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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-24
'JAFS|E' APPEALS
TO MYSTERY MAN
IN L|NDbERCH CASE
Wants John Who Got Money
to Return it and Collect
Reward For SIayers

Beckett, Mass, May 24.-tP)-Dr
John F. (Jafsic) Condor, Lindbergh
ransom negotiator. who came here
Monday with Walter c. Goodwin. of
the Bronx. N. Y, to the summer
shack Of the latter, Tuesday through
"a representative of a Springfield
newspaper, dictated a message to the
mysterious John" to whom the aged
doctor tossed $4,000 of Colonel Lind
berghS money in a Bronx cemetery.
The message was dictated after DR..
Condor had been informed the New
Jersey legislature had voted to offer
a reward of $4,000 for information
leading to the identity of the abduc-
tors and killers of the Lindbergh
baby.
The message follows:
John: Money 1 gave you is USE
less. You can't get rid of it. Return
to Colonel Lindbergh in time. Get
your $4,000 reward.
"(Signed) Jafsie."
Dr. Condor said in his opinion the
offering of the reward was one of the
most excellent actions since the
child'S body was found.
He said he was convinced John"
would accede to his personal request
If he should see it and return the
$4,000 in some manner to Col. Lind
bergh.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-24
Money Bill Faces
Export Debenture
Norris Seeks to Add Farm Re.
lief Plan to Revenue Mea.
sure in Senate
TARIFF COALITION WINS
levies on Copper and Lumber
Approved After General
Revision Loses

Washington, May 24.-(P,-Out OF
the tariff stonn temporarily, with
four import duties still intact, the
billion dollar revenue bill Tuesday
moved into new high pressure area
formed about the export debenture
farm relief amendment.
Leaders professed to see less trouble
ahead, however, with the filibuster
against import duties broken.
The tariff coalition swept onward
Monday night to give approval to the
lumber and copper import taxes after
decisively defeating the move for
general tariff revision.
Previously duties on oil and coal
had been retained.
Three of the 500 tariff amend
ments offered by Senator Tydings
(Dem.. Md disappointed foe of the
oil import tax, were moved down in
rapid order by, two-to-one margins
and the Marylander quit his filibus-
ter threat indefinitely.
Senator Norris (Rep., Neb.) bobbed
right no as Tydings halted. however
with the export debenture rider.
But yielded to permit the lumber and
copper votes.
Leaders of the bi-party coalition
sponsoring the compromise revenue
measure were decidedly more hopeful
over the outlook Tuesday with the
tariff hump almost passed.
The So a thousand feet import tax
on lumber was voted. &c to Is. after
more than a day of debate. The four
cents pound levy on copper imports
was given approval, AZ to Is. without
a word of argument as the tariff
coalition strength was accepted.
After the tariff dispute, the excise
and admissions levies come up and
a fight over them impends which will
bring one of the big tests.
Senator Bingham Rep., Conn.,
he would offer an amend
ment for tax on 2.75 beer as a sub
stitute for the automobile and ad-
missions taxes.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-24
$4,000 REWARD FOR
KIDNAPERS OFFERED

Hopewell, N. j., May 24.-(R,-The
state offered $4,000 reward Tuesday
IN the hope some one with inside
knowledge would "squeal' and breal
the Lindbergh murder mystery wild.
open.
The reward measure passed the
legislature at Trenton overwhelmingly
Monday night. and Gov. A. Harry
Moore prepared to sign it and issue a
proclamation Tuesday.
mo crime has ever tugged at the
heartstrings of the world as has the
kidnapping and killing of the Lind
bergh baby" said Senator Emerson
L. Richards of Atlantic county.
THE world is waiting to see what
New Jersey is going to do. Under
the circumstances we are justified
in Offering this large reward"
Extending his movements into the
Berkshire Hills Of Massachusetts,, DR.
John F. (Jafsie) Condor. who tossed
$4,000 over cemetery wall in the
Bronx to man who said he would
secure the return of the kidnapped in
FAINT, went on trip Monday that was
described as fishing jaunt.
Previously he had said he was ex-
pecting an important message by tele-
graph or telephone. but no message
was known to have arrived.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-24
JAPS WILL BOOST
TARIFF SCHEDULES
Duties on American Goods Will
Skyrocket Under Terms
of New Measure

