The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 5, 1932, Page 1

é ime North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 Report Dro ener GRAINS FILLING OUT HELPED GREATLY BY ABUNDANT MOISTURE Precipitation Ranges From .11 to 2.20 Inches During FAIR WEATHER PREDICTED Cool Temperatures Accompany Downpour to Spoil July 4 Celebrations ; General rains Dakota over the week-end spoiled many Fourth of July celebrations but assured the state of at least a nor- mal crop of all kinds of small grain, | according to O. W. Roberts, federal meteorologist here. Precipitation for the 72-hour pe- riod ending at 7 a. m. Tuesday ranged from .11 of an inch at Pembina, in the northeastern part of the state, to 2.20 inches at Minot. “This rain came at just the right} time to be of the greatest benefit to crops,” Roberts said. “Small grains of all kinds showed abundant stalk} growth, and most grain is already} headed’, but rain was generally need- ed (seriously needed in some sec- tions) for filling. insure a normal crop of all kinds of throughout North | These rains will) Roosevelt Speech Is REET: BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1932 _THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather Fair tonight and We ° little change in temperstarg’ PRICE FIVE CENTS al Rains Assure N. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech of acceptance of the Democratic presidential nomination was the climax of the party’s convention in Chicago. Here the nominee is shown on the platform, at the left, with his son, James, in the center and Senator Walsh of Montana, convention chairman, at the right. Convention Climax D. of (ROOSEVELT T0 SEEK PEACE IN RANKS OF DEMOCRATIC PARTY Nominee Will Attempt to Heal Breach With Smith as First Campaign Step GETS BIG HOME WELCOME Thousands Gather in Rain at Albany to Receive Him on His Arrival Albany, N. Y., July 5.—()—Home from his first trip as the Democra-, tic presidential candidate, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt Tuesday took up the task of making peace in the party as his first step in the cam- paign. While the governor has no political conferences for the next few days, tion to the Smith group. He came home expressing confidence there Would be no factions in the party during the campaign. There was a belief the Roosevelt forces hoped to bring the governor and former Gov- ernor Smith, his bitter opponent be- fore the party convention, together. Roosevelt will be in New York Sun- day and political observers believed | small grain.” Though corn and potatoes were not) suffering to any extent, Roberts said, | the rains are beneficial to these crops. Rye is beginning to ripen in most sections. Roberts said only a few reports of| hail damage have been received, the losses being only slight, and declared that “no serious damage from grass- hoppers” has yet been reported in North Dakota. i The forecast is for little change in temperature and fair weather Tues- day night and Wednesday. Showers in northeastern North Dakota are predicted for Tuesday evening. As the rains fell temperatures aropped throughout the state, the maximums Monday ranging in the 60s and 70s and the lows being gen- erally in the 50s. At 7 a. m. Tuesday, Bismarck’s TAX COLLECTIONS IN COUNTY FELL 29 PER CENT IN LAST YEAR Totaled $932,537 Compared to $1,328,074 For Year Be- fore Treasurer Says Burleigh county tax collections for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, precipitation for the last 72-hour oc- riod totaled 1.23 inches. Other pre- {totaled $932,537.97 compared with | $1,328,074.62 for the previous year, it cipitation reports included: Ameniaj was announced Tuesday in the office 1.04 inches, Beach .58, Bottineau 1.44, Carrington .67, Crosby .45, Devils Lake 1.10, Dickinson .72, Drake 1.00, Dunn Center 1.36, Ellendale .87, Fes- senden .92, Grand Forks .64, Hankin- son .45, Jamestown .62, Larimore .93, Lisbon .98, Max 1.81, Minot 2.20, Na- poleon .87, Oakes .67, Parshall 1.02, Pembina .11, Sanish 1.40, Williston .38, and Fargo .58, New Postal Rates Are Effective Wednesday Bismarck residents will start using the new purple three-cent stamp Wed- nesday to help the government out of the red. The three-center is printed in pur- ple and bears the familiar Stuart