The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 15, 1931, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather Fair tonight and Wednesday; not much change in temperature, BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1931 PRICE FIVE CENTS Commission to Consider New Capitol Design GULBERTSONS ONLY. | Weather Map Shows Dizzy Somersaults MEBTING PLANNED FOR NEAR FUTURE SECRETARY AVERS Architects and Officers. to Work on Detailed Plans if Idea Is Approved WILL BE TALL BUILDING Indicates That Louisiana's Tow- ering Structure Serves i as Inspiration A design for North Dakota’s new state capitol will be considered at a meeting to be held by the state capi- tol commission within the next month, Frank Anders, secretary of the commission, announced Tuesday. ‘When the design of the building is approved, he said, the architects and commission will devote themselves to working out the detailed plans. Anders, who recently returned from Louisiana, where he and G. A. Fraser, member of the commission, inspect- ed the capitol under construction there, said Louisiana’s towering capl- tol will provide the inspiration for North Dakota’s $2,500,000 structure. While the commission has yet to approve the design, Anders said the skyscraper type appears to appeal most at this time. He declared that the commission is inclined toward the monumental type of architecture that would combine beauty and util- ity, and would be along modern lines. The 33-story Louisiana capitol, which Anders was charged with in- specting to obtain information on the allocation of and inter-communica- tion between departments, is far ad- vanced above that of other states, the secretary, said. Louisiana’s new capitol will aver- age around 70 per cent in actual use, Anders said, while in older buildings approximately 3@ per cent of the ac- tual building is utilized. “I can't say too much for the de- sign, the strength and beauty ef-the building, as well as its efficiency,” Anders said. “The relatively of the governor's office to the’ legislative bodies has been taken care of in an efficient manner. The supreme court offices are large and well placed.” He believed the North Dakota build- ing, while it will not be a copy of the Louisiana capitol, will combine several of its good features. Rail Wage Meeting Is Expected Seon New York, Dec. 15.—(#)—The east- ern railway presidents’ conference Tuesday was completing arrange- ments of @ meeting with union lead- ers at which a committee appointed Monday will be empowered to “nego- tiate to a conclusion” questions con- cerning wages and employment. ‘The western presidents’ conference, | supported the conference plan meet-| ing in Chicago Tuesday, while the southeastern presidents’ conference, which is fo assemble in New York Friday, also will take action on le- bor negotiations. In the event these two conferences appoint committees it is expected a general wage meeting would be held in New York within two weeks. The western group suggested that representatives of all sections meet Friday in New York to form a fully authorized committee. What Do YOU See? A. W. GUSSNER, Grocer: “Much has. been said about the early return of prosperity and much has been said predicting continued depression. Person- ally, I feel that we should adopt an optimistic attitude but be pre- pared for a continuation of a pe- riod of stress for at least & num- ber of months to come. When, from sound and natural causes, conditions acquire a sound foun- dation and show natural, healtin- ful improvement, the return to ‘prosperous times will be very rap- id, since we have production, manufacture, transportation, fab- rication and construction in all lines of endeavor. “An optimistic but conserva- tive viewpoint should be adopt- ed, as making plans de upon the immediate return of prosperity will prove as harmful as downright pessimism. “Creditors should meet their obligations to a point where it hurts. I advise this with the knowledge that not only the con- suming public but merchants, jobbers and bankers are creditors in these days, “So Yar. as our own line is con- cerned, there has never been @ time ig gine iva foodaiotts could be at suc! sonable prices compared with other commodities. The prices of qual- ity canned foods and the better grades of meats are now within the reach of all except thos in stringent circumstances, and the entire line of substantial and sta- ple merchandise is cheaper than. any but the older of this gencra- tion have ever seen, all of which fs something to be thankful for. “When prosperity returns, Bis- marck will lead the procession.” Principal in New Serial Story 15 POINTS BEHIND RIVALS IN CONTEST Hold Big Hands to Practically Wipe Out Advantage of Opponents HAVE PLAYED 40 RUBBERS Scorebooks Show Lenz and Jacoby Won 21 and Cul- bertsons Took 19 New York, Dec. 15.—(?)