The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 17, 1933, Page 1

a 2 North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper / THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Weather Report Scattered showers tonight; Tuesday unsettled and cooler. ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, JULY 17, 1933 PRICE FIVE CENTS Depression Ends For Million a «, Yeater children in the machine were y hap occurred. @ HAZELTON GIRL [S - VICTIM WHEN TIRE ON CAR GIVES WAY Napoleon Youth Drowns in Salt ‘ Lake; Kenmare Man Shoots Himself GIRL CRUSHED UNDER AUTO Youth Believed to Have Struck Head As He Fell From Raft Into Water ‘Three North Dakota persons were dead Monday as the result of an au- tomobile accident, drowning and sui- cide over the week-end. The victims: Dorris Yeater, 12-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Yeater of Hazelton, killed about 6:20 o'clock Sunday evening when the automobile in which the Yeater family was riding turned over about 11 miles east of Ha- zelton following a tire blowout. Michael Kunz, 20-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Kunz’ of Napoleon, who drowned in Salt lake Sunday afternoon. Herman Gross of Kenmare, 36, ‘victim of his own hand by shoot- ing Friday. Miss Yeater’s father is postmaster at Hazelton and a former member of the North Dakota legislature. The girl apparently was thrown clear of the machine when it started to turn over and was crushed as the eutomobile rolled over in the ditch. | She had not been feeling well and was riding with her head out of a window. Mr. Yeater suffered a severe cut on his hip while Mrs. Yeater suffered several torn ligaments about her ribs All occupants of the machine suf- fered bruises and shock. The other ‘ Orville, Margaret, Sheldon and Phil! lip. The Yeater family was returning | from Napoleon, where they had wit-; nessed the American Legion junior baseball tournament, when the mis- Puneral services for Dorris were to; be conducted from the Yeater home | at Hazelton at 2 o'clock Monday af-: ternoon. The body was to be interred in the Hazelton cemetery. Struck Head on Raft Kunz is believed to have struck his) head on a raft, from which he fell, and to have been unconscious when he struck the water. The raft was about 300 feet from shore. He and a friend had been us- ing it as a diving platform and be- tween dives amused themselves by rocking the raft. The body was recovered with wire| which had been fashioned into grapp- ; ling hooks. The Napoleon youth had| been considered a good swimmer. j He leaves his parents and several; brothers and sisters, all of whom were at the lake with the drawning victim. | The body of Gross, who took his; own life by shooting himself, probably will be taken to Webster, 8S. D., for burial, according to an Associated Press dispatch. i He is believed to have been despond- ; ent over ill health. He had been suf- | fering headaches and was afflicted| with a nervous qisorder. ! "ASSUMPTION ABBEY ~~ GBTSNEW MEMBERS Five Make Profession of Al- legiance At First Cere- mony in 10 Years Richardton, N. D., July 1%.—Five members of Assumption Abbey, in the presence of a large number of priests and laity, made their first profession on the feast of St. Benedict, July 11. It was the first profession of religious vows in 10 years since the new com- munity has been organized. Solemn pontificial high mass was , celebrated by Rt. Rev. Abbott Cuth- bert, OS.B., assisted by members of the community and priests of the neighboring parishes. The following members took the religious vows of the order: Fr. Bernard Fritz, 0.8.B., Detroit, Mich., Fr. Frederick Mundt, OS.B., St. Paul, Minn; Fr. Florian Fairbanks, O.8.B., Red Lake, Minn.; Brother Mark Miller, OSB. St. Joseph, N. D., and Brother Martin Hellman, OS.B., Mott, N. Dak. Twen- “‘ty-two priests were in the sanctuary to witness the affair, while relatives of the’ newly professed members oc- cupied reserved places in the front ,Pews of the abbey. -+ Psalms were chanted in connection with the ‘services by the monastic choir With Rev. Peter Fahrenbach, O. SB., at the pipe organ. ‘A mixed choir rendered the four-voice mass by Stehele under the @irection of Miss Eva Schmidt. The