The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 8, 1937, Page 3

10 ‘RE-SIGN’ Ni. D, HIGHWAY SYSTEM Safety Expert Recommends Re- pair of Existing Warnings, Adding New Ones A program to “re-sign” the entire ‘North Dakota highway system with proper markers will be mapped this winter for work early in the spring, Walter Brophy, state high- way safety engineer, said Friday. Brophy said the decision to make @ check of the system’s warning signs was reached following recom- mendations of Charles H. Zealand. Chicago, field representative for the National Safety council who toured the state recently. Zealand was of the opinion state highway markers could “stand re pairing” and new signs should be in- stalled at danger points which have ‘been previously overlooked, the engl- neer explained, He said Zealand also advocated more illuminated signs for state highways, with illuminated glass but- ton markers in rural areas and elec- tric signs in cities and on outskirts of The safety fieldman was anxious for North Dakota to establish more! main; school safety patrols and urged that ® state safety council be organized to|iine co-gperate with the national organi- zation, Brophy said. Zealand explained the black on yel- low sign has been “reserved” by the federal government for U. 8. high- ways and asked that advertisers and other organizations refrain from us- ing this color combination in their promotional work. Striking Underground Miners Joined by 1,700 Lansford, Pa., Oct. 8.—()—Seven- teen hundred anthracite miners walked out of the Coaldale Colliery Friday in sympathy with two score fellow workers who began the fourth Gay of a sit down strike in a tunnel 1,300: feet’ underground. Illness has forced four of the sit-downers to come out of the mine. The supporters sent Celegations. in automobiles to four other mines of the Lehigh Navigation coal company to enlist their support. , LABOR TROUBLE SUBSIDES St. Paul, Oct. 8—()—Sheriff G. R. Gelatt of, Rochester, asserting a labor dispute in that city is “under con- trol,” Friday cancelled a request to Governro Benson for assistance in “preserving the peace” in that city. ‘Use of bride's three initials is ac- cepted commonly as thé correct marking for trousseau linen. Save more on fine suits, over- coats and topcoats at Berge- son’s 28th Anniversary Sale. U2 Will thoroughly enjoy The Debutantes All Girl Band Playing nightly THE TAVERN Trials Involving 24 Oil Compare) ies Conducted on Grand lison- ‘borately set here for the biggest rodeo of “trust-busting” since Theodore Roosevelt rode herd on the “male- factors of great wealth” 30 years ago. Practically every big ofl company do- ing business in 10 states of the mid- price to be paid was determined by Prices published in certain trade pa- pers, These papers, together with 24 big oil companies and 47 of their execu- tives, are all under indictments re- turned last fall by federal grand juries here. Battery of 45 Lawyers ‘These trials will be staged on the grand scale. Nearly a dozen houses have been rented for the duration of the trials. The whole ground floor of the Bank of Wisconsin building has been remodeled for the use of William | J. (Wild Bill”) Donovan and his battery of 45 lawyers representing the ! oli companies. A fleet of express company trucks has been unloading files, cabinets, trunks and books sent in from all parts of the country. Several of the companies have not only leased head- quarters for their legal talent, but are bringing skelteon office staffs here for the trials, The indicted oil trade journals also have established head: cerenene merriaae detailed counts of eac! a lings to the trade, eon Private lines and switchboards have been set up to connect the legal headquarters of the oil men with their temporary residences in hotels and leven private homes, Admission by Card As the federal district court in which the trials is to be held holds only 150 persons, should all 47 de- fendants, their 45 lawyers, the gov- ernment’s seven lawyers, and some 100 witnesses all try to get in at once, there hae be some confusion. Ad- mission is expected to be strictly by card only. For the expected 10 weeks ot the trials Madison will be the “oil capital” of the country. ‘The proopedings,-worked up: fof. the ¢ by John Henry Lewin, Hammond E. Chaffets, and other assistants to Attorney General Cum- mings, are brought under the 47- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1987 Biggest ‘Trust-Busting’ Trial in 30 Years Is Going on in Madison ‘Laree of the seven lawyers who are presenting the government’s case at the Madison oil trials. Left to right—Grant W. Kelleher, Federal Judge Patrick T. Stone, above, presides at