por- | trait of Washington. It is identical in size and design with the two-cent Stamp of the Washington Bicenten- nial series except for the change in denomination numerals and omission of dates. Local postal authorities said Tues- day that the postoffice had been de- luged with inquiries as to the date the new rates would take effect. Despite Publicity given to the new postal rates, they said that hundreds of let- ters probably would be mailed from the city bearing stamps of the old} two-cent variety. It takes time, they believe, to get| the public to comply. Letters bearing two-cent stamps’ mailed after midnight Tuesday will be returned to the sender for postage if a return address is given on the en- velope. If no return address is giv- en, letters will be forwarded to the!!! addressee, collect. {> Two other varieties of three-cent stamps will be used—the current Lin- ecoln stamp of the regular issue and the three-center of the bicentennial series, Four. billion new stamps now are being manufactured by the govern- iaent. 10 Pesssas Drown As Floods Hit Texas! San Antonio, Tex., July 5—(?)— From the low lands and prairie coun- try of the lower reaches of the Frio, Guadalupe and Nueces rivers, farm- ers and ranchmen drove their live- stock to the hills Tuesday, to escape flood waters which already have elatined 10 lives. * With ample warning from the dam- |of County Treasurer Clair G. Derby. | $394,827.65, or approximately 29 per icent. | First installments on both real jestate and personal property taxes {become delinquent Dec. 31. For de- | linquent real estate taxes a penalty of five per cent on the first install- ment fs added March 1 and an ad- iditional three per cent is added Oct. 15 In addition to five per cent penal- lty on the second installment. | For personal property taxes a five per cent penalty is added March 1. For each succeeding month of delin- quency 3-4 of one per cent is added until Sept. 15, when unpaid taxes are turned over to the sheriff for collec- tion. In only four months during the jlast fiscal year did tax collections lexceed those for the corresponding {month of the previous year, the | table shows. | The table, showing total monthly ; collections for the last fiscal year in comparison with collections for the same periods in the previous year, follows: | j This Preceding Year Year July . +++$ 29,676.59 $ 27,097.59 August. eee 13,971.56 9,150.94 September ... 38,406.03 56,956.19 October eee 162,271.31 273,707.49 November .... 85,644.44 38,840.02 December .... 25,772.90 102,916.03 January . 29,268.02 72,559: February 282,180.96 421,303.15 {March ....... 212,626.55 219,808.77 April .. + 27,893.42 25,290.93 13,907.25 67,594.26 11,628.94, 12,849.95 Totals ....$932,537.97 $1,328,074.62 Woman Dies from Accident Injuries Jamestown, N. Andrew Foss of Tolley, 40, who suf- fered injuries to the head in an au- tomobile accident near Medina last Wednesday, died in a Jamestown hos- pital Tuesday. She had been con- scious for only a few minutes since the accident. Returning from a church meeting, Mrs. Foss was injured as an automo- bile in which she was riding collided with a car driven by John Whitner. She leaves her husband, two sons, a daughter, and two brothers, H. O. rand N. O, Helland of Alamo. Funeral services: will be conducted at Tolley. age done at the headwaters of these rivers, families were moved to safety. from farms and small towns in the path of the waters rushing toward the Gulf of Mexico. In the area in which the torrential rains of last week-end first caused. death and destruction, the waters were receding. An accurate estimate of the prop- erty damage in this ranching and re- sort country was still impossible. From many remote communities may yet come reports of the loss of life. There has been a great loss in live- stock. Crop damage will be tremend- ous. Much damage has been done to Piehrars and railroads. first San Antonio-El Paso train | in three days moved Monday. Widow ¢ of Diplomat Succumbs in France Chicago, July 5—(?)—Mrs, Kather- Medill MeCormnice member of the famous family of journalists and statesmen, and widow of the diplo- mat, Robert 8. McCormick, died of a heart attack early ‘Toemiey in Ver- the 1609, The reduction in collections was D., July 5—()—Mrs. plained. Italy Tosses Bomb Into Conference at Lausanne on War Debts-Reparations' Grandi Voices Demand That Europe Act to Cancel Ex- isting Obligations | | | | Lausanne, Switzerland, July 5.