Assumption Abbey community now numbers 47 members and 10 more novices will be professed during the coming year, In connection with the “monastery is a school for boys com- prising both academic and college educated to become members of the; staff of the school. | i committee that met here Saturday| ‘announced Monday. ! Three N. D. Perso \ .MR. AND. MBS. CARL SPITZER TODAY AND 50 YEARS AGO July 17 was an important anniversary in the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Spitzer, living on a farm near Arnold, for it marked their golden wedding anniversary. ‘They were married here 50 years ago. The changes wrought by half a century are shown by the two pictures above. That at the top was taken recently while below is a photo ~ taken at the time they were married. The anniversary was celebrated Sunday with an all-day picnic at Mandan Chautauqua park. No Ransom Paid Asserts Family of Kidnap Victim THEATRE MAN HELD IN DEATH OF YOUTH to Murder in Minneapolis Movie House Minneapolis, July 171—(#)—J. W. Diedenhofer, assistant manager of a, and almost invalid man was returned neighborhood motion picture house,/to his home several hours later by was held for grand jury investigation Monday as a result of the fatal shoot- | ing of Ted Fisher, 21, former usher, at sort conducted by Mrs. Grace Miller, | where Luer appeared and announced He said he walked a the theater Sunday night. Police said they were told by wit- ‘his identity. nesses that Fisher was slain by a ban- | half mile from the place where he was dit who attempted to rob the theater | office, but that they found a number} of mysterious angles as they hunted the killer. holdup written by Fisher, was found | in his pocket, they said. i Many Well-Informed Person: Believe $10,000 Changed Hands in Deal Alton, Il, July 17—(#)—The re- | lease by a kidnap gang of August Luer, ;Police See Mysterious Angles aged and wealthy banker, Monday had {stilled anxiety for his safety but had/ believed that the pilot came down! created a cpntroversy over how much, if any, ransom was paid. Freed early Sunday on a highway the 77-year-old| Weight of the plane. Near the spot near Collinsville, Ill., department of justice agents. The officers were called to a re ejected from a motor car. He related a story of physical and! mental suffering while detained for| A note giving instructions about a, more than 5 days in a chilly, musty and tiny sub-basement. Carl Luer, his son, asserted “we ‘They asserted also that Fisher was’ didn’t pay a cent of ransom.” Many discharged several months ago when. Well informed persons beljeve, how- ns Killed Over Week-End Post Leaves Moscow on Hop To Siberia; Sets New Mark (TWO LETT AVIATORS KILLED IN GERMANY AFTER OGEAN FLIGHT Darius and Girenas Crash in Forest During Period of Stormy Weather ERROR CAUSED FATALITIES ‘Officials Believe Pair Thought, Treetops Were Meadow | on Lake Shore \ Soldin, Pomerania, Germany, July 11.—(#)—The airplane Lithuanica, in: which Stephen Darius and Stanley! Girenas were attempting a non-stop flight from New York to Lithuania, | crashed early Monday. at Kuhdamm and both fliers were killed. The plane was discovered in a for- est. The bodies of the airmen werz under it. A local farmer heard the crash about 7 o'clock Monday morning but the actual discovery of the ship was not made until a few hours later. ° A party of aviators and police of- ficials left immediately from Berlin for Soldin. Soldin is situated on a lake of the Same name near the border line of the two Prussian provinces of Neu- mark and Pomerania. Police sur- mised that the aviators, in attempting to land, mistook treetops for a meadow, There was some doubt about the exact time of the crash. Investiga- tors said the men died some time be- tween 3:00 and 5:00 a. m. Noise Ceased Suddenly ‘Women gathering berries said they heard a machine about 5 o'clock and the noise suddenly ceased. Later a — discovered the plane, with the filers buried beneath and the wings hanging from trees. A rural policeman found a route map, copies of Chicago newspapers and a pouch with letters on which were the names of Darius and Gi- renas and also of Victor Vesglaites of Wilkesbarre, Pa. (who served as; the mechanic for the aviators). A guard was placed at the scene; ;an X-ray examination when he re- ————_—_————_ | Price of Flour Sets Record in Mill City ie > Minneapolis, July 17.