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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-07-05

Paris. July 5.-(R-The body of
Nine. Marie Curie, co-discoverer of
radium, was brought to Paris We'd
nesday night In compliance with her
wish for private funeral Of the ut
most simplicity, devoid of all display.
Only members of the family, lab
oratory associates and few scien-
tific friends will attend the burial.
She will be placed in grave beside
her husband.
Mime. Curie died q martyr to the
cause of science. The co-discoverer
of radium, physicians said, had accu-
mulated radiuM rays In her system
during her experiments and these
contributed directly to the illness
which ended in her death early Wed
nesday.
Mime. Curie. who was 66, had twice
visited the United States to receive
donations which aided her in carry.
ing on her scientific work.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-07-05
WOODBRIDGE GANG
ROUNDUP COMPLETE
Ronald Woodward Arrested;
Said to Be Last Of North
west Bank Bandit Ring

st. Paul, July 5.-(R)-Capture Of
the fifth and last member Of the no.
torious Cyril Woodbridge gang that
robbed several northwest banks and
looted the Wahpeton, N. D.. armory
Of machine guns and automatic rifles,
was announced Thursday by Melvin
Passolt, chief Of the state bureau Of
criminal apprehension.
Arrest In Rockford, ILL.,, Of Ronald
Woodland, identified as one Of three
men who got $4,556 in the holdup Of
the Union State Bank Of Sank Rapids,
made the roundup Of the bandit gang;
complete, Passolt said.
Woodbridge and his other accom-.
plices, who shared in six Minnesota
bsnk robberies and three In South
Dakota, are serving prison terms. The
alleged ringleader Is finishing two
year term in Leavenworth for the
Wahpeton theft with Minnesota off,
Gals seeking q life term for him ct
Saltwater penitentiary for the 5000
Hampton State Bank robbery.
Going under the name Of Carl
Lopitx, Woodland was identified by
Illinois authorities as q member OF
the Woodbridge gang through . circu-
lar from the Minnesota crime bureau
Police ct Rockford sent him to st
Joseph, Mich, for investigation re-
garding . store robbery there. but
Superintendent Passolt said he Will
trv to have the South Dakotan de.
livered to Minnesota officers on the
sauk Rapids holdup.
Now serving saltwater prison terms
for bank robberies with Woodbridge
ale Ben Gallon. the third man in the
Sank Rapids raid, who was sentenced
to 5 to 20 years: Fred Bukowski Of st
Cloud. given seven years for posses.
sion Of . machine gun. and Ernest
Vanderhoef Of Mohall. n. D., who w,
sentenced to 50 to 10 years.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-07-05

TWO barns were destroyed ~ 1irs
near Baldwin sunday night.
A spark from . pip = believed to
have caused . bla1e IN the structure
On thu 0soeGe nn1Dnbeck farm
Tanned ~ strong wind. Il burned
quickly.
Gpal1s ignited til barn a the
Enoch 0axlson farm nearby and Il
also No. Destroyed. Nosstock was lot
~ either hlase
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-07-05
Nadine O'Leary Breaks
Own Golfing Record

Nadine oLeary, formerly state
Women's golf champion broke her
own course record ct the Bismarck
country club Tuesday when she turned
IN Z card q 81 for her first round.
The record formerly set by Miss
oIeary Was %, which she has equal
led several times this year. Her card
for thu first nine holes was 1854
as.
After shooting the record breaking
round, Mis- OIeary went on to card
. - on the second nine for q 10 hole
total Of 70.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-07-05
PROCESSING TAX TO
BOOST STATE farm
INCOME PREDICTED
FRAZIER Estimates Benefits to
N. D. Would Be Approx
mately sis, 900, 900

