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The Washington times., 1932-09-02

Three weeks ago went to
Albany with my counsel, con-
fident that we would be ac-
corded q fair hearing, conducted
in accordance with the rules eS-
tabliShed under our principles
Of government.
my counsel, Mr.. Curtin, de-
manded at the opening of the
hearing that the governor sum-
mon those witnesses upon whose
testimony Mr.. Seabury or the
governor based the SO-calIed
charges against me, in order
that night face them and
that my counsel might have an
opportunity to crOSs-examine
them.
This was denied by the gov
ernOr. At no time was Mr.. Sea-
bury even called upon by the
governor to name those wit
neSSes, much less to summon
them. AS soon as this ruling
was made 1 protested, but with.
out avail.
DAY after day during the
course Of the proceeding it be-
came more and more apparent
that 1 was being subjected to
an extraordinary inquiSitiOn. 1
was not accorded even the ele-
mentary rights guaranteed to
any defendant in a court of
law.
Instead of an impartial hear
ing the proceeding before the
governor developed into a trav-
eSty, q mock trial, a proceeding
in comparison to which even
the practice of a drum-head
cOurt-martiaI seemed liberal.
why then continue before
him when there is another
forum open to me? To that
forum, the people of the city of
New York, I leave my case in
the spirit Of true democracy.
conscious of the rectitude of my
official act and with faith in
the fair judgment of my fellow
citizens.
~ am not trying to avoid re-
SpOnsibility. I am incurring it
by submitting my case to the
people who made me mayor.
the people Of the city of New
The Washington times., 1932-09-02
JAMES D. WALhER
100000 OFFER
FOR WALKER

NEW YORK. Sept. 2 GN.S).-
If former Mayor Walker wants
to abandon politics and take that
500, ,000-a-year job, it's still wait
ing for him.
His millionaire friend. A. C.
Blumenthal, who recently made
the offer, repeated it today at
his Larchmont home. where he
hopes Walker will come to rest.
He said: .
"The offer is still open, Of
course. / wish he'd take it;
I'm ready for him any time.
I'm afraid he won't take
1t. however. believe he will
run for reelection and will win
by an Overwhelming vote"
Blumenthal declined to say
what the position was. Recently
he and his wife, the former
Peggy Fears, embarked on play
production to carry on the work
of the late Florenz Ziegfeld.
The magnate said he plans to
see Walker today to urge him to
come to Larchmont to recuperate
from the siege at Albany.
The Washington times., 1932-09-02
STRIKE TRUCE.
SHUNNEDB By
FARMERS
500 Cherokee PiCketS Demand
Marauders Who Killed II r
Be Captured, Punished

CHEROKEE. Iowa, Sept. .
G.N.S.). - The farm strike
truce ordered by national
headquarters Of the holiday
movement was ignored today
by local strikers throughout
western Iowa as their leaders
demanded concessions from the
authorities before abandoning
picketing until after the gov
ernors' conference at Sioux
City on September 9.
An army of 500 pickets en-
circled this town, hating all
movement of farm proddce. It's
leaders demand that county au-
thorities promptly arrest the band
of men who shot down IL farm
ers and two boys on highways
outside the town Tuesday night.
Army ON Highway
They declared the blockade
here would be continued Until
the marauders were in Jail.
A second army of 400 Or 500
farmers blocked the great East
and West highway leading into
Sioux City, 66 miles south of
here. This group sent a telegram
to John Chalmers, State holiday
president, demanding that the
governors OF Iowa, Nebraska, Min
neSota and South Dakota issue
proclamations urging farmers vol
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The Washington times., 1932-09-02
Walkers Denunciati0n
Of Roosevelt Hearing

NEW YORK, Sept. 9 (US.).-Declorng letter from
has counsel had caused him to make "a momenous dec
sOn Mayor Walker last night issued statement his
resignation ich he termed the reDoval hearings before
Governor Roosevelt "a havesty mock trial. proceeding
comparison to achch the practice of drusead
cOurt-martidI seemed ibernL"
HIS COUNSEL John J. Curtin had pointed ont IN has letter
to Walker that the mayor could either continue ath the
hearings "subm has to the people Of NeW York
city,"
Choosing the latter course Walker IN his statement said
The Washington times., 1932-09-02
F FOES
IN HINT No
VACANCY
EXISTS
Citizens Group May Join to
Make Point Mckee Is Now
Mayor till Dec. 81

