening of the bids. Both projects will be financed in part by federal funds obtained through the public works administration. Sacramento, Nui NES oy and Mrs. William home, 422 Eleventh a.m. Wednesday. Daughter, Mr. Gabel, in their St., south, at 11:: The Capital City Townsend club meets at 8 p. m., Wednesday in the Burleigh county court house for a general business session, including committee reports. A meeting of the state pardon board! will be held here Wednesday to con- sider approximately 30 cases remain- | ing on the December calendar, it was/ announced Tuesday by Marianne lansen, secretary of the board. \ ‘MRS, MARY GILLETTE. IS TAKEN BY DEATH Succumbs Tuesday Night Fol-| lowing Paralytic Stroke Five Days Ago Be Mrs. Mary Gillette, 83, a resident of Burleigh county for most of the last 33 years died shortly after 11 p. m., Tuesday, at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Jessie Harris, 410 Rosser Ave., west. Mrs. Gillette had suffered from the infirmities attending her advanced age for some time and five days azo suffered a paralytic stroke from which she never fully recovered con- sciousness. Born in Towa, one of a large family of children, Grandma Gillette, as she came to be known to her many friends in later years, grew to matur- {ty and married there. Later her hus- band died, leaving her with one daughter, Millie. The widow and her child came to North Dakota, settling on a home- stead near Wing. Later she went to California, spending two years there with her sister, Mrs. J. A. Davies of but for the last 14 years she had made her home with Mrs, Harris here. A good neighbo~ and friend, Mrs. Gillette was known to many residents of the Wing area in the early days by reason of her neighborly spirit and her ministrations to the sick and dis- tressed over a wide area. Besides her grand-daughter and her sister in California, Mrs. Gillette leaves a great-grandson, Gordon Har- ris, and a great-great-grand-daugh- ter, Marion Harris, both of Bismarck. Funeral services will be held at the Webb Funeral parlors at 2:30 p. m., Friday, with Rev. G. W. Stewart, Mandan, officiating. Interment will be made in the cemetery at Wilton beside the body of a daughter, who died 26 years ago. MOUNTAIN WILDS | UTAH SCANNED FOR * OVERDUE AIRLINER |‘Looks Bad,’ Executive Says, as Plane With Seven Aboard Vanishes | Salt Lake City, Dec. 16.—()— Searching planes droned overhead and land parties combed snow-drifted mountain wilds Wednesday, secking ® big airliner lost more than 24 hours with five men and two women. The second day's hunt centered near here for the Western Air ex- press transport and its occupants— one a pretty blonde stewardess who dodged the altar to keep her job; another-a bride of only a few days. “It looks bad,” admitted Frank Eastman, station manager here. He added: “We're praying for cicar weather.” Radioed Near Milford The 10-passenger, twin-motored ship last was heard from at 4:37 a. m., (CST), Tuesday, when its pilot, 8. J. Samson, radiced his position over the southwestern Utah village of Milford. However, wore from a score of When telephoning The Bis- marck Tribune, bear in mind that The Tribune's new tele- phone number is 2-200. early-risers in the vicinity of tiny Alpine, 25 miles southeast of here, said that they heard a plane in dis- tress, led to concentration of the hunt in that region on the western slopes of the Wasatch mountains. Miesing with the craft were the stewardess, Gladys Witt; Pilot Sam- s0n, Co-Pilot William Bogen, and the passengers, Mr. and Mi John Wolfe of Chicago; H. W. Edwards of Minneapolis, and C. Christopher of B, G. Mitchell of Los Angeles, a passenger who disembarked at Las Vegas, Nev., told of finding a 26- year-old Miss Witt “most charming and attentive,” but silent on the ro- mantic seronuutical mixup which made her a headline celebrity. The, blonde stewardess recently was on the verge of marrying Erick K. Balzer, steanuship executive, in Cali- fornia. Then she suddenly flew east over” with Pilot salesman. $1,000 Vanishes | In Teller’s Cage jJunior Association Hears Cox OPEN YOUR