Washington, July 5.-(P)-The Of
flee of Senator Frazier (Rep., N. d.
Thursday q processing tax
wouloe be levied soon on rye and flax
which would bring an increase Of mil
lions of dollars in farm income to
North Dakota and Minnesota.
A member Of the senator's secre-
tariat said Secretary Wallace virtual
" had assured Frazier q tax would
be assessed under authority granted
the farm administration by an amend
ment to the farm adjustment act
passed by the last congress.
The amendment, introduced by
Senator Frazier, made flax, rye and
barley basic commodities and empow-
cred the secretary Of agriculture to
levy q processing tax on the three
grains IN the same manner Is on
wheat and tobacco.
The senator's office said Wallace
indicated the tax would be so cents
q bushel on flax and 80 cents on rye.
Barley. 1t was said, probably would not
be included, inasmuch as only q small
percentage of the annual crop Is pro-
cessed.
The proposed tax represents the
difference, according to AAA figures
between parity and present market
prices Of the grains. Under AAA
methods Of calculation parity repre-
sents the period between 1909 and
1914.
60 Per Cent Rye Processed
The AAA recently estimated go per
cent Of the rye crop is processed and
about 80 to 80 per cent Of the flax.
Concerning proposals to levy tariffs
on rye importations, Wallace recently
wrote Frazier no decision had been
announced by the treasury on q re-
quest for q tariff on Importation Of
Polish rye. Wallace further said the
department Of agriculture found It
necessary to give fresh consideration
to the whole subject Of grain tariffs.
He pointed out that the processing
tax would not necessarily stop rye and
flax importation.
At the time the senate acted upon
Frazier's basic commodity amend
ment, the senator estimated process
sing taxes on rye, flax and barley
would mean an annual increase In
farm incomes in North Dakota Of ap.
proximately $15,0o0,O00. He said
North Dakota raised an average OF
Is 900 900 bushels Of rye, 81. 100000 Of
barley, and 100000 Of flax.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-07-05
DObbin Crossed Up
Horse Doesn't Know Whether
Firscrackers Signal to
Start or Stop

Camden, N. J.-(R-A fire
cracker exploded.
A fruit peddler's frightened
horse galloped down the street,
the cart Gathering behind him.
Holiday crowds watched with glee
as the animal zig Jagged for three
blocks in Camden's main thor
oughfare.
Another firecracker went off.
Dobbin stopped.
The Washington times., 1934-06-23
Open-Air Courts
A Possible Solution

The collapse of plaster at the Police Court Building in
iurng three men, emphasizes the dangerous and inefficient
housing of the departments and agencies of the District Gov
eminent.
The old Police Court Building is disgrace to Washington
and it would be disgrace to any community It is dllap
dated insanitary and inadequate to the ctys needs.
In these days when Police Court is popular ( with
such large numbers of citizens it would that at
least decent accommodations might be provided them while
they awaiting the functioning of the courts
of and of all classes visit the Police
Court weekly By far the larger number of these persons
who accused of crime misdemeanor.
Many of them hand either jurors because
decent citizens they respond to subpoenas witnesses
Under present physical conditions the Police Court Build
ing with dnginess, drtnes and overcrowdng it would
surprising if the jurors thought they had
mitted crime and in the building punishment.
The crowded condition of the building initiates against
the orderly and speedy administration of justice Witnesses
get the crowds jurors can't get through the hronged
corridors lawyers familiar with the place. find it
difficult to pursue their tasks efficiently.
The Police Court Building is unfortunately only one Of
the many structures housing local governmental units which
is inadequate and improper.
Near by is the building which houses the Police Depart
ment That structure too is outmoded and overcrowded
The Police Department will be functoning under
handicap until it is placed in building which will give
proper space to all of its bureaus
The District Government has already spent six million dol
lars in effort to improve its housing facilities
For that sum it has acquired beautiful vacant lot
Probably would be good idea to set Police Court and
establish the Police Department the lot and let them
operate in the open air.
The Washington times., 1934-06-23
Blu John SnUre, J.

was approved June 16 so that
it became Public Law 372.
The law provides not for the
protection of sea lions, but per-
mitS them to be killed in
Alaskan waters.
Before the majority of men,
bers of Congress left for home
they were presented with a puz-
zling problem.
A vast number of the mem
bers received a letter from Rep
resentative Ross Collins of Mis-
sissippi, who is opposing Senator
Hubert Stephens in his cam
paign to retain his Senate seat.
In his letter Ross wrote:
Gas you may have already
heard, / have decided to become
a candidate for the United
States Senate. AS fellow men,
Der of Congress you are in a
position to know something of
my ability and work during the
last IA years in the House.
81 know that you have your
own state problems to think Of,
and that is your first interest.
However, if you have relatives
or close friends in Mississippi,
and feel that / would make a
suitable Senator, / would thank
you to write them so, saying
something in my behalf"
The secretary to one Senator
placed the letter on the desk OF
his employer after writing on
the bottom the words:
"What nerve!"
The quiet swearing in Of Rex
ford G. Tugwell as Undersecre-
tary of Agriculture was wit
messed by a few photographers
and several employees.
Smiling Rexford didn't seem
to worry then over the fact
that the opposition to him in
the Senate had provoked bit
ter controversy, the rumblings
of which have not ceased. Nor
will they stop for many a day,
as the farmers throughout the
country are said to be increas-
ingly disconnected with the Tug
well theories.
Senator Ellison D. Smith of
South Carolina, chairman of
the Senate Committee on Agri-
culture, probably will not forget
the defeat he received when he
endeavord to block TugwelPs
confirmation as undersecretary.
Nor has Tugwell forgotten
Smith.
When Secretary Of Agricul-
ture Henry A. Wallace started
to congratulate Tugwell the
other day when he took the
oath of office, DIR. Rex said:
"NO, no! Congratulate Sena'
tor Smith,"
Copyright, 1894, The Washington
Times)
The Washington times., 1934-06-23
Emergency Workers
The Utilities Commission

