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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-02-07
Local Scouts Prepared
To Observe AnniuerSQru
Public Invited to Attend Court
of Honor Session We'd
nesday Evening

Bismarck Boy Scouts viii receive
advancement badges and awards
Wednesday evening at a court Of hon
or, the feature event in a week-long
program in observance of scouting's
anniversary.
The court OF honor will be held In
the auditorium of the World War Me-
mortal building, beginning at 7:45
o'clock. and the public Is invited to
attend, according to w. G. Fulton,
scout executive.
Badges from Tenderfoot to Eagle
Scout ranks, as we'll as merit badges
will be presented by Captain r. r
Tourtillott, Fort Lincoln; Carl Leuthi
Northwest Always pilot: H. F. SWEET
state representative from Kidder
county: p. J. Cain, state senator from
Stark county: Supreme Court Justice
w. L. Nuessle, and Governor William
LANCER. If hts health permits.
New Salem Boys Coming
A special investiture ceremony will
be presented by the troop from New
Salem.
Awards to Lone Scouts of the Local
radio tribe will be presented by p. j
Meyer, Bismarck. A special group Of
Lone Scouts from Flasher will be II
attendance.
The outstanding scout leader in the
Missouri Valley Area Council during
1892 will receive silver beaver award
which will be presented by Supreme
Court Justice A. M. Christianson
president of the council. Scoutmas.
tiers of the nine Bismarck troops VII
be presented with the President Hoo.
yer Achievement Award for 1882 81
DR.. H. A. Brandes Bismarck.
One of the features will be the re.
newal Of the scout pledge at 8:l5 o.
clock, at which time Boy Scouts from
throughout the nation will be repeat.
ing the pledge in observance OF tn
anniversary. The Boy Scouts o.
America was charted by Congress Feb
s, 1910.
Leading the scouts In repeating
their pledge will be Eagle Scout.
Richard Schmidt, Melvin Ruder anc
Ernest Mccall, it Is announced b,
Charles Liessman, member OF the
Bismarck district committee.
win Honor Leaders
Scout leaders who have had five o.
more years of active service Will re-
ceive special recognition on the pro-
gram over which DR.. George NJ. Con-
STAINS, chairman, will preside. DR.
Constans will introduce the indivtd'
walls participating in the program.
The program win open with thu
parade and flag ceremony. lead b!
the Boy Scout band and Bismarck
troops.
During the entire court Of honol
program the band, under the direc'
ton Of Curtis Dirlam and Marion Fol
som, will play.
Tuesday evening. the radio Lon'
Scout tribe will usher in the week.
program in q radio program owe
KFYR. They will sing scout songs
accompanied by the Scout band. tn
program also will include talks b!
members Of the tribe committee-W
H. Payne, Arnold Van Wyk, Curti
Dirlam. Frank Ntzstmonds and
Richard Schmidt.
Bismarck scouts who will receive
awards Wednesday evening met witt
the board Of review Monday evening
for informal examination. The .boarl
is headed by w. n. Payne and includ
es w. r. McGraw. Charles Liessmal
and DIR. w. B. Pierce.
Members Of the court OF honor com
mittee arc DR.. @. M. ConstanS. r. Il
| Waldo and nayne
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-02-07

Former Governor George F. Shafer,
appearing under subpoena before the
legislative investigating committee
Tuesday in connection with issuance
Of 100000 Of certificates of indebted
ness for the capitol commission, as
sured the committee the bonds were
sold because the money was needed
for completion of part Of the con-
struction work.
Under questioning by e. r. Sinkler.
counsel Of the committee. with fire.
quent tense moments as Sinkler
sought an admission from Shafer that
1t was unnecessary to dispose Of the
$400, 900 Of bonds at the close Of last
year, Shafer recited the negotiations
he had carried on which Col. G. F.
Mudgett, until recently manager Of
the Bank of North Dakota.
The former governor told Sinklel
and the committee that. though there
was about q million dollars available
for the capitol commission, another
$400. 900 was necessary for completion
Of Budget B"-the tower and part
of the legislative unit Of the new g.
600 900 capitol for North Dakota.
Shafer said he had conferred early
last fall with Mudgett concerning the
bond issue and the bank taking Il
over because he doubted" whether
the market was satisfactory for sale
Of the certificates.
Sinkler asked why the former gov.
ernor wanted the bank to buy some
thing which could not be sold on TIKI
open market for at least par an<
Shafer remarked he considered tn
bonds very good securities with sui
ficient provisions for retiring them
He added he thought 1t "incumben
on the bank to use its resources" fol
backing a state project.
Quizzed BY Bangert
Asked by Bangert whether he be-
lieved the contractors had q right t
demand that the money be made
available for the work, Shafer re.
piled they did have. He explained
that the passing Of the initiative Law
reducing the valuation basis for as.
sessments had caused the contractor.
to fear there would be difficulty ir
raising funds for the balance OF th<
work on the capitol.
He said he thought the contract
implied" the contractors could de.
mand that the money be made avail
able II they felt any doubts concern
ing the states ability to raise it.
Shafer told Bangert and the com
mittee the capitol commission mus
have legislative assistance II 1t Is ex
pected to proceed with Budget C.
and completion of the entire build
ing.
Sinkler asked Shafer several time
whether he had given all Of the rea
sons for wanting to have the none,
available and the former governo
Continued on page seven)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-02-07
BEGIN STAINS MARCH

