The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 17, 1932, Page 1

ae Aap $k we = North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 Winona Iowa Farmers Continue to B SPECIAL DEPUTIES READY 10 BSCORT OTHERS TOMARKET Officials Say Few Are Attempt- ing to Get Through Bar- riers to Sioux City GUARD One Arrest Is Made When Agri- culturalist Attempts to Impede Officials IS AUGMENTED Sioux City, Iowa, Aug. 17—(P— Farmers continued their blockade of highways about Sioux City Wednes- day. Special deputies were ready to escort the few trucks seeking to enter the city with farm products and au- thorities said effectiveness of the blockade now is due more to failure of truckers to attempt to pass through than to their inability to do so. The highway guard of 60 special ‘Woodbury county deputy sheriffs was augmented Tuesday night when Sher. iff Ralph Rippey, of Plymouth coun- ty, deputized 20 special officers ani assigned them to the task of escort- ing trucks to the Woodbury county line. Only one truck, bearing cattle on the way to the Sioux City stock yards, passed through the picket line on Federal Highway Number 75 Wednes- day morning. One arrest in the strike was made Tuesday night when Fred Blanken- burg, a Plymouth county farmer, was taken into custody. No charge has been filed against Blankenburg, but he is accused of throwing a heavy timber in front of a truck load of deputies on the way to the picket lines. Negotiations Halted Statements from officials the blockade would be broken were made Tuesday following a deadlock in ne- gotiations between the distributors and producers over the price to be paid for milk. The producers are: asking $2.17 per hundred pounds, compared with $1.70 offered by the distributors. Sheriff John A. Davenport of Sioux City called for 60 special deputies to enforce the anti-blockade order, while Sheriff G. N. Slocum of Union county, 8. 'D., and Sheriff Ralph E. Rippey of Plymouth county, Iowa, also marshalled their forces to escort through the picket lines all truck- ers who have thus far refused to make the attempt in the face of determined opposition from the farm- ers. Members of the Milk Producers as- sociation said their fight was not connected with the selling strike be- ing waged by farmers in other of Iowa and nearby states but it was difficult to Pie viper the move- ments since ts have been barring the paths of all highway shipping. Some pickets have informed the sheriffs they will allow livestock trucks to enter the city but intend to continue their fight to bar all others. The authorities answered the blockade would be broken and al} trucks would go through. Would Extend Movement Meanwhile, at Des Moines rep- resentatives of midwestern states who attended a meeting to formulate plans for spreading the farm holiday movement of the National Farmers Holiday association returned to strike. E. E. Kennedy of Kankakee, ee set off.on ate to Colorado and insas to assis' organizing state holiday associations. Officers of the association said they had received requests for in- formation and telegrams asking for speakers from groups in Montana, indlane Colorado, Kansas, and Okla- oma. In North Dakota progress ported in the move to selling wheat until the price fla bushel although leaders there said they were not definitely linked with the Iowa strike. , E. H. Sauber, secretary of the South Dakota Farmers Union, said his organization had made no plans to call'a strike of South Dakota. farm- was re- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE 1 BETTY LEACH GOES BACK INTO LEAD IN POPULARITY RACE |Four Candidates Pass 100,000 Mark in Bismarck Mer- chants’ Election ! : | Betty Leach again was pacin= ‘~e! | field in the Bismarck merchants’ | ity election Wednesday after the heaviest voting to date had brought totals of four candidates over the 100,000 mark. 20,000" ballots {Miss Leach polled Tuesday to bring her total to 113,000. Close behind her was Ruby Jacob- son, who réceived 31,800 votes to jump from fourth place to the run- ner-up position in Wednesday's standings. Ernestine Carufel polled 39,700 votes, the greatest number polled during any 24-hour period since the election started August 4. This spirit- ed support left her only 11,700 votes behind the leader and 10,000 behind | Miss Jacobson. | Frances Slattery also