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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-21

kota: Unsettled tonight and Sunday,
probably occasional rain with local
thundershowers: slightly warmer to-
night southwest portion.
For Montana: Local showers and
occasional thunderstorms tonight and
Sunday: little change in temperature.
For Minnesota: Generally fair to-
night ana Sunday. except probably
showers in extreme southwest pOr-
ton; slightly cooler tonight in ex-
IRENE southeast, possibly some frost
in central and north; rising tempera-
ture Sunday in central and north por-
tons.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-21
So MUSICIANS AT
j FOR CONTEST
81 Band Members, Three Vocal
SoIoists, Two Pianists
Participate

ductory packages to consumers
Bismarck high school delegates, in.
GLIDING 80 band members, three vo.
cal Soloists, and two pianists, left
wednesday to take part in the an.
nual North Dakota music contest hele
at Grand Forks.
The band members were Nina Mel.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-21
Says Service Clubs
Meet Modern Needs

Fargo, May 21.-[P)-Is the day of
the service club about over?
MOI SO, said Fred G.. w. Parker.
klwanls international secretary. ad-
pressing kiwanians from three states
assembled here Friday night.
by the very nature of its organ
Izatlon. kiwanis will continue to
Thrive and serve, through good wears
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-21
Today in Congress
Senate

Continues considerable of i'm
portant levieS in revnue bill.
Banking committee goes ahead
with stock exchange inquiry.
Davis-Kelly coal regulation bill
hearings continued by mining
committee
Senator Wheeler ID. MontD.
asked investigation of lobbyists.
House
Considers private bills.
Insular affairs committee stu
dies Samoan legislation.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-21
GENERAL CONDITIONS

A high pressure area. accompanied
by cool weather, Is centered over Man.
itoba this morning. Elsewhere mod
crate temperatures prevail. The pres
sure is low from the western Rocky
Mountain slope westward to the Pa
cific coast and precipitation occurred
over the north Pacific coast region,
northern Rocky Mountain region and
from eastern Colorado northeastward
to Minnesota.
Missouri River stage, 40 it., "a hour
change 0.5 It.
Bismarck station barometer. inches:
284l. Reduced to sea level, 1920.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-21

warmer.
For North Da :
k o ia: Probably
showers and thun-
derstorms tonight
and Sunday, ex-
cept generally fair
tonight east por-
ton and extrtme
ast S u n d a y;
slightly war m e I
Sunday cent + a ]
and east portions
and tonight west.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-21
Schantz Will Preside
At 40 and 8 Meeting

william schantz, grand chef de gare
Of the North Dakota 40 and 8, honor
airy society Of the American Legion,
will preside at a Fargo voiture party
and wreck to be held at Dunton
Locks, Mimi. Saturday night and Sun
day.
Representatives Of the organization
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-21
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our apprecia-
ton and thanks to our neighbors and
many friends, and also the Bismarck
Elks for the beautiful floral offerings
Tor our beloved mother and for the
many kindnesses and expressions Of
sympathy shown us during our recent
bereavement.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-21

PUBLICATIONS ARE SECOND
The Bismarck annual, Prairie
Breezes, and the High Herald placed
second in their respective contests at
the Fargo May Fete last Friday,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-21

I. M. Sorlie, Grand Forks, N. D. J..
T. Grant, Rolphe, Iowa, was named
president.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-21

For the upper Mississippi and lower
Missouri Valleys and the northern and
central Great Plains-rather frequent
precipitation; temperatures mostly
near normal.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-21
Weather Report
FORECASTS
SHOWERS

For Bismarck and vicinity: Probably
showers and thunderStorms tonight
,1- and Sun d ":
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-21
TEMPERATURES
PRECIPITATION

Amt. "a hrs. ending a. m. 80. 7
Total this month to date ...... SO
Normal. this month to date 90. 1.39
Total, Jan. to date ........ 3.94
Normal. Jan. to date ....... All
Accumulated deficiency since
Jan. | or
The Washington times., 1932-03-30
IMPORTER 'SSON
DISAPPEARS

Jose Arias, 15-year-old son of
Nine. M. B. Arias, of Meridian
Mansions, 240O Sixteenth st. N.
w., has been missing for nearly
"a hours, and his mother has
issued an appeal for information
concerning him.
The boy left home presumably
to spend the night with friends.
His father is a sugar importer
in Cuba. The boy and his
mother have made their home
in washington this winter.
The boy is of dark complexion,
weighs between 100 and 1876
pounds and is about S feet S
inches tall.
He had about $40 with him
when he went to call on his
friend Billy Schultz, son of Frank
Schultz, of Brookville and Thorn
apple Road, Chevy Chase.
His mother fears that he may
have been kidnapped. It was said,
however, that he was much in
terested in aviation and that
he may have taken an air jaunt.
The Washington times., 1932-03-30
Rep. Simmons Says
u. s. Cut Must Come