NEW YORK, Sept. > Q.N.S.).
Ex-Mayor James J. Walker will
run for reelection at the forth
coming general election in No
vember, it was strongly indi-
Gated today.
Thus he will lose no time in
seeking immediate vindication
by the people of the charges di-
rected at him and his admins
tration by Samuel Seabury.
City Clerk Michael j. Cruise
announced shortly after noon
that he expected to certify to
the board of elections that a.
vacancy exists in the office of
mayor and that it shall be filled
at the general election Novem-
Der 8. t,
,5. To Fiji Own Vacancy '''
Walker will be a candidate to
fill that vacancy" of his own
creation. He resigned at 1920
o'clock last night, declaring ne
was not being accorded fair
trial" at the removal hearing
before Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt
in Albany and announcing he
would submit his case TO the
supreme authority"-the people.
Walkers resignation created a
sensation throughout the city and
elsewhere today. 1t was the sole
topic of conversation in political
circles. RepercusSions were com.
ing thick and fast.
Charles F. Kerrigan, personal
appointee of Walker. resigned his
$17,50O job as assistant to the
mayor.
Kerrigan laid his written reSig-
nation on the desk of Mayor Jo-
seph V. Mckee, who has succeeded
Walker, and remarked signifi.
cantly:
ITS only temporary"
Like Kerrigan, the Tamn1any
Hall politicians are almost united
in the opinion that Walker will
be reelected by a tremendous
majority.
MulrOOney Sticks
Police Commissioner Edward P,
Mulrooney said he saw no reason
why he should resign. He de-
clared he would stand pat"
Samuel Seabury, making plans
for a trip to Europe, character
lied walkers resignation as
equivalent to a confession Of
guilt"
The name of former Gov.
Alfred E. Smith came into the
political picture as discussions Of
Walkers action in resigning in
the midst of an Unprecedented
civic upheaVal Waxed hot.
Smiths Name Reappears
Many independent Democrats
were represented as hoping
Smith might run for mayor of
New York.
"Al" has heard this suggestion
for months but has consistently
refrained from showing any
interest in this phase of the
situation.
Never before, during the 267
years since the city's first mayor,
has there existed a parallel to
the situation which prevails IN
New York today.
City Clerk Cruise. a Tamnany
district leader, said he had no
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The Washington times., 1932-09-02
Manchester Cotton
Strike End Looms

MANCHESTER, England. Sept.
2 GN.S0.-A dramatic attempt
to arbitrate Britain'S strike in the
cotton industry was made today
as striking mill workers lined up
to draw their first weeks strike
pay. J. P. Morris. J. Potter and
Alan Chorlton. Lancashire men,
bers of parliament. asked union
leaders and employers to meet in
conference with them to devise a
way out Of the deadlock.
The Washington times., 1932-09-02
Norman Disappears;
Reported in Canada

BAR HARBOR, Maine, Sept .
0.N.S0 Mystery again today en-
veloped the whereabouts of Mon
tagu Norman, Governor of the
Bank of England, who conducted
secret conferences in the east with
leading financiers. Mrs. John
Markos. who was his hostess, said
he left by automobile.
The Washington times., 1932-09-02
ETHEL .CATHERWOOD
Berlin Press Sees
Walker "COmebGck' -

: BERLIN. Sept. 2 1N,so.
New York wouldn't be New
York without Iimmy Walker.
He'll come back" 4 %a
This was the comment today of
the VossiSche Zeitung on the res
ignation of Mayor James j.
Walker. All Berlin papers gave
prominence to the news.
The Washington times., 1932-09-02
u. S. ENJOY Probing
Red Moves in China

PEIPING. Sept. 2 IN.SD.
Lieut.. Campbell Brown. assistant
United States military attache in
Peiping. was to leave today for the
boundary between Manchuria and
Siberia to investigate reports of
Soviet military activity there.
The tour is being made for a re-
port to Washington.
The Washington times., 1932-09-02
Walker Only Mayor
To ReSiQn Under Fire

NEW YORK, Sept. 2 QNS0 .
Mayor James J. Walker is the
first chief executive Of New York
city to resign with charges pend
ing against him. Four other
mayors resigned their office for
various other reasons.
The Washington times., 1932-09-02

saw hlm 1t was under an as
sumed name. Mellon says he
never heard of him. So the
whole thing is just a rumor.
Mr.. Norman wasn't in America
at all.
The orange squeezers out in
California went for the Demo-
cratic ticket here the other
day like they did in the old
days when they were. Republi-
cans.
The rest of the country GER
tainly got even with California.
They had an eclipse. And if
you ever saw a thing leave
The Washington times., 1932-09-02

