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2 North Dakota’s - Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE (A b, ‘4 The Weather and it; Saturda: sloudy and generally fair o ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMAKCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1933 PRICE FIVE CENTS WILTON MINER AND ALFRED RESIDENT ARE AMONG VICTIMS David Dunn and Joe Brave, Fort Yates Indians, Also Fatally Hurt FOUR MISHAPS REPORTED Six Others Are Injured, One Ser- ™ ously, In N. D. Motoring ' , ¢ — Accidents t Wilton, N. D., Sept. 8.—(?)—Ken- neth McCarter, 40, of Wilton, died here Thursday from injuries received in an automobile accident seven miles east of Underwood Tuesday. Accompanied by Edward Quigley and Harry Anstrom, both of Wilton, McCarter was en route to Wilton when the accident occurred. The pas- Sengers in the car said a blowout caused the car to swerve into a ditch as they were rounding @ turn. * Quigley and Anstrom received min- or cuts. Passersby brought McCarter to Wilton, where he was treated. He suffered concussion of the brain, and several broken ribs. The body was sent to Northfield, Minn., Thursday night for funeral services, He leaves a step-brother, L. 8. Killen, employed at the - Truax Traer company, Minot. McCarter was employed by a lignite coal com- pany at Wilton. INJURIES ARE FATAL TO N. D. POSTMASTER Jamestown, N. D., Sept. 6—(P}— Milo Orlin Doolittle, 34, injured when he attempted to start a truck Wed- nesday, died here Friday. He had conducted a store at Alfred with his father, Clyde Doolittle. Born in Truman, Minn., Milo came with his parents to North Dakota in 1904. In 1928 he was commissioned postmaster of Alfred, a position which services held Sunday and the body will be sent to Fair- mont, Minn. for burial. He leaves his widow, a daughter, and parents, all of Alfred and his brother, Forest, | p.. Blue Earth, Minn. TWO KILLED AND THREE HURT NEAR FORT YATES Fort Yates, N. D., Sept. 8—(P)— Two Indians were killed and three other persons injured when a truck in which they were,riding came in contact with another car and plunged into a ditch about 10 miles north of here. : have been released from the Fort Yates hospital efter treatment. an &@ coroner's Following inquest, jury returned a verdict of accidental death. Testimony at the inquest in- dicated the truck was attempting to pass the other car when the accident occurred. ‘The two Indians were rodeo riders. Dunn was the son of Charles Dunn, Fort Yates rancher. Braye was a son of Paul Brave. é: i Maxson ie & F ff, Hell 5 g ‘te| May Pay Tuition at Nurse Vanishes Fears are held for the safety of Miss Gladys Cunningham, 39, above, irgical nurse in a hos- pital at Muskegon, Mich. has been missing si checked out of a hotel at Chi- cago on Aug. 16. A widespread Search has been launched by police. SITE OF OLD INDIAN FLINT QUARRY WILL BENEW STATE PARK Small Tract North of Hebron 7 Donated By Mercer Rancher Site of an old Indian flint quarry, @ 21% acre tract of land in Mercer Russell Reid, superintendent of the society, said on receipt of the deed to the property Friday the new. park brings the total in the state system to are tend’ ta Be koi a td Gites ley Flint Quarry state park, now can be considered a part of the state sys- tem, with acceptance by the historical Property was given to the so- clety by Matt Crowley, former repre- sentative from the 48th district, on whose 7,000-acre ranch the Indian flint-quarry is located. It is about 20 miles north of Heb- ron, Over the slope leading from Elm Creek, a branch of the Knife river, are 89 fistinct flint quarries, some of which were worked by Indians years ago, Reid said. Some of the old- est, he said, are more than four feet ing the holes originally were seven to eight feet deep. The society is attempting to add two other plots of land to the state U.N. D. With Produce} Grand Forks, N. D., Sept. 8&—(P)— Rural students coming to the Uni- versity of North Dakota this fall ¥ CODE FORESHADOWS WIDE ALTERATIONS IN COAL INDUSTRY New Deal Expected to Strike Mine Worker and Opera- tor Alike EXPECT EARLY APPROVAL Government's Experiment in Control of Oil Production * Begun Washington, Sept. 8—(?)