Archangel, Russia, Feb 7.-tFE
Thousands Of peasants drafted for
work in the lumber camps Of the
north have set out on Stains march
to the forests" to help the regular
lumber camp hands catch up with the
timber production scheduled In the
second fiye-year.plau.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-02-07

Doom, Holland, Feb 7.-F1-Re-
ports that the former Kaiser Wilhelm
II, in exile here for the last Il years,
was awaiting a call to return to Berlin
q q result Of the establishment OF .
|rightist government there. were OFF,
|cially denied Tuesday.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-02-07

Detroit, FEB. 7.-(R)-A number OF
Ford Motor company branch assem-
bly, plants were back In production
Monday and company officials pre-
dicted that normal production would
be resumed sometime this week In
| the Dearborn plant.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-02-07
PERsHING'S BROTHER ILL

New York, Feb. 7.-(P)-Little hope
was held by physicians Tuesday for
the recovery Of James F. Pershtng.
Younger brother Of General John J.
Pershing. He suffered stroke OF
paralysis Dec. 20
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-02-07
Weather Report

Generally fair tonight and Wednes,
day; not 80 cold tonight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15
HIGH COURT TO RULE
ON INTANGIBLES TAX
State Will Appeal Decision
of InvaIidity at Once.

Immediate appeal to the Indiana
supreme court of st. Joseph coun-
ty superior court ruling that the
intangibles tax law is invalid, was
being planned today by Attorney
General Philip Lutz Jr.
Commenting on the ruling of Su-
perior Judge j. Fred Bingham at
South Bend Friday, Lutz expressed
confidence that the high court
would hold the tax law constitu-
tional.
Previous county court rulings at
Muncie and Huntington have held
the law valid.
Bingham based his decision of
unconstitutionality on that section
of the law which exempts in
tangibles from regular taxation and
in support of his view, pointed to
the section of the Indiana Consti-
tuition providing for "a uniform
and equal rate of assessment and
taxation
Therefore, the court concluded,
the legislature was without author
ity to place levy on intangibles
and at the same time exempt them
from the regular, uniform tax levy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15
filters PRESENT
CIRCUS AT PORT
Stunts, Races viii Feature
Air Show Sponsored
by Legion.

Loops. spins, rolls and all the
other breath-taking features OF
stunt flying will be presented at
Municipal airport this afternoon at
the American Legion air circus and
races.
The meet will open at 2:30 with
Bennett Griffin, co-holder with
James Mattern of the trans-At-
lantic speed flight record, spiraling
down from the clouds.
The program will include stunt
ing a tri-motored transport plane,
looping a glider, stunning an auto
giro, and various other stunts with
racing type planes. One of the fea-
lures will be the flying of 1910
type plane.
Also on the program will be Sc
ries of air races by group Of noted
racing pilots, an aerial dog fight,
a dual delayed parachute drop with
the performers falling mile be-
fore opening their chutes, and, as
the final event of the day. the ma
tional guard air race for the Robert
c. Winslow trophy. The circus will
close Sunday.
Pilots participating in the race
here met Friday night and decided
to ask that their threatened ex-
pulsion from the National Aero
nautical Association for participa-
ting in the unsanctioned Chicago
air races be arbitrated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15
SWIMMERS TO GET
DIPLOMAS AT POOL
$50 Are Given Instruction at
Broad Ripple.