HEART CAMPAIGN VOTED $5 BY CIVIC GROUP and Hollis on Taxes and Public Health Bismarck’s Junior Association of Commerce Tuesday night at its Christmas meeting voted $5 to the Open Your Heart campaign and ap- proved other steps to assist in bring- ing cheer and comfort to Burleigh county's needy this December. Phases of citizenship described by the speakers as things in which the Capital City’s young business and board of education member, and Cox limned the present non-pay- ment of taxes as causing “the most serious financial crisis in the history of the Bismarck public school sys- tem.” He warned that unless those citizens able to pay taxes discharged their duties as citizens that all phases of commercial activity would be harmed through necessity of the board of education curtailing or even reducing the standard of living of school teachers. With teachers spending from $9,000 to $10,000 per month in the city, Cox declared it was not only good business but also wise policy to see that the has struck suddenly before calling in sanitation experts. Then it is too late to save human lives.” Hollis cited the diminishing num- br of epidemics of typhoid fever, dysentery, diarrhoea and undulent fever as proof that sanitation pays big dividends, Two Reports Heard Bhort reports on two association activities were given by William 8. Moeller and Roy Holand. Moeller outlined cooperation extended the city's merchants by the association, in an effort to keep shoplifting at & minimum. Holand reported that 20 association members were enrolled in the public speaking class. The Community Players quartet consising of Dick Baska, David Davis, Charles Goodwin and Willard Dunham, accompanied by Miss Helen Goertz, sang two numbers. The meeting was in charge of Pres- ident Ober Kobs and Helge Zethren. over the northern Gre sure areas overlie the ewan, Light precipitation has occurred over the western states, but the weather ix @ tures prevail in all sections. Mark Hollis, state sanitary engineer.) . ./3)* Tota) this month to date Normal, this month to Normal, January 1st to date .. 16. Accumulated deficiency to date 10.: Fargo, snow Minot, clear Grand Forks, p WITNESSES IN WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and_vicinity cloudy tonight and Thursday, what warmer Thursd tonight and Thursday, except unset- tled extreme west portion; somewhat warmer Thursday. For Montan; Unsettled tonight and Thursday; warmer northeast por- Generally fair to-| col tion tonight. For Minnesoti temperature Fhurs west portions, WEATHER CONDITIONS A high pressure area is centered it Plains, Wil- 30.22 Inches, while low pres- Great Lakes Uston, Prince Albert, 29.74 inches. r = Ny fair from the southern professional men could Interest them- | fener y Mountain region eastward and selves were outlined by E. B. COX,| northeastward. Moder: tempera- Bismarck station barometer, inches: Reduced to sea level, 30.17. ‘Sunrise, 8:33 Sunset, 4:54 PRECIPITATI For Bismarck Station January 1st to dat NORTH DAKOTA POINTS schools received sufficient tax monies} WEATHER AT OTHUR POINTS tw meet all operating expenses without, Low. lien going to the necessity of bonding. 660 Asserting that no one man or no one 4a 200 party was responsible for the present & ary. 8 laxity in tax payments, Cox laid the 30 58 00 blame squarely upon the moratoriums Be eee va, ‘ HW Ht 99 v1 edge » K., pel 4 presen in the state during the last Bartonten, atta. ly if i 8 Cox pointed out that unless taxes Helena, Mont, lay, 26 3802 are paid before Jan. 1 they will not} Huron, 8. Dak 38 42.00 be allowable deductions on income | Kamioors. 5: ee tax payments and “I warn you,” he| Los Angel. 3 62 108 said, “that we are going to have to pee ane gto ld: : ou 4 pay taxes on this year's income neapotls, Minn: . whether or not we think s0.” oa ane Hee aay Sketches Health Steps No. Platte, Nebr. 6 58 00 Hollis sketched steps that have been | Okla. City, Okla 2 62 ul taken in recent years to more fully] Phoenix, Ariz. c ers) protect the public health, He out-| Qu’Appelle, 0 34 108 lined the progress that is being made | Rapid City, 28 54.00 ir, bettering municipal water and milk | Rossburg, Or A os supplies and the disposal of death-|sait Lake City 38 44 108 carrying sewage. Santa Fe, 46.00 “There is a widespread tendency |&. 