York. To this decision 1 have
been urged by the most loyal
and distinguished Democrats in
the country"
The Washington times., 1932-09-02
WILL ROGERS Says:

BISHOP, Calf, Sept. 2.-Everybody has been
denying that they saw this fellow Norman, the
head of the Bank of England Hoover says if he
The Washington times., 1932-09-02

anyone flat it left us. The Chamber of Commerc
has already taken it up. New England got th
whole thing It's their first show since the Ply
mouth Rock ''fiasco."
1892. syndioats)
picture. Earth" At N.~ Palace Th.a
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-19
G. 0.P. CHIEFS CHART
STRONGER EFFORT
Mills, Hurley and Sanders Con-
fer With Hoover on Poll
teal Situation

Washington, Sept. l9.-(F)-A cam
paign keyed to the stronger effort
President Hoover said Maine election
results made necessary Monday was
definitely charted by Republican par
ty chieftains.
It was formulated In detail at q
white house conference Sunday night
will be built about "the most vigorous
possible speaking campaign" between
now and November's balloting and
will be concentrated on policies out
lined in the presidents acceptance
speech.
This much was disclosed by Chair
man Sanders Of the Republican ma
tional committee. who, with Secre-
taries Mills and Hurley. was closeted
with Hoover more than three hours.
But no statement was made by eth
er Of the three regarding what part
Hoover personally will play In the
new campaign plans Sanders said
only that he expected the chief ex-
ecutive ito adhere to the original
plan" and deliver three addresses.
The Republican chairman said II
still was undecided what cities Hoo
yer will visit and when asked specifi-
cally whether the president would
travel as far as the west coast, re-
piled:
II don't know. There have been nc
plans formed so far for him to 90 t.
the west coast"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-19
FARMERS TROUBLED
BY HIGH TAXES AND
DEPRESSED PRICES
South Dakota Taxpayers May
Launch Their Own Strike,
Commentator Reports
RURAL CREDITS ARE MESS
Millions Lost in Farm Loan Ex-
pertinent, Bonded Indebt-
edness Rises
By GEORGE ID. MANN

Yankton, Sept. 16.-Farmers are
going OH holiday strikes to force bet
ter prices and unless governmental
costs are reduced in this state. 1t is
predicted that taxpayers will join the
farmers in a general tax strike in the
near future.
What has placed South Dakota in
financial mess?
Rural credits operated by the state
are being blamed for much of the fis-
cal trouble of this state which, like
North Dakota, once had the smallest
bonded indebtedness of any in the
Union.
South Dakota's record of rural farm
loans may look worse OH it's face than
North Dakota's but the state officials
here actually are facing the truth and
telling the taxpayers what must be
done.
Through various experiments III
business South Dakota now has out
standing bonds in the neighborhood OF
$50. 000,0Sp. Her population Is less
than 100000 so that the per capita
bonded Indebtedness is just q little
less than $1,000 per head.
A foretaste of what may face North
Dakota when the rural credits wash
out" arrives in our state can be
cleaned in a warning just broadcast
by Walter M. Willy, director Of the
Rural Credits Board. Last August he
startled the taxpayers of this state by
announcing that tax levies and legis-
lative appropriations totaling $780,
900 would have to be levied annually
for the next five years to keep the
department from going deeper in debt.
Has Huge Deficit
In fifteen years of operation. the
South Dakota rural credits depart
ment has rolled up deficit OF So
236. 296.50. Some of this is due to bad
or political management and in fair
ness to the situation some losses have
been caused by the economic blow
dealt to agriculture. Most of the loss
represents however the futility and
eXpensiveness of a state meddling in
business.
North Dakota may not be as deep
as South Dakota in the operation OF
rural credits. but the day of reckon
Continued on page two'
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-19
Call Dozen Witnesses
For DOnaluk Inquest

A dozen witnesses were to testify
before a Burleigh county coroners
Jury at the courthouse here Monday
afternoon at an inquest into the
death of Mike Donaluk, 60-year-old
Wilton coal miner.
Donaluk died Wednesday forenoon
from a fractured skull, which he is
reported to have suffered last Mon
day evening when he fell down sew
eral steps leading from the doorway
of his brothers home to the ground
outside.
Authorities, however, were not
satisfied that Donaluk suffered his
fatal injury in the fall and launch
ed an investigation.
The jury, including Frank Paris, L.
Van Hook and j. w. Riley, all of
Bismarck. motored to Wilton Satur-
day with Coroner w. E. Perry TO view
the body before intcrment.
Sheriff J.. L. Kelley said witnesses
subpoenaed include associates. neigh
bors and friends Of the dead man.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-19
Ancient Feud Flares
!. X X
Two Men Are Dead
X X X
In Hills of Kentucky