One hundred fifty Indianapolis
persons will receive Red Cross GER
tiflcates tonight at Broad Ripple
pool after completing the tests
which will close The Times Broad
Ripple free swimming course. The
classes, for adults and children
have been held three times daily
during this week, under direction of
Earl Montgomery, swimming in
structor at the Broad Ripple pool,
and fourteen other instructors
working with him.
Entrance in the classes was made
possible by coupons published in
The Times each day, and paid ad-
mission to the pool.
The tests tonight will include a
review of all lessons. Before receiv-
ing a certificate, the swimmer will
be required to swim at least twenty
five feet, using the crawl stroke
which has been taught in the
weeks course.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15
u. S. WILLING
FOR FINISH OF
LONDON FARLEY
Delegates Against Fixing of
Definite Date to Reopen
Conference.
BvUnited Press

BIZ United Press
LONDON. July 15-The United
States favors indefinite adjourn
ment of the world economic con-
ference, it was said authoritatively
today.
Delegates were said to feel that
to fix a specific date for reassem-
bling after the recess" TO be taken
July 81 would be putting indirect
pressure on the United States to
stabilize its currency by whatever
date might be named.
This, it was said, would interfere
with the governments determination
on a domestic recovery program.
1t had been said previously that
the United States favored adjourn
ment to a definite date.
At that time it was said also the
delegation had asked President
Roosevelt for rush instructions
whether he intended to institute a
commodity dollar" with sliding
gold content or go back on the gold
standard
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15

they said were done with the saw
by Mrs. Gwinner.
Mrs. Conway, it appeared, was
somewhat handicapped by her in
validism and had to play the role
Of cheering section for her daugh-
ter.
The small boy casualty was
Mason Ingram, 9, of 234 North
Noble street, who was too eager
to see everything and ran in front
OF a car driven by George Linville,
1924 Beech street.
Mason got some face and knee
cuts in return for his curiosity.
but was not injured seriously. A
milk bottle he was carrying was
broken when the car struck him.
Police arrested all four wom-
en- and confiscated the alleged
weapons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15

She had been asked to do so by
her mother because the tree OBJ
Scured her vision as the elder
woman sat on her porch.
"Oh, woman, spare that tree" in
effect. chanted the MeSdameS Lowe
and Ferguson, who didn't want to
see one of natures noblest works
destroyed.
Besides, they said, the tree was
in the center of the front yard of
the double and they had as much
ownership in it as Mrs. Conway
and Mrs. Gwinner.
n
HOT words led to blows, police
l. L were told, and Mrs. Gwinner
went into action with a barrage
OF pepper and led with a hacksaw.
The Mesdames Lowe and Fergu-
son exhibited minor cuts which
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15

Above, traffic officer Francis
Logue, directing traffic by the
hand whistle method which at 6
tonight will displace the soma
phore against which he is posed
below in a leaning post" atti-
tude.
Semaphores with their red and
green stop" and GO" signs were
to disappear from sixteen Indian
apolis street intersections at to-
day, to be replaced by the hand
and whistle method of handling
traffic.
Safety board recently ordered
abolition of the semaphore meth
cd, one member asserting the
semaphores were leaning posts"
for officers.
Under the new rules, one
whistle blast will release traffic
north and south, two east and
west and three at avenue inter
sections.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15
WITT, GROCER KILLER,
GIVEN DEATH STAY
Execution Postponed Until
Fall by High Court.

Charles Vernon Witt, slayer of
Lafayette Jackson, city grocer head,
who was to have been executed at
the Indiana state prison next Fri
day, has been granted stay of exc
cution to Nov "a.
The stay was signed by Chief
Justice David A. Myers of the ST.
preme court.
1t was asked for by Ira Holmes,
Wits attorney, to press petition
for rehearing. The murder convic-
ton of Witt was affirmed by the
high court. A partner, Louis A.
Hamilton, also received a death
sentence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15
COP is CHARGED
WITH SLUCCINC
GARAGE OWNER
Court Told Police Officials
Passed Buck Wins
Dismissal.