Tokyo, May 24.-(P-Goyernment
officials said Tuesday they expected
the tariff increase bill, prepared for
presentation to the diet by the gov
eminent of the late Premier Inukai
probably would be introduced without
change by the new cabinet when the
parliament reconvenes within a few
days.
Its passage was considered assured.
The bill provides for 35-per-cent
increase in all specific duties to Off
set the loss of revenue due to the de-
probation Of the yen. It also pro-
vldeS for various other raises, ex-
tended over 40 categories of articles.
The American interests chiefly af-
fected are the automobile assembly
plants of the Ford Motor company at
Yokohama and the General Motors
company at Osaka because of higher
duties on motors and other parts.
The Corn Products company also is
hit by an increase in the duty on
corn of over 500 per cent.
American lumber interests also are
affected by duties which are raised
to an average of so per cent in the
new bill.
The bill also increases the duty on
wheat from yen. so sen (about As
cents) per 10 kin (about 1873 pounds,
to yen, so sen per 100 kin. The U.
s. furnishes only about "a per cent
OF Japans wheat supply, although
this amounts to 100000 bushels.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-24
Battle Of Caseyville' Ends Quietly
As Veterans Release Railroad Cars

East st. Louis, ILL.,, May 24.-(P)
THE battle of Caseyville" had
ended peacefully Tuesday.
While Illinois National Guards
men converged on the little VII
lage eight miles east Of here to
prevent disorders after more than
800 World war veterans of the
bonus expedition" had held 80
freight cars of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad for nearly IL hours.
the veterans themselves had re-
moved the cause for the mobiliza-
ton.
They released the freight cars
late Monday night, but the
mobilization order already had
been sent out from the National
Guard headquarters in Spring
field. The guardsmen arrived
only to find the bonus expedi-
ton" camped peacefully, await
ing the arrival Of automobiles and
motor trucks they had been prom
ised would Be provided to resume
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-24
Young CrasshOppers Raze
Barley Field Near Fargo
Damage is Believed to Be First
Reported in United States
This Year

Fargo, N. D., May 23.-(P)-Young
grasshoppers, moving from Matching
ground packed with some $4,000 eggs
to the square foot, have eaten black
a strip three rods wide in a quarter
mile long field of barley on the Bert
Martin farm, ten miles southwest of
Fargo. This is believed to be the first
instance of actual crop destruction re-
ported in the United States this year.
bitches along the fields from west
Fargo into Fargo are thick with the
'hoppers. nov about a week old, said
j. A. Munro. entomologist at the
North Dakota Agricultural college,
who inspected the havoc at the Mar
tin farm and made brief survey in
the immediate area.
The barley at the Martin farm was
about six or seven inches Highly and
the young 'hoppers cut it to the
ground, said Munro.
Grasshopper parasites will not be
of much help in stemming the pests,
he said. The parasites do not develop
until the hopper has reached matur-
ity, and the result of the parasite is to
make the grasshopper eat more vora-
ciously in its attempts to feed not only
itself but family OH its back"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-24
GRANTS REVIEW OF
N0RTHDAK0YACASE
High Court to Hear Arguments
on ConstitutionaIity of
Machinery Law

Washington, May 24.-(P)-The SUI
preme. court Monday granted a review
of the appeal of the Advance Rumely
Thresher Co., challenging the validity
Of a law enacted by North Dakota l.,
1919 giving the purchaser the right to
try out certain commodities and can
eel the purchase contract if the article
does not prove fit.
| The North Dakota supreme court
last August upheld the constitution
ality of state law providing that tn.
purchaser of a tractor and certain
other farm machinery for his own use
may rescind if the machinery does not
prove reasonably fit for the purpose
for which it was bought.
Several other cases, involving SIM
liar points of law. also were decided
by the court. The Advance Rumely
Thresher company, challenging the
validity of the law, took one of the
actions to the United States supreme
court.
The act involved is chapter 238,
laws of 1919, and was attacked on the
grounds that it interferes with the
freedom of contract and is therefore
in violation of the 14th amendment to
the constitution of the United States
and section Is of the state constitu-
ton.
The state supreme court held the
|law IS "a reasonable classification
which affects and treats all persons
subject to its terms in like manner
under like circumstances and condi-
tons and Is therefore constitutional"
Judge l.. E. Birdzell dissented
The first action was brought L..
Stark county district court before
Judge Frank T. Lembke by Oscar
Bratberg of Taylor, N. D.. against the
Advance Rumely company for recov-
cry Of the purchase price paid for a
combine harvester. Bratberg claimed
the harvester did not prove reason
ably fit after he inspected and tested
the machine. A jury brought in 8
verdict for Bratberg and the COM
pany appealed to the state supreme
court which sustained the districG
court
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-24
Pickpocket Finds
False Teeth Gone