The pay of Government en-
ployes will have to be cut if
Congress expects to be able to
balance the budget, said Repre-
sentative Simmons of Nebraska,
who called at the White House
today and acquainted President
Hoover with his views in the
matter.
Representative Simmons is a
member of the Appropriations
Committee and conferred with
the President regarding the eff
forts being made to reduce
Government expenditures in order
to meet the budget.
Mr.. Simmons said he was at a
loss to understand how Congress
is going to make the saving of
$243,000.O00, estimated by the
Ways and Means Committee as
the amount necessary to balance
the budget, without eliminating
certain functions and employees of
the Government. He said:
"TO do this is to drop a
number of workers on the
Federal payrOlls. People must
realize that the real reduction
of Government expenditures
cannot be effected and, at the
same time, retain the present
full personnel"
The Washington times., 1932-03-30
GUN TOTERGETS
360-DAY TERM
Times Staff Photo

A Jail sentence of $50 days
and a fine of $500, or an addi-
tional go days, was meted out
by Police Court Judge Isaac R.
Hit today to Harry Johnson, %,
of 1902 Ninth st. N. w., whom
he found guilty of carrying a
concealed weapon and carrying
a weapon with intent to use it.
Labros Jones, who operates a
delicatessen at 1929 Ninth st.
N. W., said johnson entered his
store last night and ordered a
sandwich. When he asked for
payment, Jones said. Johnson
drew a revolver and shot at him
twice.
Police, attracted by the shots,
captured johnson near the store
and said they found a pistol.
containing five empty shells and
one loaded cartridge, in his
pocket.
Johnson said man gave him
the gun in a speakeasy, where
he had had a fight. He shot
twice there. he said, but did not
remember shooting at Jones,
The Washington times., 1932-03-30
MERCER BILL UP
AGAIN APRIL I

A hearing by the full House
District Committee on the pro-
posed merger of the Capital
Traction and Washington Rail
way and Electric companies will
be held at a special meeting
Thursday, April Z, in the COM
mittee rooms at the House Office
Building. The hearing will begin
at 8 p. m.
Representative Mary T. Norton
CD of New Jersey, committee
chairman, today said that Speaker
Garner had requested that con-
troVerSial measures be reported
out before unimportant bills were
taken up.
Due to the fact that the
merger bill is one of the most
important pending before the
committee it was decided to give
it consideration at a special
meeting.
The committee, meeting today,
agreed to report the Norton bill
authorizing appointment of pub
lie school employees during re-
cesses of the Board of Education
and the Schafer bill permitting
the use of two-and-a-halfgallon
cans for ice cream measurement.
The Washington times., 1932-03-30
COUZENS FLAYS
DAWES LOANS
To RAILWAYS
Sees Reconstruction Finance
Body Driving U. S. Into
Railroad Business

Protesting vigorously against
Government loans to railroads
to pay off bank debts, Sena-
tor James Couzens (RD.) of
Michigan, today warned the
Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration it was driving the
Government into public own
ership of the carriers.
He heaped criticism on the
corporations action in lending the
Missouri Pacific Railroad $12,850,-
900 to pay off loan to j. Pier
pont Morgan & Co., Kuhn, Loeb
& Co., and other Wall Street
banking companies.
Couzens said:
"I have no knowledge of Con-
gresS having declared a policy
a policy of private ownership of
the railroads, and yet the loan
to the Missouri Pacific and
others that have been approved,
and others still pending, clearly
indicate to me that if the loans
are continued in the same man
ner as they have been in the
past and those pending are ap-
proved, many Of these prop
critics will eventually revert to
the Government or the Govern.
ment will lose its investments.
"The Government will at last
find itself in possession Of the
least desirable and least profit
able railroads."
Couzens stressed the reluctance
with which the Interstate Com
merce Commission approved the
Missouri Pacific loan. The COM
mission said:
eve are taking the action
here with some reluctance. We
are not convinced that the Re
construction Finance Corpora
ton should be expected to take
up bank loans of this char
acter. We yield our own views
to those of that body which,
as we cOnStrue the law, is
charged by Congress with the
responsibility for determining
that question"
CouzenS noted the corporation
had acted before obtaining the
commissions consent to the loan.
The Washington times., 1932-03-30
SNAGS
FORCE BYRNS
To RESIGN
Rep. John McDuffie Assumes
Economy Group Post; New
Pay Cut Bill Promised