The District Commissioners have many occasions dis
several of the cys agencies through utilization OF men and
women working of the emergency organizations
Through this procedure the hospitals of the city have been
benefited and proposed to use case workers OF tne
relief unit agents the Board of Sentence
and Parole
THERE IS STILL ANOTHER FIELD WHICH THE DIS
TRICTs CITIZENS WOULD LIKE TO SEE INVADED IN
THIS MANNER AND THAT IS THE WORK OF THE
PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION.
Congress led on by blindness stupidity Of one OF its
members cut the appropriation for the Commission TO
point where it cannot function designed to function
Fourteen of the expert employees of the Commission will
have to be released Just time when the Commission is
working in high gear.
The Commission engaged in the highly technical and
complex job vauing several Of the local utilities It like
wise is faced with problems the result Of the
recent merger of the street railways:
These tasks will be curaied unless some means is
found to give the Commission the employees that it needs
CURTAILMENT OR DELAY IN CARRYING OUT THE
WORK OF THE COMMISSION WILL MEAN MONEY OUT
OF THE POCKET OF EVERY CITIZEN OF THE DISTRICT
Congress to be concerned about that fact but
the District Commissioners should be.
Of course may be impossible for the Commissioners to
find funds in the emergency appropriations grants from
the Federal Government with which to pay the experts
BUT 1T WOULD SEEM THAT SOME MEANS COULD
BE FOUND TO RETAIN THESE EXPERT WORKERS.
PERMITTING THEM TO CARRY ON JOBS WHICH MEAN
MONEY FOR OUR CITIZENS, INSTEAD OF RELEASING
THEM AND BREAKING UP THE UTILITIES COMMITS
sIoNs ORGANIZATION.
The Washington times., 1934-06-23
Germany'S Loss
Our Gain

Germany's loss is gain.
Among arrivals in New York is Professor Georg
Zuezer of Berlin who will demonstrate American physicians
his newly developed method of diagnosing scarlet fever in its
earliest stages and treating the disease with qunine
Scarlet fever has been bane of childhood almost serious
dphhera used be before the preventive treatment which
children today receive devised And like dphthera
the ou-thanks like Dr. Zuezer who have
spent the best years of their lives in seeking remedy
strange indeed that any nation will deliberately
deprive itself of the services of of its most eminent minds
in medicine in any other field of intellectual activity
But what is happening in Germany is new thing.
Spain made the bundr centuries ago. and historians
date her decline as world power from that period
Brains not such drug the market that any country
afford to export them.
But since some do we are glad that America welcomes
them here.
We all that will come, and will not put tariff
them ether
The Washington times., 1934-06-23
The Human Side of the News
Magicians Denounce Mediumistic Feats
BIZ Edu,in C.. Hill

