The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 28, 1929, Page 1

STRONG ARMY, NAVY , WILL INSURE PEACE, CAL COOWDGE SAYS Is Ideal That Only More Perfect Generation May Enjoy, Writer Claims WAR: SHOULD BE AVOIDED Concentrated Strength, How- ever, Is Certain Force for War & Philadelphia, March 28.—(7)— ‘Yfeace, in the opinion of Calvin Oool- fdge, ‘perhaps is an ideal that can come only to future generations which are more perfect than our own.” Writing in the April number of the Ladies’ Home Journal on “promoting peace through preparation for de- fense,” the former president says the nation should take every precaution to prevent war, “of ‘Which adequate defense is one,” and that it also should take every precaution to pro- tect itself to the fullest possible extent from the ravages of war, “if it does come.” He says the army and navy serves the double purpose of preven- tion and defense. Strength Should Threaten Mr. Coolidge declares the forces re- quired for adequate national defense Should be large enough so that others “would see “that there would bea great deal of peril involved in attack- ing us,” and not so large that the United States would feel it “would undergo no peril in attacking others.” ,,.."No sure way has ever been found \ to prevent war,” the former president declares, “Opinions may differ as'to whether nations with military forces are more likely to enjoy peace than those which neglect their defense. In the last analysis, this is a question of wet teet guonety eeaeee thet it “I very ngly suspect there were but one nation in the world supplied with ah army and navy and, to make the supposition as |. SOUTHERNER SAYS} Prepared to defend our- selves they will be less likely to com- mit offenses against us, U.S. Has Advantages “Our army can be small because we are peaceful at home and far re- moved from attack by land. Also an army can be assembled quickly. Our navy is more extensive because our shores, our great commerce and our distant possessions must be protected, raid it takes years to bulld a war- ship.” ‘Mr. Coolidge's second article, “Pro- moting Peace Through Limitation of Armaments,” will appear in the May +mumber of the Ladies’ Home Journal, and the third - article, “Promoting Peace Through Denunciation of War,” in the June issue. FORT YATES MURDER HEARING IS NEARER Badd? a jl Generals’ Wives Are Safe’ in: U; S. ‘The wives of two rebel Mexican gen- erals have taken refuge in El Paso during the revolution in their home- | HOOVER 70 DEGDE SOLDITY OF SOUTH, Operation of Religious Preju- dices Had Little to Do With Election Winter Park, Fla., March 28.—(#)— Hiteaond me not “the oe an ig Fes definitely broken depends on at- titude of the Hoover administration toward “patronage outrages” in the south and “the alacrity with which the Democratic party recognizes the fact that national election results last year spelled an emphatic en- dorsement of prohibition” George Fort Milton, editor of the Chatta- ele ae CENTER OF ATTACK BY STATE SENATOR Loeb-Leopold Defender Fights Bills for Criminal Court Procedure Changes HAS DISTRUST OF COURTS Reform Program Is Offspring of Special Interests, Veteran Lawyer Avers Springfield, Ill, March 28.— (4) — Clarence Darrow came here yesterday to lead ‘the attack against proposed bills for court reforms in Illinois, and found himeelf the center of one of the bitterest attacks to be directed against hi since he attained prom- inence in the Loeb-Leopold, the Scopes, and the Dr. Sweet trials. Darrow was appearing before a Joint meeting of the senate and house judiciary committees, opposing bills for criminal court procedure changes. The bills are sponsored by the Chi- cago Bar association and the judicial advisory council of Cook county (Chi- cago). The veteran lawyer expressed dis- trust of courts. He was of the opinion that the reform program is the off- spring of special interests. The pro- gram, he said, is “a long step on a trail started years ago to enlarge the power of the judiciary.’ “It has been favored,” he said, “by special interests, which always are willing to trust to the judiciary in preference to some other body. It is @ violation of the principles of our government.” Would Not Allow Time Darrow said the courts would not now allow sufficient time for the trial of ordinary cases because they had “to hurry into the hearing of $30,- 000,000 cases.” “But the courts allowed you enough time in the Franks boy case, didn’t they?” inquired State Senator Roy C. Wood. “The other fellow took alJ that,” Darrow said. “But they allowed you over 30 days “Yes, I do,” said Wood. “I was in the next court below you, trying a case, and I know what was going on.” “You don’t act as if you did,” Dar- row said. . Gave Up Stolen Sond “But you know me, don't you?” said Wood. “I was the assistant state’s at- torney who made you come down to the criminal courts building at 3 a.m. one day and made you surrender a stolen bond that had: been cashed in your partner's account.” State Senator James Barbour, chairman of the senate committee, dane to ne feet. “We won't have charges like that here,” he shouted. ig “Do you think I'm going to sit here silently and have all the courts at- tacked in this manner by a man who has been a defender of criminals all his life?” Wood replied. Judge Harry M. Fisher of the Cook » “who has reached his pres- ent position because he always has resorted to those very courts.” RANK KELLOGG ENDS Hero’s Captive. Aids Medal Plea, Ten years after the war, a rival to Sergeant Alvin York, famous hero, has been discovered. Lewis Poppe of New Bremen, Ohio, above, telling them he had 50 Americans at his back. Later Poppe and Chris- tochowitz. met in a hospital and be- came fast friends, with the: result that after the war Poppe to come to this country. Christocho- witz is now an Sway in Lima, fo) FRANCE INTEREST IN SINKING OF CRAFT BY U. 8. COAST GUARD Seaman Drowned When Rum Runner Was Sunk Was Citizen of France Washington, March 28—()— France, as well as Great Britain and Canada, is now interested in the sink- ing of the Canadian schooner I'm Alone by an American patrol boat in the Gulf of Mexico, ‘This new complication has been added to the case by a report from the French consul at New Orleans that the seaman drowned ‘when the alleged rum runner went down was ® French citizen. He had been de- FOUR YEARS SERVICE| Stimson Returns to Official Cabinet Life; Served as War Head Under Taft ie E i il ie | (iar aT pa a PEL EE Pa 8 tg | gel ne MISSOURI FLOOD EXACTS HUGE TOLL ON ITS LATEST RAMPAGE Thousands of Acres of Farm Land Inundated and Ruined by Racing Waters FISH AND ANIMALS KILLED New Sibley Island Created; Countless Trees Cut Down; New Channels Formed ‘Thousands of acres of farm land inundated and ruined, other thou- sands washed away, new islands formed and hundreds of dead fish | +, do and animals, countless numbers of trees cut down by icy axes, damaged roads and highways. That is the toll exacted by the mighty Missouri. Wednesday's precipitous rise at Bismarck and Mandan was reflected for many miles along both sides of the river. The ice came down first, grinding and chewing away at the sand and clay banks, gurgling gleefully at the damage wrought. Followed the ram- Paging currents, slicing and carving their fill of cultivated fields in Bur- leigh and Morton counties. No bottom-lands farmer along the Big Muddy is ever sure that what he farms this year will be farmed next year. He knows that his neighbor across the river may be cultivating his soil next year, or, as the vagaries of the brown flood may choose, add his neighbor's soil to that of his own. It is true today as it was 50 years ago when the river first played its tragic pranks on unsuspecting pioneers. Watches Farm Disappear At Huff where the great gorge first formed 10 river, the story is the same. See! its way around the ice blockade, the mad stream cut new courses’ at the by | expense of Woodward and his he bors. sia Bismarck has park on Sibley island. Spoken of in the: singular, there are really three islands south this paradise of woodland and wild life as the Juggernaut ice field and Arctic bergs crashed and knifed their way Other trees and the river bank wil- lows have been gobbled up by the world’s longest river. As soon as the ice melts they will form snags, I against sand bars to start the formation of new islands and clog the mouths of small streams of the Mis- souri wat and straw stacks, hog, and cattle Thousands of fish unable to swim around or under the gorge, followed the backwaters into the creek. As suddenly as the flood rose, it fell and left the fish floundering on the banks. Horses Left te Drown Mandan Still ‘Wet’ e Flood Recedes But ] Mandan was wet yesterday. But not so wet that it still didn't have a big demand for malt extract. J. A. Stein, Omaha, and Charles A. Wolf, Chicago, representing a malt extract manufacturer, had a sales en- gagement in Mandan at 5 p. m. Wed- nesday. They had driven night and day from Chicago to keep their en- gagement. Arriving in Bismarck they found the Memorial highway closed to auto traffic. They had to get to Mandan with their samples. They couldn't drive their auto. They couldn't carry their samples and walk. They couldn't charter an airplane. What ? Tom Allen, Bismarck Northern Pa- cific railway agent, offered the solu- tion. He put a flat car at their dis- pesal and men, auto, malt sampies and what have you, puffed over to Mandan behind a freight locomotive. They placed a large order. BUSINESS LEADERS REFUSE 10 PRESENT | FARM RELIEF VIEWS Rockefeller, Schwab and Young Decline; Henry Ford Has Yet to Be Heard From Washington, March 28.—(AP)—An almost unanimous refusal of invita- tions sent to capitalists and business leaders to appear before the senate agriculture committee to present their views on farm relief was recorded to- day with the announcement by Chair- man McNary that John D. Rockefel- KiNG |ler, jr., Charles M. Schwab and Owen D. Young would not appear. Only Henry Ford remains to be heard from as J. P. Morgan's inability to attend was previously reported. The house agriculture committee, entering its second day of farm relief hearings, heard a number of wit- Towa, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming. Kloster said he had sup- Ported the McNary-Haugen bill con- taining the equalization fee, but that he thought the present McNary bill would give the needed relief. Utilize Farm Waste Anson Marston, of Ames, Ia., pres- ident of the American Association of Land Grant Colleges, told the house inquirers that he favored federal aid to continue search for new methods of utilizing farm waste. G. W. Con- nell, secretary of the Minnesota Wheat Growers association, favored ® plan patterned after the Canadian wheat pool to handle the marketing of wheat under a federal farm board. The Canadian pool, he said, now owns 1,300 elevators and 12 terminals. Connell agreed when Representa- tive Jones, Democrat, Texas, inquired if he saw any reason why the farm board should not be given the power to close the commodity markets if it was found advisable. He said he believed that a stabiliza- tion corporation could maintain Prices on a higher level without losing money. Wants Distributing Plants William H. Marshall, a Fort Lau- derdale, Fis., farmer, advocated es- tablishment of regional distributing Plants for handling perishable crops, aided by cooperative marketing asso- ciations, with a view to eliminating some of the middlemen and facilitat- ing shipments of mixed carloads. The Plants, he said, should be equipped for canning and preserving if prod- need were not immediately market- le. A federal farm board with broad Powers to regulate production and marketing was advocated ky 8. J. Cot- tington, president of Four Queens, Win- ners in Any Game selecting ebrough, of La Fayette, Ind. (top), to head the May Day festivities. ; The other queens, Teading down the list, are Miss Jose- Phine Kluttz, maid of honor, » N.C. DOUGLAS POLICEME ACCUSED OF SELLING REBELS AMMUNITION City Machine Guns and 37,000 Rounds of Shot Sold in Face of Embargo Douglas, Ariz, March 28.— (AP) — Charges that two city-owned machine guns and 37,000 rounds of ammunition had been sold to Mexican rebels for $2,000 and that the city received only $500 of the money, precipitated an investigation of the whole city ad- Seeche ns aaron Chief of Police Leslie Gatliff and Formation of Many New Dame and New Channels Accounts © for Queer Action BOMBS HAVE NOT ARRIVED If Effarts to Dislodge Jam Fall, Flow of Water May Be , Stopped Many Days » Having receded below the flood stage the Missouri river continued stood at 16.7 feet, three-tenths of a foot below flood stage. iH He Gabe ij