passed the {100,000 mark with 1,000 ballots to Spare. Fifth and sixth places were oc- cupled by Alice Lee with 96,300 votes and Catherine Andrist with 91,700. Esther Watson, McKefihie, con- tinued to lead contestants from out of Bismarck with a total of 77,600 {votes, Luella Tollefson of Menoken | was second in this classification with 62,600 votes. Leads Mandan Candidates Mandan’s pace setter was Dorothy Seitz with 8,900 votes. Election | Broke Up Services tes ieee heidi BIS! As Tropical Hurricane Damaged Texas acu Shown above is a typical picture of the damage which was caused when a tropical storm struck Texas, killing 39 and injuring hundreds, about 50 seriously. The wreckage is that of a handsome residence, demolished by the wind, PanIIT | Assert Kentuckian ° e Benton, Ky., Aug. 17.—()—Rid- ing a prancing steed up and down the aisles and knocking over the pulpit as well as the preacher, Bobby Thompson, 20, broke up a church meeting. Witnesses said Thompson rode his horse right through the door of the improvised church made from a barn, trotted through the aisles and dashed away. The church service was adjourned im- mediately and a posse caught ‘Thompson. RIVAL ASPIRATIONS OF LEADERS SPLIT POLITICAL GROUPS Catholic Priest and Coin Har- vey Each Seek Nomination For Presidency St. Louis, Aug. 17—(?)—Presiden- tial aspirations of their leaders, one a Catholic priest. from industrial Pittsburgh and the other a “free silver” veteran from agrarian Arkan- sas, Wednesday had created a rift! between the jobless and liberty par- | ties and wrecked the long-heralded , plans for a fusion of the two groups for a concerted political campaign this fall. ' A joint national convention was to hhave been held Wednesday at Creve Coeur lake speedway west of St. Louis. Only a few hours before the Wednesday candidate receiving the greatest number of votes would be awarded the trip to Miami, Fia., on of where she lived. After Brand prize winner has been Cetermined, other winners will be taken from the rest of the field, with the winner from Bismarck, the one selected for Oe mores tours. ders on the basis of tabu- lations made at 5 p. m. Tuesday were: Alice Marsh, Bismarck, 58,200; Ethel » Bismarck, 48,300; Veronica Wertslein, Bismarck, 47,400; Marian (Continued on page two) ——- ’ Wants Action managers — peated that the Hi | 6 | In Separation Suit -———— —______ 5 Los Angeles, Aug. 17.—)—Un- willing to wait for the outcome of divorce proceedings here, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy Hudson, mother of the evangelist, Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton, said Wednes- day ‘she’ had authorized Tucson, Ariz, lawyers to start action in Sonora, Mexico, for a quick an- ~nulment of her marriage to Guy ed satisfaction over the progress made in their movement to raise’ the price of wheat, and announced plans to borrow $3,000,000 from the -federal reconstruction finance ee an can't st this chea advertising Mr. Hudson indulegd earner fe nee ae “husband,” said Mra. Hudson, “The whole’ business ‘OLD IRONSIDES’ Aug. 17.—()—The an of the historic con- fn which the United States fri- =. HONOR 120th anniversary ‘Nict eee Hen (iP) —Pe w.! ’ 17.) —I B Weldnen 6 banker and international “Masonry, died Tues-) as surgeons! on @|to withdraw as the presidential can- scheduled opening of the meeting, however, W. H. (Coin) Harvey, head! of the liberty party and its presi- dential nominee, made known his fol- lowers would hold their own gather- ing at Creve Coeur lake, about a mile from the speedway grandstand chos-' en by the Rev. James R. Cox, of Pittsburgh. for the convention of his “blue shirt” followers in the jobless! y. ' Efforts to agree on a common pres- idential candidate failed Tuesday at, & conference between Harvey and, Father Cox. The conference, which; grew acrimonious toward the close.