—(>) —An hour's conference between Prime Minister MacDonald and Chancellor von Fapen of Germany brought the two no closer together ; Tuesday on a compromise settlement of war debtsvand reparations. The chancellor shook his head as |he lef, MacDonald's headquarters. | “We're still far apart,” he said, “we {have made no progress.” |. Dino Grandi, Premier Mussolini's young foreign minister. rocked the conference to its foundations Monda\ ‘night by demanding on behalf of Italy complete cancellation of intra- European war debts as a condition to cancellation of reparations. Signor Grandi’s notice to his fellow conferees was served in a statemen: he gave the press. The conference, | meanwhile, was waiting hopefully for ‘the return of Premier Edouard Her-| \Yiot from Paris to go ahead with the, compromis> plan proposed by the five; major powers to Germany last week | “What are nations which have debts to meet going to do without} reparations receipts from Germany? '| , Signor Grandi asked. In Italian cir- ‘cles it was estimated Premier Mus- solini would insist on a settlement of! this question before the conference adjourns. With six of the smaller nations showing marked discontent with the }five-power plan for a German bond ‘of approximatley $1.000,000,000 in lieu; of approximately $1,100,000,000 in licu | became apparent that Italy might block any settlement until satisfactio:. ,;Was given on the questions she raised. “ Germany was under heavy perssure. however. to accept the five-power plan, which contains a provision link- ine the reparations settlement with debts due the United States from the World war allies. ‘New Pest Damaging Valley Grain Fields Minneapolis, July 5.—(#)—Grain fields of northwestern Minnesota and northeastern North Dakota are suf- fering from wheatstem maggots, along with grasshoppers, the north- west crop improvement association, re- fed Tuesday in a bulletin issued by H. R: Sumner. executive secretary. Dam; caused by these insects, usually not widespread, is proving {more serious than in recent years, he said. ' ‘The maggot eats the grain stem just Bbove the top joint, causing the head ,to turn white and die, Sumner ex- The only known practical method of control is rotation of crops and de- struction of infected grain. Poison bait has not proved successful. 'Garner Will Rest In Texas Sunshine Washington, July 5.—(#)—Speaker lake Nance Garner is going to take a jrest in the salubrious sunshine of i Texas before he enters the campaign for the vice presidency. At present he does not plan any ex- tensive Lou op Sian Democrats throughout the country are urging him to make speeches in a number of cities. As soon as possible after congress adjourns, Garner will go to Albany to jconfer with Governor Franklin D. | Roosevelt on plans for the campaign. jThen he will return to Washington to wind up details at the speaker's of fice, SEVERED BODY FOUND Laurel, prs this foreshadowed such a meeting, especially since the announcement by National Chairman James A. Far- ley he intended to call on Smith this week. he was expected to give much atten- | Approve sWORLD FLIERS LAND IN NOVA SCOTIA ON | HOP FROM NEW YORK |Hope to Beat Post-Gatty Rec-; ord of 8 Days, 15 Hours and 51 Minutes | | Harbor Grace, N. F., July 5.—(P)—/ ;James Mattern and Bennett Griffin, American airmen in search of a new round-the-world record, landed their |plane at Harbor Grace late Tuesday |after a hazardous trip from New ! York. They were lost for hours in a dense fog and overflew their mark.) |the Harbor Grace ariport, by 150 ;miles but made their way back. | Their red. white and blue plane, heavily loaded with gasoline, took off | lumberingly from Floyd Bennett air-| \port at 4:01 a. m., (Eastern Standard Time). | Following approximately the route pursued by Harold Gatty and Wiley Post, who circled the globe in the “Winnie Mae,” they hoped to beat | the Wiley-Post record of 8 days, 15 hours, 51 minutes. Dr. James H. Kimball, veteran weatherman, told them despite rain over Nova Scotia, they could expect satisfactory conditions. Mattern, who hails from Fort} I PROHIBITION