The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 13, 1932, Page 3

- rising temperature Wednesday in cen- Colonel Robins Was Born Adventurer ** # ek ® STORY OF LIFE IS THRILLER **# & Disappearance Just Another Chapter * ek ee * * e# * * * * By ROBERT TALLEY NEA Service Writer ‘When Colonel Raymond Robins, 59, silently vanished into the realms of missing men while en route from New York to the white house to keep an appointment with President Hoover, he left behind a career of adventure —and mystery—equaled by few men. For a generation Colonel Robins had been a prominent figure in Amer- ican public life. Progressive —even radical—in his views, he was no par- lor reformer. He loved life in the raw; and the rawer the better. His most noted service was when he headed the American Red Cross relief mission to Russia during the early days of the Bolshevik revolution in 1917-18. There he became the American government's unofficial channel of cpmmunication with the Soviet goverhment, almost blocked Russia's untimely retirement from the World war, spent American govern- ment money to send Russian Bolshe- vik agitators into Germany, and came a friend and confidant of Niko- lai Lenin, whom no other allied rep- resentative had ever been able to ap- Proach, ‘ A born adventurer, Robins joined the gold rush to Alaska in 1898, only ‘two years after his graduation from Columbian university (now George Washington). In Alaska, he “struck it rich” and made enough money to support himself comfortably for the rest of his life. A persuasive speaker and a favorite with the rough and ready miners around Nome, they “elected” him their preacher, though hhe_never had been ordained. Relieved of the worries of having to earn a living, Robins took up social service work in Chicago in 1902 upon his return from Alaska, He became superintendent of Chicago's munici- pal lodging house—and that suited him exactly, because he liked to ex- Plore the souls of men and restore social derelicts to sound life. He remained there until 1905, and then became a member of the Chicago board of education for four years. s.* 8 When Theodore Roosevelt blos- somed as a Progressive candidate for the presidency in 1912, Robins was one of the first to support him. He assumed charge of the Roosevelt campaign in Illinois. Two years later he ran for the United States senate on the Progressive ticket, and went down in defeat, Pbeicattis ieee NU AS Pea | Weather Report eS toss : FORECASTS For Bismarck and vicinity: Fair tonight and Wed- nesday; not so cool tonight, warmer Wednes- day. For North Da- kota: Generally fair tonight and Wednesday; not 80 cool tonight west, and north ions; warmer ednesday. For South Da- kota: Fair tonight and Wednesday; not so cool tonight extreme west por- tion, warmer Wednesday. For Montana: Generally fair to- night and Wednesday; warmer north- east tonight and southeast portion ‘Wednesday. For Minnesota: Generally fair to- night and Wednesday; cooler tonight, except in extreme northwest, possibly light frost on low ground in north; tral and west portions. GENERAL CONDITIONS A high pressure area, accompanied by cool weather, extends from the Plains States westward to the north Pacific coast. Frost occurred at some places in western North Daota. Light precipitation occurred in the Great Laxes region and Mississippi Valley while generally fair weather prevails from the Plains States westward to the Pacific coast. Missouri riverstage at 7 a. m. 0.7 ft. 24 hour change, 0.0 ft. Bismarck station barometer, inches, 28.40. Reduced to sea level, 30.20. TEMPERATURE At 7a. m. Highest yest Lowest last night PRECIPITATION Amt. 24 hrs, ending 7 a. Total this month to dat Normal, this month to date . Total, Jan. 1 to date ... Normal, Jan. 1 to date . Screamer deficiency since jan. NORTH DAKOTA POINTS 3 a Low Ins. mprs. Pre. BISMARCK, clear ~4 3T Amenia, clear 12 442 Beach, peldy. . » 65 Bottineau, clear 70 Carrington, clear - & Crosby, cldy. ...... » 67 Devils Lake, clear . + 3 Dickinson, pcldy 7 Drake, peldy. . 