—Just pest the quarter pole in their 150-rubber | contract bridge match with Sidney S.; Lenz and Oswald Jacoby, Mr. and, Mrs. Ely Culbertson were only 13; points behind Thursday. Victory in six of seven rubbers play- ed in the sixth session of the match {33 NEEDY CHILDREN GET FREE HAIRCUTS HERE MONDAY NiGiT Barbers Offer Services to Poor Youngsters Again Tues- day Night Bushels of hair were cut from the heads of 133 needy children in one hour Monday night as Bismarck bar- bers plied their shears and clippers in giving free haircuts. Tickets for the free haircuts, which were given between 8 p. m. and 9 p. m., were secured by the children from the “Open Your Heart” headquarters. Barber shops in the city will remain open again Tuesday night between 8 reduced the Culbertson's deficit by {2nd 9 o'clock to complete the free ANN Pictured above is Ann Fenwick, oldest .of three sisters who are principals in The Tribune's new serial story. “Three Kinds of Love,” starting in this edition. Ann wanted a home. Cecily wanted romance. Mary Frances sought excitement and gaiety. Love—three kinds of love—was in store for them. THREE. KINDS 3% LOVE “s. « CHAPTER I ‘ When, in the year nineteen hundred and sixteen, Professor week in late March, their acquaintances thanked a merciful Providence that the three little girls had those perfectly charm- ing grandparents who were willing and glad to take them right in and give them a good home. The nurse in the house at the time, one sturdy Gladys Clapp, was the only person who felt the least apprehension as to the tranquil future of the Fenwicks’ | daughter: Ann, 14 years old; Cecily, eight years old; and ‘baby. Mary-Frances, one year old on the third of last February. | The children’s grandmother had thrown the two front, | doors wide open as Gladys came, carrying the baby up the steps, iwith Ann and Cecily, lagging behind. H “Welcome,” she called, in her creamy sweet voice. “Welcome, welcome home, my darlings!” And in spite of her flesh, and she was extraordinarily fat, and disregarding the ‘fancy, lacy, perfumed, rose-colored silk thing she-was wearing ‘she had gone right down on her knees to embrace Ann and | Cecily, and they: had to stoop far over to her while she cooed and shed tears into their white necks—tears that trickled wetly i onto their little stomachs and made them squirm unbecomingly. {,. Grand—the grandfather, you know—entered. He had a round white {beard, and flowing white hair and, just now. tears stood in his kindly blue eyes, and he knew it. It was he who took the baby, murmuring something that sounded to Gladys’ scripturally unaccustomed ears like, “the yeast of j tease.” He was a tgll man, and he made a grand picture standing there | with that blessed bAby—shocked to momentary silence—in his arms. Re- luctantly Gladys turned from it to close the two front doors, which had been forgotten, and which were allowing gusts of the rainy March wind to sweep into the hall. Sha spoke to Rosalie—the grandmother, you know—who was still billowing pink silk and lace about on the floor. “Did the valises and things get here all right?” There had been nothing amusing, in so far as Gladys could see, con- nected with her question, but Rosalie gurgled some laughter before she said, “They. are all unpacked, and the darling, dainty little things are in place in the three little cozy rooms.” (The rooms were enormous; but, since they needed for the time to be small and cozy, in Rosslie’s mind they were small and cozy). . “Three?” questioned Gladys. “The baby isn’t going to be put off in a “You think it room by herself, is she?” Rosalie’s manner grew grave and charmingly judicial. unwise?” Grand answered before Gladys had @ chance to do so. “Give yourself no uneasiness, my good woman—my very good woman,” he added with a flat- tering smile. “Everything shall be ar- ranged for the best comfort and good of all. This shalt be done. It may not be done today. It may not be done.tomorrow. But soon, very soon, it shall be nccomplished. Convey that message, if’ you will be so kind, ‘All things shall soon be arranged for the best’ good and the best comfort of all,’ to our dear son.” Branch-Line Solon Will Rule Railroads Washington, Dec. 15.—(#)—Only a branch line runs through his home tovn of Bonham, Texas, yet Rep- resentative Sam. Rayburn has his hand upon the throttle of the na- tion’s railroad systems. Rayburn is the new chairman of the house interstate and foreign com- “Yes, sir,” said Gladys, frightfully ; merce committee, which turns out flustered because she knew that never | raflroad legislation. in this world could she remember all) The responsibilities of this’ position of that like that. are paar? just now ae te Cecily, a fairly pretty little girl] financial emergency ron even a eight years old, and soon to| Carriers, and the competition from be prettier, pulled at the ‘tassel on| motor busses, trucks, and private the baby’s shoe and said, “Father | 8utomobiles. is won't understand. He hasn’t under- |g .