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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-03
Thomas Opens New
Drive for Silver

Washington, May 3.-(R- Senator
Thomas 3D., Okla.) jolted senate
leaders Thursday with q new silver
monetary proposal.
The white-haired, smartly dressed
Oklahoman, who is responsible for
much Of the new deals monetary
legislation, brought his new 16-point
plan before the senate as q rider" to
q pending bank bill.
His sudden action surprised Demo
cratic leaders but they predicted the
move would come to naught.
Thomas latest proposal is the
House -approved Dies silver bill IN q
new dress. He outlined It as q man
datory proposition looking to increas-
ed use Of silver as q monetary base
and ultimately to Q bimetallic cur
rcncy foundation consisting Of 80 per
cent silver and 10 per cent gold.
The Oklahoman ssid he is in no
hurry for decision and might modi-
~ the proposal to conform to any
agreement reached ct Q second con.
ference Saturday between President
Roosevelt and leaders Of the senate
silver bloc.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-03
HOLD MINNESOTAN
in ASSAULT Case
Hotel Proprietor Accused Of
Fatally lnjuring Wife by
Beating Her

Thief River Falls, MINI. May 3.-(F
-Ruch McAllister. Thief River Falls
hotel proprietor, was lodged In the
Pennington county jail Wednesday
night awaiting preliminary hearing
on two charges arising from the death
G: his wife. Sarah McAllister, here
March Is.
County Attorney Paul Lundgren
announced witnesses were being sub.
poenaed for this afternoon when Nc
Allister will be given hearing In
municipal court, and probably will be
bound over to district court on both
charges-second degree granddaughter
and second degree assault.
McAllister, about q, was arrested
st Breckenridge, early Wednesday by
Sheriff o. L. Ihle, Pennington county,
and returned to Thief River Falls.
The arrest was made on complaints
signed by Mrs. J. e. Kelly, sister Of
the late Mrs. McAllister. The man
slaughter complaint charges McAllis-
ter with striking and beating" his
wife and "inflicting q mortal wound"
on March 10, which resulted In her
death eight days later.
Three days after Mrs. McAllister's
death, Lundgren pointed out In re-
viewing the case, coroner's Jury re-
turned the verdict that the blood clot
on her brain which caused her death
was the result Of blow on the head"
McAllister has said that the injury
was caused by her falling down q
stairway.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-03
farm MORATORIUM
RIDER PROPOSED BY
NORTHWEST SENATOR
Would Give Agriculture Six and
a Half Years to Adjust
Debt Situation

washington, May 3.-(R)-The Of
fering Of an amendment which would
provide q virtual 81 year moratorium
on farm debts Wednesday postponed
senate action on the corporate bank
ruptcy bill.
The senate seemed near q vote all
afternoon but argument developed on
several amendments and when Sen
ator Frazier (Rep. ND proposed
the farm-debt amendment agreement
was reached to delay balloting until
Thursday.
The amendment. which is similar to
q bill already approved by . house
judiciary subcommittee, would pro-
vide that farmer seeking to be adj
judged bankrupt and who could not
obtain consent Of q majority Of his
creditors to . debt-composition plan,
could withdraw his plea and arrange
for possession Of his property over q
period Of six and one-half years.
Frazier and Senator Shipstead HL-
Mimi insisted the amendment merely
sought to do for farmers what con-
gress was attempting to do for COR
porations and municipalities and that.
barring initiation, 1t was utterly Inn
possible for many farmers to keep up
their debt service.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-03
Before
Get License Tags
Is M'Coy Warning

North Dakota automobile owners
travelling with 1888 tags must make
application for 1894 license plates
within the next dozen days to avoid
the penalty attaching May Is, accord
ing to J. H. Mccoy. state motor We
hicle registrar.
Employees Of the department issued
1896 sets Of licenses last month to
bring the total registration for tho
year to 86,677 compared with 57,793
for the first four months Of 1888. Re-
ceipts last month were 1924, S50.8S and
for the first four months Of this year
totaled $7l8,107.10 compared with
$3.50, 040.30 for the same four months
last year.
Figures compiled by the department.
showed 2,288 new titles were issued
last month compared with l,125 In
April Of 1888. For the year new titles
number 5,32S while only 1850 were is
sued the first four months Of last
year.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-03
RECOVERY REVIEW
BOARD IS DIVIDED
AS BUSINESS bOOMS
barrow and Two Advisors Busy
at Hotel; Other Members
Holding Hearings