72 Dunn Center, cld; - 68 Ellendale, clear Fessencen, clear Grand Forks, clear .... Hankinson, clear . . Jamestown, clear . Larimore, clear . Lisbon, clear .. Max, peldy. ... Minot, cldy. . Napoleon, clear . Oakes, clear ... Pembina, clear ‘ishek, Moorhead, SSSSSSSSASerseseaesssess GENERAL Ot@er Stations— 10, pe i: "| Heved to have been caused by a brok- ‘06|en journal on @ gondola loaded with 00|coal. The train was a through east- In 1916 he became a “good Repub- lican again” when he followed Roose- velt back into the party to support Hughes, and in 1920 and 1924 was re- warded by being made a member of the Republican national executive committee. During this period he was a lead- ing campaigner for the nation-wide “Men and: Religion Forward Move- ment,” and also high in the councils of the international Y. M. C. A., spreading that organization to foreign lands, In June, 1917, when America was trying desperately to keep the fag- ging Russians in the war against Ger- many, Robins was commissioned as a major and sent to Russia with the American Red Cross mission. In No- vember of that year he was promoted to lleutenant-colonel and made com- mander of the relief expedition. In this job he came to know President Hoover well. With his trainloads of food and clothing, Robins arrived in Russia while Kerensky—who had overthrown the czar—was still in power. Trotzky was in jail then, Lenin was a fugi- tive, but the shadow of Lenin was URGES NEW GRASS BE LEFT UNCUT IN PALL N. D. A. C. Horticulturist Says Poor Drainage Might Prove Damaging not to cut the lawn—that is a ques- tion uppermost in the minds of lawn owners these days. Some people say that late fall cutting will invite a win- ter kill, while others argue it will not. Prof. C. B. Waldron, horticulturist at the North Dakota Agricultural college, settles the dispute by point- ing out that numerous experiments with late fall cutting of lawns failed to kill where the stand of blue grass was mature. The late cutting does not aid in killing the lawn, but poor drainage will kill it, he states. Where ice and water are allowed to stand in the spring and during the winter there the grass will die. He recom- mends that new seeding be left with- out cutting this fall, however. It is possible for blue grass to with- stand the hard winters because it has underground stolons or root-stocks, according to Waldron. Other grasses and forage crops that winter-over and that do not have stolons are likely to winter kill, especially when cut late. soon to swallow Kerensky. It did, in November of that year, when Rus- sia’s millions, dumb in their newfound freedom, chose Bolshevism as their future course. Colonel Robins tried tirelessly to hold Russia in the war, but the Rus- sian people were tired of fighting. | Through interpreters, he addressed) soldiers in their barracks and arsen- als, workers in their factories. Rob- ins played ball with Lenin, with whom he alone—among all allied represen- tatives in Russia—was able to get on close terms. He even spent $18,000 of America’s money, supplied by the United States government's wartime committee on public information, to send secret Russian agitators into Germany in an effort to promote a Bolshevik revolu- tion there and thus cause Germany's collapse. But all to no avail; in March, 1918, the treaty of Brest- Litovsk was signed and Russia was out of the war. ee * Shortly before this happened, the adamant Trotzky had summoned Col- onel Robins to his office and showed him a map as large as the wall of the room. It showed the locations of tre- mendous stores of Russian munitions on the eastern front; vast dumps of ammunition, cannon that had never been fired, millions of shells, huge quantities of war supplies of every kind. ; In substance, Trotzky said to Rob- ins: “If the Bolshevik government is to | sueceed, we need efficient railroad | transportation to exchange the prod- jucts of our farms and our cities. We need Americans who know how to ryn railroads efficiently. If you will send us those railroad experts, we will give you all this. If we leave these war munitions where they are they will be eeptured by the Germans.” Washington did not accept the of- fer. A little later, these great stores of war supplies did fall into the hands of the Germans. A little later still) ... beginning with the great German drive of March 21, 1918... this same shot and shell was used by Germany to mow down Americans, Englishmen and Frenchmen