—Revolu- tionary charges in the bituminous coal industry are foreshadowed in the re- covery administration's code of fair competition for the soft coal mines. ‘The new deal will strike miner and alike. ‘When the code is approved—which it Hkely will be early next week—the day of cutting miners’ pay to meet cut-throat competition among the operators will be gone. The underground toiler will be guaranteed a minimum basic wage tentatively ranging from $5.63 a day in Montana to $3 a day in Alabama. That will be the pay of underground motormen. Other wages, including tonnage rates, will be adjusted to conform. ‘The miner will have the right to join any union he pleases, or no union at all. Whether he joins or whether he doesn’t he will receive aj) the benefits of the code. ‘Will Give Work To More He will not be allowed to work more than 40 hours a week during the six- to give work to more miners. Those hours even may be cut later. No longer will the miner have to deal at_the company store or live in miners’ union says 50. If a miner has trouble with his boss, he can tell a committee at the mine which will try to settle it. If the mine committee doesn’t agree, the trouble can be taken to a district committee. If their efforts fail, it will go on to a regional committee, and from there to a board in Washington appointed by the president. The miners and operators will have repre- «Continued on Page Three) TEXAS STORM AREA HAS FLOOD THREAT Homeless Thousands Take Pre- cautions Against Rising Rio Grande Harlingen, Tex., Sept. 8.—(?)—Mud- dy torrents surging into the Rio Grande from the rain-soaked Amer- ican watershed Friday threatened to flow Sleeping Sickness Spread \ | How the dread sleeping sickness has spread since its discovery ' in metropolitan St. Louis is shown by this map of the city and surrounding suburbs. The greater part of the cases have been found in the downtown areas which are shaded and marked i A and B. Suburban districts which have reported five or more cases are noted, with the number of cases found. The black dots indicate location of other outbreaks of from one to five cases-of the disease. Marshal Forces Against Dread Sleeping Sickness Rag SUCCUMBS “srs +N SHITERLAND (By the Associated Press) Medical science was marshalling its forces Friday for a concentrated at- tack on the problem of “sleeping sick- ness,” seeking in particular to determ- |ine the method by which it apparent- ily has been transmitted from one per- [son to another in the St. Louis area ;Where 95 have succumbed to the di- |Sease. a Aided by Sanaa: Heltah a dozen monkeys and adult mosquitoes, King Feisal of Iraq, a scholar and/army medical experts took over the desert warrior who, with the aid of | task ah Geiebitlerryed Aegyr bad the di- tl Lawre! sease is transmit yy insects. At- wrested a Kingdom from the wieck of tempts to transmit the disease. from the Turkish empire during the World|human victims through the medium War, died in a Berne hotel Friday ,0f the insects were on the program following a sudden heart attack. He With Major James A. Simmons of the was 48. army medical school in Washington Death came on the heels of Assy-|and Major V. H. ell, curator of rian troubles in Iraq, the youngest |the army medical museum, in charge. nation in the League of Nations fam- An old abandoned hospital at the ily, which culminated in reports that Jefferson Barracks was the scene of 600 Assyrian Christians were mass- | their activities. acred. Reports of isolated cases of “sleep- The king, broken in health, was|ing sickness” came from widely sep- deeply angered by these charges,/arated sections of the nation. The which undoubtedly contributed to; Minnesota State Health department weaken his heart. He was gravely ill |Teported there had been 20 deaths | when he came here from aout of 28 cases since Jan. 1, with four seattered cases under medical care at present. Dr. A. J. Chesley, state Switzerland was necessary, were ap-|health officer, however, said the sit- prehensive of his ability to stand the; uation was no worse than in any " ‘other year since 1919, when the first While it was generally known that Cases came to the health department's he was gravely ill, his passing was a attention. shock even to members of his en-| One death was reported from Dub- tourage. His intention was to remain/|lin, Ga., and another from Kenosha, here two weeks and then return to/ Wis. A death in London, Ont., was his capital, Baghdad. attributed to “sleeping sickness.” ‘King Feisal was born in 1885 at; While medical experts seek to throw son of Sharif Husain and alight on the situation, Miss Patricia only sur-|Maguire. of Oak Park, Ill. continues » He was'her long sleep, begun approximately in Istanbul. 19 months ago. Latest reports from Scholar and Desert Warrior Had Teamed With Law- rence of Arabia Berne, Switzerland, Sept. 8—>)— wing Fela el is Prince Oban, Pigs From Dry Areas 1. | Fargo, N. D., Sept. 8.