The resignation of Represen-
tative Joseph W. Byrns (D.) of
Tennessee from his post as
C h airman of the House
Economy Committee was inter
preted by pay-cut opponents
today as a tacit admission of
his failure to whip his COM
mittee in line on a salary re-
duction bill.
Byrns said several days ago
that he wished to resign from the
Craftsmanship, but that he feared
it would be viewed as an admission
of lack of harmony in the COM
mittee.
His final decision to resign was
construed in some quarters as an
indication that he realized the
futility of attempting to get the
committee to report a bill which
he approved.
Wanted Graduated Cut
ByrnS has held out for a gradu-
ated scale of reduction in Federal
salaries, although a majority of
the economy committee tavors
flat rate pay-cut.
He attributed his resignation
to the fact that he is unable
to properly perform the arduous
duties as chairman of the Econ
omy Committee and at the same
time to attend to the labors in
cumbent upon the chairman of
the House Appropriations Com
mittee, the position he also holds.
Representative John McDuffie
CD of Alabama, House Demo
cratic whip, will assume the
duties of Economy chairman.
McDuffie Replaces Him
McDuffie was selected as chair
man of a subcommittee of three
members recently who were au-
thorized to report a pay-cut bill
to the full committee. The sub
committee returned with 16 pro-
poSalS for reductions.
The new chairman now hopes
to report a bill which would save
approximately $-0O,0O0,000, he an
nounced.
Byrns will continue as a mem
ber of the committee.
The economy group started far
afield from the question of pay
cuts yesterday and questioned
James Barnes, representative of
private shipping interests, regard
ing the economies that might be
effected by abandonment of the
United States Transport Service.
The Washington times., 1932-03-30
LUREFA|LS
To NET NOTE
AUTHOR
Fourth Threat to Hanna'S Kin
Under Inquiry; Heavy
Guards Continued

Police were prepared today
to set another trap for the
extortionist who, within the
last 10 days, has made many
threats against Washington
society people and their chill
dren.
A trap set and baited to resem-
BILE money failed yesterday, the
extortionist absenting himself
from the rendezvous near the
Burning Tree Country Club.
Police believed the extortioniSt,
hiding nearby, saw them waiting.
The society matron, who was
threatened with death unless she
left $4,000 near the club at 5 p. m.
yesterday, was expected to hear
from him again.
Telephone Tapped
The woman, whose, name was
not divulged, like several other
Washingtonians. is being guarded
by police and the telephone over
which the threat was received has
been tapped.
Mrs. Richard Porter Davidson,
granddaughter of Mark Hanna,
received another threat yester"
day that her daughter, Daisy,
would be kidnapped.
Fourth Threat Received
The threat, in note, was the
fourth she has received since
Saturday. The note read:
"POlice are pOwerless to help
you. You had better do as I
have told yOu-leave $4,000 at
the grocery store at Florida
Avenue and Twentieth Street."
The note has been turned over
to police and will be compared
by Bureau of Standards officials
with the others received by Wash.
ingtonians.
Voice Held Similar
Police are inclined to the belief
that the threats are being made
by the same person, despite the
fact that each series has been
written on a different typewriter.
The belief has been Strengthened
by the similarly of the voice
which delivered the last telephone
threat at the Davidson home and
at the residence of the unnamed
society matron.
Police have listened in on both
these conversations and noted
a similarity.
Guards still are being main.
tained at the Davidson home and
at the residence of Sir and Lady
Willmott Lewis. whose son, Junior,
was the first threatened.
A number of other persons, in.
Guiding Mrs. Alice Roosevelt
LongWorth, who have received the
threats, have left Washington.
The Washington times., 1932-03-30
GROUND TESTED.
FOR BUILDING

The site adjacent to the Naval
Hospital grounds, which is under
consideration for construction of
the Hgyienic Laboratories, is of
a nature compatible to the sink
ing of solid foundations, engineers
of the U. S. Engineers Office
have decided.
The test shafts revealed solid
composite earth suitable for
building foundations, P. C.. Dorr,
assistant United States engineer
said. Two of the five shafts
sunk were sent five feet below
the surface. A formal report on
the tests made. will be forwarded
to the Treasury Department to-
morrow.
The Washington times., 1932-03-30
TAX HEARINGS
SET FOR D. c.

