Bismarck Tribune, The (Newspaper) - May 10, 1934, Bismarck, North Dakota North Dakota's Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather Fair tonight and cooler night with possibly light ESTABLISHED 1873 NORTH MAY 10, 1934 PRICE FIVE Wheat Price Soars Five Cents Langer Is U. S. Grand Jury NEW EVIDENCE HELD BASIS FOR FURTHER GOVERNMENT Lanier to Seek New Argument on Count Dismissed lowing Demurrer TALESMEN COMPLETE WORK Announcement of Dec i s i o n Made as Group Finishes Session in Fargo N. May indictment of Gov. William Longer and his eight associates on the same two charges as the original ments was made by the United States grand jury at p. here federal court officials announced as the jury was The repetition of the indictment sustained by Judge Andrew Miller on Monday was made to allow inclusion of new the Indictment Further argument was the basis for returning the second to which a demurrer was sustained day by Judge The indictment sustained by Judge Miller is on the charge that it Is un- lawful for any officer of the federal government to solicit funds for purposes from any other eral The indictment ruled out by Judge Miller and returned again Thursday by the grand jury charges conspiracy to obstruct the orderly operation of an act of All Are Those Langer are Oscar E. lisher of the Oscar J. business manager of the Frank A. state highway com- Harold solicitor for the R. A. former executive secretary of federal gency relief in the state; J. A. his employee in the relief Paul J. Yeater and G. A. employees in the highway P. W. U. S. district said the government is ready for the trial at the Bismarck term May 22 and will press for speedy Indications are that hearings on the new indictments will be had at the opening of the court term in- marck May 22. HOLD MISSING GIRL STILL IN ARIZONA Search for Kidnaped Old Again Is Centered in Western State May for the kidnapers of June year-old centered in Arizona Thursday following receipt of a ond ransom note which the victim s family considered Authorities believed delivery of the second note indicated the presence at or near here of one of the abductors in addition to the self-styled contact man now An airplane was pressed Into 1ce Wednesday night by Oliver chief criminal deputy of Santa Cruz and two United States cus toms guards for a trip to 120 miles west of They carried a shovel with but declined to say Earlier in the evening the three had made a secret motor car trip outside A search by Mexican authorities and cowboys in the wilds about for three persons and a Birl resembling the kidnap led to belief the party had left that The an American and a Mexican were seen in Cananea a few hours before officers to look for Democratic Veterans Plan State Meeting Grand N. May Final arrangements for the annual state convention of the North ti Democratic Service Men's League were made by the executive tee The meeting will be held at wood northeast ol June 9 and 10, according to A. B. state chairman J. F. T. of the who will be in North been to give the principal address All members of the Democratic state and national ticket will appear at the two- cav meeting The convention will open with a dance Saturday night June 9 E C of Jamestown is chairman of the entertainment committee Other members are Peter and R R of Jamestown E J Grand League secretary said representation from every county in the state Insull Enters Chicago Jail DUST FAILS TO HAMPER AT ZONE Nearly 100 From 13 Lions Clubs Attend Conference Here Retreat Is Planned Leaders of NRA By Johnson Trying to Ease Control of Small Finds It Difficult SHAFT AND KUHFELD SPEAK SOME INTERESTS PROTEST Dancing and Music Feature Entertainment Program at Banquet Trade Associations and Labor Croups Prefer to Present System Though a terrific dust storm cut a swath into it failed to hamper the of as nearly 100 representatives of 13 Lions clubs throughout southwestern North ota assembled in Bismarck Wednesday evening for a zone Service club men came from Glen Mandan and Chief speakers on the ment which Included formal and informal dancing and were Harold D. Shaft of assistant attorney and A M. Kuhfeld of deputy dis- governor of Honor guest at the banquet ing in the World War Memorial ing was Harry J. Wienbergen of district who presided at a business session following the banquet and preceding a Bailey Was Toastmaster The conference was called to order act in is by D E May early of attempts to super- vise every little business in the land was definitely indicated Thursday at Badgered and burdened with petty code S. Johnson's chief aides are studying the ground for retreat along this In guarded officials admit a definite reaction against wholesale code ing and They foresee some in extricating Almost unanimously they want to quit supervising strictly local service such as pressing bers and An increasing rumber of officials want to Junk com- plicated price maintenance and finding provisions are giving trouble in many Two stand in the trade association groups which demanded and obtained codes so as to extend their over unorganized competition are fighting hard to hold this labor in miscellaneous almost unable to organize and to object of past mightily at being left to fend for it- IN DARROW'S REPORT New