| ended in the refusal of Father Cox didate of his party. Harvey refused adamantly to “step aside voluntarily when the people by the thousands’ are demanding me.” ! After the conference, the leaders ot} both parties went ahead with plans for separate conventions. The jobless party adherents spurn- ed the projected fusion of the two groups when the liberty party lead- ers objected to Father Cox as a pres- | idential candidate on the his: nomination would inject the religious! issue into the campaign. The failure of Father Cox to “bring the 1,000,000! delegates” which Harvey said he had' Promised to bring to the convention! also was a cause of difference be-' w tween the two party chiefs, Lancaster Is Hopeful As Case Goes to Jury went to the jury Wednesday. “I don’t think it will take them long,” he remarked. | of al the case wag given to the jury at noon. Women Creep Closer | To Endurance Record] New York, Aug. 17. — (?) — Mrs | Louise Thaden and Mrs Frances Marsalis crept closer to a new wom-; en's endurance flight record: Wednes- ; day as they began the fourth day in thelr “flying boudoir.” ; Taking off tast Sundhy at 1p. m., they had been aloft 65 hours today at him for |6.2. m. ‘The present record is 1227” hours. ithe British do not find some way to , “dumping,” as, owing to her economic Delayed by the lengthy final pleas! ttorneys, 53 TRADE CONFERENCE MARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1932 PublishR SAY WALKERS AID NOT REQUESTED IN| HUNT FOR SHERWOOD; Facts Brought Out At Roosevelt Hearing By Quizzing Sea- bury Assistant i Executive Chamber, Albany, N. Y., Aug. 17.—(?)—Attempting to counter- act the charge in the ouster proceed- ings against Mayor James J. Walker that the mayor made no effort to bring the missing accountant, Russell T. Sherwood, ‘back for questioning, John J. Curtin Wednesday brought out that Walker's assistance was not sought by the Hofstadter committee. With Jacob Gould Schurman, Jr., on the stand, Curtin, Walker's legal adviser, showed that when Sherwood was located at Atlantic city and later at Mexico City Walker's aid was not Solicited. Schurman formerly was an _assist- ant to Samuel Seabury, counsel to the Hofstadter committee. He conducted the investigation of Walker's financial affairs. BADLY SNARLED ON RUSSIAN BUSINESS Canada and Australia Demand (Protection Against ‘Dump- ing’ By Soviet | Ottawa, Ont., Aug. 17—(7)—Plans jof the Imperial trade conference to jeonclude its agreement and adjourn | Thursday were wrecked Wednesday over the question of Britain's trade with Soviet Russta-and’ the ‘end was | put forward to Saturday. It became obvious the plenary ses- ' sion could not be held Thursday when Stanley M. Bruce and J. G. Coates, leaders of the Australian and New Zealand delegations, joined forces with Prime Minister Bennett of Can- ada in demanding dominion products be protected against Soviet “dumping” in British markets. That means in effect, it was said, the trade preferences offered the United Kingdom may be abrogated if guarantee empire products will not be undersold by the Russians. The whip apparently had changed hands and the British were represented as astounded at the daughter nations dic- tating to the motherland. Well informed sources said the con- ference might take the form of an agreement “in principle” of indefi- nite character. For Great Britain, the Russian sit- uation is complicated by a most-fav- ored-nation treaty concluded between the old labor government and Soviet Russia, by British claims against Rus- sia, and by outstanding trade credits. Canada takes the view, as does Aus- tralia, that tariff preferences alone are of little use against Russian system, Russia can undercut any or- dinary preferences. What is desired is some more effective method—by quota or otherwise. Other things Canada was asking in addition to restrictions on Russian competition and preferences on wheat, lumber, bacon, other meats, butter, cheese, poultry, fruits, and fish, were: Removal of restrictions on Canadian live cattle to provide @ potential mar- ket for upwards of 50,000 animals an- | nually. Continuation after November 15 of existing preferences on empire manu- factured products to facilitate the sale in Britain of Canadian newsprint and wood products, machinery, hard- ware and cutlery, farm implements, Tubber goods, and other such pro- duets. Substantial preference on Canadian base metals, zinc spelter, lead in pigs, copper ore, bars, rods, aluminum, plat- inum concentrates and brass. It was virtually assured the United States would have to fight hard for Schurman, son of a former ambas- sador to Germany, testified Charles Kerrigan, assistant to Mayor Walker, told him the mayor did not expect Sherwood would be found. The con- versation with Kerrigan was before & subpoena was