—(®)— Flour broke a five-year record Monday in keeping step with a rising grain list. Family patent flour was up 30 cents, being quoted at $8.85-8.95 a barrel, the highest figure since June, 1928, when that grade touched $8.85. Bakers’ flour was 25 cents higher at $8.25-8.35. TWOINJURED WHEN MOTOR CARS CRASH ON ROAD 70 WILTON Philip Weisenberger and Mrs. Johanna Bosch in Hospi- tal After Mishap Two Bismarck persons were severe- ly injured when the automobile in which they were riding turned over following a collision two miles south of Wilton about 10 o'clock Sunday evening. They ate Phillip Weisenberger of 400 Eleventh St., 52 years old, and Both were brought to a local hos- pital for treatment about 11:45 o'clock Sunday night. ‘Weisenberger’s injuries were unde- termined and doctors planned to make covers sufficiently from shock. Bosch suffered lacerations of scalp and severe shock. Four other persons in the machine suffered minor hurts. ‘They were Henry Weisenberger, the driver, son of the injured man; Mrs. Weisenberg- er, wife of the injured man; Miss Kathryn Weisenberger, daughter of the injured man; and Miss Helen Bosch, daughter of the injured wo- man. Mrs. the Side-swiped on Road The machine turned over after it collided with one reported to be driven by A. E. Anstrom, Wilton postmaster. The Anstrom machine did not turn over, according to the Weisenbergers. by the police and, for the time be-| ing, the bodies were left there. | The discovery of the tragedy fol-| lowed a stormy and dark night dur-) ling which rumors of a plane being! i heard but not seen came from vari-! jous points in eastern Germany. The Lithuanica struck the samej patch of bad weather, which forced Wiley Post, globe-circling American flier, to land at Koenigsberg, East The two machines, going opposite directions, side-swiped as ‘they passed. Anstrom was going north toward Wilton while the Weisenberger ma- chine was traveling south, en route to Bismarck from San Haven, where the party had visited with Miss Annie Weisenberger, another daughter of the family. The Weisenberger automobile was Prussia, en route from Berlin to Mos- | cow. Police found the gasoline tank of | the Lithuanica empty. Hence they) intentionally but, because of the fog,! was unable to see the treetops. The bodies were badly mangled. | Several trees snapped under the American -cigarettes and candies were found. | Soldin, near where the Lithuanian fliers crashed on their attempted flight from New York to Kaunas,| | Lithuania, is about 400 miles short of their goal. They had covered a lit- tle over 4,000 miles of the 4,400-mile distance. badly damaged. Phillip Weisenberger is the father of Harry Weisenberger, 17-year-old youth who suffered a fractured right leg and dislocation of the left hip in an auto mishap in the city last week. The youth still is in the hospital. In the Anstrom machine were Mr. and Mrs. Anstrom, and their three children, Viola, Laverna and Ronald, all of whom suffered minor hurts, though their car did not turn over. The Anstroms had been here Sun- day to visit with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lone Airman Is Ahead of Time Which He and Harold Gatty Made in 1931 ROBOT FAILS TO WORK Mechanical Pilot Proves Use- less and American Flies Ship By Hand ‘Moscow, July 17.—(P}—Wiley Post, American round-the-world solo flier, soared eastward Monday afternoon on a 1,818-mile journey to Novosibirsk in Siberio. He had landed a few hours earlier from Koenigsberg, Ger- many. Post left Moscow 13 hours and two minutes ahead of the time he and Harold Gatty made to that point two years ago. When he left Moscow he was 53 hours and two minutes out of New York, which he left Satuday. When Post and Gatty left Moscow they were 66 hours and four minutes out of’ New York, } Perfect weather conditions prevail- ed from Moscow as far as the Ural{ Mountains. Local weather officials, who gave the airman full meteorolo- | gical information before he left, said it was probable the present cloudiness between the Urals and Novosibirsk would clear