—()—Plead- dian Monument Is __ing that hog shipments trom drought Fy ‘areas of North Dakota be permitted Dedicated at Bridge under the federal premium set-up -|vegardless of what regulations are or- Elbowoods, N. D., Sept. 8—(P)—In dered for other shopping points, the presence of numerous Indians North Dakotans active in relief meas- from the Fort Berthold reservation, a'ures for farmers in the state con- ferred in Fargo Thursday night. Dakota association, said it is that farmers in the Permitted to t i f ui i I rr Hi i i I i i il i [ if i iu (3 ih he played an|her home were that her condition | "8°: ; A £ f aye if ne (OPENING BIDS ROR “RECOVERY HIGHWAY BUILDING PROGRAM First Contracts Under Emer- gency Appropriation Un- | der Consideration MORE BIDS ASKED SEPT. 29 Contracts For Work on 26 Oth- er Projects to Be Let Late This Month | with bids being opened Friday on “he first letting of approximately 169 {miles of highway construction to be jaone in North Dakota under the na- vional recovery appropriation, the |state highway department also asked het bids on projects covering 165 miles additional road work to be opened Sept. 29. Part of the $6,000,000 appropriation by the federal government for high- |way work in this state, Friday's let- \ting will be the first of a series of five lettings at which contracts for |about $3,000,000 road work are to be awarded. The other half of the federal appro- priation will be divided between feeder roads and roads for munici- palities. This part of the proposed ‘work has not been fully mapped out |for federal approval. | Of the 168.76 miles of road work to be let Friday, 81 miles will be gravel jsurfacing and the remainder grading and structure work. The projects: | Earth Grading | Benson—10.075 miles on 8. R. No.| |30, Harlow, north. Adams—16.250 miles on 8. R. No. 8, north of Haynes. | Renville—16.532 miles on 8. R. No.| 28, Greene, north and south. Cavalier—6.231 miles on S. R. 29, Calio, east and west. Stutsman and La Moure—5.255 miles on 8. R. 46, northeast of Adrian. Bottineau and Pierce—5.615 miles | on 8. R.'60, Barton} northwest. Rolette—13.607 miles on 8. R. 30, south of Rolla. : McLean county—.799 miles grading and gravel on U. S. No. 83 and state route 7, southwest of Turtle Lake. Gravel Surfacing Dickey—8.516 miles on 8. R. 56,) south of Kulm. Traill—15.012 miles on S. R. 18, | Mayville, southeast. Sheridan—15.378 miles on 8. R. 14, north of Denhoff. (Continued on Page Three) | INSANE MAN RUNS AMUCK WITH GUNS Kills Two Men in Belfast, Me., Wounds Two Others and ! Commits Suicide Belfast, Me., Sept. 8—(#)—Two men were shot to death and two others Probably fatally wounded Friday by a former insane asylum employe who went berserk in the business section of the city and then ended his life. The dead were: Herbert E. Ellis, 65, insurance man, and Raymond Blazo, 40, a truckman. W. _W. Blazo, father of Raymond, and Dr. R. B. Stanhope, a veterinar- jan, were in the hospital, with no hope for recovery held by physicians. Adrian Jones, the killer, suddenly appeared on main street just after the dinner hour, with a shotgun in each hand. People scurried into door- ways and around the corners of build- He first shot down Ellis. | As Ellis slumped to the sidewalk, Jones turned to a man who had been unable to find cover and said: “Well I've got that fellow all right.” Then Jones walked down the street. He entered the offices of a trucking concern operated by W. W. Blazo and his son. He poured shots into both wounded Stanhope so seriously that a. physician said he could not live. 13, 1933. Nazi Troopers | Beat American Rolt Kaltenborn, above, son of H. V. Kaltenborn, former Brook- lyn newspaper editor, was beat- en by Nazi storm troopers in a Berlin street in the presence of his family, according to word from London. The elder Kal- tenborn, it was said, protested to American authorities, who com- Plained to the German govern- ment. OUSTED STARK DADS DEFENDING SELVES AGAINST 21 COUNTS Move For Dismissal of Charges Relating to Events Before Present Term Dickinson, N. D., Sept. 8—(4)—Bas-~ ing their defense primarily on the Presumption public officers in a re- moval action can be held responsible only for-.aets. during. their current terms of office, three Stark county commissioners took the stand Thurs- day in answer to 21 charges on which Plaintiffs seek to have them perman- ently dismissed. Immediately upon opening the hearing, Senator J. P. Cain, repre- senting the defendants, Adam Mischel, Nick Boltz and Alex Wolf, entered a motion to dismiss all allegations from the complaint which referred to activities of the board prior to their Present terms of office beginning Jan. The defense also contended the complaint was improperly drawn in that it contained charges against in- dividuals and allegations so general- ized the defendants had no oppor- tunity to prepare their defense. The commissioner overruled Cain’s motion to dismiss the allegations, Adam Mischel on Stand Practically the entire day was spent in hearing the testimony of Adam Mischel. He was