The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 11, 1929, Page 1

NORTH DAKOTA'S The Weather OLDEST NEWSPAPER [===] THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [=22 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1929 ESTABLISHED 1873 NYE. FRAZIER STAND PAT DESPITE HOOVER P NOTE OF CONFIDENCE IN COMING CAMPAIGN STRUCK AT BANQUET Opposition to ‘Smith -Raskob’ Control Not Shown at Democratic Affair * ASSAIL REPUBLICAN PARTY Shouse, New Director, Outlines Fight to Build Up for Next Campaign Wachington, June 11.—@)—Dem- or ic leaders were inclined to be pleased today over the outcome of last night’s dinner to Jouett Shouse, chief of the new party headquarters in Washington. Among the 300 party leaders who attended, many were ready to in- terpret the reception given the ad- dresses of National Chairman John J. Raskob, Mr. Shouse and other speakers as a clear indication that the party would enter the 1930 con- gressional campaign with a more united front than it presented in the 1928 presidential contest. Dinner Joins Ranks __ They were firm in the opinion that, instead of widening the rift in democratic ranks which developed in the presidential campaign, as some had predicted it would, the dinner had served an opposite purpose. ‘The party, they asserted; clearly had been assured, in the words of Mr. Shouse, of a “permanent, work- ing, construe! organization” the national headquarters which would not lend its influence “to the candidacy of any of the various men who may aspire to the next presi- ‘dential nomination.” The dinner was made the occasion by Mr. Raskob to “set at rest all ‘doubt about my continuing” as chair- man of the national committee. Mr. Raskob’s participation in the com- pliment to Mr. Shouse, who has taken charge of the new headquart- ers as chairman of the executive committee of the national committee, Among the 11 south who were not Glass of Virgini Florida, were at pains to make it clear that their “previous engage- ments” were real ones. Simmons of North‘Carolina had described the dinner as “inopportune.” Wyoming Woman Named Mr. Raskob not only made it clear that he had no intention of with- drawing from the shaltmanahie, but announced that Mrs, Nellie Taylor Ross of Wyoming would become & member of the executive committee to assist Mr. Shouse by takin; charge of women’s activities, ant tl Charles Greathouse of Indiana would continue secretary and James. W. Gerard as treasurer. Di and indirect references to Alfred E. Smith, the 1928 presi- dential nominee, brought vigorous ap- plause during the dinner. One such reference was made by Representa- tive Byrns of Tennessee, chairman of the democratic congressional campaign committee, who chai that the republican party was lack- 7 ing in poli for dealing with many problems confronting. the nation. irman Raskob assailed repub- lican policies as ing toward a concentration of authority in Wash- ington which he thought was threat- ening the establishment of “a power so colossal as to be dy and in- capable of administration” and ulti- mately might “well result in revo- lution. Outlining plans for strengthening the party’s organization, Mr. Shouse declared it was “our duty and our responsibility and our effort to try to build up an effective Santing: 000 bar: _ force to turn over to those who wi '” Zirect the next campaign.” * U.OR ND, ALUMNI Tom Campbell, Montana Wheat King, Speaks at Ceremonies of Commencement Wibaux-- After the Flood In the top picture looking west on U. S. Highway No. 10 where a 100-foot steel highway bridge once spanned Beaver creek. The water was nearly 30 feet deep at this point at the height of the flood. The second picture shows the bridge washed 150 yards down stream. To the right against the railroad embankment is the Methodist parsonage in which the pastor and his wife were trapped and drowned. against the railroad embankment. |. The lower picture, a close-up of the parsonage wrecked , MILLIONS ARE LOST | TERRIFIC WIND, RAIN STORMS se| WHEN OIL FOUNTAINS BURN IN CALIFORNIA Asbestos-Clad Firemen, Aided by Volunteer Hundreds, -Work All Night Los Angeles, Cal., June 11.