________ | Barbers Upset by | Cantankerous Cuss geen oe stood the fever’s fault. afraid Mother may have contracted it.” She ducked her chin lower and blinked her Jong lashes up and down over her gray eyes. ‘Continued on page eight’ Superior, Wis. Dec. 15—()— The local barbers’ union threw William J. Shinners out. He re- tallated by cutting prices in half. The union asked Rim back. His demands included: A free taxi to and trom meet- HOLD $4,000 BRACELET i Chicago, Dec. 15.—(®)—A $4,000 \bracelet of Mme. Tito Schipa, wife of| Ithe operatic tenor, was held today by | Fred H. Gardner of the federal secret} ings; & bow from the entire mem- service, walle the government at-| bership as he came in, and a tempted to establish whether it was| month's dues. The union agreed. brought into this, country by| Then Shinners said he wouldn't Mme. Schipa in the fall of 1926, Fenwick and his wife Ann died of influenza during the same) rejoin anyway. my according to Milton They were al it ‘haircutting jo! ts an “Open Your Heart” time by 85 points. me general Of 40 rubbers played in ,|chairman, Lenz and Jacoby lla ‘won nt when ea Children needing haircuts but who Culbertsons 19. cannot afford to pay for them are in- After the third hand in the series |Vited to get tickets at the “Open Your had been played a week ago the Cul- |Heart” headquarters, located in the bertsons led by 30 point, Never did|Webb building between Third and they lead again till 217 hands had|Fourth Sis. been dealt. In the 217th hand they! qe y eq m Ohio found game and the 39th rubber. e local American Legion relief Culbertson regarded the sudde! campaign received a request for aid change in the statuts of the great test |{7m ® woman in Hawks, Ohio, Mon- of rival methods of bidding as @ tri-| y, Rue said. Previous requests for ‘umph for his system and felt certain (iG have been received by the local (he and his partner would be well in| ncoaguecters fom) uri and Ten- the lead if he had not pulled a few ot | pene Since the “Open Your Heart’ | ROR honerk: aa He CORRS eee ee aren nee ee ctute i lsd only, requests from out of the state { Cards With Culbertsons will 'be forwarded to Legion posts in } Republicans to Meet in Chicago North Dakota Is Relatively Mild) But Some Sections Are Hard Hit REPORT FLOODS IN OHIO Storms Hit South While Much of California Is Covered By Snow North Dakota enjoyed mild winter weather Tuesday while the elements turned dizzy somersaults on the coun- try’s meteorological map, according to Associated Press dispatches. Temperature in Bismarck at 7 a. m.; was eight degrees above zero, 17 de- grees warmer than it was at 7 a. m. Sunday, when last winter's low tem-| perature mark was equaled for the! first time this season. “Nothing but good weather for North Dakota is in sight in the im- mediate future,” O. W. Roberts, fed- eral meteorologlist here, said Tuesday. “Temperatures are due to rise.’ | Streams overflowed their banks in| southern Ohio, tornadic winds andj heavy rains claimed six lives in southwestern Arkansas and northern | Louisiana, snow covered Los Angeles and San Fernando valley, and winds! of gale force whistled up and down | the Atlantic coast. i Lowlands in southern Ohio bore the brunt of the inundations. Scores of motorists were forced to abandon their automobiles as swirling waters swept over highways. One death was indirectly caused by the flood conditions. The Ohio river at Martin’s Ferry was rising slowly to the top of its banks, | The cards were runhing with the fr 1 loners Ueyddetieien-\ceeecae selves and they pressed their luck a| A new plea for cothing of every des- bit with doubles, and the net result |cription was voiced by the campaign was a loss. They were set twice when!director Tuesday. ‘We need almost doubled. They doubled the enemy every type of clothing except men’s four times. On one such doyble, Lenz.|shoes,” Rue said. “We have an ex- |master. went down five, with @ gain traordinarily great demand for under jot 1,060 points for the Culbertsons. i garments.” On three doubles Lenz and Jacoby, A truckload of toys, renovated by fulfilied their contracts, once. being. - led into game on a three-spade bi Possibly indicating the Culbertsons did not get full value out of their cards was the fact that in 13 hands |they took more tricks than bid. They essayed two little slams, Mrs. Culbertson playing each time. Once | families has been started, and present she: was set, undoubled, and the sec-|indications are that it will take all ond time she went down two, doubled.