up before he reached that area. Post refused a chance to snatch @ Mrs. Johanna Bosch of 503 Ninth St,pfew minutes sleep at the Moscow air- LOSES CLEAN SHIRT Moscow, July 17. — (P) — Wiley Post will make the remainder of his globe-circling flight without a change of clothing. He forgot and left behind at Koenigsberg his suitcase, his only piece of baggage. Airport officials at Koenigsberg telephoned that the suitcase would be forwarded to Moscow. Post re- plied, “I can’t wait for it. Just have it sent home for me,” and soared away without a clean shirt. port that he might speed up mechani- cians working on his plane. It was 5:12 p. m., (8:12 a. m., CST.,) when the American flier started the Novosibirsk leg of his journey. He had been in Moscow 2 hours and 52 minutes. Gets Clean Shave When he sped away fom the Soviet capital a more than 48-hour growth of beard had disappeared from his face as he spent 15 minutes of his short stay here in the airport barber- shop. Post said he experienced great dif- ficulty with his mechanical pilot from the beginning of his flight from New York and he was therefore compelled to drive his ship manually the entire distance. Difficulties with the robot were blamed for forcing the American flier a hundred miles off his course be- tween Koenigsberg and Moscow and they were also said to be the chief reason why he landed at the East Pussian capital last night. The robot trouble, combined with a break in the oil feed, induced Post to land at Moscow, he said. Russian officials were concerned at Post's small appetite and urged more food on him, but he declined saying, Anstrom. Fred Anstrom, brother of the Wilton postmaster, is a Burleigh county deputy sheriff. Balbo and His Crew Feted by Chicagoans Chicago, July 17—()—Weary from FIGHT FOR REPEAL CARRIED 10 SOUTH the theater manager found a pistol | ever, that a ransom of $10,000 chang- | in his locker and that Diedenhofer, in|ed hands. The initial demand, re- a statement, told them Fisher before |Ceived in a note Thursday, was re-| his discharge proposed they “frame” @ holdup of the theater. Fisher, who recently had been work- | were in the offic eof the theater when the roughly-dressed bandit entered. The bandit escaped. if The slaying came after Fisher grab- bed the bandit following his attack on Diedenhofer. The bandit had just struck Dieden- hofn and knocked him down when Fisher sprang toward him and grabb- ed him around the waist. There was a brief struggle. Then the bandit Pressed his gun against Fisher's body and pulled the trigger. Fisher fell to the floor dead. Press Association To Meet in Capital The North Dakota Press association will hold its annual winter, meeting in Bismarck, January 19 agd 20, of- ficers and members of the executive District_meetings will be held cdl follows: Grand Forks, first district, trict, Stanley, August 19. | Tentative dates were set for the at LaMoure Auguct 11. ported to have been for $100,000. The elderly man, seized last Mon- day evening in his own home here by ing as a chauffeur, was shot down in| two men and a woman, suffers from | full view of three other persons who frequent heart attacks. Fear that he might die while in custody was be- lteved in some quarters to have been! the motivating influence in the re-| lease. “We'd never have touched you pop.; if we'd known you were so weak and/| sick,” Luer said he was told by one of the abductors. © He said he never saw the faces of The trio which seized him in his home wore masks and im- mediately taped his eyes. They did not remove the bandages during his his captors. captivity, he explained. BELIEVE O'CONNELL MAY BE FREED IN NEW YORK ‘A belief was held Monday in Al- bany, N. Y., that kidnapers of John; J. O'Connell, Jr., member of @ politi- Devils Lake, N. D., July 17.—()—| cally powerful family, might free him in New York City. Bolstering this feeling was the disclosure that two notes received by his family were; ; Posimarked in the metropolitan area. | Two ex-convicts were seized Sunday | at Cicero, Ill. in the kidnaping of | John Factor, speculator, who was | {freed on payment of $50,000 ransom. Grand Forks, August 12; second dis-' The ‘pair, Martin O'Leary and Carl trict, Rugby, August 18; third dis- Fontana, were taxen in a hotel form- erly a Capone stronghold. At-San Dieso. Calif., police guard-: courses. The new members will bejfourth district meeting at Dickinson ed the home of a former president of September 1 and the fifth district \ xico, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, who re- ‘ceived kidnap threats by telephone. 