The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 11, 1933, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper NE == THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE —22:- ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1933 PRICE FIVE CENTS Cold Wave Grips Country 85 Known Dead as Spain Suppresses Revolt ROOSEVELT URGES Canning’ Season for Georgia Peach | BARRACKS CAPTURED BY LOYAL SOLDIERS AFTER BRISK BATTLE: Defenders Flee Into Labyrinth or Old Monastery and Escape, However SEVEN BODIES ARE FOUND Government Considers Declara- tion of Martial Law to Pacify Country Madrid, Dec. 11.—()—Government | troops, moving under a merciless bar- | rage of gunfire, early Monday charged ; and captured the Villa-Nueva mili-/ lary barracks in which rebel forces | nad held out against a heavy bom- bardment for hours. At least seven | \«f the rebels were slain. | These known dead brought to 85j ithe number slain in the anarchist re- volutionary movement which broke cut Friday and which flared with ew violence in central and north- eastern Spain Sunday. | Swarming over the walls of the; improvised fortress, the soldiers quick- iy took over the barracks, which had been the most bitterly contested point in the more than three days scatter- | ed fighting. Throughout the night, the civilian defenders, under a renegade army rgeant, withstood machine gun fire. Finally two army planes were ordered rom Madrid to bomb. the barracks. t, when dawn came and the planes not arrived, the-colonel in charge | the troops ordered the final charge. The Extremists fell back from their posts as the soldiers clambered over he walls. Seven bodies of rebels were Hound, but none of the survivors. troops immediately began a search pf the hundreds of tiny cells. The search lasted all through the | jorning and at noon troops reported hey were unable to find the seven or ight rebels who were supposed to be iside. Officers said they might have ‘scaped through one of the numerous | Branded Son’s Killer by Wife Accused by his wife of beating their 3-year-old son to death, Donald K. Smith, 30, above, Littleton, Col. farmer, was spirited away to Denver for safety when a crowd gatkered at the Littleton jail, causing fears of possible lynching. The slain child is shown below. AND TWO AIRPLANES Pilots, Flying Without Passe: assages of the old convent. Tt was not known whether the ser- | eant leader of the uprising was; Fmong the dead as the bodies were { {1 dressed in civilian clothes and un- | identified. i Assault troops and civil guards were e prercome Extremist, manifestations. a rou! 1 1a raging storm to get Lrg: nearer © through. two planes cf the Transcon- gers, Bail Out and Reach Ground Safely Portage, Pa., Dec. 11.—(?)—Braving the mails Meanwhile, with the situation in |tinental and Western Air lines crashed pther parts of the revolt-affected re- pion remaining tense, the government ‘onsidered declaring martial law. The situation at Barcelona was con- dered increasingly serious. Early in he morning, authorities stationed 14 rucks carrying machine-gunners in Fistricts held by Extremists to halt he terrorist bombings and incendiar- sm, Extremists atterapted to burn 4) falling temperature, ships, neither carrying |Jost altitude so rapidly that the pilots! pmerican agricultu: ‘had to take to the parachutes, over | ithe treacherous mountains during a) ‘snow-fall of blizzard-like intensity. in the snow-swept Allegheny moun- tains early Monday, the pilots bail- ing out safely. ‘Wings encrusted with ice under a the two mail One pilot, Gene Burford of Colum- fadrid orphanage housing more than|pbus, O., reported he was safe shortly P.000 children but the fire was ex-iafter he went over the side of his: monetary and farm and industrial ‘eastbound plane near Portage. tinguished with little damage. Firemen found the doors had been saturated with gasoline before they/ ere ignited. The government ord- ved the arrest of syndicalist workers n the railroads when the syndicalist ailway union decided to Join pe trike, an Kills Himself ' Following Quarrel Great Falls, Mont., Dec. 11—(7)— Burton D, Booth, 27, a former tax! friver, is dead and his widow is in a ritieal condition as the outgrowth of AM Dolice SAL meas a GewO eat) BIEN Ment at their apartment here Sunday. Inve indicated, police said, pat Booth beat his wife aged en, thinking he had kill er jurned a pistol on himself and ended Pra) fi Re STOR iS wing New York, phoned hours later he had reached the Springs, in Blair county. 