Charges that Detective John Gish
"socked him in the jaw and BACKED
his eye" we're flung today in mu-
nicipal court four by Ernest TAFT,
529 Coffey street, operating a ga
rage at 542 Warren avenue.
Held on a vagrancy charge in in
vestigation Of dealing in accessories
from stripped stolen cars, TAFT was
discharged on motion of the state.
AS the discharge was ordered by
Judge William H. Sheaffer, TAFT de-
clared:
I'D like to make a statement in
connection with this case
Says Struck in Car
You're free to do so. Go right
ahead assented Sheaffer.
The burden of Taits complaint
was that he was placed in a squad
car and then "Socked' by Gish.
What led up to the 'socking?'"
questioned Sheaffer.
Il told them I ought to get a Job
on the police force so they wouldn't
have to come after me all the time"
replied TAFT.
Further questioning by the court
revealed that TAFT has been arrested
twelve times and recently was pa
rolled from the penal farm.
Wins Dismissal
TAFT said he complained to De-
tective Chief Simon, and Gish de-
MED, in Simon's presence. that he
struck TAFT. The same thing oc-
Cured when he complained to Chief
Mike Morrissey, TAFT said, and he
was referred to Morrissey by the
safety board.
Il don't blame any officer for not
taking a chance with a fellow with
your record" Sheaffer said when
TAFT finished his story.
IF you had come in here with
a clean record, it would have been
different. l don't know how much
of your story is true, but anyway.
can't do anything about it. Dis
charged
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15
FAMINE PERILS
CHINA AS GREAT
FLOOD NEARS
Yellow and Yangtze Rivers
Threaten Change in
Courses.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
scripps- Howard Foreign Editor


WASHINGTON, July 15.-As one
of the most catastrophe floods in
history threatens China, it is feared
that pestilence. famine and po-
liUical disturbances will follow in
it's wake.
The Yellow river-known for ages
as "China's Sorrows believed to
be on the point of changing its
course once more, to empty into
the Yellow sea, 400 miles south of
its present mouth in the Gulf of
Chilli.
The Yangtze river-the Mississip-
pi of China-likewise is on the
rampage, leaving tens of thousands
in want.
Communism in China
The Boxer rebellion largely was
the result of the Yellow rivers ter
rible flood of 1898, when many mil
lions were made homeless and des-
titute.
A Chinese version of Communism
now is reported to be sweeping
many regions of China, partly due
to the country's troubles with
Japan and it's own war lords, and
partly to wholesale misery among
the masses.
The floods of the Yellow and
Yangtze rivers always come in hot
weather. Both rise in the noun
tains of Tibet. During winter,
when the upper reaches freeze and
snow accumulates in the uplandS,
the streams are low. AS the SHOWS
melt, the level of the waters rises
rapidly.
Course Is Changed
The Hoang-ho, or Yellow river, is
1900 miles long. Yet it is not navi-
gable 1t is too turbulent, treach-
erous and shifty New sand bars
form from one day to another.
Like the Mississippi, its bed rises
higher and higher until far above
the surrounding country. A vast
amount of money is needed annually
to keep up its levees.
About 1000 years ago the stream
apparently emptied into the Yellow
sea. Then it changed, emptying 500
miles to the north, at Tientsin,
through the mouth of another river,
the Pei-ho. During a subsequent
flood, like the present, however, it
changed again, back to the Yellow
sea, which it favored until 1852,
when it switched again.
Bed Giving Away
1t now flows into the Gulf of
Chilli, about $50 miles south of it's
former outlet, at Tientsin.
Today the bed of the erratic
river is too high to hold it much
longer. During some great flood it
almost certainly will find itself an
other course. 1t may do SO now.
The provinces through which it
flows have a population of nearly
100,OO0000. They are for the most
part very flat.
At various times in the past it
has covered almost all the region
with sand and mud until some of
the areas through which it mean
ders are amongst the worst famine
plagued regions of China.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15
CLEANING SHOP THIEF
CAPTURED BY POLICE
Clothing Recovered After Robbery
Is Discovered.

Police surprised two alleged
cleaning shop burglars early to-
day and captured one of them. They
also recovered clothing the burglars
we're preparing to load into car
parked in the alley.
Patrolman Dan Foley of Sergeant
Victor HouSton's squad hid in the
shadow of a garage in the rear of
1925 Coliseum avenue when a car
was found parked nearby.
A householder saw Foley and de-
manded to know what he was doing
there. AS Foley explained he was
police officer, two men carrying a
load of clothing were approaching
and heard him. They fled with Fo-
ley firing three shots at them.
Foley later arrested a Negro who
first said he was Ronald Gibson
and then George Young, 81, Chicago
Young had been running and was
out of breath, Foley said. The
clothing which the thieves aban-
doned had been stolen from the
cleaning shop of j. D. Bender, 1918
Fairfield avenue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15
Bar Bar Gals
San Francisco Refuses to
Let Women Put Feet
on Brass Rails.

