The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 1, 1931, Page 1

| Order , PF r ’ Cipro SEN FS = I Ss NS North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1981 The Weather © Cloudy Saturday night; Sunday partly cloudy, somewhat warmer. PRICE FIVE CENTS Pangborn-Herndon Forced Down in Russia Five Are Drowned In Kentucky Flood MOSCOW OFFICIALS HEAR PLIERS MET ADVERSE WEATHER Land at Jietegari, Small Town! in Cossack Autonomous Republic, Say Advices HAD LEFT DIRECT ROUTE) Airmen Encountered Difficulty Despite Detour on Flight From Capital Moscow, Aug. 1--()—Ctvil aviation | authorities were advised today that; Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, Jr, round-the-world fliers, m-de; & forced landing today at Jietiegarl, about 150 miles from Kustanaisk in the Cossack Autonomous republic. 1 They came down at 8:30 a. m. Mos- cow time (12:30 a. m. eastern stand- | ard time), the message said. Messages said the airmen detourea from the direct route to Sverdlovsk and came down because of bad weather. They have been advised by telegram to take off with a small quantity of fuel and fly to Kustanaisk or Omsk, about 450 miles away. The town of Kustanaisk is a little more than 1,000 miles from Moscow and about 425 miles southwest of Omsk. It is some distance to the ey of the Trans-Siberian railway ine. It is about 1,700 miles west of Irkutsk, which the fliers had hoped to make their first stop after leaving Moscow. They were approximately 10 hours behind the Post-Gatty round-the- world mark at Moscow, but with few- er and shorter stops they had hoped to reduce their disadvantage. Slope Fair | Open Sunday; Continued rainfall Saturday | caused the management of the Missouri Slope Fair at Mandan to announce that the big exhi- bition would continue in fall force Sunday. Every activity will be carried on except those which | conflict with the Sunday laws. The additional day was added to the program so that those who were prevented from attending by rain and poor roads may see the greatest fair in the history of the Slope country. FIVE THUGS WOUNDED, IN GOTHAM GANG WAR} Police Squads Scour City as Two More Victims Fall Before Slayers New York, Aug. 1.—(4)—Sixteen Police cars, each carrying four detec- | tives armed with automatic shotguns, cruised the city Saturday, to “meet| with force,” the gangsters responsible | for the death of one. and the wound- ing of two others in two more out- breaks yesterday. ! The automobile squads swept out of | # dozen police stations at 6 p. m., and by midnight had already sent five; men to hospitals, all suffering from} bullet wounds. The five men were shot while attempting hold-upe last night. Two by a patrolman; three others by one of the shot gun squads. The fatal shooting was in Brooklyn. The other was in East 103rd 8t., but. ® short distance from the Harlem neighborhood where one child was Killed and four others shot on Tues- day. The Brooklyn killing of Guido Fererri, a.mild-mannered youth who had no underworld connections, was blamed on racketeers by police. He was evidently mistaken for a man well-known in the clothing labor circles, which has been terrorized by ingsters. wan additional reward of $5,000 was made Friday, the total to who shot Michael Venzalli. five years! old. Perry Murder Case Is Ready for Jury Eagle River, Wis. Aug. 1—()—The case of George W. E. (Jiggs) Perry, charged with the slaying of Cora Belle Hackett, one of the seven wom- married bigamously, was de- stined to reach a circuit court jury of 12 men late today. examination, character witnesses have testified, and attorneys have made their arguments. Shown above are two examples of the havoc which grasshoppers have wrought in some sections of the mid- idle west and the answer which a group of South Dakota farmers gaye | to the plague. At the upper left is a close-up of the branches of a fruit tree on the farm of August Dummer, near Greg- ory, 8. D. The limbs of the trees were stripped of leaves and the bark was injured. At the upper right is the picture }taken after the invading hordes had j passed over it. Below is a picture of the mass \county, 8. D., during which they knelt ibefore an out-door altar and prayed for divine aid in combatting the pests. ‘GUT IN RATES ON GRAIN SHIPMENTS IS PUT IN FORCE Lower Freight Tariffs Made Ef- fective in West by Fed- eral Body’s Order Washington, Aug. 1.