May special dispatch from Washington to the says the majority re- Darrow which President Roosevelt Wednesday led to three government agencies for recommended a drastic of the NRA to Back to Chicago where he once was unable to raise the bond a a czar came Samuel he was ordered to efforts to utilities and when he Here he is shown entering the grim point in his futile escape trial on criminal grive the federal 150 Musicians Join In Grand Forks Fete KEY MEN IN DRIVE AGAINST Will Have Charge df tion of Poison Bran When It Arrives Fifty-three farmers in 44 Burleigh county townships Thursday had been men in the setup for of grasshopper according to H O. county agricultural The poison mixture being donated by the federal government in the campaign against the insects had not arrived Thursday forenoon but N. D. May Approximately 150 and mentalists united in an and symphony orchestra con- cert Wednesday night to climax the seventh biennial music festival and convention of the North Dakota of music The program closed what tlon officials described as the most successful festival ever held in point of attendance Registration lists showed that more than 200 visiting musicians and delegates were in Grand HOLD CALIFORNIA MAN FOR deputy district governor and E O. also of the Capital served as Following invocation by Rev. Father A. rector of St Mary's Miss Audrey Waldschmidt entertained visitors with a tap and acrobatic dance and the drill team of the Degree of Honor Protective under the of Mrs. A M. pre- a comic Dr. F B chairman of Vie arrangements manent balance of power the visitors and Rev. Percival C Urge and small Industries Packer of Mott responded Banquet singing was led bv Hemy I Halverson of the with accompaniments being played by Mrs Grace Duryee and Adolph violinist Following Assistant Attorney 1 eral Shaft's address on the Lions quartet of including Otto Henry E. B. and A. P sang Song of Love for Love a and Ye Winds ol the The quartet was by Mrs. Morris Toastmaster Bailey then called on the following visiting Lions for government a between Snatch Wealthy Oil Operator i From House Party at i Ted secretary of Midnight Hour BISMARCK DEBATERS RIGHT Ttt arrival expected Putnam Thursday was in th arranging for key men in throe more Gibbs The key men will have charge of poison distribution in their respective themselves Los Mav 10 masked men pistols snatched William F. 47, wealthy oil from his newly purchased estate in the foothills dis- of Arcadia at a midnight is a must spread the poison on their own The farmers also will be re- ply ded fc J Capital Trio Eliminates Defending Champions mixing with trie poisoned teams will meet for the state Putnam Wednesday of North Dakota at the hatching of grasshoppers already has begun in the lighter soils of the Key men already appointed In- clude H. L. Painted Frank Axel Hedberg and Elmer Perry and John ence Clarence B R. Monroe and C. m Clyde George John Rock Harvey Fitzgerald and Bethel Fred Hay Charles McGarvey and Harold John T. N Johnson and H. B. Dan P. M. George Long T. E. Fort Dan Sibley Henry F. C. Grass state university May 19. Debating trios from the two schools the right to enter the final round by winning semi-final matches The Capital City including nadine Junior and Philip won the unanimous decision of five in its contest with the Wahpeton team perennial eliminated in a match at Oscar Ross Boone i and John A. John Margin Is Held Significant May The 6" senate's surprisingly close a n Charles Willis Anton Chris Frank Lynn Burnt F C. C. A. to -Dan B A under stock market C W Forslund brought a prediction Thursday that and Miller Apple T M. Thomas Logan Charles L E Charles Allensworth Lewis Wild O B and Clear L. B SALT MAKER Chicago Mav Morton 78 chairman of the Morton Salt i is dead of a heart stringent margin requirements would ensue This forecast from Ferdinand counsel of the senate banking committee administration leaders pushed the measure toward a final senate vote Administration leaders scurried around the chamber as the vote showed sentiment almost I the Beulah H. A. president of the Dickinson J. P. president of the Bismarck J N. president of the Clusky R. president of the Napoleon C. M. president of the club at New Robert Mandan O. president of the Glen Ullin Sam president at Emil bron and E. D James a Westwood furniture was left bound and gagged end a tree on thi His wife freed him Gettle was abducted after a party of 10. being entertained at the estate Mr. and Mrs. had left a Dimming Eight members of the party entered while stopped in a small summer house to pull on trousers and shirts over their swimming As they bent over they were startled by a which 'em up and be quick about They up into the faces of two men and the muzzles of two Wolfe attempted to strate but the men cut him short soft one here for This is a Working the two men with five faculty and Gettle and of Mayville state teachers college serving as Both Bismarck and Larimore held the affirmative of the that the United States should adopt the British dio operation and The Bismarck team is coached by Miss Pearl faculty marched them outside the small house and stopped beside a Lashing Wolfe to the tree they hurried tle to an eight foot pulled him up and over it and sped away