Manchester, KY, Sept. l9-(AP)
National guard troops were on
duty here Monday following the
killing of two men and the wounding
of another Sunday in the outbreak of
a feud that started during the Civil
war.
The dead were Commonwealth
Attorney Frank H. Baker, 80, of
London, KY, and John Brockman.
about Is years old, formerly of
Breathitt county and southern In
diana. Frank Young, 40, was shot
in the left hip and was in serious
condition.
Rifle shots, fired by men barri-
caded in the Clay county courthouse,
felled Baker as he stepped from the
home Of his uncle, Wiley Baker, 62.
AS Brockman went to Bakers aid,
he too was shot and killed.
During the next four hours the
two bodies lay in the street while
the snipers in the courthouse fired
internationally at the Wiley Baker
home. One bullet pierced Wiley Ba-
ker's shoe but did not wound him.
Another whizzed over the head Of
the dead officials mother as she
went to a door. The fire of the
snipers was not returned.
As suddenly as they had started
shooting, the men in the courthouse
slipped away and escaped. Troops,
sent by Gov. Ruby Laffoon at the
request Of Circuit Judge William
Louis Of London, searched the court
house but could find no trace Of the
assassins.
The shooting climaxed a series Of
killings which Clay county authori-
ties have attributed to ill-feeling be-
tween two clans.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-19
N. D. Legion Band Returns Home
---.IN BLAST OF TRIUMPH
Reception Warm Despite Weather

Returning from the Portland con-
vention in blaze of triumph. NORTH
Dakota's American Legion band Mon.
day gave handful of Bismarck resi-.
dents a sample Of the music which
brought the band nation wide recog.
milton and designation as the nationa
Forty and Eight band for the second
straight year.
As the strains of the bands finale
a quicx-tempoed variation of taps,
floated away in the stiff. chilly wind
the 81 musicians from as many conf
munities in the state packed up their
instruments-not to meet again as
the Legion band until another ma
tional convention rolls around.
The crowd at the depot was small
and chilled from the weather-but the
reception Itself was warm in contrast.
Disseminating from their special
railroad car at 1920 p. M. the musi-
clans fell into their marching forma-
ton for a quick parade around Bis
marck's loop during which they
played two stirring numbers.
Play Stars and Stripes
Returning to the depot, the band
took up a stationary formation in the
shelter Of the building and played its
swan song for the year-a rendition
Of Sousa's stars and Stripes Forever
as only North Dakota's American Le-
gion band can play it.
The band took the convention by
storm" in the words of w. M. Schantz,
newly-elected vice commander of the
Forty and Eight, who returned to Bis
marck Sunday and was at the depot
Monday to participate in the recep-
ton.
1.-The North Dakota band was given
a great ovation by the World war vet
Grams from all over the nation" the
vice commander said.
The bands execution upon its re-
turn was noticeably improved after
its two weeks of continual playing.
The bands achievement is all the
more noteworthy in view of the fact
that it's members assemble only twice
Continued on Page Severn
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-19
farm PRODUCTS ARE
LEADING IN ADVANCE
Labor Department Index Shows
Some Price Gains For
Month Of August

Washington, Sept. l9.-tP)-Farm
products led the labor department S
index of wholesale commodity prices
In a marked increase" from July to
August.
In making this announcement Mon
day the department gave the weight
ed index of the 784 commodities in
cluded in the study as 65.2 for August,
compared with CAS- for July. Average
1925 prices are taken as 100.
Between July and August price in
creases took place In 2l3 instances, de-
creases in 1875 instances. while in 436
instances no change in price &C.
Cured" the department said. when
compared with August. 1881,
q decrease Of ga per cent has been
recorded in the IL months.
1.-The farm products group made the
greatest gains, advancing 2is per cent
during the month. Increases were
recorded In the average prices Of bar
ley, corn, rye, wheat, calves. poultry,
cotton, eggs. hay and peanuts.
Decreases In the average prices OF
oats, cows, hogs, fresh applies, dem
ons, oranges, leaf tobacco, and onions
were shown"
Among food prices. the department
reported increases for butter. cheese,
rye and wheat flour, fresh and cured
beef, cured pork, veal, coffee, lard,
raw and granulated sugar, and most
canned vegetables.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-19
|PLAN HEARING IN
COLUMBUS MURDER
Slayer Suspect Will Be Ar
raigned in Burke County
Justice Court