Washington, May 3.-(F-Clarence
Darrow's national review board, as
signed by President Roosevelt to take
up small business complaints against
NRA and advise him what should be
done to prevent monopolism, has di-
vided into two parts pursuing almost
separate existences.
At the Willard hotel, the veteran
Darrow maintains headquarters, with
two advisers: Lowell Mason, general
counsel Of the board, and Charles Ed
ward Russell, journalist and author,
once front ranker in the Socialist
party, who is understood in official
quarters to be drafting q long prom
Used report for the board to the presi-
dent.
At the Barr building the other
members Of the board work away at
hearing complaints from any business
which has q protest. Darrow has q
spacious office there, which he has
yet to visit.
Then it developed that John F. Sim
clair, member Of the board from
New York, didn't like the way the
board was going and had pulled out.
So far as other board members would
say he has been in Washington only
once since, to go to the White House
with barrow Wednesday. He too
has not used the Barr building Of
fices, although his name is painted on
q door.
Russell's connection with the board
has never been announced.
Now the working section OF the
board is handling as many cases as
possible in conjunction with MIRA adj
ministrators and code authorities.
Fred P. Mann, North Dakota menu
Der, describes the process:
I'VE have hearing most every day
and we try to fix things up. About so
per cent Of the cases get adjusted
quickly. They are mostly misunder-
standings or easily corrected matters
OF code administration which do not
need revision Of the code.
"NFA is doing lot now, too, and
getting action pretty fast"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-03
Wilton Audit Firm
To Resume Activity

Announcement that the Wilton
Audit and Loan association, inactive
since 1924. now Is in position to re-
sumo operations was made in Bis
marck Thursday by p. j. Cahill, pres
ident Of the Five-Star Co. Of Mime
apolis, q management and auditing
firm specializing in reHving and re-
organizing businesses.
The Wilton association will be affil-
ieted with the Five-Star firm.
Cahill expects to reestablish head
quarters Of the Wilton company at
Wilton in the near future. He or
gained the company in 1870 but re-
tired In 1924.
The Wilton association will cater to
businesses desiring financial advice,
audits or assistance of any kind.
James Cunningham, Wilton, Is acting
secretary.
Cahill was associated with the Will
ton Ignite coal mine from 1902 to
1870 and was superintendent OF the
enterprise from 1907 to 1870.
From 1920 to 1924 he served Is re-
ceiver for several mines west Of the
Missouri river.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-03
See Thrust at State
In Suggested Rates

Fargo, N. D.. May 3.-(RHNorth
Dakota's outbound and inbound
freight rates would be materially In
creased and its cities placed at Q
disadvantage in competing with Twin
Cities and Duluth jobbers II . tenta-
tive report proposed Wednesday by
the examiners in the western trunk
line case Is adopted by the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
Karl Knox 0artner, special COM
merce counsel who has been repre-
senting the state railroad commits
sion and the states jobbing cities, so
reported to the commission and to
N. Z. Williams, traffic commissioner
Of the Fargo Chamber Of Commerce.
IT the report Is approved by the
I. g. g. It viii mean heavy increases
III our rates from Ill the territory east
Of Chicago. while giving to the COM
peting Twin Cities jobbers decreases
In the rates from the east" said Cart
neI.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-03
Holiday Battle Is
Fought in Montana

Plentywood, Mont, May 3.-R-A
nand to- hand battle between sheriff's
deputies and las farmers who claimed
to be members Of the Montana Holi-
day Association was fought here We'd
nesday when . foreclosed harvesting
machine was sold ct auction.
Except for cuts and brutsed heads
none Of the participants was injured.
sheriff Hans P. Madsen said Wednes-
day night.
Advised by . committee Of the
farmers that they would stop the
sale, the sheriff obtained 80 deputies,
equipped them with side arms and
shot guns, then proceeded to conduct
the sale ct the county jail.
About half Of the farmers. who car
ried no weapons, clashed with the
officers. Fists flew and gun butts
cracked down upon the farmers.
At the height Of the melee the fire
department turned . hose on the
farmers. They retaliated by severins
the hose in several places but soon
xetreated.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-03
France Aroused as
Spy Plot Is Barred