—(#)—Lower freight rates on wheat from western states became effective Saturday un- der a ruling of the Interstate Com- merce Commission. Railroads opposed the new rates, which first were ordered into effect by the commission early last June. The carriers took the matter to court and secured an injunction in a Chi- cago federal court restraining the commission from placing the lower rates into effect. They contended they would lose millions of dollars in revenues. Recently, however, the court vacated the injunction and the commission Friday denied all protests in the case. Railroads have published the changed schedules. While wheat growers will benefit from these changes, the farm board became advised of friction among co- operatives in the northwestern states. At a lengthy session Friday cooper- atives resisting the expansion policies of the Farmers’ National Grain cor- poration, national sales agency for all grain cooperatives in the country, submitted their side of the contro- versy. The Farmers’ Union Terminal as- sociation of St. Paul, also is in- volved, it being charged this organ- ization had attempted to gain su- premacy in the northwest. C. E. Huff, president of the Farmers’ Nat- ional, and M. W. Thatcher, general manager of the Farmers’ Union, are to submit arguments to the board Saturday. purported program of the Farm- ers’ National designed to absorb smaller cooperatives into one large unit has been assailed by its op- ponents who charge it would result in the loss of direct contact of the farmer-member. thousands of farmers in the (Continued on page three) THOMAS A. EDISON IS CRITICALLY TLL Associated Press Hears Elec- trical Wizard's Condition Has Grown Worse Orange, N. J., Aug. 1.—(?)—The Associated Press of a cornfield in Tripp county, 8. D., | meeting of 1,500 farmers of Union PRICE OF WHEAT AT ALL-TIME LOW ON CHICAGO BOARD. Price of 48 Cents Is Minimum; British Quotations at Medieval Levels Chicago, Aug. 1—(7)}—With July wheat quoted at 48 cents a bushel, the lowest price ever quoted here for wheat of any category, operators of the Chicago board of trade went back on the floor Saturday to gather up loose ends the best they could for a fresh start. But, as wheat sagged Friday, July corn rose. It ended its career on the boards at 72% cents, due, pit gossip had it, to the reputed dealings of Thomas M. Howell, well-known Chi- cago trader, and James P. Bickell of Toronto, Can. There was no unusual activity in the corn pit, short traders having apparently made their peace and accepted their losses. It was a different story in the wheat pit. Opening at 5112 cents, the grain held steady in sluggish trading until an hour before closing time, when, wtthout any apparent stimulus, prices began to slump. Other world markets, weighted be- neath the load of a North American wheat surplus estimated at 425,000,000 bushels, displayed equal weakness. In Kansas City July wheat closed at 41% \cents, and in Liverpool at 55% cents, ithe British price being the lowest re- corded there since meee Geen Liverpool price would mean al cents in Chicago, subtracting 20 cents shipping charges. ‘As for local records, veteran opera- tors could find only one occasion in the 83-year history of the board of trade when wheat sank to a price comparable to Friday's close. It was on Jan. 25, 1895, eae: pe ae 2 the depression follo' panic o: cash wheat went begging at 1893, ts a bushel. bor pre Friday to be the While outstanding bearish day for wheat in/trous and the history of the board of trade, op- erators, drawing @ page from history r dark predicted pllnsbre sanable time whest would be back to $1 a bushel. , ope ELSE ESET SLT Gopher Turkeys Win ‘ Fight with Hoppers St. Paul, Aug. 1—()—Minne- are hardier than | | turkey: acres of land swarming with grass- hoppers by a farmer near Thief River Falls. As ‘Hoppers’ Devastate Mid-West Fields ! Webster, Mass. Aug. 1—(P)— Chasing kids for throwing snow- balls in July is hot work. Motor- ists who were hit called the cops. It was discovered that the re- moval of a pile of ashes had un- covered about eight feet of snow. ENGINEER FAVORS SCHEME 70 BUILD ARROWHEAD DAM Tells Committee State Will Pro- vide Some Money for Con- servation Project Conditional approval of a project to construct a dam at the foot of Arrowwood Lake, 19 miles north of Jamestown, was given Friday by R.E. Kennedy, state engineer. A committee representing about 500 petitioners presented a resolution to Kennedy urging immediate action in construction of the dam. Kennedy approved the project on the condition that steps be taken by those interested to raise by local sub- scription about $800 for the construc- tion of a dyke. The state, through the game and fish department, has provided $3,500 for the construction of the dam. Kennedy advised the committee that @ dyke is