on the western front. Since the war, Colonel Robins has been active as a prohibition crusader, while serving as chairman of the board of the First National bank at Brooksville, Fla., where he made his home. His activities are said to have bred the bitter enmity of liquor run- ners on the Florida coast. Despite his close relations with Bol- shevism, Colonel Robins never sub- scribed to its theory of government. He was even a foe of Socialism. In 1919 a senate committee inves- tigating Bolshevism in the United States asked Colonel Robins for his opinion of Russia’s Bolshevik leaders. His reply was: “There are sincere crazy people everywhere.” N. P. Freight Train Wrecked Near Beach | Beach, N. D., Sept. 13.—Three load- ed gondolas were piled up in the ditch and nearly a quarter of 2 mile of track was torn up when a Northern Pacific freight train was wrecked at Yates, six miles west of here at 8:30 Pp. m. Monday. Although several transients were riding on’the cars that were ditched, no one was believed to have been killed or injured. The wreck was be- bound freight, loaded with stock, fruit and coal. Traffic was restored temporarily Tuesday morning, railway officials 00 | said. 4 | Amidon Man Killed At La Crosse, Wi: Valley City, N. D., Sept. 13.—(?)— 00/F, Fredrick of Amidon, N. D., was 00 fatally injured when struck by a switch engine at La Crosse, Wis., Monday, according to word received here by Mrs. J. F. L. Bohnhoff, a sis- ter. Fredrick was en route home after a visit with relatives in Chicago. He was unmarried. Man, 90, Dismayed | By Mother’s Death o ° | | ° New York, Sept. 13.—(7)—A son, the last of 12 children, be- came hysterical and threatened suicide Monday following the death of his mother. He was re- strained by neighbors, The son, John Meyers, is 90 years old. His mother, Mrs. Dora Meyers, who died Sunday, celebrated her 16th birthday July 14. airport. erected in Biscayne Bay, off Virginia Key, according to plans of the PSEPSSESLSSSSSTRASSSSSASIES PSBPeSSEELEeeRRELERBEREEEEEEE Airport . association. Ene ceolect would cost $3,000,000 and require thre> years to complete. It would fill in 1,100 acres of city- owned bay bottom. Alfalfa, for instance, when cut late is likely to winter kill. Whether or not the leaves are to be left all winter is a matter of taste to the lawn owner. A fine compost or well-rotted manure spread at the rate of one-half toone inch thick and raked in this fall will aid the growth of grass next year. The addition of two pounds of ammonium sulphate to each square rod of lawn in the spring on top of the compost will make the grass luxuriantly green. CONTINUED from page one Flying Family Is Reported Safe on Greenland’s Coast what it costs to send rescue expedi- tions when such flights fail. “Flights across Greenland are work for men,” said the newspaper, “not for women, and especially not for little girls.” “That's a great load off my mind,” said Premier Stauning when he was informed of the rescue, “nevertheless most Danes cannot help liking and! admiring Mr. Hutchinson's undaunt- ed_ pluck.” News of the rescue was broadcast immediately by all Danish radio sta- tions to relieve the anxiety of those who had been following the search for the fliers. The Hutchinson family, father, mother, and two small daughters, with a crew of four, left New York Aug. 23 on a flight by e sy stages over the northern transatlantic route to Europe. They hoped to be the first family to cross the Atlantic in @ plane. Their flight culminated Sunday in frantic 8.0.8. calls—and then si- lence. By radio Hutchinson report- ed his plane had been forced down off eastern Greenland on its way to Anamagsalik from Julianhaab and it was feared all eight perished in the icy waters. Hutchinson's two little daughters, Catherine, 8, and Janet Lee, 6, who carried their doll with them. were the first children to be passengers on @ transatlantic flight attempt. Calcutta, capital of Bengal, India, has a population of more than 1,327,- 500. MONTHS AFTER WIS MOTHER'S | BURIAL! Stranger Things Are Happening Than You Ever Dreamed— YOU'LL UNDER- STAND after getting that weird, creepy feel- ing when you see “WHITE ZOMBIE” new bargain You’. be delighted with the new Kellogg's Whole Wheat Flakes. Compare the