down a rear Mrs. noting the failure of her husband and Gettle to appear at the started for the pool and soon found her She called Mrs Gettle and others in the party upon freeing Wolfe Arcadia lice were By that time the kidnapers and their victim had Mrs in delicate was prostrated and is the care of a formerly manager of a chain store In later en- raged in oil operations there and be- came wealths He had purchased the estate about six months HE IS POSTPONED Hearing on the application of the Jamestown Otto by Mrs. before Deputy gave the closing Daneer Scores Hit In addition to her tap and batic Miss dent of the Margaret Ann Ramsey School of returned in response to great to present a military drum major In a feature not on Paul O. Netland of Bismarck Boy Scout executive of the Missouri ley Area complimented Lions clubs for declaring that 10 scout including 258 boys and 55 are sponsored in this zone by Lions Troops sponsored by Lions are No. 10 at 21 at 40 at 41 at Glen 45 at ger. 48 at S. 56 at 57 at New and 60 at at- tention to the Jamboree which will be held in Bismarck late this the Lions for port In the In opening his Shaft ex- that each man defines according to his own conduct and therefore the address was not meant for any individual at the since each regarded self as a true He listed the three most Important features of Americanism as the form of national traditions and public The he has one The dispatch quoted Senator as the light of day all that right Roosevelt To End Wars the Associated The weight of President Roosevelt s administration was thrown against the spread of strikes ing promise of settlements in two labor disputes Secretary of the oil recommended a and equitable of ending the strike of 2 000 Cleveland gasoline Lon The major oil accepted the peace but the union called for tion The question re- mained in Conferences were called bv dent Roosevelt s mediation board in the strike of nearly Pacific coast demanding higher wages and shorter hours A general in the textile in- dustry of the south was prophesied by William F. vice president of the United Textile Workers at the convention of federation of of the Indiana's Governor Js Losing Prestige as the result of former May 10 Democratic nomination for U. S. ator from R. Earl Peters be- was within his reach Tuesday's primary Democratic chairman whose senatorial aspirations are opposed by Gov Paul V claimed election of 861 who will support him in the con- vention June 12. at which the nominations will be made He wil reed 1 076 votes to be nominated The and his Pleas who earned on an active campaign to delegates opposed to withheld comment Peters said his estimate was based on returns from 39 of the state's 92 counties Indiana's 12 Democratic incumbents were renominated for State Tardon Board To Meet Here May 14 The date of the regular semi-annual meeting of the state board has It la the framework of the been changed from June 2 to Mav 14. government and should not be Oov William chairman of the 4owed to become a of i announced Wednesday He said the change was necessitated U. S. D. A. Predicts Small Wheat Crop Based on poor conditions of which have been bv drought and dust storms during the last 10 the ter wheat production for this vear is forecast by the ment of agriculture at bushels This compares with 491 793000 bushels indicated a month bushels produced last and the 1922-1931 average production The prospect that winter duction will not even bushels looms because of adverse weather conditions ing the last 10 The acreage sown last fall was 41007000 compared with 4.J.692000 for the 1933 harvest and for the five-year average from 1927 to 1931 AS DUST CAUSE BIG DAMAGE Quotations Rise Maximum missible on Chicago's Grain Exchange SHORT CROPS ARE FORECAST Entire Middlewest Suffers From Lack of Moisture and Extreme Heat BIG REVENUE Inspired by adverse weather and crop wheat the maximum limit of fne cents a bushel on the Chicago grain exchange The due to speculative left the market inactive after the peak had been since no one wanted to sell and bulls had full sway in the Meanwhile reports of crop severe dust storms in many continued to roll in and to PRESIDENT SIGNS Measure Adds an Estimated to I ment's Annual Income Washington dent Roosevelt added an estimated Thursday to the nation's I annual revenue by signing into law i the 1934 tax i The apt. Increased amounting by Wind Brings Death To Sykeston Woman N D Max High winds which clouded the uith duM brought death to Mrs John 42, faim woman near ned under a chicken coop which was she died from before Officials said Mrs Bofencamp had opened the door of the building just as a strong wind swept up A pronounced due to suffocation The woman s husband used a wagon tongue fence post as levers in the coop in an effort to rescue her for in the Catholic church ai strengthening existing law against evasion and adding new sources of income Plugging loopholes disclosed by the I darken the senate banking committee to be ture m an almost to the wealthy was in writing the new law but be- fore the went to the White some rates were boosted and the in- come tax levies The new law provides Heavier taxes on hasher estate corporations and personal Partial income tax publicity Elimination of