the oil trials which furnish an up-to-the-min- ute test of the United States anti- trust laws, year-old Sherman Anti Trust Act, and may furnish a new chapter in the history of a law that has had a checkered career. Just what is meant by its ban on “combinations in re- straint of trade” in interstate com- merce, has had various interpreta- tions. The Sherman Act was passed in 1890, in a non-partisan vote which resulted when long Bryan-led clamor against “The Trusts” compelled ac- tion by congress to try to stem the tide of “big business.” But the act remained a Virtual dead letter so far as enforcement went, for several years. A U. 8. supreme court deci- sion in a case against the American Sugar Refining Co. in 1895 (the so- called Knight case) wes believed to have extracted its teeth. .... Ordered It Dissolved At the turn of the century, how- ever, the supreme court took a new |view of the Sherman Act. The gav- E. Chaffets, and John Henry Lewin, General Homer Cummings. ernment sued to prevent a holding company, the Northern Securities Co., from getting control of the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific railways. President Theodore Roosevelt feared that a group of financiers was trying to get control of all the railways of the country. The court now ruled that the Northern Secur- ities Co. was an illegal combination, and ordered it dissolved. This decision put the teeth back in the Sherman Act, and in the re- maining years of the Roosevelt ad- ministration there were 44 prosecu- tions brought under it, as compared Bede cnses) tn the A) eae, preced ‘2 Outstanding were the famous suits against the Standard Oil Co. and the American Tobacco Co. Both cases were won by the government in every court, including the U. 8. su- preme court, which in 1911 ordered both “trusts” dissolved. Further, it was in these cases that Chief Justice White laid down the famous “rule of it clear that in the opinion of the court, the Sherman Act applied to “undue” restraints of trade, and not those that were merely incidental or negligible. Wouldn't Be Invoked The Sherman Act continued in various stages of being alternately invoked or ignored until the advent of the Roosevelt administration in 1933. When NRA came along, busi- ness was given to understand that the Sherman Act would not be in- voked against those industries based on any joint action involved in set- ting up codes of fair practice, though any such collusion among nominal competitors might be liter- ally interpreted as being in restraint of trade. In 1933 came offictal relaxation of the law in the Appalachian Coals case in which 136 coal producers com- bined to establish a single selling agency. Chief Justice Hughes ap- proved the combined activity as be- ing better than an out-and-out merger which might otherwise have resulted. He ruled that “we know of no public policy, and none suggested by the terms of the Sherman anti- special assistants to Attorney Col. William J. (Wild Bill) Donovan, above, used to repre- sent the government, but now he ts chief lawyer for the oll com- panies in the trust case, trust act, that in order to comply with the law those engaged in in- dustry should be driven to unify their properties and business in order to correct abuses which might be cor- rected by less drastic measures.” The coal companies’ unified sell- ing activity, though it might in small degree tend to fix prices was up- held. Back in Again But when NRA was thrown out by the supreme court, the government issued official warning that the anti-trust law was again in effect, as reinforced by the Clayton and Fed- eral Trade Commission acts of 1914. ‘Thus the oil cases soon to be heard here have an importance far be- yond their own enormous stake. ‘They will give a direct hint as to just what application this 47-year-old law has to business today—a question that at the moment no one is in a Position to answer. lunch will bé served. , Mrs. E. L. Adams and Eddie, Jr. were dinner guests at the E. Enockson home in Moffit Sunday. The WC.T.U. was entertained ‘Thursday afternoon by Mrs. C. D. King near Menoken. Visitors were Mrs. Adams, and treasurer, Mrs. J. F. Wildfang. The union will hold their annual banquet Oct. 28 at the War- Ten Clilbe home. Mr. and Mrs, Otto Ayers and fam- ily of Menoken and Mr. ard Mrs. George Hughes were visitors at the Tom Hughes home Sunday. Miss Mina Manly of Valley City spent the week-end here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Manly. The P.T.A. held a meeting in the school house Tuesday evening. Miss Bloedau was chairman of the pro- gram committee. Refreshments were served by Mmes. T. T. Hughes, P. P. Bliss, G. A. Hughes and Warren