size of the big red-and-green pach- age. It’s certainly economical. And you've never tasted such delicious, crisp wheat flakes. Made by Kellogg in Battle Creek. y NEW Easy-Open ContinvED Alice Lee Receives Heavy Vote to Lead In Popularity Race Jacobson, Bismarck, 931,800; Cath- erine Andrist, Bismarck, 884,600; | Frances Slattery, 815,200; Miss Tol- lefson, 214,100; Alice Marsh, Bis- marck, 196,000; Esther Watson, Mc- | Kenzie, 178,100; Veronica Werstlein, Fargo, N. D., Sept. 13—To cut | Bismarck, 169,300; June Boardman, Bismarck, 68,700; Caroline Hall, Bis- marck, 67,800; Aldeen Paris, Bis- marck, 65,7 Ethel Fisher, Bis- marck, 65,400; Marian Yeater, Bis-| marck, 63,000; Madeline Schmidt, Richardton, 59,800; Elsie Nelson, Bis- marck, 54,600; Miss Mackin, 51,600; Betty Haagensen, Bismarck, 47,900; Dorothy Atwood, Bismarck, 43,500; Dorothy Seitz, Mandan, 43,400; Irene Britton, Bismarck, 31,700; Katherine Brown, Bismarck, 29,600; Jessie Phil- lips, Bismarck, 27,000; Ruth M. E. Jordan, Bismarck, 25,400; Katherine Kositzky, Bismarck 24,600; Alice Glovitch, Killdeer, 23,300; Elinor Green, Bismarck, 21,400; Isabelle Gordon, Bismarck, 21,300; and Gert- rude Ankarberg, Stanton, 16,100. Monday totals were: Arllys Anderson, Bismarck .....4300 Dorothy Atwood, Bismarck Jane Byrne, Bismarck.. Catherine Andrist, Bismarck. Natalie Barbie, Bismarck..... June Boardman, Bismarck...;. 68700 Veronica Brown, Bismarck. Irene Britton, Bismarck .. Katherine Brown, Bismarc! Eula Cameron, Bismarck... )Ethel Childs, Bismarck .. Ethel Fisher, Bismarck .. |Margaret Fortune, Bismarck. Isabelle Gordon, Bismarck Elinor Green, Bismarck ....... 21400 Norma Peterson, Mandan . Dorothy Seitz, Mandan .. Cecelia Swanson, Mandan.... Grace Valder, Mandan ... Marion Vogelpohl, Mandan. Stella Zwaryck, Mandan ... Gertrude Ankarberg, Stanton. Carol Deis, Carson . Emma Barth, Timmer Iva Burnstad, Burnstad, N. D. Blanche Clarke, Dickinson Tyne Eckholm, Wing. Emma Claridge, RFD, Bismarc! Alice Glovitch, Killdeer Emma King, Menoken. Valera Saldin, Coleharbor ..... Madeline Schmidt, Richardton 59800 Luella Tollefson, Menoken ....214100 7500 Esther Watson, McKenzie. .....178100 Monica Weigum, Golden Valley.. 600 Helen Bumann, Judson .. Florence West, Sweet Briar. Ella Hart, Cleveland. CONTINUED from page one Legion to Vote on Resolution Censuring Eviction of B. E. F. ble homes of these men. That is not the fact. The fires were set by the men themselves. No members of the army would do that. All the fatalities that occurred on the day of which you have heard so much took place before the arrival of the United States army.” Hurley read the order he had written at President Hoover's direc- tions. “Now, can you find any fault with those orders?” he asked. “Are they 100 800 unjustly harsh? I ordered out the armed forces of the government to ‘Magdalene Gondringer, Bismarck.1700 Ruth Gordon, Bismarck .. 5000 Betty Haagensen, Bismarck. Caroline Hall, Bismarck . Agnes Hultberg, Bismarck . Evelyn Hannaford, Bismarcl Ruby Jacobson, Bismarck. Dorothy Johnson, Bismarck. Ruth M. E. Jordan, Bismarck. Katherine Kositzky, Bismarck. .24600 Irene Lambertus, Bismarck. Alice Lee, Bismarck « Marial Lehr, Bismarck... 200 Jackie Malek, Bismarck . + 3300 Alice Marsh, Bismarck. . 196000 Marian Morton, Bismarck . 100 Luby Miller, Bismarck. 14400 Elsie Nelson, Bismarck . 54600 {Eliza Nicholson, Bismarck. « 8300 Nadine O'Leary, Bismarc! + 1700 {Lila Olson, Bismarck. 10800 {Betty Orluck, Bismarc! » 6706 , Betty Manning, Bismarc! 1100 Aldeen Paris, Bismarck.. 65700 !Marion Paxman, Bismarck... 100 | Dorothy Parsons, Bismarck . 3700 {Jessie Phillips, Bismarck. .......27000 | Hazel Rhines, Bismarck. | Audrey Rohrer, Bismarck Margaret, Schneider, Bismarck.. Frances Slattery, Bismarck Viola Sundland, Bismarck. {Fay Smith, Bismarck .. |Patty Whittey, Bismarck Grace Williams, Bismarck Marian Worner, Bismarck ‘Veronica Werstlein, Bismare! Alma Walth, Bismarck... Marian Yeater, Bismarck Esther Anderson, Mandan Evelyn Farr, Mandan Emma Fix, Mandan ... Kitty Gallagher, Mandan Betty Mackin, Mandan “ *ve known some lovely girls to offend this way. It’s so care less not to wash underthings after every wearing. We all perspire—at least a little — every day; and perspiration in