issued last August and while Walker was in . Kerrigan promised to assist the committee in reaching Sherwood, Schurman said. Offers Police Records ; Curtin introduced records to show the New York police department ask- ed the Atlantic City police to check on Sherwood’s presence in the Hotel Traymore there and that Schurman asked the New York officers to make no effort to serve the subpoena until Sherwood returned to New York. Walker, at Tuesday’s hearing, said Schurman_had_ told. Police. Commis- sioner Mulrooney to drop the search for Russell T. Sherwood, accountant who disappeared a year ago. He sug- gested Governor Roosevelt call Mul- rooney as a witness to corroborate this statement. Mulrooney was in Albany Tuesday and was still here Wednesday. Roosevelt asked Walker, as the hearing resumed, what steps Charles F. Kerrigan, his assistant told him he had taken about Sherwood on the mayor's arrival from Europe a year ago. “Kerrigan told me of some conver- sation he had had with the commit- tee,” Walker said. “I told him I thought he shouldn't have done what he did.” Schurman then took the stand and Roosevelt asked him if he had talked to Kerrigan. Tells of Conversation Schurman said that on August 13, 1931, he had lunch with Kerrigan. “Prior to that we had issued a sub- Poena for Mr. Sherwood,” Schurman said. “I told Mr. Kerrigan we were eager to get Sherwood. Mr. Kerrigan said Sherwood had told him of an attempt to serve papers on him. | “Kerrigan asked if we were going to examine Sherwood while the may- or was abroad. Kerrigan promised to Produce Sherwood. Kerrigan said, however, ‘I know the mayor did not expect you to find Sherwood.’” “From East Hampton that week-| end Judge Seabury and I asked Mr. Kerrigan if he had heard from Sher- wood. A couple of days later Judge Seabury informed Mr. Kerrigan on the telephone he was going to turn over to the police a subpoena for Sherwood.” Cross-examined by Curtin, Schur- man said he prepared the material in the investigation of the mayor. “I wasn’t interested in Mayor Walk. er's personal affairs, Mr. Curtin,’ Schurman replied sharply in protest to one of Curtin’s questions. Dairymen of State To Hold Convention The North Dakota’ State Dairy- mens’ association will hold its annuai convention at Valley City October 20, E. A, Greenwood, secretary, and state commissioner, announced Wednesday. bout, $50,000,000 of trade annually if the ed trade with other dominions would be affected more than that with Can- ada, idgerwood Doctor, Called to Dying Boy, Finds Own Son Is Bullet Victim A. Barry, Silver Lake, Minn., driving along a highway near the Catholic cemetery, noticed the The program will include a number scoring and butter Judging contests. Dr. I. H. Wells, Harvey, is presi- dent. .F. Gi Data Writes Eight-Page Brief Giving) Reasons For His Inter- pretation of Law HAS GARNER’S BACKING Action Is Planned Despite Pres-/ ident’s Plea That Publicity Be Omitted Washington, Aug. 17.—(#)—Con- | trary to the expectations of President Hoover, the clerk of the house intends to make public the details of loans made by the reconstruction finance corporation since July 21. { The corporation's first report on! the loans is due to be submitted to congress this week. South Trimble, house clerk, has written an eight-| Page brief giving his reasons for in- terpreting the relief law as making publicity mandatory. Trimble feels, as do Speaker Garner and Representative Rainey, Demo-/ cratic leader, that he has no choice. He disagrees that further congres- sional action is nec 4 The publicity provision got the re- lief bill into a snarl that threatened to prevent adjournment. At the in-j| sistence of Garner and Rainey the measure included instructions that monthly reports of loans should be transmitted to the clerk of the house and the secretary of the senate. President Hoover summoned lead- ers of both parties to the whte house to ask that the publicity phase be omitted. A statement from the ex- ecutive mansion explained the presi- dent favored “fullest publicity to all government activites” but that the then directors of the relief corpora- tion “advised the president of the danger that would result to the credit structure if this (publicity proviso) were insisted upon.” Garner renewed his fight for the provision. Rainey said it “must be included or