'ir. control of state organizatic Three States to Ballot This! Week in Crucial Test of | Nation’s Sentiment | Memphis, Tenn. July 17.-(P)—/ Three states of the deep south vote on repeal this week in elections which | both friends and foes of prohibition | recognize as a crucial test in the na-| tional campaign. Alabama and Arkansas hold their’ elections Tuesday while Tennessee votes Thursday. Leaders on both sides in all three states claim victory The sixteen states which already) have voted have favored repeal. The repealists believe if they can swing, the south into line, their battle is vir-| tually won. For weeks intensive campaigns have ; been conducted through the three states. Postmaster General Farley | capped the repeal campaign here this week-end calling upon Alabama, Ar- ‘kansas and Tennessee to “keep the| covenant” with President Roosevelt by voting to repeal the Eighteenth! amendment. { Repealists, stumping the voting/ loyalty and of state's rights—both dear to the Democratic south. Anti- repeal campaigners, many of them church ‘leaders, have called attention to the south’s dry traditions and) saloon and possible effects on social! conditions. Repealists generally were ions. @ continuous round of festivities, Italo Balbo and his 95 flyers faced a curtailed program Monday. Completing the last leg of their 6,- 100 mile flight from Italy in a hop from Montreal that ended Saturday evening when they set their seaplanes down on Lake Michigan, the airmen instantly became the heroes of the nation’s second largest city and were treated as such. It was early Sunday ‘morning be- fore they were privileged to retire to ithe privacy of the rooms reserved for them in the Drake hotel for a much- needed sleep and rest. And then they were up again in a few hours for another day of activi- ties that began with a two-hour thanksgiving mass, during the whole of which they stood at attention, in {Holy Name cathedral, and ended with a banquet that extended far into Sun- day night. Canadian Rider Is Victor at Calgary Calgary, Alta. July 17.—(?)—Cal- gary’s stampede glory Monday rested on the shoulders of Pete Knight Croesfield, Alta., bronk twister, who rode the toughest buckers at the an- nual exhibition and stampede here last week to capture both the North American and Canadian titles. The 27-year-old bucking horse rider conquered Canada’s and the United states, have raised the ‘issues of party |States’ best riders with 830 points: during the week which brought $750 lin prize money for two crowns. Knight's victory marked the third time he has won the Canadian title. thereby securing permanent posses- warned of danger of return of the|sion of a trophy donated by the, Prince of Wales. It was his second successive victory in the North Ame! [ican competition. “I eat only enough to keep from weakening myself. I purposely stay hungry so I can keep awake.” The American aviator had his two thermos bottles filled with boiled wa- ter before taking off for Siberia. New York to Berlin The American flier's first stop after leaving New York was Berlin, where he arrived at 5:55 a. m., Sunday (B.S. T.). He left there at 8:10 a. m., Sun- day and reached Koenigsburg at 12:40 p. m., and left there at 12:45 a. m., Monday, reaching Moscow at 6:20 a. m., and leaving at 8:12 a. m. feather reports indicated that aft- er he passed the rain storm he braved (Continued on Page Two) Banker Again Flees From Nursing Home New York, July 17.