Clilbe. Rev. T. C. Torgerson is attending the Methodist conference held in Bis- ore Alamo The moose’s call is loud and clear, it’s heard by all, both far and near; And you will hear, in store and bar, The CALL FOR CALVERT near and far! CLEAR HEADS {CLEAR HEADED BUYERS} CALL Ca FOR lvert WHISKI ‘Garrulous Writhings’ Of Statesmen Rapped Minneapolis, Oct. 8—()—What to- Cay’s youth wants is more important to the world’s future than all the “garrulous writhings” of elder states- men, Carl Sangburg, American poet, told an audience of 5,500 University of Minnesota students in Northrop Memorial Auditorium. BLUM TO VISIT U. 8. Paris, Oct. &—(#)—Former Premier Leon Blum will go to the United States to confer with President Roo- sevelt. No date has been set. ——————— NOTICE OF SPECIAL EXECUTION ALE ' By virtue of an execution issued upon the judgment docketed Septem: ber 10th, 1937, In the office Ge th leigh Coun! fort of the Home Owners’ Lo: scribed as follows wt (12), Block 118), Riverview Addition to of Bismarck, according to the ce tied plat thereof on file in the office of the Register of Deeds in and for sald County and State, to satisfy the amount and lien of said judgment thereon in the sum of Four Thousand Six Hundred Twenty and 50/100 Dol- lars ($4,620 50) with interest th nm from the date of said judgment ry the accruing costs o! at public cal a Mon October Tath, 1967. Fred E. Ai om, Sheriff of Burleigh County, North ota. Thomas J Burke, Attorney for Plaintiff, Bi orth Dakota. BE EMPLOYES LESS Washington, Oct. 8—(#)—The inter- state commerce commission reported @ decrease of 29,570 in the working Personnel of Class 1 railroads on September 15, compared with the pre- vious month. elegram FOR Quick! NASAL IRRITATION MENTHOLATUM Gives COMFORT Daily SPECIAL SALE Occident 16% Protein per 100 pounds $2.45 Lay Mash 18% Protein per 100 pounds $2.65 20% Protein per 100 pounds $2. OCCIDENT 85. ELEVATOR Division of Russell-Miller Milling Co. 712 Frent Buyers and sellers of grain, fuel, fleur, feeds Bismarck, ND. Phene 11 | PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD TO CONVENE TUESDAY Relation of Ministers, Laymen to Church Will Be Theme of Devils Lake Meeting Devils Lake, N. D., Oct. 8—(7)—The relationship of ministers and laymen to the church will be the central theme of addresses at the 53rd annual North Dakota synod of the Presby- terian Church’of the United States of America, convening here Tuesday. National church leaders including Rev. Herman Webber of New York; Miss Ethel Baskill of Philadelphia, member of the board of Christian education; Rev. Ira M. Grey, Chica- go, member of the board of pensions; Rev, Claude King Davis of Aberdeen and Rev. Mordock McLeod of New York, representative of the general council, will be among principal speakers at the four-day sessions. Representatives of the board of for- eign missions scheduled for addresses are Dr. M. Somerndike, New York,|church services and the fair at Haze secretary; and Mrs. Agnes Snively,/elton Sunday. Pittsburgh, id Rev. C. Herbert Rice,| Selmar Drystad spent a few days Chicago. s last week in Devils Lake on business. Rev. W. R. Tennis, retiring modera-| Misses Thelma Freshour and Dor- tor, formerly of Lisbon, N. D., but now | othy Lee visited at the Bd Freshour of Minneapolis, will give the sermon | home Sunday afternoon. at the opening meeting Tuesday eve-} Mrs, George Lee attended the ning. His successor will be named at| tromemakers meeting in Bismarck thet time. Wednesday. “Mussolini and Fascism Through poten Ge ene ee Omaha Officer to the Eyes of a Christian Visitor,” wiil be the subject of a lecture by President Inspect Post Here Col. Philip J. R. Kiehl, Omaha, B. H. Kroeze of the Jamestown col- lege at a public meeting Tuesday. ——EEE—————EEE Sterli | | ter! ing | |Neb., seventh corps area inspector of ———_ | the U. 5. army, will make « special Al ordiance inspection of the Fort Lin- sad eyes gad coln regular army unit Oct. 14, Ad- jutant General Heber Edwards an- nounced Friday. Edwards said Colonel Kiehl also will check Bismarck, Mandan and Jamestown national guard companies when he is in the state. NAMED CIVIC BODY HEAD Minneapolis, Oct. 8—(7)—F. Carle- ton Smith, vice president and sec- retary of the Minnesota Linseed Oil Paint Co. was elected president of the Minneapolis Ohamber of Com- merce. Mrs. George Lee and son, Stanley, were visitors at the James Koon home in Driscoll Wednesday afternoon. | The Standard Oil company is spon- soring a free show and dance here Saturday, Oct. 9. Beryl Sherman spent the week-end at her home in Sterling visiting with her mother, Mrs, Vernice Sherman. 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