there will be no reliet bill.” The completed law contained the phraseology, in outline at, least, demanded by Garner. Trimble’s brief recalls that many reports submitted to him are made public, such as those of campaign ex- Penditures; that the house last ses- sion directed that its payrolls should be open. It concedes the publicity clause is not retroactive but that any! view of the intent of congress is that the loans must be made public. Unless the house clerk changes his mind or something else prevents, the public soon will have a peek at loans by the government to banks, railroads, insurance companies and other in- terests since July 21. MINNESOTA LABOR Roads Banker Turns Clown Harper Joy, Investment banker of Spokane, Wash., can’t resist the sawdust trail during the summer months—so he dresses up like a clown and travels with a circus. (Associated Press Photo) AND, SEA AND AIR USED TO DISTRIBUTE RELIEF TO TEXANS Death List From Recent Hurri- cane Stands at 39; 50 Seriously Hurt Houston, Tex., Aug. 17.—(7)—By land, sea, and air, relief is being given victims of the hurricane which last week-end devastated an area of coast- al Texas inland from Galveston and interpretation of the language in | took 39 lives. Red Cross nurses on Texas ponies |Tode through debris-littered roads in- to little communities, bringing neces- sities of life and first aid; coast guard boats were ordered into action from several Gulf of Mexico points and an airplane Tuesday flew over Freeport, one of the towns hardest hit, and dropped a note telling of the coming of a launch with water, clothing. milk, and Local relief committees estimated more than 1,000 persons were without The Weather ” Niel “a Ance PRICE FIVE CENTS . Hit by Flood lockade |House Clerk Will ' LIVES OF SEVERAL PERSONS IMPERILED; HIGHWAYS DAMAGED Property Loss Heavy Through- | out District; Bridges | Washed Out MISSING BOY IS FOUND Many Stretches of Railroad Track Washed Away; Crew Saves Span Winona, Minn., Aug. 17.—(#)—Lives {Of several persons were imperiled, highways and railroads were blocked, livestock drowned, crops’ destroyed {and widespread general property dam- | age caused by Tuesday's cloudburst in this vicinity. Nine-year-old Matthew Kouba for whom police searched all night after he was reported missing from his Partly submerged home in a local sub- urb, reached his home at noon today. Trapped by the flood that followed a fall of almost two inches of rain with- in forty-five minutes, the lad escap- ed toward the city and spent the night there with relatives. Two un- identified St. Paul women, marooned in the same suburb, were rescued by firemen. Damage to county roads was esti- mated at $10,000 and the district state highway superintendent at Rochester said the state trunk high- ways were damaged at least $100,000. In Winona county alone 26 bridges were washed out and widespread de- struction was believed to have result- ed to Houston county roads and bridges. Report Rail Washouts Washouts occurred on the North- western and Great Western railways near here. The Great Western was particularly hard hit, tracks being washed out over long stretches and between here and Minnesota City, seven miles away, it was estimated the track had been undermined or washed away in at least a dozen places. Across the river from Winona a large crew of men saved a Milwaukee railroad bridge, threatened by the roaring torrents. Heavy damage was caused to trunk highway No. 7 on the Stockton Hill stretch which had just been accept- ed as finished by the state. Deep ditches were cut into the soft fills and about 50,000 cubic yards of earth were washed away. Tales of narrow escapes came from the lowlands where farmers and trav- elers were caught by literal walls of water pouring down ravines and creeks. Several farmers were to have risked their lives to help live- stock to higher ground and safety. Despite their heroic efforts, some livestock perished and their bodies were washed down the smaller streams into the Mississippi river. Trees Are Uprooted ~ASKS CUT IN HOUR Convention Decides to Fight For Five-Day Week and Six- Hour Day St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 17.—(?)—-The @ means of livelihood and the num- ber of homeless in .