consolidated ler wheat tion returns late spring Repeal of the planting tax on Individual net incomes above At Secretary Some went fir to Riain would the low points of 1894 and some famine jears All Retarded Reports of mounting damage from the lurched grain fields of the Prolonged dry un- UMial foi Mav deteriorated prevented of wheat and retarded corn instead of i e he declined to estimate A 3-cents a pound tax on Philippine ihe reduction cocoanut the revenue to be re- The moi hh bulletin of thr turned to the island treasury department of is to be 15- Be Felt In 1935 Mied afternoon Unofficial Experts estimated the full effect wt re that the law will not be felt until 1935 place the winter wheat at They counted on 000 million bushels below the 491 793 000 the end of the next fiscal year on June 30. estimated a month neo In the wake of dust A of one per cent on i record temperatures sh storms and wers cooled the declared value of corporation cap- Actions of a parched midwest but ital stock and a levy on I pram belt area on the whole still earnings above annually for I the largest sinele item in the act The new income tax schedules levv a flat four percent normal rate on the temperature from a first of individual net 94 m tne afternoon and cooler the pnp of the A thower into caso at midnight drove down thr They retain the 000 exemption for er single persons for married and entire forecast for for the for each which may be deducted from net income to Local Showers Reported Local showers fell in almost even tate m Uie midwest Wednesday night A 10-pcr-cent credit is allowed for or early were in- all earned net income up to to bring re- thereby reducing payment on nef weather Agriculturists on the vast farminE The old eight percent normal tax a between the Rockies and the pn net incomes above is an even gloomier now at but surtaxes now begin at instead of 29 Brackets Listed These surtaxes start at four per cent and swell brackets to 59 per cent on excesses over A new capital gains and loss vision was a direct result of senate testimony that partners in J P. Mor view of crop Their wells and streams are going I their feed supplies are lips jn soil and new plagues of chinch and other insect pests were gaining Des la. residents reported capital losses may be deducted from taxable income only to the ex- n t wth tlon that 000 of any excess loss may be charged off from ordinary A new gift tax schedule runs quarters of the estate taxes New language will seek that gasoline and oil are paid bv the original 'The new publicity provision will open to public inspection a separate statement to be filed by income western states stirring up thick clouds of dust and spreading timber fires in temperatures ranging up to 104 R A. of dairy and asserted that the statement of tary Wallace that abnormal weather renditions may have a severe effect on 1934 wheat production is ad- mission of failure on the part of the The final report of the world wheat payers giving the gross and net in- commission which met re- total deductions and credits and I ln Rome estimated that world the tax I stocks of wheat on August I this Taxes on candy and soft drinks would be the largest on about furs valued up to and Jewelry not 1 worth more than are Minnesota Hit Hard The five cents a tax on the sale I Swirling clouds of dust driven by a of produce for future delivery is high wind shrouded Minnesota in because he expected his trial in eral court to be in progress on the miscellaneous legislation Amendment Out of Place The 18th he had no place in the constitution and its date originally set for pardon unpopularity and difficulty of re- The govenor s trial moval weakened the respect held eight other defendants on charges of all Americans for the constitution conspiracy to solicit political three cents January 1 is set as the date for repealing the bank check Canada Makes Huge Slash in Acreage j which had served well for many dec- Montana Eastern Pipe Line company ades Had the amendment divided A of last has been to June S It was finally sent the proposal by the state doon to defeat 48 to 30. i railroad for permission to sell gas In various given congress the power cities in the part of the state butions from federal relief workers opens May 22 Langer said he ex- it to lost about three weeks intoxicating liquors then its place in end therefore conflict with the the constitution have been June 2 pardon The board he added Three threats to convene at m. on j May 800-acre reduction In the Canadian spring plantings this year and average 1934 crop prospects were reported Thursday bv the ion bureau of statistics The 8 per cent u 111 put such back to the 1S28 level or 3 300 000 arres less the high level of 1932 what was described as the worst dust storm in its history eastern North Dakota suffered lar conditions Weather bureau officials held slight hope for which would end the protracted drouth and settle the In St Paul the dust continued abated since it started 24 hours ago Municipal officials In localities expressed fear a water shortage would soon Uncovering newly sown ing into homes and blanketing thing with a layer of the storm hampered motor and ftir traffic and caused farmers to abandon worfe In fields Wind Wednesday to St. 1 i Continued OB