5. Marie or to ignore sanitary steps that should! Sheridan, 46 00 be taken in every. community of any | Sioux City, 42 00 Sie," Hol al, “to prevent te out-|auakers, eames eda, 38 18 break of disease. In many caseS|The Pas, Man. ARES a's Feats municipal authorities wait until death | Winnemucca, 32 40126 Winnipeg, Man., cldy. 00 ARSON CASE PUT ON STAND Neighber Says Knowles Was in House Shortly Before It Burned July 4° Twelve state witnesses had been called to testify at 2 p. m., Wednesday in the trial of Harry Knowles of ‘Wing, charged with setting fire to the home of Mrs. Rose Knowles, his wife, the night of July 4, Assistant Attorney General T. A. Thompson carried on most of the Pactiy| some- Partly cloudy a: somewhi t. | sail 00 | administrator, 6] This ts not limited to members of International, will ing office, on Jan. 12, ROTARY CHIEF WILL VISIT HERE JAN, 12 Carl Zapfee of Brainerd, Minn., ninth district governor of Rotary make his first official visit to Bismarck, since tak- questioning with F. E. McCurdy and Scott Cameron, counsel for the de- fendant, alternating in the cross- examination of the witnesses. Testimony was taken from A. E. Coplin, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Ambers, Mrs. Wan Sieglock, James Sedivec R. Atkinson, county surveyor. Sieglock, a neighbor, testified he had seen Knowles walk into the storm shed at the house carrying a sack un- der his arm and emerge from the house a few minutes later, shortly WISCONSIN REGENT Chairman Denies Politics Has Anything to Do With His Proposal told the regents he would not |° resign. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1936 : pooh mgt Agree op Weather Report Begibor hones bine, Shrines PROPOSES FRANK'S fae aati by thelr RETIREMENT BY ‘'; C © Cash Available in NTINUE from page ome :. Christmas Drive ‘A o'clock, Proceeds Go to Fund cues from the dance will go to e Open Your Heart fund to help Star Ainerts_ and Rotthvaen Stshatehe | ate'wittis, Need of the; University of] i easeees ond, Purchase necessities M. Wilkie, head of the University Of/ for needy applicants. board of regents, proposed retirement of the university presi- dent, Glenn Frank, Wednesday on the grounds that he lacks adminis- rative ability, has lost the confidence of associates and permits “question- able” practices regarding expendi- tures. Wilkie, making a statement at the opening of a regents meeting, de- nied politics played any part in the removal plans, as has been charged by Frank supporters. Listing the reasons why he said he could not vote for renewal of Dr. Frank's appointment, Wilkie “The evidence is unmistakable that Dr. Frank lacks the qualities of either a business or an educational Goes Beyond Faculty “Dr. Frank has lost the confidence of those with whom he must deal. the faculty, but extends beyond to/a members of the regents, members of the legislature and other officials and persons. “Dr. Frank lacks primary quall- ties essential in the administrator of a university. 3 “I can make clear exactly the thing I mean by referring to three very recent events which are typical examples of situations the regents! have been compelled to face.” Refers to Upheaval | Wilkie here referred to the up-! heaval over the dismissal of Dean Snell, the athletic department con- troverasy, and handling of university finances. Students revealed that: several of their grofips have discussed plans for a walkout if the ouster movement materializes. | Alumni groups, educators and many prominent men and women have sent messages to Governor LaFol- lete protesting against any move- ment to oust Frank. Dr. L. D. Coff- man, president of the University of Minnesota, wired Tuesday that Wis- consin’s reputation as a center of in- tellectual: freedom will be “irrepar- ably damaged” if Frank is dismissed. Jule Boks Preparing — For Christmas Visits Williston, N. D., Dec. 15.