—(#)—Joseph W. Harriman, former head of the Harri- man National Bank and Trust com- pany, disappeared Monday for a sec- ond time from the Regent Nursing Home, 115 East 61st street. William J. Donovan, chief of coun- sel for Harriman, who is under bail of $25,000 on a federal indictment charging alteration of the books of ‘the bank, notified U. S. Attorney George Z. Medalie of Harriman’s dis- appearance. Donovan said Harriman “slipped out” through the service entrance to the home and entered a taxicab, and that a boy who was ‘close by said the taxi driver was told to “drive to Fort Lee Ferry.” Medalie at once telephoned Thomas J. Cullen, agent in charge of the U. 8. bureau of investigation here, and asked him to send the usual alarm 'to federal guards at the Canadian j border, at piers in this city and in | various other seaports. Harriman attempted suicide after his first disappearance from the nursing home, May 19 last. A few minutes after he was found in a Roslyn, N. Y., hotel, he stabbed him- self over the heart. few days later he had recovered suf- The wound was not serious and a! Hold Widow of Slain Gangster ' Mrs. Frank Nash, widow of the gangster slain in Kansas City’s Union Station massacre, is shown as she was questioned by Department of Justice agents at Kansas City where she is held under $25,000 bond on a charge of obstructing justice. Mrs. Nash is alleged to have tipped off Nash's pals that he was being returned, via Kansas City, to Leavenworth prison, from which he had escaped. N00 MANY COOKS’ SPOILING BROTH AT LONDON CONFERENCE Fewer Nations Will Attend If Economic Parley Recon- venes in Future London, July 17.—(?}—Leaders of the world economic conference have {decided that too many cooks spoil the broth. Unless they change this view the conference, which will take a re- cess July 27, will not be reconvened in its entirety. The belief that the parley should not be revived after the recess was voiced at this morning's meeting of the steering committee, it was under- stood. There is a growing feeling, in which at least some of the American dele- gation concur, that the conference as now constituted is so unwieldly it blocks its own progress. If and when it is brought into be- ing again—in Washington, London, Geneva or elsewhere—its numbers will be whittled down. , Thus far none of the conference heads has ventured an opinion on when or where the parley can be reassembled. The matter was dis- cussed in the steering committee and Premier MacDonald, president of the conference, also talked it over with the British cabinet. It is understood the British do not intend to try to give any new lead which would protract the assemblage beyond the date set for the recess. Two committees scheduled to meet Monday had to be postponed because some of the members still were en- Joying a rest in the country or at the Seaside. Many of those attached to the con- ference are so apathetic about it that even the British government hospital- ity committee cannot arouse enthus- jasm for free excursions and other functions. St. Paul Chiropractor Is Freed By Police 8t. Paul, July 17.—(#)—Dr. W. H. Hedberg, St. Paul chiropractor, was released to his attorney Sunday after being held in the city jail for ques- tioning by police concerning details of an attack on him and a St. Paul physician last Tuesday night. Intensive questioning of Dr. Hed- berg for several hours Saturday fail- ed to shake his story of the attack, Thomas E. Dahill, chief of police, said, and he was released to his at- torney. “The police investigation will be continued,” said Chief Dahill, “but I cannot say at present what turn it will take. Questioning of Dr. Hed- berg failed to produce any clue to the identity of the gang which at- tacked him and Dr. E. J. Engberg. ‘We may question him again if fur- ther developments indicate it is nec- essary.” Dr. Hedberg was quoted by police as telling them that “I have no ene- mies that I know of and have no idea what motive was behind this thing.” The alleged purpose of the attack was an attempt by the gang to force Dr. Engberg to perform a mutilating operation. He refused. Both doctors later were found on a country road near here. BOY BREAKS COLLARBONE Irvin Geist, 17-year-old Driscoll boy, suffered a broken collarbone Sunday afternoon when he fell from a horse he was riding. He was | fretently to be moved from 2 Mineola J hospital back to the nursing home. » brought to 2 local hospital for treat- ment about 4:30 o'clock HIGHER WAGES AND SHORTER HOURS ARE BFPECTIVE AT ONCE Industry’s Cooperation With Government Makes Sharp Lift Possible OTHERS TO GET BENEFITS