Chicago, May "a. - (P - Paul
Preacher. 81, described by police
as a veteran pickpocket, was dis
treSsSed.
He complained In the detective
bureau Monday he had been
robbed and he wanted the police
to do something about it.
"What?" Demanded Michael
Phelan, the lookup keeper. do
you mean to say the leading pick
pocket of the loop has had his
pocket picked?"
mo-" said Preacher. my faith
teeth were picked right out Of my
mouth by thome one"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-24
HOUSE COMMITTEE
WILLEXAMINEP PLAN
TO ASSIST FARMERS
Allotment Scheme Said to Have
All Advantages of Other
+. Ideas Mentioned

Washington, May 24.--(P-The do
nestle allotment farm relief plan
which, its sponsors say, will put $780,
100000 annually in farmers pockets
through direct tariff benefits, will be
examined by the house agriculture
committee Wednesday as the first step
to enlist congressional favor.
Meanwhile, although time Is short,
movement is under way to bring the
plan directly to the attention of con-
greSS at a mass meeting of senator's
and representatives.
w. r. Ronald. editor of the Mitchell,
South Dakota, Republican, and M. l..
Wilson. professor of agricultural
economics at the Montana State Agri-
cultural college. will appear before the
house committee to explain the plan.
They are members of committee of
five appointed at meeting of farm
economists and business men In Chi
cago last month to promote it.
A draft of bill is expected to be
completed Tuesday and probably will
be introduced in the house and sem
ate this week.
Twenty-Five senator's and represent
atives heard Ronald explain Monday
how the plan Is designed to work by
levying excise taxes on professors Of
wheat, cotton. tobacco. hogs and rice.
These taxes would 60 directly to farm
ers as bonus for the portion of his
crop domeStically consumed.
The plan, Ronald said, would not
only prevent expansion of production
but also would serve to balance pro-
duction with domestic market re-
quirements.
Administered by the farm board, he
asserted 1t would attain all the OBJ
jectives of the equalization fee by
making it apply in full on all home
consumption, of the debenture by
making the subsidy apply on the en-
tire home consumption instead of on
exports only. and of the allotment
plan sponsored by the Farmers Union
by working it out in more detailed
form.
These three ideas have been incor-
porated into one bill which was at
tached Monday by Senator Nye, (Rep.,
N. d. to the billion dollar revenue
measure as rider. The house agri-'
culture committee plans to act on this
relief measure Tuesday.
Besides pouring money directly In
to farmers pockets to increase their
purchasing power and thereby stimu-
late industry, Ronald said the domes-
tic allotment plan would finance the
$1,000 900 900 outstanding in farm
mortgages and protect federal land
banks and private loan agencies. He
called it an emergency reconstruction
measure. Strengthening the founda.
lions Of agriculture as suggested by
President Hoover" but in sharp con-
trast In that it would be entirely SELF
financing out of excise taxes"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-24
Falls Eight Stories
Suffers Broken Leg

San Jose, Calf, May 24.-(R]-
Miss Rene Johnson, attractive
blonde 81 20, leaped from the
eighth story of q San Jose hotel.
She fell through the top Of q
parked motor car onto the cush-
Toned seat. Taken to hospital
Tuesday, physicians found q
broken leg her only injury. The
). police record said the woman
sought to. end her worries.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-24
Deny Jap Army Chief
Is Dead from Wounds

Shanghai, May 24.-(R-Japanese
physicians in attendance upon Gen.
eral Yoshinori Shirakawa, comman-
der-in-chief of the imperial army
forces here. who was reported dead
Monday, said Tuesday he was still
alive and had rallied slightly after
an operation and further blood trans
fusions.
The general, wounded by bomb
on April 70, was reported dead Mon
day by all foreign and vernacular
newspapers here. Later japanese Of
ficials denied the report.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-24
STRUCK IN FIELD
NEAR CALCHUTT IN
R|CHLAND COUNTY
South Dakota Woman Injured
When Gust of Wind Strikes
Dell Rapids
LITTLE RAIN is REPORTED
Some Precipitation Occurs in
Valley But Other Sections
Are Parched
LITTLE RAIN is REPORTED