STILL IS MAIN TOPIC OF POLITICAL EXPERT Leader of Allied Forces For Pro- hibition Attacks Both Old Parties ——— y,| Worth, Texas, and is 27 years old, ae Roosevelt cen eee MONAT. cat 18; feet away. from’ Griffin, ‘36 “Usually, wounds left by a conven-|¥ear-old Oklahoma City man. Be- tion fight heal before very long.” As, tween them were huge gasoline tanks. the leader of the Smith forces in| Has Dual Controls the bitter 1924 party convention, and; The plane has dual controls, how- one of the principal peacemakers in| €Ver. and the pilots planned to com- the party in the years since, he spoke Municate with each other by means from first-hand knowledge. Of notes placed in a small tube and The governor came home to find: Slid along a cable. An abundance a crowd of several thousand waiting | Of Compasses and a pair of ice in- at the station in a steady rain to] Sioators were among their instru- shout a welcome. At the executive ments. mansion another crowd filled the|, The pilots plotted a course across lawn until he came out and spoke. | the Atlantic to Ireland, over Europe Prominent political leaders con-|t© Siberia, across the length of Asia tinued their praise of the unpreced-|'0 the Pacific and homeward by way ented action of the governor in fly- of the north Pacific and Alaska. ing to Chicago to receive the nom-|, Their 550-horsepower craft is No. een peed a ely eieEcaae ai | Mattern has a varied record. He/ Governor William H. Murray, of played in a ship's orchestra on the Oklahoma, one of the nine Demo-' Pacific, won his wings as an army Washington, July 5.—/P}—Prohibi-} tion kept its place Tuesday at the top! of the post-convention discussions. As senate leaders tried to avert an-! votes” by flying to the convention as other vote on legalization of 3.2 per'soon as he was nominated. “It was cent beer, Dr. Daniel A. Poling, chair-| very fortunate that Roosevelt came man of the allied forces for prohibi-'to the convention because people will tion, got back to Washington from! look more at what he said than at Chicago and warned that. his organ-|the platform,” he added. ization is raising funds to support drv|__ At @ meeting of the Tammany Hall candidates for the house and senate | Braves in New York a message from Likewise, Bishop James Cannon, Jr.,|GOvernor Roosevelt saying he was in an Independence Day address, pre-|@Sured_ the society of Tammany dicted the Republicans would win in|W0uld “follow the banners. of Demo- November, adding: fad 4 one rasa putea sees “I am an anti-Smith Democrat ana! {748t to a vigorous ovation for Alfre anti-Chicago platform. The 1932 pro-|P- Smith who talked about “preserv- hibition plank of the Republican |i™S the constitution” when forced to party pledges enforcement of the law) Nis feet by insistent calls from the and opposes nullification. The Dem-| Audience. He said no word about po- ocrats in adopting an outright repea!| tis plank have assured the party of n» support of the greatest social enact- ment made by any nation in any age.” Dr. Poling in this fashion summar- ized his reaction to the “resubmis- sion” plank of Republicans and repeal Proposal of Democrats: “We are raising funds and organ- izing to help elect a senate and a house of representatives pledged to enforce and not to nullify the law: pledged to preserve the gains mad: under the eightecenth amendment: pledged to the constitution of th> United States and to representativ. government. We shall support Dem. cratic leaders who actively sought the | Democratic nomination, said upon! arriving home from the convention! {that Roosevelt “won thousands of HAGUE WILL SUPPORT DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE Washington, July 5.—()—Assur- jance that Mayor Frank Hague, of i Jersey City and New Jersey Demo- jcratic leaders would support Gover- nor Franklin D. Roosevelt “whole- heartedly” came Tuesday from Rep- resentative Percey H. Stewart, of | |MAY DRAFT SMITH TO . RUN FOR GOVERNORSHIP i_ New York, July 5.