essential for the projection of the dam. He said that without the dyke the undertaking would be disas- asked that he be guaran- teed that the dyke will be provided. Those on the committee assured the state engineer steps would be taken to raise funds for the dyke. Construction of the dyke could be undertaken within the next few months, as not sufficient rain is an- ticipated to fill the dam in the im- mediate future. A. J. Thompson, Kensal, chairman; L. H. Sisco, Edmunds, and C. B, Cra- ven, Carrington, compoged the com- mittee which was appointed at a meeting held at Arrowwood lake last Sunday. ‘The resolution presente to Ken- nedy set forth that the dam project was started five years ago; that the lake has receded until it is only a mud flat and that the necessity for the dam is more apparent now than when first proposed. NAMED McCLUSKY AUDITOR McClusky, N. D., Aug. 1—Appoint- ‘Unlike the South Dakota fowl, turkeys returned with feath- intact. The grasshoppers dis- ment of C. 8. Melton as clerk for the Bank of England Given Credit by U. ice Maat Sa : | And They Say It Has Been Warm up There | Vea dah Ace aba dame ay |i Total of $25,000,000 Is Pro- jeign buying power was imperative at S.-France vided to Bolster Value of Pound Sterling i New York, Aug. 1—()—The fed-; eral reserve system Saturday conclud- | ed, in cooperation with the Bank of France, a $250,000,000 credit to the; Bank of England. | It was explained in high banking circles that the Federal Reserve Bank | of New York, in cooperation with the other eleven banks of the federal re-/ serve system, had arranged to pur-; chase from the Bank of England up! to $125,000,000 in prime commercial; bills, as a measure to aid both Amer-' ican and British trade. Bankers here applauded the aggres- | sive measures taken by the Bank of England to correct the situation arising from the flight of its gold to the continent, primarily to France, and described the credit merely as a/ measure to make the protection of sterling exchange boudly sure. Although the Bank of England,/ through raising its discount rate from 2% to 4% per cent in the past two weeks, has largely checked the flight! of its gold it is explained in Wall! Street that autumn is the season/ when the pound sterling is inclined to sag, in terms of dollars, as London is then paying for her importations | of grain and cotton from the United! States. The new credit is expected to keep, the pound sterling close to gold par- ity, so the British will not have to pay an expensive premium for dollars to pay for their purchases from this country. In view of the extreme de- pression in cotton and wheat, bank-/ ers felt that action to preserve for-| this time. It was recalled that the $200,000,000 credit negotiated by the Bank of Eng- land here in 1925, to assist in post) war stabilization of sterling on @ gold; basis, never was drawn upon. The mere fact that the Bank of England had a large credit here had such a good psychological effect upon sterling exchange that the British in- stitution did not have to use a cent of the credit. Predicts Non-Stop , Flight Over World Istanbul, Aug. 1.—(?)—Before much) longer, people will be flying around the world in airplanes without a single stop, John Polando predicted’ Saturday. x “He made the prediction while pre- paring to call on President Mustapha Kemal Pasha with Russell Boardman, to receive the president’s congratu- lations on their New York-Istanbul hop, a flight which convinced Polando it Won't be long before planes circle “by (GERMANS EFFECTING. WICKERSHAM BODY OFFERS INDICTMENT OF POLICE SYSTEMS Brands Them as ‘General Fail- ure’; Political Corruption Gets Chief Blame ’ Washington, Aug. 1.—(P)—A blanket) indictment of police forces of the| country as a “general failure” was! near-cloudburst handed down Saturday by the Wick- ersham commission. In its eighth report to President Hoover, the commission charged that that major criminals in almost every tem were shot through with graft and incompetence and too often were under the direct control of dishonest. politicians. It asserted without qualification that Major criminals in almost every the police, but, by reason of the sin- ister influence exerted by corrupt politicians over the chief and his force, are allowed to continue their criminal careers.” The report concluded, in short, that) defects in present police administra- tion “too generally leave the citizen helpless in the hands of the criminal class.” Six major charges were brought. They follow in brief: 1, “The chief evil lies in the inse- cure, short term of service of the chief or executive head of the police force and-in his being subject, while in office, to the control of politicians | in the discharge of his duties.” 