questioned at length regarding the purchase of a $3,642 snow plow, a $2,000 elevator grader and two motor trucks costing $1,800, without advertising for bids. The plaintiffs attempted to show the machinery was purchased ‘on a (Continued on Page Three) Private Contributions For Relief Requested Washington. Sept. 8—(#)—The white house Friday was the scene and President Roosevelt the launcher of a conference to dispel from the public mind the belief that the government will do all relief. It was the third. annual “mobiliza- tion for human needs,” a depression movement to keep up community morale in welfare fields, despite fin- ancial strain on many an erstwhile well-filled pocketbook. To an America in which 95 per cent of relief has been assumed by federal, state, and municipal governments, President Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt, ‘The killer then ducked into a black- smith shop on the same street and while officers prepared to lay seige ‘a shot was heard and they entered to find Jones dead. Local Labor Opposes Sales Tax Proposal Members of the Bismarck Trades Labor neil Thursday night of the state fed- z 2 3 & Be i ; ll se EY i i f F oF i F i & age ite fi is I - rH ze ll F f : i : 2 i rf i i | j Might Reinstate de Cespedes Auto Accident Injuries Fatal to Four N.D. Men COALITION CABINET APPEARS PROBABLE FOR TROUBLED CUBA Five-Man Junta Installed After Bloodless Coup d’etat in Trouble U. S. WARSHIPS ASSEMBLE Communists Threaten to Fire on Americans Should They Land At Havana Havana, Sept. 8—(#)—Attempts to conciliate political differences . that have given Cuba two revolutionary governments in a month and brought 30 American warships to Cuban wa- ters began Friday. Six men and a woman, named at a meeting of all factions to “study the nation’s problems,” went into a secret session with indications Provisional President de Cespedes would be rein- stated and a coalition cabinet would be chosen to supplant a five-man junta, This development followed a declar- ation that the revolutionary commis- sion, weary after three days of bick- erings, threats, disorders, and talk of AMERICANS IN DANGER Washington, Sept. 8. — (7) — Coast guard cutters were dis- patched to several points on the Cuban shoreline Friday on reports of American lives being endan- gered. The Analga was sent to Puerto Padre, about 100 miles from the eastern tip of the island. ; The Gresham was dispatched to Matanzas and the Yamacraw to Cardenas. The last two towns are within 100 miles east of Havana. A fourth cutter sent to Havana, the Tuscarora, meanwhle was dispatched to Key West for repairs and stores. Requests for protec- tion had come from Antilla and a | ship was sent there. | @ counter-revolution, would retire “in five minutes” if the people “tell_us if is necessary to avoid American intere vention.” Guarded by many soldiers, dele- gates representing all shades of poli- tical thought convened in the presi- dential palace late Thursday night, and determined on the concilation move before leaving at 12:45 a. m. At Government Invitation They met at the government's invi- tation to hear the viewpoint of each faction. Their statements ranged from condemnation of the de Ces- pedes administration to expressions of fear that the U. 8. would intervene. The students’ directory, opponents alike of the Gerardo Machado regime and its successor, the de Cespedet government, was not represented on the mediation committee, and it war said the students showed no disposi- tion to yield to suggestions to relin- quish the rule. Lieut. Carécx Manuel de Cespedes. nephew .and aig ef the provisional president, said it was his understand- ing that the revolutionary govern- Tent was ready to get out but that “the question of their successor re- mains to be determined.” Concentration of American warships near Cuba was authoritatively said to jhave motivated the compromise move, |which followed a declaration by the women's revolutionary organization that “American marines must pass over our dead bodies to get on Cuban soil” and a Communist manifesto de- claring, “down with the revolutionary government that wishes to pay debts owed to American bankers.” Would Fire on Americans The Communist central committee was said to have agreed to fire on American forces should they land. In Havana Harbor Friday were the U. 8. destroyers McFarland and Bain- bridge and the cruiser Richmond, ready for action if American lives or 2 for taking the chairmanship of the women’s committee. Widespread Search For Ballqons Begun Chicago, Sept. search was under way Friday for two balloons in the International James Gordon Bennett i z fi if i g : f f ' i i i i He i i i g ? if iif “I

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