Hearing dates before the Sen
ate District Committee on two
more of the MapeS taxation bills
affecting Capital residents were
announced this afternoon by Sen
ator Arthur Capper, chairman of
the committee.
AT 2:3O p. m. next Tuesday,
the Senate committee will hold
an open hearing on the House
bill, proposed by the special
MapeS committee, and passed by
the lower body,' to tax automo-
biles by weight.
Friday afternoon, April 8,
Senator Capper said the Senate
comrlittee would conduct a hear
ing upon another Mapes measure,
to double the gasoline tax in
1he District, raising that tax
from two to four cents a gallon.
The committee yesterday con-
sidered the estate tax bill, one
of the MapeS measures.
The Washington times., 1932-03-30
Apartments Traded
In Real Estate Deal

The exchange of eight apart
ment buildings with 1913 units
for a four-story brick and stone
business and apartment building
at the northwest corner of Con-
necticut Avenue and r Street,
Northwest, has been announced
by Henry K. lavish, realtor.
The deal is the largest realty
transaction consummated in the
District in several weeks. Proper
ties included in the transaction
have an assessed valuation in
excess of $520,0OO. The eight
apartment buildings are located
at 1705, I'LL, 1717, 1923 and
1929 East Capitol St.; 2 Seven
teenth st. S. E.; and and 7
Eighteenth st. S. E.
The Washington times., 1932-03-30
Parent Mains HIMSELF
Held at GalLi1ger

Ernest B. Clark, 30, oi 412 First
st. S. E., is at Gallinger Hospital,
as a result, the police say, of self
mutilation at his home.
Reports current among fellow
employees of Clark at the car
barns of the Capital Traction
Company, to the effect that Clark
had been r4aimed by assailantS,
are not credited by police and
hospital authorities.
On the contrary, it was said
by officials that Clark had ad-
mitted responsibility for the acts
and at the apartment house
where he lives it was said that
he was alone in his apartment
at the time the mutilation took
place.
His condition at Gallinger was
given today as favorable, but the
period of mental observation re-
ouireC, will comprise at least
week.
clark is 20, married, and the
father o. twins about three years
old. Of late he and his wife have
been living apart.
He appeared at the car barns
Yesterday morning about 4:3O
o'clock, but, as he is a spare
man. there was no run for him
and he returned home about
8:3O. Sometime before 10 o'clock
the police were summoned to the
house.
Asked for Doctor
II was said that Clark had
asked a neighbor to get doctor,
that, thereafter, the police were
brought into the case, and that
he was taken at once to Gallinger
Hospital.
The Washington times., 1932-03-30
Boston Attorney
HOLUdrd Speaker

Speaking on Persons and
Funds Affected" Samuel B. Horo-
vitz, Boston bar attorney, deliv-
cred the second of a series of
five lectures at the Howard Uni
versity Law School today.
The lectures are being held at
$3.50 a. m, and the subject to-
morrow will be compensate In
juries and Diseases" Friday,
compensation mentS and
Benefits" and Saturday, Settle
ments and Trials"
The Washington times., 1932-03-30
5YRNS RESIGNATION LAID TO PAY-CU TANGLE
Police Prepare NetO Trap For District Extortionist
District Committee
To QueryP. U.C.
On TGximeterS

The House District Commit
tee will demand an explanation
from the Public Utilities Com
mission regarding its attitude
on the question of forcing taxi
cabs to install meters.
The Public Utilities Commits
sion'S ruling that taxicabs must
install meters was upheld yester-
day by Justice Jesse c. Adkins,
of District Supreme Court.
Installation of meters would
work a hardship on many
drivers, it was said in COM,
mittee at it's meeting today.
The Washington times., 1932-03-30
Social House Board
Gets NeU Members

DR.. Dorothy C. Boulding, presi-
dent Of the Washington Welfare
Association, which sponsors the
Southeast Social House at Third
and G Streets Southeast, has an
nounced the appointment of
three new members to the direc-
tors board of the social house.
They are Mrs. M. c. Shorter, Miss
F. K. Cornish and Miss Mary
Cromwell.
The Washington times., 1932-03-30

surgical department and later
transferred to the mental depart
ment. Hospital officials said they
had not questioned him much
because he had lost a consider
able amount of blood and was
weak in consequence.
Women Call Later
When it is possible to interro-
gate him more freely, it is thought
that the motive for his act may
be discovered.
Yesterday afternoon, after he
had been taken to the hospital,
two women called at his apart
ment. One of them, it was said,
was his wife.
The Washington times., 1932-03-30

tunitv offered itself. Since then he
has often substituted action for
thought, and action frequently
works. A few weeks ago a bank
in Brescia saw lines forming outside
it's doors; run was started; the
directors appealed to Mussolini. In.
stantly he telegraphed the mayor OF
Brescia, saying, Il have every con-
fidence in the stability" of the bank.
The run ended.
The Washington times., 1932-03-30
WheatLey 'Y' to Hear
WeLLin0tOn Adams