BIZ United Press
GAN FRANCISCO, July 15.-The
- post prohibition privilege
which permitted women to bend
their elbows on bar, and put
their feet on brass rails was re-
voked by the San Francisco bev-
erage commission today.
In the future, women must be
served at tables or in booths in
beer parlors, the commission ruled.
The action was taken for the
safety of male drinkers, officials
explaining women were being used
to entice tipsy customers from the
bar to bandit hangouts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15
LEGION POST ELECTS

Members of Richard F. Taylor
Aviation Post I'll of the American
Legion have elected Earl w. Swee-
ney, commander; Cecil F. Reynolds,
senior vice-commander; Oliver
Stout, junior ce-commander, and
Walter Jones, adjutant.
Police Captain Otto Ray was in
dorsed for reelection as Twelfth
district commander.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15
500 TO ATTEND FARLEY
1884 Convention of Brotherhood Will
Be Held Here.

Five hundred delegates are ex-
pected to attend the 1884 convention
here OF the International Brother
hood OF Firemen and Oilers, accord
ing to an announcement received by
William B. Conner, president of IN
dlanapolis Local TOT. This years
convention was held this week in
Boston, Mss.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15
NEW PANTS, S35 STOLEN
Workman Loses Trousers From
Shed: Union Card Taken.

1t was bad enough, Louis Rog-
man, 20 Lincoln street, told police,
to steal his new brown trousers
which he hung in shed in the rear
Of 1925 Capitol avenue while he
was working Friday, but it was in
considerate of thieves to throw them
into an alley minus a billfold con-
tanning $35 and union card.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15
NAME HOME LOAN AID
Evansville Man Selected Director,
Four Memberships Approved.

Fermor S. Cannon, chairman of
the directors of the Federal Home
Loan Bank of Indianapolis, has ap-
pointed Lowry Bertelsen of Evans
vile, as a director. Bertelsen sue
ceeds Grant H. Longenecker, of
Benton Harbor, Mich.
At a meeting Friday, directors
took final action to approve the
membership of four building and
loan associations of Indiana, and
one in Michigan establishing lines
of credit for them of S416 900, to be
used for long-term financing pur-
poses in the various communities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15
FAIR FEET PREVENT
ALL-NIGHT PARTIES
Chicago Visitors Too Tired for
Gaiety After Tour.

By United Press
CHICAGO, July 15.-There's a
new ailment abroad, called fair
feet" and it's doing a lot to keep
hotels quiet in the hours after mid
night.
Loop hostelries are crowded as
they haven't been in years, but mid
night revelry isn't as common as
during the lean summers of 80 and
81, according to hotel managers.
The answer, they say, is fair
feet"
People get so tired tramping
through the miles of exhibits at the
worlds fair that when they come to
their hotels at night all they want
is soft mattress, not a bottle of
ginger ale and a pitcher of ice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15
ARSON CASE is PROBED
State Marshalls Investigate Blaze on
ScOttSburg Farm.

What local authorities believe to
be the first arson case in the his
tory of Scott county is being in
vestigated by the state fire mar
shalls office, it was reported today
by Glen Smith, who is in charge.
The fire occurred July 4, burning
a barn and livestock on the farm of
William Cutshaw, near Scottsburg
Sheriff Wilbur Amick of Scott coun-
ty sought to solve the mystery of
the fires origin with bloodhoundS.
This failing, the state was called in.
Edwin Bridwell and Phil S. Veatch
of the arson department are in
vestigating.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15
OFFICERS TO BE NAMED
Baraca Philathea Union to Elect
Leaders Monday Night.

Officers will be elected at meet
ing of the Indianapolis Baraca
Philathea Union, to be held Mon
day night at the Downey Avenue
Christian church.
Mrs. I. H. Staley will give re-
ports of the convention of the world
wide union held in indianapolis re-
Gently. The program will include
special musical numbers by Mrs.
Harvey Thomas, Miss Ruth Forte
and Miss Iona Lamb.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15
Woman, Spare That Tree
Four Are Under Arrest, Too Curious Boy Injured
in Dispute
TREE still was S

TREE still playing
the leading the
charges and the injury of too
Under her
Mrs Edith Ohio street and Mrs Merle Lowe
street the other side of
a double
The fight in which black hackaw pieces
alleged to have been used
started to cut down the police