—()—The evening 2 | Poet says Tuesday it has learned that ;&8 Tammany movement is under w: ocrats and Republicans alike who! looking to Paminntinn of former Gov. subscribe to these principles.” iAlfred E. This same house and senate faced! the state's chief executive. @ proposal by Senator Bingham (R.' Prominent Tammany leaders are Conn.). to make 3.2 per cent beer le-/said by the Post to want Smith draft- gal. Bingham predicted it would pass ed for governor and from Persons the senate while Representative Brit-'close to John F. Curry, leader of the ten (Rep.. Ill.), made the same fore-!Hall, it 1s understood Smith’s selec- cast for the house. Senate leadérs'tion would be welcome to the Tam- hoped a vote could be prevented. |many chieftain STANDARDS DIRECTOR DIES Chicago, July 5.—()—Catcher Bill Washington, July 5.—(AP) — Dr. Dickey of the New York Yankees to- George K. Burgess, director of the|day was indefinitely suspended by bureau of standards and prominent) President William Harridge of the physicist, died Saturday in an ambu-| American League for assaulting Carl lance en route to a hospital after; Reynolds. Washington outfielder. being stricken’ in his office. |" DICKEY IS SUSPENDED Aimee’s Mama Tires of ‘Comic Strip’ Wedding and Turns ‘What a Man’ Loose Hermosa Beach, Calif., July 5.— (#)—Coincident with the booming of a fireworks display at the beach here in front.of her home, Mrs. Minnie (Ma) Kennedy Hud- son announced her marriage to Guy E. Hudson had “blown up.” “You can say for me,” began Mrs. Hudson, mother of Evange- list Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton, “that after a year of fruitless attempts at establishing Mr. Hudson in a permanent posi- tion, I have decided that it would be to our mutual advantage if he went his. way, and I went mine.” At this stage of the interview with reporters, Hudson, who was referred to as “what-a-man” by Mrs. Hudson when she eloped with hima year ago in the state “You can say for me that if there is a separation or divorce in this family, it is not because I want it,” he said. “As I was saying,” went on Mrs. Hudson, “I have good wishes for Mr. Hudson and will do anything I can to start him on his way to wherever he wants to go, but I am cutting loose. “I used to cry, but not anymore. It’s just a comic strip, this mar- ried life of ours. Funny and get- ting funnier. And I want it un- derstood that I am not responsible for any debts or other obligations he had incurred.” Hudson had been living for the past several days in a Los Angeles hotel. Mrs. Hudson had explain- ed it was an “economic separa- tion” while .Husdon was looking fer ,work. She hed denied it id be Il Plainfield, candidate for the senate. | Smith for a fifth term | pilot in Honolulu, flew cargoes of fish | from Brownsville, Tex., to Mexico} City and barnstormed in the far cor- ners of the earth. He piloted a re- fueling plane over rugged Alaskan country last year for Reg L. Robbins| ‘and H. S. Jones when they attempted ja Seattle-Tokyo hop unsuccessfully. | Griffin, who flew nearly 12 months jin the war without a mishap, was jborn at Barton. Miss., and attended {high school at Lexington, Okla. Both Were Secretive Both men were rather secretive about early preparations for the! flight. | | “Don't say anything about it,” | Mattern would say, “we don’t want people to think we're a couple of |_A8 they soared away from Floyd Bennett field Tuesday morning the fliers were going about 100 miles an ‘hour. | gasoline, planning to fill their tanks} to capacity, 600 gallons, at Harbor! { Grace, | | For the ocean flight it was a ques- | tion of “make it or bust” for they! jcarried no lifeboat, parachutes or fire | jextinguishers. They had a light! | breakfast before starting, and car-! to lunch on! They carried 385 gallons of jtied a few sandwiches \the way. A storm was brewing over Scotland, but over the ocean the weather was reported generally fair. Former North Dakotan| Shoots Wife and Self Winnipeg, Man., July 5.—/P}—Ar- rangements for burial of John Terrill, | 44, and his wife. 39, were being made Tuesday. Terrill, telegraph operator and native of Grafton, N. D., shot his wife with a sawed-off shotgun Satur- day night and later killed himself af- ter police had thrown tear gas bombs into his house. A sister lives at Cavalier, N. D., and} is the wife of a bank manager. An- other married sister lives at James- town, N. D. SISTER IS WIFE OF BANKER AT CAVALIER Cavalier, N. D., July 5.—(#)—John Terrill, who fatally shot his wife and committed suicide Saturday night in Winnipeg, was the brother of Mrs. C. 