Lightning killed North Dakota
man and a gust of high wind injured
65-year- old South Dakota woman
Monday as residents of the Northwest
states waited in vain for substantial
rainfall.
H. J. Korf, 60, prominent Wahpeton
businessman, was killed by lightning
as he walked across a field near Gal
chutt, Richland county. Monday az
ternoon. The bolt was the first man
Hesitation of a severe wind and rain
storm which lasted only five minutes.
Picked up bodily and carried some
distance by the wind, Mrs. John Ham,
mer, residing near Dell Rapids. s. D.,
suffered fractured pelvis. The wind
also uprooted several trees in that Sec
ton.
Rainfall Disappointing
North Dakotans were disappointed
in the light rainfall which fell Mon
day, only Grand Forks getting more
than a few hundredths Of an inch. :,
A thunderstorm brought Grano
Forks a quarter of an inch OF precl-
pitation and dropped the temperature
more than 20 degrees in less than halI
an hour.
The rainfall was beneficial to seed
ed crops and gardens in the vicinity.
offsetting the drying effects OF high
winds Sunday.
Other North Dakota points report
ed precipitation as follows: Bottlneau
.O5. Devils Lake .02, Drake .O3. Ellen
dale OF, Fessenden OF, jamestown 10,
Max .O8, Cakes .03, Pembina and Wis
HEX .0l. and Fargo OF.
The forecast for Tuesday night and
Wednesday is for fair weather Win
not much change in temperature
throughout North Dakota.
Pastures Need Moisture
Pastures in this section of the state
are in great need of rain. O. w.
Roberts, federal meteorologist here,
said.
Korf. owner Of the Wahpeton Mon
umental Works, had gone to the farm
of J. A. Quamme to transact business.
Ouamme was working in the field.
Parking his automobile at the edge OF
the highway. Korf started across the
field, He was only few feet from
Quamme when the bolt hit.
Quamme escaped unscathed but his
dog. standing a few feet away. was
bowled over and stunned. Korf was
denuded of all clothing, including his
shoes.
Besides his widow. patient in a
Wahpeton hospital, Korf leaves three
children, Harriet. Elizabeth and Ed.
win, all at home. Korf was born and
reared in st. Cloud, MINI. He had
been in the monument business at
Wahpeton for about Is years.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-24
STATE DEVELOPMENT
BODY GATHERS HERE
IN annual MEETING.
President OF Greater North Da,
kota Association Predicts
Better Times

North Dakota has come a long way
toward balancing it's agricultural pro-
duction with livestock during the re-
cent dry years and the entire facil-
tiles of the Greater North Dakota as
ISOLATION will be brought into play in
an effort to hold the gains already
made, c. E. Danielson, Minot, presi-
dent of the association, declared here
Tuesday.
The annual meeting of the board OF
directors Of the state association
opens here Tuesday and will continue
through Wednesday.
%. w. Roberts, U. S. meteorol-
ogist, shows that general moisture
conditions over North Dakota are
above normal Danielson said. BET
ter than average grain crops are in
prospect at this time. Roberts also
points to the fact that 1882 will prob
ably mark the beginning of new
rain cycle, as compared with the re-
cent dry cycle of three years. He
bases this conclusion on a study OF
rainfall records in North Dakota
running back over 40 years. A new
rain cycle would probably mean q
number of consecutive years of good
grain crops.
Should advances in price be
brought about simultaneously, we
might witness hasty exit from live
stock production by many sections OF
the state. The greater North Da-
kota association is determined that
this will not happen. Nor shall future
dry years catch us unprepared. Con-
tinued feed crop, livestock and trench
silo campaigns will be waged, CO.
operating Witf-aA&-eslser-a agencies; 50
that the state may hold the ground
already gained"
Plan Joint Session
The board will hold a Joint session
with its industrial development COM
mittee this evening at the Patterson
hotel. Progress made to date in fur
thering the intrests of the Missouri
river diversion and development will
be reviewed. Governor George F..
Shafer. Col. Frayne Baker. and James
S. Milloy, chairman of the associa-
tons board of directors, will report
en- recent studies of these proposed
projects with U. s. army engineers in
Washington. s. w. Thompson, Dev-
lis Lake, secretary of the Missouri
River Development and Conserva-
ton association. also will address the
Possibility of impounding
water and flood control on various
streams and rivers in North Dakota
will also be probed by the group.
Prof. E. F. Chandler and E. L. Lium.
both OF Grand Forks. and State
Engineer r. E. Kennedy. Bismarck,
will speak on this subject.
The manner in which North Da-
kota is rehabilitating itself is remark
able in the minds of business men in
the Twin Cities and Chicago" said
Herman Stern. Valley City. first vice
president Of the association. These
people believe that the G. N. D. A.
leadership in dealing with the emery
Continued on page seven)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-24
Will Cut Allowance
OF Geneva Delegates