Deep night. A dark room far
up in the tower of the Empire
State Building in New York
city. A hushed circle awaiting
in sepulchral silence a spirit
message from Thomas Alva
Edison.
The medium, Mrs. Wilhel-
nina Werner, writhes and NUT
tiers in a self.hypnotic spell.
Near her, in the all-enveloping
gloom, the well-groomed Joseph
Dunninger, magician and foe
of all spiritualistic mediums,
speaks in soothing tones: So.
Tell me, Mr.. Edison, some
thing about our last meeting.
1 ask for the 10 words you
wrote for me upon a piece Of
paper which I hold here in my
hand. Give me those 10 words
once more and then I shall
know, without doubt, that you
are talking to me from the
spirit world beyond the VEIL"
He is silent, waiting. Once
more the face of the medium
is contorted. Her eyes roll.
Her body shakes and trembles.
A single word bursts from her
lips, the word 'Tonawanda."
Medium Fails
Now Tonawanda is a town
in the State of New York, up
by Niagara Falls, but it is not
one of the 10. words left by
Thomas A. Edison to prove, if
possible, that the spirits of the
dead can communicate with
the living.
And thus the other night
another medium failed to win
the $4,000 dollars offered by
Joseph Dunninger, a noted pro-
fessional magician, whose feats
have baffled the keenest and
most observing.
Mr.. Dunninger posted a certi-
fled check for $4,000 and
agreed to give the money to
any spiritualist medium who
could perform a feat beyond
his own powers as sleight-of-
hand artist:
So far, not a single medium
has been able to do it.
Dunninger is so clever that
the Prince of Wales forgot all
about dancing at a Long Island
party and asked to be taught
a few tricks which he now
takes pride in performing for
the mystification of the royal
family and his friends.
Dunninger, who spends his
life in fighting spiritualism
and fortune tellers, says that in
New York alone fortune tellers
reap a, harvest of five million
The Washington times., 1934-06-23

, dollars a year, and that nearly
all of the tricks of the mediums
can be duplicated by an expert
with a pocket wireless outfit
and a couapsible fishing rod.
Not long ago, when Sir Ar
thur Conan Doyle, perhaps the
worlds most noted convert to
spiritualism, was in this coun-
try, a friend of mine, Joseph C.
Rim, offered him $4,000 if he,
Rim, couldn't reproduce every
feat performed by the spiritual
istic mediums.
Joe Rim, who is a hum
drum produce dealer in daily
life, and a first-rate amateur
magician after dark, does stunts
that are beyond belief.
One night, with a party of
friends, 1 helped tie him hand
and foot. We made the knots
so tight and hard that it was
impossible to believe he could
wriggle loose even a finger or
two. And then we gagged him,
stuffing his mouth with cotton.
Then we locked him in q
little room, together with a
cornet, banjo, a few bells, a
pitcher Of milk and a pitcher
of black coffee.
We went out, locking the
only door. And within one min
ute there was a solo from the
cornet, a lively plunking from
the banjo and a jangling
chorus OF bells. Then silence.
Right or Wrong?
We rushed back into the
room and there was Joe Rim,
still tied hand and foot, still
gagged. And when we looked
at the pitcher of milk it had
become half milk and half
coffee, and the pitcher of black
coffee had become half coffee
and half milk.
Whether they are right or
wrong dOnC know, but such
amazing magicians as Dunnin-
ger and Rim, who admit that
they are trickSterS out and out,
denounce all mediums as either
frauds or self -hypnotized.
They assert that not one
single, proved message or word
has ever come from beyond the
veil. God wills it otherwise,
they tell us.
And one thinks of Glen
dower'S words to HotSpur in
King Henry the Fourth:
81 can call spirits from the
vastly Deep" said Glendower.
Said HotSpur:
''Why, so can I, or so can
any man; but, will they come
when you do call for them?"
(Copyright, 1884. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-06-23

half owl, half gleeber. which
had been caught off the coast
of Florida. I demanded an in
vestigation at the time.
For the benefit of those who
missed my scream of terror, 1
will describe the animal as haV'
ing the face of an owl (eXcepC
for a human MOUTH, the chest
of a high-breasted baby, legs
like a field-mouse, a tail. ana
two extensions of tissue on the
side like those Of a skate. 1t.
was simply godawful-looking.
It now seems that an indie
pendent investigation has been
going on for some time, con-
Quoted by DR.. Gudger, OF the
American Museum of Natural
History, and the results appear
in last months Scientific
Monthly. yield to DR.. Gudger'
as he has more equipment at
his command than I have. All
that I nave is CnaC pnOCoSEdpIl'
which 1 peek at now and then,
shuddering noisily.
DR.. Gudger, it seems, does not
take the animal as seriously as
I do. He says that it is a 'fabri-
cation, and that it is known as
a Jenny Haniver. If he
thinks that he is making it any
better to call it a Jenny Han
iver", he is crazy. It just makes
it worse.
It seems that there is a certain
type of ray, or skate, the under
side of whose head bears a gro
tesque resemblance to a mon
strous human face. When dried
its carcass can be manipulated
and doctored up by practical
The Washington times., 1934-06-23

