The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-10-23
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Will BECOME JUDGE
OF Fifth DISTRICT
Numerous Shifts Follow Bird.
zeII's Resignation From
Supreme Bench
GIVES LANCER MORE POWER
Executive Will Control Industrial
Commission by Naming
Legal Chief
GIVES LANCER MORE POWER
by the Associated Press,

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scenes shifted quickly in North
Dakota's political drama during the
weekend as Attorney General Arthur
=. Gronna, Jr.. and Chief Justice L. 3.
6irdzeu Of the state supreme court
resigned to accept other appoints
ments.
George H. Moellring, Williston
judge OF the fifth judicial district. was
appointed BY Governor William Ian
ger to the supreme court, with Gronna
named TO succeed the district Judge.
birdzeu goes to Washington as coun-
sci Tor the Federal Depositors' 1nsur-
ence corporation.
LANCER will name Gronna's success
sor sometime Monday, he said.
FROM authoritative sources IL was
learned that the choice Law between
+. 0. Satire, now an assistant attor-
ney general, and John Williams.
Wasnburn, secretary Of the state
emergency relief committee.
The various changes are effective
November l.
Judge Birdzell's RESIGNATION SAT.
urday to take the Washington ap-
pointment started the startling
shake-up in the personnel of state
officials. It operated to give LANCER
authority to make three important
appointments-that Of supreme court
justice. district Judge and attorney
general.
Moellring to Come Here
Moellring's appointment by the eoy.
ernor to the supreme court bench
places him IN that office to fill Bird
zcll's unexpired term ending January
!, 1885. Gronna. as district Judge, win
serve out an unexpired term q more
than five years. Judge Moellring had
been elected In the last general cleo.
ton to six-year term ending Janu-
AIRY I. 1899.
Saturday. Judge Mocllring was
quoted as uncertain whether he would
accept the appointment. Monday.
however. he told the Associated Press
he would accept and would come here
IN a week or 10 days to begin his new
work.
OF greatest political significance In
the several shifts is the change that
VIII result III the personnel of the
state industrial commission OF which
Gronna Is an exofficio member and
Governor LANCER ex-officio chairman,
Commissioner Of Agriculture and
Labor John HUSKY Is the third mem
Der.
Under the commissions present or
ganlzation. Gronna and Husbv have
often opposed the chief executive
LANCER used his veto power. conferred
on him by an act OF the recent leg
islature, to nullify certain proposals
sought by Gronna and HUSKY. Dis
missal Of O. L. Spencer as member Of
the mill and elevator. advocated by
Gronna and HUSKY. brought a gub-
ernatorial veto. Other dismssals at
the mill and Bank Of North Dakota
also were baked by the governor.
Can Have Own Way
With the vacancy created by Gron-
mas resignation, LANCER is In posi-
ton to appoint an attorney general
who, in his activities as ex-officio
member Of the industrial commits
sion. will work in closer harmony with
the chief executive than has been
done by his associates in the past.
Elected on the Nonpartisan league
ticket as Attorney General in the last
November general election, Gronna
came here from Williston where he
had been states attorney Of williams
county. At IS, he will be the young
est judge on the district bench.
Gronna is the son Of the late Unit
ed States Senator A. j. Gronna, ST.,
graduate Of George Washington
University and Of the Harvard Law
school. He entered the World War as
private. and came out q first lieu
tenant after service over seas. He
received citation for gallantry.
Judge Birdzell's resignation Sat.
supreme court bench for II years.
He previously was professor Of law
at the University Of North Dakota,
and was chairman Of the first tax
commission Of North Dakota. appoint
ed by former Governor John Burke.
Judge Moellring has been on the
district court bench for IL years. A
resident Of North Dakota for 81 years,
he first practiced law ct Langdon ana
then at Ray. Before coming to North
Dakota, he practiced law at Mason
City. Iowa.