Wellington Adams, composer,
will make his first Washington
appearance with a program of his
own compositions tonight at
Phyllis Wheatley Y. w. C. A.
Local talent assisting includes
Lorraine Elwood, Victoria John
son, Josie Rowe, Hattie Clement,
Marie Grey, HERNIA Klinger and
j. Stanley Brooks.
The Washington times., 1932-03-30
GLASSFORD TO TOUR

A study of police department
procedure in Philadelphia, New
ark, New York, Providence and
Boston will be undertaken by
Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford.
Suerintendent of Police, beginning
Thursday. Chief Glassford is ex.
pected to return April 6.
The Washington times., 1932-03-30
DINNER, BAZAAR PLANNED

The home board committee of
Joseph H. Milan Lodge, Chapter
No. Al, Eastern Star, will stage
a. chicken dinner and bazaar
Tuesday night at Almas Temple.
The Washington times., 1932-03-30
Announcing Divorces

The odd Thine in the announcement Of Ann Hardings
divorce proceedings that she should have thought
necessary to make any announcement at all Divorce
is of course not as private marriage, and marriage
is rapidly becoming less private than visiting night
club However, the movies gaining lot of free
dom on the screen by maintaining superior kind OF
proprety in the private lives of the stars. So if
divorce has to be had we are told about it in decent
official announcements.
In this case Miss Ann Harding excellent actress
not quite as popular as others, consents to
divorce with her husband because he has begun to lose
his individuality. and has become merely "Ann
Harding's husband" The gentleman in question can
redeem his individuality by starting Lucy Stone
league the aim of which shall be to encourage men to
keep their after they married.
The Washington times., 1932-03-30
W. C. HUESTON TO SPEAK

w. c. Hueston, assistant So
licitor of the Post Office Depart
ment, will be the principal speaker
at a smoker to be given by the
Appamattox Club, Inc, Saturday.
The Washington times., 1932-03-30
low in YorkvilIe

The Yorkve section of New York is heavily Teuton-
lied; the barkers for restaurants (Which are openly
called beer has) wear German and Tyrolese cos
tunes; with your meals you hear good German songs
and bad German songs Yet the section is part
of America; English is spoken and the police look
Irish, if they not. do not think that what
happens in Yorkvie is bound to happen in Kansas six
weeks later, but it has its Importance.
Triumphant HandcIaps
A few days ago at a movie in Yorkville-not
in "palace," but in ordinary and rather stuffy
neighborhood house. For the first time in my life
heard an audience applaud caption. 1t in
newsreel and said that bill legazing per cent beer
might to the Senate. No famous name was attached
to the news and the applause broke out before the
picture came on and was resumed after of those
rather pathetic speeches which Congressman make be-
fore the microphone pretending not to be looking at
the slip of paper which they have the whole thing
written out
To be sure, Germans have always liked their beer
and, in Yorkvlle have often had it, What makes
the applause interesting is this that three years ago
applause would have meant approval for heroic but
hopeless endeavOr The I heard the other night
was pure triumph
The Washington times., 1932-03-30

hundreds of millions of doars-whereas a good tee-
gram can be sent for fifty cents. What's more the
italian system works. Our Secretary OF the
Treasury so pleased and proud that he will not even
comment the fact that money is being taken out OF
figures and lets them speak for him. He pleased
that he announces the failure of only five American
banks in the same breath. Compared with slxy-nlne
in the first week of this year, five is Improvement
Compared with Brescia it still leaves something to be
desired And people always telling us that there
has not been a single bank failure in England since
the depression started
The Washington times., 1932-03-30
ROCKVILLE P.T.A. TO MEET

The Rockville Parent-Teacher
Association will meet in the Rock
vile High School tomorrow night
at 8 o'clock.
The Washington times., 1932-03-30
True to Type
GOOD MAN AT WIRES
COULD RESTORE
CONFIDENCE
Bv GILBERT SELDES-
NEW YORK, March 80.

THERE is a possibility that do not want the best
l. economist but only the second best. Certainly IL
has not been said of Mussolin that his position due
to emnence as an economist; in fact he learned eco
nomics from Karl Marx and ready to put Socialism