Minot, N. D., Sept. 19.-(P-Hand-
cuffed. and closely guarded. Henry
Frazon, 47-year-old Burke county
farmer, charged with the first-degree
murder of George Keup. mayor of
Columbus and former banker there,
was taken from the Ward county jail
in Minot Monday to be removed to
Bowbells for arraignment in justice
court.
Frazon was brought to Minot at
a. m. Saturday, and committed to the
county jail here for safekeeping when
Sheriff j. p. Doyle and States Attor-
ney B. L. Wilson thought it advisable
to remove him from Burke county be-
cause of high feeling which arose fol-
lowing the fatal shooting of Keup
Friday evening at his office in Colum-
bus.
Arrangement Of Frazon is to take
place before Justice MAIDS Ejsing. At
torney Halvor L. Halvorson of Minot,
counsel for the defendant, said he In
tends to demand preliminary hear
ing.
Frazon. who has repeatedly denied
having shot Keup. told Of having diff
ficulties In business dealings with
Keup. States Attorney Wilson said
he will seek to prove this was the mo-
tive for the Staying.
Sheriff Doyle and States Attorney
Wilson spent most Of Saturday In the
Columbus vicinity lining up evidence
to be used In the prosecution Of Fra
ION. They have In their possession a
SO caliber revolver. with two explod-
ed shells in It. which was dug out Of
the ground near fence post south OF
Columbus. The sheriff and states at
torney said they have located two
persons who said they saw Frazon do
ing something near this spot late Fri
day.
Frazon, after being brought to jail
in Minot, said he once owned SO
caliber revolver, but declared he had
lost it several months ago.
Funeral services for Keup are to be
held Wednesday at 10 a. m. at his
home In Columbus. to be followed by
burial at Mohall, with Masons in
charge Of the rites at the grave.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-19
STEEL ORDERS AND
WIRE CABLES USED
T0HAMPER TRAFFIC
Farmers Lose in First Brush
With Law, However, and
Sheep Go to Market
300 MEN ON PATROL DUTY
Iowa Farm Strikers Are Sent
Home BY Gopher Sheriff
Following Census
300 MEN ON PATROL DUTY

Worthington, Mimi, Sept. le.-R
--Brandishing clubs and blocking
roads with steel Orders, heavy wire
cable and spiked machine belts,
farmer pickets seeking higher prices
went into action here Monday and
soon afterward lost in their first
brush with the law.
Sheriff Eldon Rowe and Deputy
Sheriff Albert Levine went to the aid
of S. v. Calvin, farmer living south
Of here, and rescued Calvin's load of
sheep after the pickets unhitched his
team, tied the horses to a telephone
pole and ran the wagon load into a
ditch.
Led by M. B. Miller, vice chair
man of the Mobiles county unit of the
state Farmers Holiday association,
which defied the parent body in or
ganizing the picket lines. upwards OF
300 men patroled 10 highways lead
ing into Worthington.
The pickets we're instructed to turn
back all non-perishable farm prod
ucts in move designed to help stop
shipments into Sioux City markets.
Several truck loads of farm stuff
we're turned back but farmers APP
parently had withheld much of their
products to see whether the blockade
would become effective as announced.
Some of the pickets even were
hating passenger cars.
Guard 'Bottle-Neck'
1,oo ,yiecf concentration ~
pickets was at the Omaha railroad
viaduct south of town where about
$50 men were patroling a sort OF
bottleneck.
That is where the sheriff rescued
the load of sheep.
Reports were that Calvin, owner
OF the load of sheep, was stopped by
the picketS and ordered to return
home. He was headed for the local
agency which buys livestock from the
farmers and then ships in carload
lots to the Sioux City markets. CAL
vim refused to comply with the ord
erS, whereupon he was forced to re-
linquish the reins. A picket drove
the team into the ditch and several
others helped unhitch the team.
Sheriff Rowe was called. He talk
ed with Calvin and some of the
pickets and while he continued to
converse with the latter, deputy
hitched up the team, pulled the
wagon from the ditch, then led the
team past the patrol. Calvin then
mounted the seat and proceeded to
market.
Backing up their appeals for CO.
operation from the Mobiles county
Holiday association members, Iowa
farm strikers sent two truckloads of
men here to help establish the first
picket lines. They came from James,
Iowa.
Sheriff Rowe refused to permit the
visiting strikers to serve, however,
and ordered them to return home,
stating the picket lines could contain
only Mobiles county men.
The sheriff began a census of the
patrol, taking the names and adj
dresses Of the pickets to see this rul-
ing was enforced.
Sheriff Rowe conferred with Coun-
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