Paris, May 3.-(F-France's best
spy-catchers worked feverishly in the
historic citadel at Relfort Thursday
in an effort to trace the leaks in her
closely guarded military secrets.
They bent their efforts particularly
toward following the trail Of Stanis-
las Krauss, former Polish army officer,
who was arrested Wednesday as q
German spy.
At the same time, force Of detec-
tives and secret police were Investigate
ing the activities ct this fortified town
near the Franco German frontier Of
Captain Froge Of the French army,
accused Of having been Krauss' &C.
complete.
In announcing the arrest Of the
officer Wednesday after they. said
Krauss had confessed Captain Froge
sold him $500 worth Of military
secrets for Germany, police revealed
they had been ready to exonerate
Ffoge Of charges previously lodged
against him when the new a6cusa-
,tions were raised.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-03
MURDER SUSPECT IS
HELD FOR TRIAL IN
CASSC0UNYY court
James Valves Examination on
Charge That He Slew
Marie Wick in 1921
OFFICIALS PROBE ALIBI
Check Defendants Story He
Was in Colorado at Time Of
Sensational Crime

Fargo, N. D.. May 3.-(P-Ar-
raigned Thursday before r. A. Leon
ard, Fargo police magistrate, Arthur
G. James, charged with the murder
Of Marie Wick in 1921, in Fargo, a
crime for which William GUNNER
has served Is years of life sem
tence, waived examination and was
ordered held to the Cas- county dis
trict court for trial.
Bond was set by Leonard at $50, 900.
in default of which the suspect was
committed to the Cas- county Jail.
Following the reading Of the COM
plant, Justice Leonard advise d
James that he was entitled to a pre-
liminary hearing at which the state
would present its evidence to show
that the crime had been committed
and that there Is probable cause to
believe James committed It. He also
advised the suspect that he Is en-
titled to have an attorney represent
him, but explained James would have
to stand the expense Of counsel him
self until such time as the case
reached the district court.
James, who was without counsel,
appeared undisturbed. After he had
been advised OF his rights he said
he would waive the preliminary hear
ing on the condition that States At.
torney Bergesen would check up on q
statement given by the defendant
Wednesday night that he was en-
ployed in Fort Collins, Colo, at the
time Of the Wick murder.
Promises to Check Up
Bergesen informed James that he
would check up on his story and that
if authorities are satisfied following
the investigation that James was not
in Fargo at the time Of the murder
he would be released.
The states attorney had little to
say about the case. Five witnesses,
all Of whom have sworn to affida-
Wits duplicating James and Harry
(Blackie) Carter, for whom q murder
warrant also has been issued in the
Wick murder, were to be in Faro
for a conference with Bergesen re-
garding the case.
The states attorney said he did not
wish to make any further statements
until he has conferred with the wit
nesses, the names of whom, he said,
would not be made public until the
preliminary hearing.
H. w. Swenson, attorney and
brother -in-law Of GUNNER, who has
been largely responsible for the in
vestigation which led to the arrest Of
James on the murder count, is ex-
pected to be in Fargo Thursday to
assist Bergesen in questioning James.
The suspect, Bergesen said, has been
questioned but little regarding the
Wick murder, but will undergo lengthy
questioning after the states attorney
has had an opportunity to question
witnesses who have signed affidavits
stating they heard James say that he
was one Of two men who murdered
the girl.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-03
LAN|ER REFUSES TO
Make ANY COMMENT
ON LANGER'S TRIAL
u. S. District Attorney, How.
ever, Has Remarkable Rec
ord for Convictions
Passing through Bismalnck Thursday

