The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 14, 1928, Page 8

PAGE FIGHT WAR GAVE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE HOOVER JOB OF SERVING HUMANITY As Organizer and Relief Di- rector He Fed Starving Mu!- titudés of Belgium and Oc- cupied France—U. S. Food’ Administrator in 1917 Editor's Note: of four articles desc retary of Hoover, and series of Pr ea reopened and railroads Esthonia, Finland, Lithuania, Lat- via and Armenia with their strving| | multitudes came wing. For more than a year Hoover} | Wielded more power in Europe than under Hoover's) any man on earth. The rest of that story is history.| It 1s a story of six hundred million dollars spent for supplies, of ports re- ed, of the resumption of industry in factories, of the return to agri-| culture and always the grim fight against diseases. Once us reared Jits ghastly head in East and claimed 600,000 cases, but an or- npaign succeeded in re- s to 10,000 cases in six n Europe | Mystery Witnesses Will Be Called by Senate Committee) | Washington, April 14.— (AP) — Congressional and court activity! {was at rest today with respect to joil, but information that the senate investigating committee was about |to spring scme more surprises through the medium of two mystery witnesses kept up the fires ‘under | Teapot Dome. | Names of which the senate committee isummoned were as much in dark as the reasons for bringi: them here. The terse ment was made, howe were expected to fu tant” testim both the phases of some time Continental the new witnesses hi t financial which f and inquiry 7 drunk, and paid a fine of $5 and costs in each cage. J. H. Keenen paid a fine of §/? and costs to Police Magistrate Bel | after pleading guilty to a charge of drunkenness. |Costes and Lebrix Back on French Soil ; Marseilles, France, April 14—@) —After a brilliant trip around the world that carried them in a nonstop {flight across the South A antic and over five contineris, Dieudonne | Costes and Joseph Lebrix, French |fivers, were back on French soil to- Unannounced and with startling sudden the airr.en lande! in the | Nu Coli at Marignane near at 1:10 p.m. They had m Athens and had not made thusiastic welcome awaits them, set for 6:15 p. m. b eee conditions sane ae pce Nérth akota are general ing to the weekly statement issued “4 by the state highway depart- | ment tana line via Rugby, Minot, Berthold and U. S. No. 10—Fargo iy, a poe ey loose gravel Sood to Mdina to Mandan, via Bis , good; Manden to New Saiem,| ? fair; New Salem to Hebron, good' Hebron me: Beach via Dickinson, fair. U.S. No, 12—South Dakota line to baba fair. U. S. No. 81—South Dakota line ROAD BULLETINS 3 ik ny bas ‘yohall ‘Bowbells, good. --8. H. No. Po piammarek to Wilton, fair; Wilton to ; via, Washburn, Max and Minot, The een of various main |. ‘imbledon, listed as follows: Minot, Kenmare Bowbells, tour maniars to Bowbells. . No, 22—Reeder to Killdeer, ir. a H. No, 36—Pingree to Wilton, Robert. Drake, who lives south ot Wing, waived examination when ar- Prince Philippe and. Miss Watson Married/ London, April 14.—(AP)—Prin: Difficulties Pie doughboys. and on into at has ng to ¢ he nate that r holds a gold medal the Uinvers: There was another day when a flared Montenegro. Z ers hopped linto their motorcycles with side- and|cars and dashed off to meet the jarmed rebels who were advancing Presently they came loaded with ” they ‘Mihai Weds 900 people who had jon the town. ctation —and|back, their sidecars weapon “We traded hams for guns, | explained. In 1920, Hoover returned to the United States on the crest of world- ide fame and admiration, Started [ular demand arose for in 1914 |to the presidency but, not being a don, | politician, he muffed it by being un- able to decide whether he was a Republican or a Democrat. He finally announced himself as a Re- publican, but his indecision had Eilled his chances with both parties. President Harding appointed Hoover as secretary of commerce, then a comparatively unimportant (eee but almost immediately Hoover egan making a big job out of a little one. He needed more trained assistants, and being unable to afford them out of his eppropriation from Congress, he hired them and paid them out of his own pockets— which he still does today. TOMORROW: The valley flood. now | of Hoover epoch in his career began—an epoch hat was to carry him to world-wide ce and world-wide fame. tly days of August, 1914, there were 150,000 Americans, home- ward bound, stranded in London. Gold disappeared from