2. “The second outstanding evil of i such poor police administration is} the lack of competent, efficient and honest patrolmen and subordinate of- ficers.” 3... “The third great defect . ... ts the lack of efficient communication systems whereby intelligence of the commission of crime and descriptions of the criminals may be quickly spread over a wide territory and as part of that, the necessary equipment criminals making their escape.” 4. ‘The well-known and oft-re-| peated alliance between criminals! and corrupt politicians which con-| trols, in part, at least, where it does; not wholly do so, the police force of | our cities ... It rules the head and every subordinate and lays a paraly- zing hand upon determined action against such major criminals.” 5. “There are too many duties cast upon each officer and patrol- man.” A sixth charge was one of failure to make proper provision for the policing of millions of immigrants and of the influx of large numbers of negroes to the northern cities. Of the cities specifically mentioned | Milwaukee was the only one to re- ceive unqualified praise. THEIR OWN RESCUE Big Closed Bank Is Made Sol- vent by Support of Large Industrial Group Berlin, Aug. 1—(7)—The rescue which many Germans during the Lon- don conference expected from Pres- ident Hoover or from the seven-power conferees, is being effected right within the Fatherland. The Darmstaedter und National! bank has become solvent through the joint action of a group of industrial- ists in the Rhine and Ruhr valleys. This outstanding manifestation of Germany's readiness to pull herself out of her mess was taken Saturday as an indication other re-ervoirs of strength will open up as one situ- ation after another calls for remedy. Further evidence of Germany's de-/ termination to mend her own ills was seen in the action Friday of the Reichsbank, which raised the dis- count rate from 10 to 15 per cent. One German spokesman told the Associated Press the German people, finally freed of their illusions of an immediate long-term loan, are be-/ bginning to see that the nation’s fi- nancial apparatus was bloated from| foreign loans and that the German People had lived relatively carefree lives on borrowed money without a thought for the dev of reckoning. This informant «ent so far as to ‘say that even if Hoover plan, it would be to do s0, as there has been too much reckless borrowing. From the attitude of this spokes- man it was evident that Secretaries crisis of 1893 and 1907. It was evident also jthat, whatever may have been the |German ministérs’ hopes of foreign large community are “well known to} celled since the announcement of the! apply to sales to foreign undesirable Two Women and Three Chil-! dren Die as Water Roars Down Small Stream IS RECOVERED ONE BODY Damage From Storms in Rocky Mountain Area Is Esti- mated at $500,000 Ky, Aug. 1-~P—A the head of Bank- |lick creek sent a wall of water rush- ling down the stream which swept |two women and three children to jtheir deaths Friday night. | Two other women, one holding a ; two-year-old son, were struck by the j current but managed to save them- \selves. Two men sitting on the ‘bank, startled by the sudden sweep of water, were unable to prevent the! tragedy. ; The dead are Mrs. Iola Lucas, 27, and her seven-year-old twin children, | Ruth and James; Mrs. Martha Tiller, 31, and Mary Lou Harvey, three. All |lived at Latonia, Ky. | Policemen and firemen from Cov- ington searched all night for the bodies. The body of Mrs. Lucas was recovered four miles downstream two lhours after midnight. Covington, Darr and Buddy Darr, 2, saved them- selves from the rushing tide. Mr. ; Darr and Charles Lucas, sitting on jthe bank, made an effort to reach |those who were swept away but were unsuccessful. Darr and Lucas said the wall of water was so high it nearly covered! their two automobiles, parked near) the bank. The waters receded soon after the tragedy. Denver advices said the Rocky Mountain region had suffered rain- storms which caused three deaths and property damage estimated at more than $500,000. Crop losses alone were) estimated at $100,000. Near Fort Defiance, New Mexico, three Navajo Indians drowned in 2 wall of water during a storm which laid waste an 80-mile square area. |in motors to pursue traces of the|/. federal diversion dam at Ganado, New Mexico, was washed away. Cost of replacing the dam and repairing irrigation facilities was estimated at} $175,000. The livestock loss was} high, reports saying many large; flocks of sheep had been reduced to} @ few dozen strays. A sudden torrent rushing down the canyon in which Eureka, Utah, 1s built, tore up sidewalks and dam- aged business houses. Damage was estimated at $10,000. Many Utah highways were flooded and Provo canyon was. blocked by slides. MAY AID GERMANY BY SELLING HUGE STOCKS OF WHEAT Idea Presented to Germany by; Ambassador Sackett; Also Would Include Cotton Washington, Aug. 1.