—(P)—As the Christmas season draws near, Jule Boks (Christmas Fools) in many North Dakota ‘communities will don their masks and costumes to take part in an old Norwegian custom. Jule Mr. and Mrs, Oliver Millet, Mr. and | & and Mae Miller, all of Wing, and T.| economic conditi Filling requests from rural teachers who have reported to him, Dahlen Wednesday turned over to County School. Superintendent Marie Huber @ large quantity of material for dis- ‘ribution in rural areas. The list ine jeludes such things as 89 new toys,| Of six dosen bars of soap, 43 children’s books and 50 children’s magazines, Pairs of overshoes, 18 pairs of stock: ings, 13 boys caps, a fur coat in usable condition, two quilts, 20 4 girls coats, 39 suits of underwear @nd pajamas, mittens, gloves, shoes, sweaters, pants, overalls and other items of wearing apparel. Miss Huber has accepted the re- sponsibility of packaging the goods| testified and getting them into the hands of teachers who will, in turn, give them to the needy children for whom they have asked help. Lending emphasis to the fact that life goes on, no matter what the of a family, was) ¥ strong demand*for baby carriages. In many cases small children lack proper beds and bedding and a baby carriage would be a great help to the harassed mother. the rounds of Passes $500 Mark nish two orchestras, and three masters of cererhonies and will broadcast that part of the program from 11 to 12 P. m., beginning with the grand march girls dresses, A Fiesta of Fun and Glorious Melody The Picture That Has Everything! THRILL TO GAY, GLORIOUS SONG married in San Diego and/was done by the Rue Construction to Chicago, Wolfe's | company of Bismarck. an alr equipment This announcement was made by F. A. Copelin, president of the local service group, during the regular Wednesday noon luncheon, Films shown by 8. W. Corwin provided the principal entertainment feature of the program. Copelin also announced the ap- pointment of George F. Dullam as chairman of the “On-to-~Nice” (France) committee. The 28th an- nual convention of Rotary Interna- tional will be held June 6 to 11, in- clusive, at the French city. Bruce Hoskins was taken in as & new member of the club with B. K. Skeels giving the charge. Guests were A. M. Olstad of Bismarck and Roy Baird of Dickinson. George FP. Bird was program chairman. Scenic pictures, some of them in the beautiful natural colors, of Yel- lowstone’ park were flashed on the screen by Corwin. Other films wese taken here and at the Lake of the Woods. ‘The Lake of the Woods films, taken during a fishing ex- pedition, showed shots of Burt Fin- ney, Dr. H. A, Brandes and Dr. W. B. Pierce and members of Corwin’s family. ConTiNUe D $154,327 Spent in State Highway Work Near Bismarck This Year Also of importance to the Capital City is the “farm to market" road, which serves as s feeder highway for number 10. The grading contract handled for $17,913, while the gravels ing was done at a cost of $10,513 by the Northwest Construction company. Bulld Underpass at Mandsn before the fire broke out. The others verified facts relating to the location of the house, the hour et which the fire started and what had been done in an effort to save household belongings from the flames. Knowles, it was testified, joined in the work of moving the gravel truck which stood beside the house and otherwise assisted in saving what furniture was taken out of the flam- ing building. Preliminary statements of State's Attorney George 8. Register and counsel for the defendant were made at the completion of the jury panel Tuesday afternoon. Jurors chosen were Harold Zuraff, Henry Larson, P. W. Starkle, Philip Solberg, R. J. Fleck, Arthur Schroe- der, Fred M. Brown, L. B. Olson, A. W. Stadler, Glen Baker, Lowell Chris- tianson and Mrs. Oscar Brostrom. CONTINUED from page ene Various Problems Will Be Presented At Irrigation Meet|t ing land near ‘Washburn for many i Hae aa8 3 as bi ? i § $ 4 il f z # 5 EE EE ty i i IDA LUPINO A PS News and a A Christmas Gift Hint that will please the whole family... 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