corcalation; k rafts and letters of credit ly lost their value. The Amer- ican consulate was swamped with appeals for aid. Hoover plunged into this situa- With fellow Americans liv- in London, he raised $250,000 for loa’ The American em- sy got $200,000 more from Wash- Soon the stranded wander- safely on t way home. hat. job was only a prelude overrun by German armies, | grave danger of starvation. rican living in Brussels went | lon and appealed to “Hoover | At the same time, the London ap- | to the American ambassador, e suggested Hoover. ed; he chucked his ate business affairs and went to work for humanity. Appeals to Allies By October, 1914, he had a skele- ton organization set up and receiv- ing contributions, well on the way toward the gigantic task of feeding! 8,000,000 hungry people. Then hej appealed to the allied governments and enlisted their contributions. Before long the Belgian Relief Commission was spending $17,000,- 000 a month, $10,000,000 of which came from France and England and the rest from private contributors, mostly in the United States. The commission had a fleet of 70 cargo/ ships, flew its own flag. insured its | own passports and maintained anj| organization of 50,000 workers in Belgium and occupied France. ys, Hoover was the one! ‘Id whe could come he pleased, without permission through es German lines. It was a treme: after the war, ad “There was vhen our finances tain for 60 days ahead, cr when our contracts did not exceed our assets | by anywhere from to} $20,000,000.” | In its four years of existence,! Hoover’s commission spent upwards of $1,400,000,900. tion expense neve? than one-haif of one pe: a Wilson Calls Him The record that he had made i Belgium ceused President W in 1917, to summon Hoover to Wa! ington to become food administrator | of the United States. Food was need-! ed for the allies and needed badly had fats ‘TIRE COMPANY 2 fai “4 and ¢ MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 200,000,000 po Sinking of cargo | Bismarck Accessory & Tire Co. marines complicated t So phere came that Ledvig Quanrud, Prop. 216-18 Fourth St. Bismarck, N. Dak. PHONE 944 Mississippi Mirabeau was a great orator in the cause of the French Revolu- tion. 'A new way to buy GOOD TIRES Swvery drive to our service shop. Present your automobile regis- tration card, select your tires or tubes, pay the cashier one-fifth of the regular cash price, while we put them on—the re- mainder in four weekly or two fortnightly pay- ments. It doesn’t cost a cent more to buy tires this way. There is no extra charge for credit or meunting. And, besides, you get dependable tires. We've been selling Lees exclusively for 15 years. s dinned hand that | food must not be wasted; when it; was drilled into children in the scoot hurled at theatre audi-| ences by four-minuts Honk from the Pulpits There were “Meatless ae ys,” uae Wednesdays” and} like. And directing all this! t work of organization was one | es who sat at a desk in Washing- ton and occasionally went out in the \ late afternoons to build dams with Back Cre boys in the tiny streams of ek park. Well, it worked. The 200,000,000 javed at American tables, went forward for*export according to schedule. Countless other car-| of food. followed across the and the flow continued until Faces Bigger Task came to a close, led stop at Rome ig directly to Paris in ‘op flight to wind | nture which began deal. The committee will resume its in- vestigation next Tuesday. e | to Penibin . ed Good. S. No. to Hull oor; Ss. No. Peete ana “t 4 ! 0: the p jane’s | Police Court y damaged, but it) the departure for 45 p.m. with the | e Bourget. x Hugh Brown pleaded guilty fore Police Ma J. M. via Tako, ; S. H. that repairs could be Sage Napsinan to Dawson and Bostonia, fair. S. H. No. 7—Cummings to G ere an en- county line, fair; Steele couhty CRANKSHAFT High Compression Engine Full Force-feed Lubrication Thermostat and Air Cleaner Silent Timing Chain Invar-strut Pistons 4-wheel Brakes and numerous other Quality features Touring Roadster Coupe Sedan - ‘Al! prices f. 0. b. faGory and specifications subject to change without notice. Willys- Overland, Inc., Toledo, Ohio before Justice of the via Fargo’ and Grand Crane thi i 83—South Lettie tine Hull to Ster! ~Dadden to ere od. —Ashley to Na) teen, | Dunseith vis 4 Charles Philippe, Duc de. Nemoure., and Miss Marguerite ton of WITH L THE OLD LINE. OF. LINCOLN, _Pattarson Hotel — Bintan ‘Depa riff Ed re bint of A. 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