—(?)—The sug- {gestion that the American govern- ment might aid Germany further by! conveying some of the Farm Board's wheat and cotton price stabilizing stocks to that country at a fair price and on long terms has been laid be- fore German authorities. President Hoover has approved the scheme. American Ambassador Sackett at) Berlin first proposed the matter dur- ing the preliminary moratorium ne- gotiations on inter-government debts. While Germany undoubtedly would be benefitted through the carrying out of the suggestion, the attitude here is that disposal of large portions of the stabilizing stocks would relieve apprehension among farmers and traders that the farm board might) unload its holdings and thereby fur- ther depress the market prices. The board has nearly 200,000,000 bushels of wheat and 1,300,000 bales of 1929 cotton on hand. Its pledge to withhold its 1929 cotton from the domestic market expired Friday at midnight. It has not decided on how it will handle the 1931-32 crop. It has ceased to purchase wheat for stabili- zation purposes. On June 30, the board agreed to hold its sales of stabilization vheat “This limitation, however, shall not, governments or their agencies now being con- sidered.” ‘The German government has erected high tariff barriers on foreign |_ Miss Blanche Smart, 42, Mrs. B. J. = Fort Lincoln Abandoned WAR DEPARTMENT BLASTS HOPE OF RETAINING POST Soldiers Directed to Leave Bis- marck Between Septem- ber 1 and October 31 NEARLY 500 MEN INVOLVED Local Committee Seeking to Reach Hurley and Obtain Withdrawal of Order Hopes that army troops retained in Bismarck to por apd Post at Ft. Lincoln were blasted Fri- day when orders to abandon the fort were received from the war depart- ment. Under the terms of the o: third battalion of the Fourth tntans try, now stationed here, will be trans- ferred to Jefferson Barracks, Mo., between Sept. 1 and October 31. The transfer will involve between 400 and baadiiodey Msposition of the t will be made later, war ‘dopartasent officials said, and until such disposi- jtion is made the fort will be put in the hands of a caretaker. Troops Saturday were making the final lap of a two-weeks’ hike and that every effort would be made to ee the war department order with- rawn. A formal protest, signed het pelo rhea of the pathd ation, was wn Uy and dispatched to army fred Pace Senators Gerald P. Nye and Con- Gressman J. H. Sinclair, who are in the state, had adivsed the commit- tee that Secretary of War Hurley Promised them that at the Philippine Islands August Congressman Thomas Hall that early in the summer war ment officials had removal orders would be — timely notice had le said that at that time di Officials had given him tite once agement that troops would be re- tained here. The text eae here by mander of the Seventh Gare area follows: that the ‘Third Battalion, Fowes iat E i L F i ae i i After arrival at Jefferson . battalion will be rendered inactive and Teconstituted as the Third Battalion, Sixth poraniey. Fort Lincoln is to be Placed & caretaking status d= ing its final disposition.” ssi “Preparations are now being made for the details of movement and defi- nite instructions will be issued as soon as practicable. In the meantime you or repair or any expenditures of public funds in progress it will be immediately sus- ao iting mment on the order Baker said: “It ts our belief all the reasons assigned for abandonment of Fort Lincoln are based on assumptions rather than on fact. It does not ap- pear the present war department pro- gram for distribution of the army is @ well-thought-out program and it seems as though the department would ignore the interests and de- mands of the civil population in Preparation of their plans - foe Pl and con: eventually will prove successful.’ Decision to abandon the fort will result in the withdrawal of a payroll from goods purchased locally by the gov- ernment. Established in 1895 The act authorizing the establish- ment of a fort at Bismarck was passed by congress in 1895. troops stationed here later. | t : E é ; fy | i i ? git s thi ¢ it me § g 4 i i Sc OEE EB oe BON ae: