The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 16, 1933, Page 3

uh % 2 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1988 PURLEIGH COUNTY | Here’s Town That Regained Fame Through Coincidence TOBEGIN TASK OF LASTING WORKERS Re-Employment Office Will Be Established In Auditorium Within Few Days Burleigh county will have a re- employment office established within a few days, J. C. Taylor, director of the national re-employment service said Wednesday, Details of organ- izing of the office were to be discussed at a meeting of the re-employment committee for the county Wednesday. ‘Under the terms of the national re- covery act, employment offices must be established in every county. Man- agement of the office wiil be by vol- untary workers where it is possible to secure some one to act in that capac- ity. Assistants in the office will be selected from unemployed who now are on relief, Taylor said. Organizations are being perfected in every county to list the unemploy- ed so they can be placed on jobs when public works are started. Most of the work in this part of the state will be on highway construction and it is es- tmated that the projects planned will amount to approximately $200,000 for Burleigh county. As the county is spending at pres- ent about $50,000 annually for poor relief Taylor believes that the projects already planned will help to solve that problem and make most of those now getting relief wage earners and thus relieve the taxpayers of a heavy bur- den. The county re-employment office will be in the city auditorium in the office formerly occupied by the physi- cal director. As soon as the manager is selected the work of listing will be- gin on forms supplied by the state director. Taylor has divided the state into three districts and has appointed three field men. They will assist the counties in getting their organizations started, and will aid them in carrying out the purpose of the federal govern- ment as far as the duties of contrac- vors in employing labor are concerned. The regulations provide that former service men with dependants who are unemployed will be given first prefer- ence in employment. Work on road contracts in the county will be appor- vioned to men now unemployed. Men are not encouraged to leave a job to accept another under the new setup. HOTEL MEN EXPECT AGREEMENT ON NRA CODE 10 BE SIGNED National Association In Confer- ence With Recovery Administration Hotels which have not signed the NRA agreement are expecting at least. a temporary code to be agreed to with- in the next day or two that will per- mit them to display the blue eagle, according to Fred Peterson of the Grand Pacific hotel. “Thos. D. Green, president of the American Hotel As- sociation and a committee represent- ing the hotel interests of the nation have not been able to agree upon a code that is acceptable to the hotel men” said Peterson. “The hotel business presents prob- Jems that probably do not affect any other business, except perhaps the restaurant business. A hotel in a city of any size must keep open 24 hours out of every day. If we keep four crews of clerks and bell boys on the Job we would still have eight hours in a week that would have to be ac- counted for. If hotels, on a 40-hour basis, with the present business con- ditions confronting them, are compell- ed to put on four crews many of them will have to close up. However, I ex- pect that an agreement that will be satisfactory will be reached within a short time. “President Green has appealed to members of the hotel association to await the outcome of the negotiations with patience. In a letter received from him Tuesday he said he knew many hotel men were impatiently awaiting his advice to sign, while others believe that the blanket agree- ment presented to them would force them to close their doors. He appeal- ed to both to await the outcome of the negotiations.” In the letter president Green said: “With the emergency agreement un. der consideration the immediate or premature signers will derive no bene- fit from the deserved consideration we are working so hard to get.” ————— HAY FEVER ‘We do not unqualifiedly recom- mend Salicon for Hay Fever—we can’t. It isn’t a specific. There is no known specific for Hay Fever. And yet— For over fifteen years, we have re- ceived letters from Hay Fever suf- ferers who have told us they got relief with Salicon and that it was the a thing that ever gave them Naturally, being enthusiastic, these good people urged us to advertise Balicon for Hay Fever. We have tried Salicon out with a considerable num- ber of cases. Many actually got re- lef. Some did not. So all we feel we ought to do is to state the plain facts. If you have Hay Fever and can- not find anything to relieve you, per- haps Salicon will help you as it has others. If you try Salicon and find it does not help your Hay Fever, you can still keep the remaining tablets in ithe bottle in case you, or any mem- rber of your family, catch a cold, have |a@ headache or suffer similar pain. | Then Salicon will show you results. That we can vouch for. ; If Salicon helps your Hay Fever— well—that will be great—for Hay Fe- | ver, as you know, is just plain misery. \ Advertisement, ule, submitted by the American Pub-/} July 1, 1933, which cannot be changed lishers association, left open several NEWSPAPER CODE IS APPROVED BY CHIEF Agreement Submitted By Pub- lishers Is Modified At Par- ley With Johnson Washington, Aug. 16.—(4)—The way ‘was opened Wednesday for Am- erican newspapers to join the parade | of business organizations marching under the blue eagle. A modified presidential re-employ- ment agreement providing for tem- porary minimum wages and shorter hours for newspaper workers was ap- proved Tuesday night by Hugh S. Johnson, recovery administration. As approved, the temporary sched- controversial questions, including in- | sistence of the publishers on their con- | stitutional right to a free press. These questions will be determined before a permanent code is agreed | upon after public hearings and presi- dential approval. A major provision of the temporary | agreement’ provides a 40-hour work workers receiving less than $35 week- ly. It also provides: A 40-hour week for accounting, cler- ical, office, service or sales employes except a limited number of circula- | tion and delivery men and outside salesmen. The same schedule for mechanical | workers or artisans. Publishers may, however, employ these latter a maxi- | mum week of 44 hours for any six weeks within any six months period during the period of the temporary | agreement, but not more than eight | hours in any one day. ‘The agreement exempts hours and wages under contiact on or before | week for reporters and other editorial’ cases a 40-cent an hour minimum wage was fixed for mechanical work- ers or artisans, except apprentices. Minimum wages for office and sales employes were prescribed at from $12 weekly in towns less than 2,500 to $15 in cities of more than 500,000 pop- ulation. The Bismarck Tribune signed the president's re-employment agreement shortly after it was issued and has put it into force. CONSIDER WORKS PLAN Fargo, N. D., Aug. 16—()—The North Dakota public works board, in session in Fargo, Tuesday considered legal and engineering aspects of the proposed Fargo sewage disposal plant and the Valley City waterworks. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our frtends for their kind assistance, sympathy and for the floral offerings, during our re- vent bereavement of our husband and father, Mrs. Jennie Clark, Miss Violet Clark. except by mutual consent. In other Nira, Ia., had ‘been squatting in Washington county for 55 years before anyone dreamed of the National Industrial Recovery Act. Orphi sn 8 * 2 % Yoder, upper left, daughter of Postmaster E. J. Yoder, sorts the mail . awhile John Whetstine. 84, vight, the oldest scttler, just whittles, REF * & % Nira, Ia., Is Noticed Again Through Publicized Name Letters Conform With Abbrevia- tion For Industrial Re- covery Act Nira, Ia., Aug. 7.—To at least 20 people in the country, the magic term NIRA that everybody is learn- ing to say these days, is an old story. Those 20 are the population of this Towa village of nine houses which was named Nira 55 years ago when its first house was built. Nira doesn’t mean National Indus- trial Recovery Act to them, or at least didn’t until a few weeks ago. It just meant home, the only town in the United States of that name, according to the Postal Guide. This town, with its grass-grown railroad track, its general store and postoffice at the intersection of two dirt roads in Lime Creek township, Washington county, is normally Re- publican. But it expects to gain by the New Deal, just the same. ee % BOOM TOWN IN '92 “And it’s about time,” observes John Whetstine, 84-year-old whittler, Nira’s oldest inhabitant. “The presi- dent talked sense the night he ex- plained his plan,” went on Whetstine, the shavings falling rhythmically from a soft-wood stick. “Everybody in Nira—all 20 of us—is for him.” Nira looks forward to something like its boom days of 1892. When that boom collapsed, the little hamlet fell asleep, and it has been quietly dis- integrating ever since. Two of its three stores closed in 1925. The front of the other fell in recently, exposing shelves of canned goods, a candy counter, and the postmaster, E. J. Yoder, * % * POLITICS A MYSTERY By long tradition Republcian, Nira turned Democratic in the landslide of last March. Or did it? Residents are divided on the point, and as the Nira voting is pooled with the Lime Creek township tabulations, no one can be sure. But the New Deal has already brought better feeling to Nira, both Postmaster Yoder and farmer Ross Miller agree. “Conditions around here aren't really any better than they were six months ago,” appraises Miller, “but people feel better. They feel good times are on the way, and that we'll share in ‘em. We ought to, with the name we got.” Postmaster Yoder, who also ope- rates the store, is awaiting word from the other NIRA in Washington as to what is expected of him in the way of salary increases and increased em- ployment. ‘Two daughters and a son help him with the store, he says, and one daughter, Orpha, serves as assistant postmaster. But Yoder faces a real dilemma when it comes to increasing ment. “I don't see how I can very well put anyone else at work at the store,” Yoder laments, “because there is no- body else on hand to be put to work. But I want to do whatever I can.” * oe Ok THE RUSH IN—AND OUT Once there was a cheese factory at Nira. Those were the days! And there was the great coal rush of '92. Workmen digging a well struck what they thought was a six-foot vein of coal. It was a second Klondike! But the boom collapsed when they found that whatever that six-foot vein might have been it wasn’t coal. The promoters, the prospectors, the set- tlers, vanished, and then the cheese factory vanished, too. Nira, disillusioned, sank back to the condition that President Cleveland described as inocuous desuetude. Since 1892, then, Nira quietly resigned siding warp, its paint flake off, for: warp, its paint e off, for- getting the outside world, and by that world forgotten. *% * THE FIRST NIRA—A PUZZLE Eight families, 20 inhabitants, five of them children. That is the town whose name is more often in the papers today than that of any other. John Whetstine reflectively watch- ed a white shaving curl up under his knife and drop to the ground. He recalled how he came to Nira and helped build the first house there, 55 years ago. He came from Indiana in a@ wagon train. “We stopped here because land was cheap,” he said. “It’s still cheap.” Nira was named for Nira Moffit, the first white child born in the neighborhood. Or was it the other way—was Nira Moffit named for the town? Nobody remembers. Most Indian elephants are broken and safe to handle within six weeks [sige being captured. Czech Shoe King Visits America John Bata. head of the va Bata shoe manufacturing et cerprises in Czechoslovakia, is shown as he arrived in New York with his wife and nephew, Tem Bata, below, for a visit in this country He is a_step- brother of Thomas Bata, found- er of the famous shoe company, who was killed a year ago in an airplane accident Federal Marshal Is Visitor in Bismarck On his way from Minot to Fargo with a prisoner, U. 8S. Marshall O. Gunwaldson visited in Bismarck Wed- nesday. Gunwaldson went to Minot to take custody of Audris Moreland, young Indiana man, who is wanted in De- troit, Mich., on an auto theft charge. The Indianan is charged with steal- ing the auto in Detroit and transport- ing it to his home in Indiana, where that comes in at the one-room station, center - At lower left, you see all of Nira. ax the CONTRACT EXPERTS PLAY IT: BY WM. E. McKENNEY | (Secretary, American Bridge League) If games and slams were bid only when they could be made against the best defense, contract would lose much of its thrill. A player who never bids more than the cards guarantee is far too conservative, for he fails to allow for the human element, Good defense is difficult, and the most skillful opponents sometimes fall short of perfection. Probably the most interesting! hands in the game are those in which | the declarer has overbid slightly, and | requires just a little help from his | opponents to make the contract. Here we find a true battle of wits, with the opponents trying to dis- cover the perfect defense which will beat the contract, and the declarer doing his best to conceal it from them, The Bidding Today's hand was played in a rub- ber game, with North and South vul- nerable, East and West not vulner- able. South opened with one heart, ‘West passed, and North bid one spade, preferring to make a qne-over- one force rather than to assist the hearts immediately. East bid two dia- monds, South two hearts and North four hearts, which closed the bidding. The Play ‘West opened with the eight of dia- monds in response to his partner's bid, and East won with the king. South unhestitating played the nine of diamonds to the first trick, care- fully concealing the three. The eight was presumably West's highest diamond, so the declarer knew that East couid immediately mark him (South) with the queen and nine. To play the three at this point would expose the fact that he held at least three diamonds. East followed with the ace of dia- monds, on which South played the queen and West the six, and this gave East a difficult guess. The fall of ‘play them in that order. A KENNEY om, &K-Q-5-2 ¥10-8-7-2 010-5 NORTH ae |the cards indicated that South had no more diamonds, and that West held the missing three spot, for if he held 8, 6, 3 originally he would A careless East player might have led his single- ton spade, hoping West would have the ace and return the suit for a ruff. However, a moment's thought about the bidding would make it clear that South must hold the ace of spades and five practically solid hearts, for otherwise he could not have opened the bidding and then re-bid his heart suit. In that case the only trick remaining for East and West would be the king of clubs, and that would not be sufficient to defeat the contract. There also existed the faint pos- sibility that South had false-carded in the diamond suit, and West's singleton heart was an honor that could over-ruff dummy. West grasp- ed at this possibility like a drown- ing man at a straw, and it proved to be the actual situation, He was later able to make his king of clubs, there- by defeating the contract one trick. (Copyright, 1933, NEA Service, Inc.) he is said to have left it when he came to North Dakota. Moreland had been working on a farm near Minot. Sleeping Sickness Epidemic Unchecked St. Louis, Aug. 16.—()—A seventh death from “sleeping sickness” and a number of new cases of the disease, | encephalitis, caused medical authori- ties here Wednesday to delve deeper in their study of the strange malady as they continued their attack against the epidemic. JAMESTOWN LEGION ELECTS Jamestown, N. D., Aug. 16.—(7)— Fd Willett was elected commander of | the Ernest Robertson Post of the American Legion here Tuesday night, succeeding W. J. Flannigan, Six More Firms in Recovery Campaign Names of six more Bismarck firms have been added to those who have signed President Roosevelt's reem- ployment agreement, Postmaster Wal- ter Sather said Tuesday. New signers include the Equitable Life Assurance Society, Rawlings and Towns Dental Clinic, Home Decora- tors Store, Dorum Tailoring company, Henry Dohn’s Meat Market and the Bismarck Implement company, A silver spoon in a glass will pre- vent boiling water from cracking the glass when poured into it; the spoon conducts heat better than the water. and sets up circulation in the glass so that the water is hottest in the upper levels and not on the bottom. The President Reaps a Harvest of Cheers Waving thir large straw hats, a group of city boys vacationing at a farm near } cheer President Roosevelt after he had given them a brief talk on the advantag w Hamburg, N. Y., s of country life. Sit- ting beside the President is Mrs, Sara Delano Roosevelt, his mother, who made the 15-mile exnedition from Hyde Park with him. ... apartment seekers and apartment owners get sure results by using our classified advertising columns. ...and when it comes to Used Cars the want-ad columns of The Bismarck Tribune can’t be beat. If you want prompt results— Furniture Bargains Buy or Sell ... Women find so many uses for the want-ads. Selling old furniture, getting household help, apartment hunting. Business is business -.. and it’s at its very best in the want-ad section of this paper. Profit by that fact. The Home Newspaper for Bismarck and the Missouri Slope 222 Fourth Street Bismarck, N. Dak.