{the money in our fund to do the job ‘The first effort was a great gamble | properly,” Rue. said. for a big score. It was in rubber 36| Ages of the children of needy fami- {The Culbertsons had a game; thejlies are secured before the packing of jenemy had none. In addition Lenz) boxes is begun. Efforts are made to thad just gone down 1,000 points. Had | put one toy in each-box for each child ‘the slam succeeded the Culbertsons|of the family. In addition, clothing, iwould have accumulated more than|Sugar, coffee, oatmeal, candy, nuts, (Continu2d on page seven) flour or corn meal and other foods are CARAGHMANS CASE pares PRESENTED 10 JURY The “Open Your Heart” fund swell- ed to $465.61 Tuesday. Donations of Defense Says Fargoan Could Not Have Set Fire as $2 and $5 were made by Charles Rust ‘and’ State Charges was returned to headquarters"Tuesday and another truckload was sent to the prison for repairs. These toys will be Christmas presents for children of needy families. . Boxes Are Prepared “Preparation of boxes for needy F. Will, respectively, to add to the $458.61 total which was reached Monday. ASK EXTENSION OF GERMAN PAYMENTS | Young Plan Committee of Bank- ers to Seek Further Debt Moratorium He (Copyright, 1931, by the A. P.) Base), Dec. 15.—(7)—-A recommend- Fargo, N. D., Dec. 15.—(?)}—Claim that W. L. Isensee, Fargo garagemaa on trial in Cass county disrict court on arson charges, could not have set the fire which destroyed his garage in 1930 and escaped alive was made Monday as the defense completed its arguments to the jury. Gases which had flooded the poorly used in washing automobile engines! Germany's | conditional reparations would have made it impossible ‘0| payments will be contained in the bring into or leave in the basement a/ tinal report of the Young plan com- jfMame which later could have started} mittee studying Germany's capacity attorney for the defense. est authority Monday. His. appeal to the jury, which con-| ‘The recommendation will be ac- sumed more than three hours, closeG/ companied by a long summary of the court session. Rebuttal of the| tacts so the world will be able to draw state was postponed. until Tuesday| its own conclusions. ie when the eae baled given 12 the Jury. Establishing the claimed WaS} eq cancellation of reparations pay- an airtight alibi, Murphy charged) ments, but in view of the fact the witnesses produced by the state were) young plan denies the right to recom- Persons who, for personal reasons./mend measures outside the plan it- ‘would attempt to harm Isensee. self, the committee was said to be | Charging the state had failed to! p-actically certain to bow to strict prove its case, Murphy declared there} adherence to this provision. was nothing suspicious in Isensee tak-} 1¢ anything beyond this limit is cies before the fire, and that most of] it will be by implication only. |the policies signed were renewals. No Insurance expert hed claimed” © |Resume Arguments In Big Liquor Trial rage was over-insured, he said, Russians Say Grain i Fargo, Dec. 15.—(?}—Arguments to the jury in the Lee Dillage-Ed Mad- Collections Normal gers ison liquor case were resumed when Moscow, Dec. 15.—( —cottestions| #2 ‘court convened Tuesday. Ush- of the 1931 Russian grain crop up t0/er 1, Burdick, assistant district attor- date exceed those of 1930, according 0! ney, completed his opening argument, an official government announce-|Colonel M. A. Hildreth, counsel for ment. In 1930 upwards of 800,000.000| nradison, completed his argument and bushels was turned in at government) john Sullivan, Mandan, Dillage’s at- warehouses. torney, about half finished his plea No figures on this year’s crop Were before court adjourned Monday given out and there was no indication} Judge Andrew Miller denied a mo- its predecessor. The announcement) records ail testimony given by five ‘merely stated collections reached 84.4! character witnesses for Madison. per cent of the 1931 plan on Dec. 10} Judge Miller limited the time in and that the whole program would be| which counsel could argue to the jury fulfilled by the end of this month. to one hour each for defense attor- | The report was considered as refut- | neys and an hour and a half for Bur- ing previous reports abroad that this: dick. Y year's available export wheat from| Motions by counsel for Russia would be considerably dimin- |fendants for a directed verdict of not ished. oy guilty were denied by Judge Miller. at the state : penitentiary; ventilated basement from gasoline) ation for a further moratorium on) the blaze, charged Francis Murphy.| to pay, it was learned from the high-| A majority of the committee favor- | ing out the additional insurance poli-| aamitted in the report, it was said,! of how much the 1931 crop surpasses! tion by Burdick to strike from‘ the; On the wings of a gale of almost ; unprecedented force, four inches of snow fell in Los Angeles. A fall of ‘five feet was reported from the high- er ridges of the mountainous big- pines section. Low temperatures pre-/ !vailed in sections not visited by snow. Fuel was being taken to 350 persons snowbound in the Navajo Indiau “country in Gallup, N. M. A may died aber heart disease aggravated BY the strain of a day’s battle against snow- ‘drifts through which he struggled to reach Gallup. Strong winds and fog hampered shipping on the Atlantic coast. Fer- ries were not able to operate on schedule Monday. HOLD MORATORIUM | NON-PARTY SUBIECT :Democratic Committee Will Leave Members Free to Vote as They Please Washington, D. C., Dec. 15.