Washington. May 24.-(P)-In line
with dominant trend In government
tai affairs, Secretary Stimson has au-
thorized a reduction In the staff Of
the American delegation at the Gen.
eva disarmament conference to save
IS 900 q month.
After considerable debate, congress
appropriated $4,000 for . the ex-
penses Of the delegation. The state
department figures the slash will en-
able the Americans to remain at
Geneva until September without ask
Ing for more money.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-24
Methodist Bishops
Get Reassignments

Atlantic City, N. j.. May 24.-(F-
The. reassignments and transfers Of
residing Methodist bishops in the
United States will give seven episco-
pal areas their present general super
intendents for the next quadrenniu-
mon while 1lsother residences are adj
ministered by new bishops.
Bishop j. Ralph Magee. former dis
trict superintendent In Seattle, WASH.
the second Of the two bishops elected
last week, received the st. Paul, Minn.,
area, vacant through retirement.
Bishop Wallace Brown Of Helena,
Mont, goes to Chattanooga, Tenn, to
replace Bishop H. Lester Smith, or
-dered to Cincinnati.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-24
N. D. Man Injured in
Train-Truck Accident
(Tribune SpeciaI seryice)

Sentinel Butte. N. D., May 24.-Paul
Wykoff, employed on the DR.. w. H.
Bodenstab ranch north OF Sentinel
Butte. suffered breaks in both legs
and injuries to hts head and body
when truck he was driving was
struck by Northern Pacific train
near here Monday morning.
The truck was demolished after be-
Ing carried 800 feet BY the speeding
train. 49,.
Wykoff was taken to q Dickinson
hospital, where he Is expected to re-
cover.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-24
their trip toward Washington.

their trip toward Washington.
Sheriff Jerome Munie of st.
Clair county ended the box car
blockade" by promising the vet
Grams they would be provided with
transportation by automobile and
motor truck to Washington, Ind.
Once there. leaders Of the group
hope to obtain free boxcar trans
portation to the capital, where
they will undertake to present to
congress their plea for passage Of
a cash bonus bill.
The expedition" organized at
Portland. Ore. travelled by freight
trains to st. Louis, but sitter it
had crossed the Mississippi river
it found its progress blocked by
the determination OF Baltimore &
Ohio railroad officials to prevent
the groups riding on trains OF
that line. Until last right, the
railroad had moved eastward only
one freight train since arrival OF
the veterans Saturday.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-24
SHOWERS HALT FTRES

Winnipeg, Man. May 24.-(Re
Brisk showers and cold cloudy skies
Tuesday, relieved forest fire fighters
and brought under control flames
which have harried Manitoba's for
let, areas for dAys.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-24
APPROPRIATE $4,000
FOR MINNESOTA FIGHT

st. Paul, May 24.-(P)-The state
executive council Tuesday approved
an emergency appropriation of $780,
600 for grasshopper determination.
The appropriation was voted by the
council, sitting as the state board of
relief. after A. G. Ruggles. state en-
tcmologist and r. A. Troyatten, state
commissioner of agriculture, inform
ed the council the situation was Sc
rious and that funds were needed at
once.
The money will be used for poison
with the expectation that hep may
be obtained also from congress.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-24
EFFORTS OF POLICE
HAVE COST $40 OD(l

Trenton, N. j., May 24.-(P)-The
state police have spent $4,000 so far
in their investigation of the kidnap-
ing and murder of the Lindbergh
baby.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-24
81 LOST IN HOLOCArrsT

81 LOST IN HOLOCAUST
Paris. May 24.-(R-Owners of the
motor ship Georges Philippar, which
burned last week in the Gulf of Alden.
Tuesday published a revised list of
the missing. containing So names.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-24
CENTENARIAN SUCCUAfBS

~ ZEN IENABGkAN OOVOON10S
Arlington. Mimi, May 25.-Fe
Mrs. Henrietta Schulenberg, l02 years
old, oldest resident Of this section
died Tuesday after short illness.
She had resided in this vicinity more
than Is years.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-24
KREUGER AND TOLL BANKRUPT

STOCKHOLM, SWeuen, May 24.-(HI-
Kreuger and Toll, the parent conn
pany OF the vast interests which were
headed by the late War Kreuger, filed
q petition IN bankruptcy Tuesday and
applied for annulment ct the pro-
vistonal moratorium granted to It b.
the ewedish government. 3
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-24
The Weather

Unsettled tonight and Wednesday:
little change in temperature.