Passing through Bismarck Thursday
en- route from Minot to Fargo, U.
S. District Attorney p w. Lanier
made no comment on the impending
trial Of Gov. William LANCER and
others indicted with him for soliciting
five-per-cent OF the salaries Of state
and federal employees.
whatever I have to say on that
subject will be said in court. I don't
believe in trying cases in the news
paper" was Lanier's comment.
II the case is any more important to
him than the 235 others in which
he has obtained convictions since be-
coming district attorney in July, 1888,
Lanier gave no sign Of it.
Repeal Of prohibition has eased the
strain on federal courts somewhat,
Lanier said, IS cases which were on
the docket awaiting trial having been
dismissed when prohibition repeal be-
came effective.
Violations Of federal revenue and
smuggling laws and other phases Of
the liquor business not connected with
prohibition bid fair to restore about
half Of this business" to the courts,
however, he said.
Has Lost No Gases
OF the 235 cases which remained on
the docket or which have developed
during his period in office, Lanier has
either obtained convictions or the de-
PENDANTS have pleaded guilty. without
exception. He said he regards this as
q high tribute to the various federal
grand juries which have reviewed all
cases before voting indictments. Dur
ing the last 10 months, Lanier said,
there have been four grand juries
and five petite juries called to review
or to try federal cases in this state.
Outstanding among the cases tried
by the district attorney are those
Of william Nolan convicted OF the
first-degree murder Of night watch
man during a postoffice robbery at
Devils Lake, and the trial Of James
Walsh here for using the mails to de-
fraud in connection with petition
for state beer law.
Nolan was convicted nine years
after the crime had been committed
Lanier said his predecessors in office
had declined to try the case because
Of the fact they felt the man could
not be convicted.
Lanier will represent the govern
ment when q hearing is held next
Monday at Fargo on TIE validity Of
the indictments based on The
Leader" racket.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-03
MEASURE CARRIES
%17,000,o00 TO
RUN GOVERNMENT
Conference Report Accepted by
Senate Without Record
Vote on Issue
SUPER.LEvY IS REJECTED
New Statute Hits Rich and un.
married Persons by It's
Provisions
SUPER.LEvY IS REJECTED

Washington. May 3.-(R)-The
senate Thursday completed congress
sional action on the $4l7,00o0oo tax
bill by eliminating the lo-per-cent
emergency super-income tax for next
year.
The conference report was accepted
without q record vote despite strong
Plea for its rejection by Senator Tyd-
ings (Dem.- Md on the ground 1t re-
tanned the 3 cents a pound tax on
Philippine coconut oil.
Senator Couzens. (Rep.-Mich.)
author Of the 10-per-cent individual
income tax amendment, said he would
not insist on the proposal in view OF
the large house vote against it but
assailed the Hearst newspapers for
what he termed their vicious" atti.
tude against the emergency levy.
yellow Journalism he shouted.
He congratulated congress for not
enactlng q sales tax as advocated by
the Hearst newspapers.
Couzens said the senate conferees
had won great victory over the
house, making its managers on the
bill accept nearly every major senate
amendment except his own.
The Michigander said the 1O-per-
cent he proposed was not q ''bite
OF the cherry to what we will have
to pay to balance the budget and get
out OF the depression
Married Man Gets Break
The married taxpayer with q net
income up to and including SIS 1000
will pay less than at present under
the new bill.
The following table shows what q,
married man with no dependents
would pay under the new bill and the
present law on earned net income.
meaning income after deductions but
before exemptions are taken:
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-03
Grand Jury Probing
Bremen Kidnap Plot

st. Paul, May 3.-lP,-A federal
grand jury Thursday turned its atten-
ton to consideration Of cases involv-
ing four Chicago men charged with
completely in the 100000 kidnapping
Of Edward G. Bremen, St. Paul banker.
Held in Chicago on the completely
charges are John j. t"BoSS') Nc
Laughlin, politician; his son. John
Jr., William E. Wider, who had $4,000
CT the Bremen ransom money in his
possession when he was arrested. and
Philip Delaney. All are held under
bond for removal to st. Paul.
The st. Paul banker Yesterday was
subpoenaed to appear before the grand
jury.
Mclaughlin Wednesday denied he
had made any confession In the
Bremen case. Melvin H. Purvis, in
charge Of federal agents in Chicago.
announced Monday that Mclaughlin
had confessed changing $53. 900 Of the
marked bills for other currency.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-03
FORMER PRESIDENT
OF NATIONAL GROUP
RAPS EXPERIMENTS
Calls on Congress to Abandon
HystericaI Attitude, Chart
Definite Course
PRESENT LEADER DIFFERS
Sees More Merit IN Roosevelt
Policies; Johnson Tells Of
Recovery Work