—(?)— The Democratic joint policy commit- tee Tuesday determined that the! Hoover moratorium was not subject matter for party consideration and left it open to the personal views of the Democratic members. i In a brief statement by Speaker ‘Garner and Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic floor leaders, the committee said every possible ef- fort would be made to reduce gov- ernment expenditures but that no de- tails with respect to the tariff of tax revision were agreed upon. These matters among others were deferred for future consideration. The committee authorized Garner and Robinson to reconvene the joint committee at an early date. The statement came after a ses- sion participated in by 10 senators ;and 10 representatives on the Jlegis- lative policy of the Democratic party, in the new congress. Although economic relief proposals, command first attention in both sen- ate and house, a bill to authorize building the navy up to the London treaty limits was first to get actual committee discussion in the senate.’ The senate formally organized it- self Monday by electing committee chairmen, but it failed to settle the row over reelection of George Moses, | lof New Hampshire, as president pro- tempore. . | Ean EEE enn | Bride Is Willing To Give Up Prince Belgrade, Jugoslavia, Dec. 15.— (®—Mme. Jana Lucia Deletj, pretty commoner bride of Prince Nicholas of Rumania, 1s reported to have offered to lay her love on the altar of sacrifice for her husband. ® Informed circles here say she has expressed a willingness to give up the prince to save hinr from losing his royal title and that she sent a mesesage to King Carol de- claring she is willing to recognize an annulment of the marriage. She could never forgive herself, she is said to have told the king, if because of her, Nicholas suffer- ed all the disadvantages of being expelled from the family. PLAN NEW AIR SERIVCE | Washington, Dec. 15.—(?)—Senator | ‘Norbeck and Representative Christo- tpherson of South Dakota were as-/ ‘sured Monday by Postmaster General | 4 | v * FESS STEERSG.O.P. | TOWARD HOOVER AS in ar Ai) HOIGEFORNOMINEE Ohio Senator Declares Party Must Make Nation See | Him as Big Figure CITES NEED OF PUBLICITY Has no Doubt of Success if Pub- lic Envision Executive in Right Light Washington, Dec. 15.—()—Chicago was selected Tuesday for the Repub- lican convention in June. The national committee made the decision Tuesday. The vote was little more than a formality. Detroit, after figuring briefly as a potential con- tender, withdrew an hour or more before. Atlantic City was the only contest- ant. One ballot decided. Senator Fess of Ohio steered the Republican national committee Tues- day squarely at the renomination next year of President Hoover. The national chairman, in an ad- dress opening the session called to se- lect the 1932 convention city, told the Despite denials, reports persist in Chicago of a possible remarriage of Edith Rockefeller McCormick and Harold F. McCormick. The scion of the harvester: inventor and the daughter of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., were married in 1895 and divorced in 1921. Mr. McCormick was divorced a second time recently from the prima donna, Ganna Walska. FIVE JAPS KILLED AS NEW FIGHT IS REPORTED IN EAST Dispatch From Mukden Says Nipponese Cross River to Attack Irregulars Tokyo, Dec. 15.—(P)—A Rengo (Japanese) news agency dispatch from Mukden Tuesday said Chinese troops under Chang Hsueh-Liang had launched an attack along the South Manchurian railway. A Japanese force crossed the Liao river toward Hopeh to meet the Chinese moving on Newchwang, and in a fight with Chinese irregulars near Tiehliang the Japanese lost five killed and 10 wounded. CONFIRM RESIGNATION OF CHANG KAI SHEK Nanking, China, Dec. 15.—(P)— Resignation of Chang Kal Shek as president of China was confirmed Tuesday. He was succeeded by Lin Sen, veteran member of the Nation- party. Chang stepped out, he said, in the interest of internal peace in China and because of the strong criticism to which his foreign policies had been subjected. Chen Ming-Shu, tionalist military leader, was made chairman of the executive Yuan. Chiang vacated not only his minis- terial posts but that of commander- in-chief of the army. “I have tried to fulfill my obliga- tions ever since I was made chairman of the national government in 1928,” said Chiang. Prior prominent Na- to Chiang’s resignation, a committee its job was to place Hoover in the public mind on the eminence which “his