—U)— Nine oil icks and more than 45,- of oil had been destroyed best worked throughout the night, aided by hun- dreds of volunteer Seeti » in an effort to bring the fire under control, The fire started on the Rhode- have been a si short aa ne ‘No. came 8 ming geyse! discha: fe dear fire soon ily. From the McCune well the flames to other and resembled i ws it £. SWEEP SOUTHERN MINNESOTA : Same Area Killed Two, In- jured Dozen Persons Intense Humidity Ends With Near-Tornado; Austin, Man- kato and Owatonna Hit actoss & portion of Blue Earth county, & tornado cut a path about five miles wide and at least 12 miles long in the vicinity of Mankato this morning! bore the brunt of the fury of torna- does and terrific rain and wind storms which struck Monday night and to- day-in various parts of Minnesota, eastern South and Wiscon [ iF l E i fl 2 i a 8 3 & &3 li i l I He i i E i I i i te f E | i | i ete Two Tornadoes Yesterday in ROUND OUT PROGRAM FOR FOURTH OF JULY mittee Puts WIRE SYSTEMS CRIPPLED | Association of Commerce Com- the Final Touches on Events The general Fourth of July com- mittee, meeting as an assembly of the subcommittee Monday evening at the whipped the bration into teports on Another i Hl i St. Paul, June 11.—(*)—Sweeping| Association of Commerce rooms, rogram revised of the big cele- form and heard all details of the festivities. item was added to the pro- HANNA IS SUPPORTED |FEDERAL AUTHORITIES PROBE SHOOTING OF HENRY VIRKULA BY WHEAT POOL FOR SEAT ON FARM BODY Former North Dakota Governor \, Is One Of Three Men "S Recommended —____—_______——_-» i Flood Pictures | e The Tribune today presents pictures of the aftermath of the Wibaux flood and destruc- tion to railway lines in North Dakota. In addition to the page 1 illustrations, additional pictures will be found on page 6. SIX STATES. REPRESENTED | OPPOSITION STORM Frank 0. Lowden and William ‘ Jardine Also Receive Endorsement Kansas City, June 11—()—Five men, including Frank O. Lowden, former governor of Illinois, and Wil- liam Jardine, former secretary of agriculture, have been recommended to President Hoover as possible mem- bers of the farm surplus board by members of the national wheat pool committee. F The committee, in a telegram to President Hoover, recommended that either Lowden or Jardine be made chairman of the board which will be created if the present farm relief legislation pending in congress is en- acted. It also recommended that as @ representative of the wheat pro- ducers on the board the president appoint any one of the following: William Settle, president of the Indian farm bureau; Samuel R. Mc- Kelvie, former governor of Nebraska; or L. B. Hanna, Fargo, N. D. The committee members of the wheat pool who met here yesterday recommend candidates for the board ooh aaag the following organiza- jons: Oklahoma Wheat Growers associ- ation, Texas Wheat Growers associ- ation, Colorado Wheat Growers as- sociation, Kansas Cooperative Wheat Marketing association, Nebraska ‘Wheat Growers association and North Dakota Wheat Growers .ssociation. SUDDEN RETURN OF CALLES MAY MEAN RELIGIOUS PARLEY Little Definite Is Known, as Pro- ceedings Are Shrouded in Secrecy Mexico City, June 11—()—Sudden return of General Plutarco Elias Cal- les from @ vacation in northern Mex- ico has given rise to widespread be- lief he will participate in negotiations between the Mexican government and Roman Catholic prelates. Utmost secrecy has been invoked to shroud proceedings, however, and little definite was &nown today. The former Mexican president. arriving on last night's train from Monterey, said he had no statement to make. Although previous announcement lonsignor Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, of Michoacan and recently appointed ference has not taken place. Yesterday the archbishop, with his conferee, Bishop Pascual Diaz of Ta- basco, called at the presidential pal- ace and talked for a half hour with Fernando Torreblanca, the presi- dent's secretary. It was reported the visit was for the purpose of arrang- im the conference with Sr. Portes While the prelates were at the pal- ace the president himself was closeted three miles away with Ambassador Morrow at Chapultepec castle. Some observers related the various incidents, unexpected return of Am- bassador Morrow and General Calles, the conferences at Chapultepec and the prelates’ visit to the presidential palace with the impending negotia- for ‘settlement of Mexico's church state problem. MURDER SEARCH SPURRED BY REWARD Husband of Slain Woman Offers $2,000 for Clearing of Los Angeles Crime & ab ag i aft fi oy iH le gig HE: ! il fife Ht Hy | il i t set E d H i Fy 38 a tl i | TO HOOVER'S MOVE REMAINS SWIRLING President Withdrew Govern- ment Land From Oil Pros- pecting Possibilities Colorado Springs, Colo., June 11.