Washington, May 3. ~ B - The
Chamber Of Commerce Of the United
States heard Thursday call request
Ing President Roosevelt to cease ex-
perimenting" and asking congress to
stop enacting "hysterical legislation"
silas Strawn, former chamber pres
ident and q leader Of It's conservative
wing, asserted In an address that
business men now want more def
mite promises" in order to plan their
future conduct.
The Chicago lawyer ran directly
counter in tenor to the generally APP
proving remarks Of Henry I. Harri-
man, present chamber president,
concerning the new deal.
StraWn attacked what he called
"the abandonment Of q scheme Of
government which has made us hap
pier and more prosperous than any
other nation"
He called for . three-way action by
Roosevelt:
Balancing Of all governmental bud
gets; q definite announcement that
there will be no more requests for
emergency legislation and mo more
tinkering with the dollar" and q re-
vision Of the securities act and pro-
posed stock exchange legislation.
Business men gathered at the 22nd
annual convention listened to Strawn
after hearing Hugh 8. johnson talk
on criticism and the throwing Of pop
bottles and dead cats" at Wednesday
nights session. Asked directly II the
principles embodied in the recovery
act were to be permanent, he replied:
IF there has been any good DEM
onstrated by the recovery act, 1t will
live and it ought to live: II there has
been any bad it will die and 1t ought
to die"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-03
TO Start WIDENING
| PAVEMENT ON SIXTH
| St. HERE NEXT WEEK
Seven Blocks Of ThorouQhfare
to Be Increased From 80
to A. Feet Wide
FINANCED By GOVERNMENT
Asphalt Coating Will Have Five
Inch Base Of Concrete,
Contractor Says

Work Of widening the pavement on
Sixth st., in Bismarck from 80 to a
feet between Rosser and Boulevard
avenues will be started early next
week, 1t was announced Thursday by
George E. Haggart Of the Haggart
Construction Co., Fargo. contractors
on the job.
The project. financed by the feder-
al government under the supervision
Of the North Dakota state highway
department, will require employment
Of between 80 and 40 men for q per-
iod from four to six weeks, Haggart
said.
The job involves seven full blocks
and will make all of Sixth st., from
Main avenue to Boulevard avenue,
the street generally used for state
capitol traffic, - feet wide.
Work probably will be started at
the north end.
Paving similar to that already on
the street will be laid. It will be as
phalt, with q five-inch concrete base
and q coat Of asphalt two and one
half inches thick.
Before paving work begins. it will
be necessary to tear out seven feet Of
boulevard on each side Of the street
and to lay new concrete curbing.
Ole Jepson will be superintendent
Of the Job for the contractors.
In petitioning for the project, the
city agreed to continue Sixth st. as q
through" street and to enforce q
minimum speed limit of Is miles per
hour on the thoroughfare.
At Boulevard avenue, Sixth st.,
joins with the parkways leading to
the capitol as we'll as with U. 8. High
way No. SO, which leads through
Minot to LanSford.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-03
Says Women Jurors
Illegal in State

A. contention that the North Dako-
to law permitting women to sit on
juries is unconstitutional and q claim
that the state prohibition statutes are
invalid were challenges hurled by M.
G. Fredricks, jamestown lawyer, In q
case argued In the state supreme
court Wednesday afternoon.
Fredricks has submitted briefs en-
bracing these legal points in the case
OF Ed Norton, jamestown, convicted
by q Jury Of nine men and three wom-
en- Of q liquor violation. Norton has
appealed from his conviction and four
months sentence.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-03
Japanese Incensed
BY Report at Geneva

Geneva, May 3.-ReThreats to
bolt the international labor confer
ence resounded In Japanese quarters
Thursday because Of resentment 1t .
report on Japan's labor and monetary
conditions.
The report. drawn BY Harold P.
Butler, American director Of the con-
ference committee. limited that the
successful Japanese invasion q world
markets, commonly called form Of
social dumping, Is due to excessively
LOW wages and bad labor conditions"