PWA officials are gleeful be-
cause they believe that Post
master General James A. Farley
is ION the spot" because Of the
SOS 1000, 900 appropriation in the
deficiency bill which is to be
used for post office construction.
Congress had authorized 75O
postoffices at an approximate
cost of $165, O0O,O 900, and PWA
was besieged by requests to "get
going" with construction.
The deficiency appropriation,
however, transferred the task to
big jim" and PWA officials
think he is going to have trou-
BILE in stretching the meager
sum of SOS, 200, 900 to cover cost
of $50 post offices
If Jim attempted to make his
appropriation elastic to the ex5
tent of $50 post offices there is
little doubt in the minds of OBJ
servers that he would have trou-
BILE and plenty of it. But the
Postmaster General has no such
plan.
He probably will not authorize
construction of more than 3OO
post offices throughout the coun-
try. ,
In their glee, PWA officials,
apparently forget one impor'
tant thing.
Jim is the master Of patron
age. He knows how to stretch
q few jobs over many districts
50 that they will provide the
most pleasure to all concerned:
The same theory that he used
with patronage will be used
post offices. He has knOwl'
edge of these things that PWA
officials never have possessed.
With his knowledge, his %
million dollars and his ability
to move rapidly, jim probably
will please more people than
the PWA would have done
with 1865 million dollars and
their red tape that has made
the majority of their other
projects move with the rapid
ity of molaSses in January.
Lest there be some misap-
prehension in the minds OF
Eskimos and other residents OF
Alaska who enjoy the sport OF
killing sea lions, this column
plans to clear up an erroneous
report.
1t has been stated in some
quarters that one Of the bills
left on the congressional cal
endar was a measure by Dele
gate Dimond of Alaska pro-
viding for "the protection OF
sea lions"
The statement was false.
The bill passed the House May
7, passed the Senate as
amended on June 13, the
House accepted Senate amend
mentS on June Is and the bill
The Washington times., 1934-06-23

1917
j.
The Washington times., 1934-06-23
By T. E. Powers

that endorsement. MIR. Farley
never suited his action to the
word by going to the support Of
a proposal which the country
believed at the time, and the
country will continue to be-
lieve, Mr.. Roosevelt sponsored
in the utmost seriousness and
sincerity.
On the contrary, Mr.. Farley
has continued to retain his poll
tical chairmanships and finds
them not at all embarrassing.
apparently, to a strictly bust
ness administration of the
Post Office Department. In
fact, on the very day that the
President was championing be-
fore Yale University a vast ex-
tension of the merit system of
making appointments to the
Federal service, Chairman Far
ley is reported to have been
laughing heartily over the Sug-
gestion that he might resign
his Craftsmanship and declining
to bet on the question whether
he might still be chairman in
1886.
Open Secret
It has long been an open
secret in Washington that sew
eral members of the Cabinet
are strongly in favor of extend
ing the merit system but have
not been able to do. much in
this direction owing to the rigid
rules enforced by the chairman
of the Democratic national
committee regarding the filling
of Federal offices.
There will be a new test of
strength, however, between the
Cabinet supporters Of the merit
system and the spoilsmen of
politics when the President an
'nounceS next week his selections
for the new commissions Gre
ated by Congress. If he adhereS
to his Yale doctrine in the ap-
pointments to. these commits
sions-the aviation commission,
the communications commits
sion, the labor board, the stock
exchange control board, and in
other major appointments soon
to be made-he will disregard
the political recommendations
of the chairman Of the Demo
cratic national committee. He
will turn a deaf ear to the
Spoilsmen of politics in and out
of the Cabinet and go to the
support of the two or three
members Of his Cabinet who
have been making an uphill
fight along the lines Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's eloquent ad.
dress at Yale in condemnation
of the spoils system.
AS governor of New York Mr..
Roosevelt aroused national en-
thusiasm in support of his adj
vocacy of the merit system and
of his condemnation of the
spoils system. His enthusiastic
supporters have not abandoned
hope that as President he will
ultimately line up his Admins
tration in defense of the merit
system before the spoilsmen get
complete control Of the Federal
City.
Copyright. 1894. The Washington
Times)
The Washington times., 1934-06-23

Better to be driven out from
among men than to be disliked
to children.
That is a good book which is
opened with expectation and
closed with profit.-Alcott.
Set a beggar on horseback,
and he will ride a gallop-
Burton.
It is good to lengthen to the
last a sunny mood.
There's none so blind as they
that won't see.-Swift.