Fair-Practices Codes Are in Off- ing For Numerous Lines of Endeavor Washington, July 17— (?) —Fou nearly a million working men and wo- men the depression is as good as end- ed Monday, their wages suddenly lift- ed back to the purchasing level or better days by voluntary cooperation of industry with government. For hundreds of thousands, perhapr millions more, the day holds forth hope of similar good luck in the im- mediate future. ; Textile workers—not only cotton but rayon, silk and allied products—~ all over the north and south, went back to their mills Monday morning on a 40-hour work-week schedule, at rates of pay intended to give them the purchasing power of 1929. In steel mills labor is earning 15 per cent more than last week—in some cases even better—a boost back to the level of 1932. In countless other in- | dustries which have submitted or soon will present their so-called codes of fair competition—the compacts by which the government allows them to regulate themselves in exchange for giving labor a lift——the promise of a real living wage to workers is near imminent realization. This is the fruit of intensive work by Hugh 8. Johnson and a corps of aides told off by President Roosevelt to administer the industrial contro} Plan of the national recovery law, mainspring of his program for re- storing prosperity. The new quickstep of business shoved into the background a plan of Johnson's for issuing a general call tp all business to raise and create new jobs by cutting the houre of present employes. It was talked over in great detail Sunday on the deck of the presidential yacht Sequoia ber tween the president and his adminis« trator, but the ultimate decision was put off. 60,000 See Opening Of Lutheran Meeting Chicago, July 15.—(#)—Sessions of the 41st international convention of the Walther League got underway Monday following a Sunday celebra- tion at which 60,000 Lutherans gath- ered at Soldier Field to observe the 450th anniversary of the birthday of Martin Luther in song and spoken word. At the services hymns were sung by & massed chorus of 3,000 Lutheran children and 5,000 choristers repre- senting 168 Lutheran churches. Ad- dresses were delivered by the Rev. Er- win Umbach, executive secretary of the Walther League, and the Rev. J. W. Behnken, Houston, Tex. The Rev. Mr. Umbach pleaded for an inclusion of God in the plans and remedies suggested for the “unpar- alleled situation in which the world finds itself today. “Man’s plans,” he said, “are boast- ful, aggressive, revolutionary, but with God left out.” Chris Bertsch Made U. S. Land Register Chris Bertsch, 602 Sixth St., has been appointed register of the U. 8. land office here, he was informed in a telgram Monday from Secretary of the Interior Ickes. . Bertsch will succeed C. G. Boise, 604 Avenue D, who has been register here for several years. The newly-appointed register ex~ pects to assume office within a few days, as soon as his bond is approved by the department of the interior. Bertsch, who has lived in Bismarck for the last 43 years, has been a Demo~ crat “all his life” and was an active worker during the last campaign in President Roosevelt's behalf. For the last 15 years he has been chairman of the Democratic central committee of Burleigh county. When he came to Bismarck he en- tered the farm implement business and later entered the automobile busi- ness, which he operated up until about @ year ago. Bertsch is married and has five children. They are Bertha N. Bertsch, instructor at the University of Min- nesota, Mathilda, Lydia, Luverne and Albert, all living at home. Charge Mexican With Threatening Negro Accused of threatening the life of Roosevelt Davis, Negro pitching star of the Bismarck baseball team, Joe Marques, Capital City Mexican, was in jail Monday pending an investiga- tion into the affair by police officials. Upon his return from Fargo Satur- day, Marques is alleged to have set out to find Davis, with whom he had had previous arguments, Police Chief C. J. Martineson said. When he was arrested Saturday night, Martineson said, Marques thew to the ground a knife which he had hidden in his sleeve. It is ble, the chief said, thet Marques will be charged with carrying a weanat.