\ngleton and West Columbia alone was estimated at 3,000. Most of those without means of sub- sistence were tenant farmers whose cotton and rice crops were destroyed. The seriously injured exceeded 50. Lindbergh Requests Publicity Be Halted Englewood, N. J., Aug. 17.—(P)— Minnesota Federation of Labor has; tn an atmosphere of quiet and peace, pledged itself in convention to fight for a five-day week and six-hour day with no wage cut. | A resolution reaffirming the fed- erations stand in favor of the shorter working periods pointed to the five- day week and six-hour day as @ measure to reduce unemployment. Another resolution called for an educational program to combat child labor. The convention indorsed a pro- posed bill for congressional action to extend credit to unemployed heads of families to the extent of $300 and $100 for each dependent, the total not to exceed $500, which would be repaid with interest over a period of work. Proposed legislation to regulate busses and trucks and for a six-hour day in the railway labor services also ‘was approved. A’ resolution was adopted urging employ persons living in the com- munity and use local materials as far as possible.” The same resolution condemned as Barry hastened to the city for a doctor. Richland county Coroner L. E. ged Rl siyiratt viapi npn which “emphasize the de nb; holding down forces to a skeleton, cutting wages to a minimum, going outside the state for things that can| Minny of a report the Lindberghs planned to move soon to the mansion on 10.years when the individual finds Sourland mountain from which their first child, the late Charles A. Lind- bergh, Jr., was kidnaped. “aisloval and selfish.” companies Father Convinced the new son of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh began his second day of life Wednesday. In deference to the wishes of Col. Lindbergh, who said in a statement Tuesday night he desired as little public attention as possible centered on the baby, the family was left in seclusion. Friends seemed agreed the baby would probably be named after his famous grandfather, the late Sena- tor Dwight Morrow was forthcoming, but the health of mother and child was believed to be good. No statement There was no official confirmation his statement Tuesday night Lindbergh said he and his wife “feel that our children have a right: to “public servants of a community to|§TOW,,UP normally with other chil- ‘Continued publicity,” he said, “will make this impossible. Son Took Own Life eapolis, Aug. 17.—(7)}—Dr. F. be obtained here and investing sur- | F. Lawrence of Columbus, Ohio, Wed- his plus: funds in mo connection Minnesota. Artificial Lake Is Planned for Tioga three miles cast of here Smith of the state engineer expressed found dead of carbon learning tive assistant to President » Worrled about enterprises that have|nesday said he was convinced poisoning in a university garage Sun- day, had been slain. County officers returned a nA that ‘Denn Lawrence, exe Lotus D. his health Whole trees, uprooted in the small ravines, were swept down into the river, Long stretches of the lowland still were under water Wednesday and travel by car was virtually impos- sible in places because of the wrecked bridges and flooded roads. The Winona airport was covered with six feet of water. Several hundred men comprising highway, railway, telephone and pow- er company crews, were out repair work. The official measure- ment of the rainfall was 1.83 inches which fell in about 45 minutes. In Winona, basements of stores and private homes were flooded when sewers proved inadequate to handle the torrents. Lightning accompanied the down- Pour and a bolt struck John J. Ma- lotke, mechanic, while he was work- ing over a truck. The fire department rescued three women when water surrounded a Sugar Loaf home. A dance pavilion in a nearby valley was carried more than a mile and several automobiles were washed into ditches. One of the largest fills on highway No. 7 near here, finished August 1 at & cost of $325,000, was washed away and deep cuts were washed in other Parts of the road. Several farmers put pigs on the roofs of farm buildings to save them from drowning. Rain here totaled 1.83 inches in 45 minutes, with more ‘west of here. TWO ARE DROWNED AS FLOODS HIT OKLAHOMA Enid, Okla., —P—Twe other were and a lozen persons were missing Wednes- a, = ae. at Cherokee and iv Enid. 10.76 inch rain. ice owas