'W. Clow, wife of the manager of the Cavalier bank. Neither of Terrill’s Parents is living, Clow said. Damage in Bucyrus Fire Put at $35,000 Bucyrus, N. D., July 5.—(#)—An early morning blaze Monday destroy- ed three buildings with a loss estimat- ed at more than $35,000. Wakened at 2 a. m., Bucyrus resi- dents found the W. C. Cuningham general store afire. Without fire pro- tection, an immediate call was sent to the Hettinger department which rush- ed its equipment 10 miles to assist in quenching the flames. The Cunningham store was des- troyed witht a loss of $10,000 in stock and $5,000 to the building; the Otis and Otis hardware store burned with building and stock valued at $20,000 and the Old Johnson pool. hall with building and stock valued at $3,000. { Relief Bill Measure Carrying $2,100,000,- 000 Now-ls Ready For Final Action SOME FEAR HOOVER VETO Treadway's Refusal to Sign Re- port Seen as Sign of White House Attitude Washington, July 5—()—The §2.- 100,000,000 compromise unemployment relief bill was finally approved Tues- day by house and senate conterees. Indications, meanwhile, were i creasing that President Hoover Planned to veto the measure if th> conference report is approved in its Present form by the senate and house Senator Watson, Republican leader, said he is certain President Hoover will veto the bill and insist that con- gress stay in session until a new |measure, in line with his ideas, has been passed. Representative Rainey of Illinois, the Democratic leader and a member of the conference committee, said the Teport would be taken up by the house Wednesday. The conferees approved the final draft of the compromise agreement it the same form in which it was tenta- tively agreed to last Saturday, carry- ing $300,000,000 for direct relief loans to states: $322,000,000 for public con- struction and $1,500,000,000 for loans through the reconstruction corpora- tion, both public and private. All the conferees signed the bill ex- cept Representative Treadway (Rep., Mass.), a strong administration sup- porter. His refusal to sign added strengtn to the reports that President Hoover would veto the measure. A copy of the compromise measure was sent by the conferees to the white house Tuesday for President Hoover's study. Sponsors of the legislation continued to maintain confidence he would sign the measure. THREE ARE DEAD IN Part of Nebraska Also Stricken by Winds; Heavy Damage is Reported Washington, Kas., July 5.—(P)— Tornadic winds, hedge-hopping across southeastern Nebraska and northern Kansas, have killed at least three Persons, injured more than a score and brought great damage to the town of Washington. The angry clouds struck here Mon- day after previously razing the farm home of Mrs. F. E. Slagle, about 50, of near Hubbell, Neb. Mrs. Slagle was killed and her husband amd their two sons, Roy and Clyde, were in- | jured. Citizens of Washington and nu- merous visitors from nearby towns observed the sweep of the storm clouds near the close of an all-day Fourth of July celebration. Gover- nor Harry H. Woodring, who was to have been the principal speaker, cancelled the engagement because of fatigue after his return from the Democratic national convention at Chicago. Crashing buildings * illed Peter Gil- lett, a retired mail carrier and Gar- land Hubka, about 20, of Narka, Kas. The city was thrown into complete chaos. Reports that two additional Persons had been killed could not be verified. Eight of the more seriously injured were taken to a hospital. . Virtually half of the business sec- tion of the town was wrecked. The Burlington railroad station was blown completely away. Numerous motor- ists fled to safety before the approach of the storm cloud. Parked automo- |biles were undamaged in residential sections of the town. Mayor Edgar Bennett estimated 50 business buildings and 75 residences either were leveled or partially de- stroyed. Political Clashes Cause More Deaths Berlin, July 5—(#)—Two deaths and scores of injuries were added Tuesday night to the toll of political clashes throughout Germany over the week-end. A Communist was shot by police in Berlin when the officers charged a group of battling Communists and National Socialists. One Nazi was killed at Frankfurt in a clash with Communists, . There