— (®)—The storm of opposition against President Hoover's order withdrawing government land from oil prospecting which swirled up from representatives of Mountain states, showed no of abatement today as the gov- ernors’ conference called ky President Hoover to consider means of conserv- ing oil wen: into its second day of work. Called specifically to consider the feasibilty of an interstate compact which would control production by Mmiting drilling, the conference early became a forum of debate on the Hoover arguments predominant in opposition to it. Hoover Support Weak Representatives from only one Rocky Mountain state, New Mexico, supported the Hoover policy. Sharing the limelight with opposi- | tion to the Hoover order was the state- | ment made by Chairman Mark L. Requa, in his opening address, that if the states and the industry did not cooperate and conserve he would urge rigid government coercive regulation. Independent operators, after an un- successful attempt late last night to Place the conference on record as op- posing the Hoover policy and favor- ing a tariff on oil, held the attention of the opening sessions today. Several associations announced their inten- tion of opposing any com! would limit the simount ‘of f be placed on the market in New York at a lower price then can American crude. + big three of the oil producing The states, Texas, Oklahoma and Cal fornia, went on record as being inter- ested in, but not enthusiastic about, an interstate compact. “Willing to Sit Only Pat Malloy, speaking for the Okla- homa delegation, said his state was willing to sit in any conference about oil, but was not willing to enter into any compact which would set up a supervisory commission to control the production of oil. Fred Stev-not, director of natural resources of California, informed the conference that his would “do its duty in the national or interna- tional conser’ation of oil.” Colorado, through Robert Win- borne, its attcrney general; Utah, represented by W. R. Wallace, Mon- tana and Wyoming in the persons of Governor Erickson and Emerson, frankly stated that they were not in- terested in any compact which did not look to the rescinding of Presi- dent Hoover's order. FISHERMAN SHOT IN RUMBOAT TRAGEDY Guard Fires as Young Men Ap- pear to Investigate the Sound of Gunfire Detroit, June 11.—(?)}—Archibald Eugster, 21, was probably fatally wounded, early today, by a bullet said to have been fired by Jonah Cox, = customs board patrol inspector who was guarding a rum runner's mi boat on the River Rouge. According to two of the wou youth's companions, Raymond Mal- icki, 21, and Joseph Lakatos, 20, they were on their way to fish in the De+ tracted id lat ja He it 4 tt i if i fe re 4 Coroner’s Jury Fastens Blame for Death on 24-Year- Old Patrolman }EMMET J. WHITE IS IN JAIL | Wife of Slain Man Contradicts Statements of White at Inquest Washington, June 11—(7)—A bill to authorize payment of $25,000 to |the wife of Henry Virkula who was killed Saturday at International Falls, Minn., by a border patro. officer, was introduced today by Representative | Schafer, Republican, Wisconsin. | Washington, June 11—(?)—Assist- ant Secretary Lowman of the treas- ury announced, today, that he had ordered a thorough investigation into the shooting Saturday night of Henry Virkula by Customs Border Patrol- |man E. J. White at International Falls, Minn. Lowman, who returned today today from Detroit, said that no report of the shooting of Virkula had been re- ceived at customs headquarters here, but that he had ordered it sent at once and woul take whatever action the report warranted. Lowman also said he would order an inquiry into the shooting of Archi- bald Eugster, supposedly by a cus- bet border patrol inspector at De- roit. ; International Falls, Minn., June 11. |—-P)—A coroner's jury, today, had jfastened upon a 24-year-old border patrolman responsibility for the slay- ing of Henry Virkula, killed when he | failed to obey a command to halt. Emmet J. White, member of the customs service, was in jail on a for- mal charge of second degree man- slaughter. After his arraignment on the charge and the granting of a contin- uance for one week by Judge John H. Brown, the Duluth, Minn., customs joftice made public White's version of the slaying, Saturday night, just south of the border. Patrolman Is Defended N. A. Linderberger, assistant United States customs collector at Duluth, who based his statement on White's report, said the patrolman was in the right when he fired @t Virkule for {failing to stop. E. A. Servine, White's companion, had flagged the Virkula car to halt. «Continued on page nine.) 'WIBAUX RESIDENTS GET TYPHOID SHOTS Storm Last Night May Have; Flooded Hodges, Mont., Ac- cording to Rumors Wibaux, Mont. June 11.