stupenduous efforts and brilliant leadership justify.” “This stage reached,” he added, “there will be no doubt about the re- sults of the contest next November.” The nomination has been consid- ered all but foreclosed ever since former President Coolidge urged his Party to continue supporting its pres- ent leader. There are powerful op- ponents, but Fess and an imposing list of Republican leaders have been on record a long time. In Tuesday's address Fess traced the origins of the current economic upset to Gh Misael hats He credited the president wit aving displayed, in its handling, a seateraniin without precedent in American history. “Were it not that we are approach- ing a presidential campaign, Mr. Hoover would be the most widely sup- ported public man in his efforts for relief .. ,” asserted the chairman. Raps Party Politics “It is regrettable that in the ex- igencies of party politics politcial leaders are inclined to employ a de- pression as a basis for utilizing the unthinking disaffected who have been taught to look to the government for relief. It offers an opportunity, on a partisan basis, to seize upon the de- pression as the one chance of riding into office. “It is the purpose of this commit- tee to assist in convincing the disaf- fected the president is not responsible for the spots on the sun, the storms at sea, the droughts on land, nor the numerous epidemics that frequently sweep sections of the country. Our business is to place Mr. Hoover in the minds of the public where his stu- pendous efforts and brilliant leader- ship justify. This stage reached there will be no doubt about the results of the contest next November.” Fess reviewed in detail everything that has been done by the adminis- tration toward confidence and stability. If Hoover succeeded only. in preventing suffering and pre- venting adoption of the dole system, he would have done enough to dis- Haguieh him in history, said the sen- ator. Discusses Debt Situation “The interrelation between govern- ments today is so close, a default. on the part of one government would be felt among the people of all govern- ments. This would especially be true in the case of a breakdown in Ger- many, to whom American funds were loaned for purposes of readjustment after the war. A default in meeting (Gontinued on page seven) Roosevelt-Smith at Odds on Wet Issue Albany, N. Y., Dec. 15.—(®)—The Roosevelt group's reply to the Smith- crowd of 600 students from Pelping | Raskob demand for a Democratic na- stormed and wrecked the foreign of- fice of the government, then attacked the headquarters of the Nationalist party where Chiang and other gov- ernment leaders were meeting. The attack was halted by police, who surrounded the building and opened fire over the heads of the students, causing them to withdraw, but not before they had hurled many bricks and stones through the win- dows. *, When they arrived at the head- quarters, the students demanded an interview with President Chiang. This was refused and they attacked Chen Ming-Shu. The Peiping students came to Nan- king, as did students from many other places in China, to protest against the government's failure to take a stronger course against Japan-! ese activities in Manchuria, < During the raid on the foreign of- fice four minor officials were re- ported seriously injured as a result of rough handling by the students and many others were badly bruised as the crowd swept into the building. ' FIRE DAMAGES BANGKOK Bangkok, Siam, Dec. 15.—(#)—The most destructive fire in the history of Bangkok destroyed 500 buildings, including the Bank of Canton, in the Chinese business quarter Tuesday. Two thousand were left homeless but thus far no casualties were reported. The loss was esti- mated at more than $2,000,000. THREE HURT IN DUEL Chicago, Dec. 15.—(#)—A police- \Brown that air mail service between |man, a robber, and an innocent by- ‘kota, would begin January 1, or there- jeer in a pistol duel at a busy North Side street intersection. tonal stand on prohibition is that charting the party’s course is not a national committee function. Former Governor Alfred E. Smith’s pronouncement against “pussyfoot- ing” on prohibition has evoked one from a spokesman close to State Chairman James A. Farley of New York. considered leader of the forces behind Governor Franklin D. Roose- velt, that the Raskob plan, supported by Smith, was in defiance of party tules, which gave the wational com- mittee no such authority. The spokes- man said “it was certainly not pussy- footing to live up to the rules of the Mr. Roosevelt's last statement on prohibition was during the 1930 gub- ernatorial campaign. At that time he said prohibition was a tragic failure, that it had not solved the problem of temperance and that the states should decide the matter individually. both de-'Omaha and Watertown, South Da-| stander were wounded Monday night