were several minor skir- mishes in Berlin during the night, in which an undetermined number were injured. A second Nazi was wounded in the fray at Frankfurt. Two were seriously injured, many less serious'y, in clashes tween Nazis and Reichsbannermen at Leipsic. Clashes were also reported at Feuerbach and Forst. Three deaths and scores of injured was the toll of Sunday's fighting shout the Reich. The most ser- ious fight developed at Essen, where one man was killed in a fight bet and «|Nazis and Communists and 4 clash be- All buildings destroved were par- insurance. ” in the death of one policeman. | | j KANSAS TORNADOES p in Holiday Deaths | Normal Crops Conferees Finally (COUNT OF 245 1S LESS THAN HALF OF LIST FOR LAST YEAR Comparatively Few Are Victims of Fireworks Which Cost 10 Lives | MANY MOTORING MISHAPS 11 Die From This Cause While Only 81 Drown; Cool Weather Helps (By The Associated Press) America celebrated the 156th anni- versary of the birth of the nation at & cost of more than 240 lives. But the toll was only about half of jthat of 1931 when nearly 500 persons jPaid with their lives for their cele- bration of the Fourth of July. As in recent years, only a compara- tively few of those who died this year were the victims of fireworks, which caused but 10 deaths in all. Automo- bile accidents were the chief cause, one hundred and eleven being killed in motor mishaps. Total drownings—81—for the nation fell off considerably from the previous year, when about 181 perished in the water, due in all probability to the fact that cool weather depopulated the beaches to a large extent. The midclewest led all other sec- tions of the country in the number of deaths with more than 90, of which 53 were due to automobile accidents and 31 to drownings. About 50 per- sons, mostly children, were injured by fireworks in Chicago. Of the 10 fatalities from fireworks. six occurred in Butte, Mont., where a Pile of dynamite caps exploded. Wil- liam and Joseph Crnich, each 19; Ru- dolph Kavran, 19; Stanley Strizic, 18, Joseph Mufich. 18, and Stanley Ser- ich, 18, were the victims. The following recapituation shows the deaths and causes by sections: Church-Goer Finds Bodies The Butte tragedy occurred at the ball park in Meaderville, a suburb. Louis Bonetto, coming out” of church, noticed a heap of debris near the ball park and went to investigate. He found the bodies of the boys scat- tered over an area of 300 feet. There was a hole in the ground five inches deep and a foot and a half in diameter, where the caps evidently had been detonated Blasts had been set off in the vi- cinity throughout the night. tween Communists and police ended| The youths had been setting off the caps one at a time. The cause of the detonation of the reserve supply was not ascertained. The mangled bodies were hurled many feet by the blast. Death totals mounted as reports came in from the midwest. Hundreds were injured and Chicago suffered severely. Nearly 60 persons were injured, some critically, by fireworks and fire- arms in the metropolitan area, and despite a ban of fireworks sales, the number was the greatest in recent years. Only one auto fatality occurred, al- though city and county police esti- mated 500,000 persons were on th: highways returning to Chicago last night from week-end resorts in Wis- consin, Indiana, and Michigan and the parks of Illinois. There was only one death from drowning in the city proper. | | ( a ee % idea il mB 22 62 2 66 New Eng- land 1 2 4 0 1 Mid Atlantic States 0 12 7 0 6 South 0 17 9 0 3 Southwest. 0 20 16 0 5 Middlewest 3 55 31 40 5 Mountain States 6 1 9 0 5 PacificCoast 0 12 14 0 1 Totals 10 119 90 0 s Grand total—245. THREE MEET DEATH IN MINNESOTA CRASH Paynesville, Minn. July 5—@)— Three men died Tuesday from in- juries suffered in a head-on automo- bile collision near Eden Valley Mon- day evening, while a woman was in serious condition. The dead are Haakon Hille, 62, and Arthur E. Klohn, 30, both of St. Paul, and Marvin A. Gilland, 30, of Mor- gan, Minn. Hille and Kiohn were riding in one car and Gilland and the woman, identified tentatively as Miss Peterson of Sleepy Eye, in an- other. These deaths brought the north- west traffic total to six for the holi- day week-end. MANDAN GIRL’S HAND BURNED IN ACCIDENT