—(P)— Typhoid immunization serum was be- PRICE FIVE CENTS. — ON DEBENTURE PLAN. Single Vote May Decide Out- come of Senate Balloting on Troublesome Question COUZENS IS ‘ON THE FENCE? —— rs Compromise Proposal of Two. . Year Tryout of Plan in Farm Bill ls Heard Washington, June 1L—(®— The senate today rejected the 5 compromise farm bill. % The outcome of farm legislation ~ now is in doubt as a result. 5 The vote was 46 to 43. Washington, June 11.—(}— the Hoover forces striving to vin chek balance in the closely divided senate : the administration {arm bill vote oday, Senator Johnson, Republican; California, opened a bitter denunci-~ ation of the measure and loosed an ee against the “crack of the party ash.” Ff The president had conferred with some of the doubtful Republicans at the white house early today and as the debate got under way Senator Johnson began from the senate floor jan attack upon what he called the “ruthless power to drive” members of the senate. “I'd rather be a frog living on dup- geon mould,” shouted the Californian, “I'd rather be a dog baying at the moon than bending to the lash. T'll stand by the president when I believe him to be right but I will not stand by him whea I believe him to be wrong, realizing full weli what the consequences may be.” Senators Nye and Frazier, of North Dakota, announced after a visit ta Mr. Hoover they would vote against the conference report on the farm bill because it faile’ to include the export debenture plan. The presi- dent is opposed to the plan. Sénator Couzens, of Michigan, a breakfast guest at the white house, announced he was still “on the fende” and want- ed to hear the final debate. Senator Johnson was the second Republlicaw in @s many days to assail the’ administration measure with a vote to be taken at four o'clock. Word came from both sides that a tie result or @ margin of about one vote would decide the issue. Single Vote May Control The senate has been so closely di- vided that many believe that a single vote may decide the outcome of the balloting which will begin at 4 p. m. Couzens declined to discuss the white house visit and announced later he wanted to hear the final argu- ments before making his decision. Talk of a compromise whereby the export debenture would be put in the farm relief bill for a two-year tryout was heard during the morning. Secretary Hyde visited the capitol) for last minute conferences with leaders. Poll clerks and party whips were ing administered to residents of Wi- baux today as a preventive measure. R. A. Shepard of St. Louis, Mo., field representative for the American Red Cross, said there was no imme- diate danger of an epidemic and no suffering but that the typhoid serum was being administered as a precau- tion. Shepard is directing relief work, having taken over the job at the request of Wibaux city officials. Rain which fell heavily yesterday and today halted the work of clean- ing up the town but the job of pump- ing water from the basements of homes and business houses continued. Four pumps are working now and two more are expected today. Meanwhile the Red Cross was at- tempting to run down rumors that families living in the valley above and below Wibaux had been wiped out. Every such rumor investigated to date has proved groundless, how- ever, and the death list remains at An unverified report was received here shortly before noon that the town of Hodges, 15 miles west of Wi- baux, had been flooded by the addi- tional rain. An effort was being made to find out the facts. Tests made by the city health de- The water comes from arte- sian wells. Sever Knutson, once reported dead, service will’ before Thursday at were t ; i | | i on the telephone throughout the day to ascertain. any last minute switches. The debenture was put into the farm bill originally by the senate by a close vote of 47 to 44 against the solid administration lineup. Several switches have been ru- mored. Senator Trammell, Democrat, Flor- ida, announced today he would sup- Port the conference report. He voted before for the debenture. This gave the administaration a gain of one sure vote. GERMANY IS UNABLE 10 ACCEPT REPORT Stresemann Says Its Form Does Not Offer Minorities Per- manent Guarantee Madrid, June 11.—()—Gustay Stresemann, German. foreign min- ister, today told the special commit- out- | partment today showed that the wi-|tee of the council of the League of esti- |baux water supply again is fit to|Nations considering the minorities report, that he was unable to accept the report in its actual form because it did not offer a permanent guar- {o.000000 suinerty’ peoples. LEA SENATORS ATTITUDE. REMAINS UNCHANGED . ‘ is