your lingerie is sure to betray you. Why risk it? In no time —with Lux—you can be sure the perspiration acids and odors are all gone. Lux keeps your dainty things fresh and colorful, and they wear longer, too. You know, —. in water alone is safe in 2000 | clared. LUX for underthings protect the marchers as well as oth- ers. “There were men among that group in Washington who came in an order- ly way to state their case, whom I would lay down my life to protect. There were wonderfully fine men among them. But there were other 5600| men there, too. All were not angels. And I want to tell you that this is a government of a majority and not a government of a minority.” Gibbons had said that order pre- vailed in the Washington bonus camps and that laws were being en- forced when the army took control. Gibbons referred to “rough treat- ment” accorded the bonus march- ers, to the “great patriotism” of the throngs “who stood in the rain and sang the national anthem.” They were law-abiding and orderly, he de- Curley Gets Cheer Delegates cheered a speeth by May- or James M. Curley of Boston who said war time heroes had been “shot down like dogs in the capital of our nation.” ‘ Hurley was said by members of the Oklahoma delegation to have accepted the badge of a delegate from that state and in doing so to have promis- ed to vote for immediate bonus pay- ment as an instructed delegate. How- ever, he remarked later he probably would leave for Huron, 8. D., before the matter comes to a vote. The war secretary was expectd to march in the ranks of Tuesday's par- ade as a buck private among the Le- gionnaires from his home state. He had been asked to watch from the reviewing stand but preferred to march, An admittedly hopeless battle against a demand for immediate pay- ment of the bonus was waged vigor- ously by a group of delegates. Determined Pennsylvania delegates promised to carry their fight to the convention floor, if necessary, for a “She doesn’t realize how perspiration “If she did she’d fever wear under- things a second day” keeps —and have no place in cigarettes They are mot present in Luckies the mildest cigarette you ever smoked buy the finest, the very tobaccos in all the world—but that does not explain why folks everywhere regard Lucky Strike as the overlook the truth that “Nature in “If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better spite of frequent washings resolution censuring the president for the manner in which the bonus ex- Peditionary force was ejected from the capital. Portland was given a foretaste of Tuesday's event in the 40 and 8 par- ade last night. The entire business L, district has been turned over to the Legion, business houses will close and traffic will be routed around it. Local and federal authorities raid- ed a number of soft drink parlors converted to “dugouts” by the addi- tion of imitation log fronts and real alcohol to the beverages on sale. Sev- eral proprietors were arrested. TREE FIRE TANGLE Houston, Tex—Two robbers here disdain the use of guns or blackjacks, SHOCK-PROOF BOARDS Chicago—Air lines have been ex- perimenting with shock-proof instru- ment boards to eliminate the jarring and misalignment of instruments through hard landings. One of those expected to meet requirements con- sists of heavy rubber mountings. This rubber board is insulated from the frame by rubber shock absorbers. PRINCE IS GOOD COPY m London—The Prince of Wales is God's gift to the newspaper reporter, judging from his collection of press clippings. The Prince keeps a full record of stories appearing about him- self. He has over 40 volumes, each containing nearly 7,000 clippings, in his library. He uses the clippings as a means of reference to past speeches and visits. Make No Mistake See LAST TIMES TONIGHT TomBrown of Culver The Mighty Drama of the Making of Men Staged midst the Color of Cul- ver Military Academy with Tom Brown, Slim Summerville, Richard Cromwell, H. B. Warner LARGEST BEACONS Washington—The department of commerce has taken delivery of 250 of the world’s largest airway beacons. Each beacon throws a double beam of about 1,780,000 candlepower. The beacons are to be mounted on air- ways in the United States. 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