50 miles from Biles and at Gesson distress and ai they heard the engine missing. An- drews flashed the word he was bailing it’ about 3 a. m., ry ‘after 6 a. m., that he reported in from Roaring Springs. He Harrisburg at 1:25 a. m. after 8 a. m., two miles north Portage. The other, Harold G. Andrews of ground at Roaring lover the “graveyard of the jsome time before midnight. Burford dropped out of the skies rom Columbus and then took off the Pittsburgh airport at Sey Shortly after his take-off, ice ‘began to and near he was quitting the ship because it was hopelessly out of control in the heavy going. That was at 2:40 a. m. form on the plane wings Portage the pilot reported He took some of the mail over the side with him and delivered it to the Portage post office. ward, the second plane. Soon after pT aH but it was not un- had left found shortly of re single motored, low- See ee enlanen valued at $35,000 Buford’s plane was each. Merry Christmas for nd the shepherds returned. to heir flocks, glorifying and prais- ng God for all the things of ‘hich they had been told by the gel of the Lord and all that they ad seen in Bethlehem that lies SHOPPING DAYS CHRISTMAS ents pcenting treatment by public health nent Milwaukee toered to give vide hospital fat sation without finitely oa operate as soon a3 possible, probably before Christmas. Afflicted Girl Seen Milwaukee, year-old girl, five years with, « bone dense, whlch threatens to I lv, is anticipating a happy her jaws permanent- have prevented her from . M, N. Federspiel, ee surgeon, has services and pro- se Hs sald Oun- charge. He - night he had not decided de- ‘on the date, but indicated he promi- volun: IGE COVERS WINGS CRASH IN BLIZZARD passengers. | ; police said | power PRESIDENT URGES FARMERS 10 HELP IN NATIONAL PLAN Message Sent to Farm Bureau Federation Declares ‘We're on Our Way’ O'NEAL PLEDGES SUPPORT Lauds Administration Efforts, Says Present Law Is Farm's Magna Charta Chicago, Dec. 11.—(4#)—President Roosevelt told the Farmers of Amer- ica in a message Monday that “we seem to be on our way” but coun- seled them to continue cooperating with the administration’s program for a “controlled agriculture.” The president's message was read before the annual convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation, assembled here to discuss the complex problems of agriculture and the multi- fronted attack of the administration against them, Edward A. O'Neal, president of the federation, pledged himself, in an ad- dress delivered after reading the mes- sage, to stand squarely behind the Roosevelt agricultural program, the NRA, and the administration's mone- tary policy. President Roosevelt told the farm leaders that the “maladjustment be- tween supply and demand,” to which ‘ue attributed economic unrest in farming, had been years in the mak- ing and could not be cured over-! night. | “Nevertheless,” he continued, “in al few short months the whole complex- | jton of the agricultural outlook has jbeen changed. * People Getting Money | “Money is getting into the hands of | jthe people who need it; it is -com-4 {ing from higher prices for the things: |farmers have to sell; it is coming in| the form of government checks for those cooperating producers who are | willing to swap a hazardous present} for immediate improvement and a stable future. hi | “This money is paying bills; it is; putting men back to work in the cities ; ?roducing the things that farmers ‘buy, and enabling those men, in tur \to buy things that farmers produce. | ‘The program already has progress- | ted considerably among the cotton and tobacco growers in the south, the; president said, and has begun to af-} tect the wheat growers. He said the vorn belt soon would begin to experi- ce it from the corn-hog adjustment | campaign. Addressing the 2.000 delegates at ne convention, President O'Neal! termed the agricultural adjustment | act, under which the administration | \nas struck at the problems of farm- ling, to be “the | | | Maa Charta of; Praises Wallace Highly | | He expressed high praise for Sec-) {retary of Agriculture Wallace, Acting | Secretary of the Treasury Henry Mor- | enthau, President Roosevelt, and the | programs undertaken by them. i |. “The AAA is the Magna Charta of | freedom from the domination of pre- {datory business interests, its guaran- \tee of economic equality with other |groups, its promise of a new day for | Americaan agriculture,” O'Neal said. Urging congress to give careful con- sideration to remonetization of silver, | O'Neal said such action might act the present barriers against negotiat- ing reciprocal tariff agreements a system of barter seemed the best! a (® The game of hearts they started wound up as solitaire, so Corliss Palmer Brewster, one-time famous test winner, divorced Eugene V. Brewster, who lost his millions. He preferred solitaire to her companionship, Corliss charged, and she put on her most engaging smile when she appeared in court eorgia Peach,” beauty con- as shown here, to prove that his taste was all wrong. Cold Weather Emphasizes Legion’s Plea for Needy KANSAN SPIRITED OUT OF OKLAHOMA AS MOB THREATENS owhand Is Alleged to Have Confessed Murdering Man and Wife Recently Kingfisher, Okla. Dec. Hustled away in a tense atmosphere | Overshoes, ' | | its urgency, Bismarck’s American Le- | | Veterans Fire Opening Gun in Annual Drive to Aid Those in Distress With wiintry weather emphasizing gion Open Your Heart drive for old clothing and household articles to be distributed among the needy was launched Monday and will continue through the week. The committee in charge has broad- cast an “S. O. 8.” for articles of all sorts which might be of use to some family in dire circumstances, includ- 11.—(#)— , ing dresses, hats, shawls, shoes, coats, underwear, gloves, mittens, stockings, sweaters, of vague mob rumors and amid the | piouses, nightgowns, trousers, socks mobilization of troops, Jack Wisdom, whose arrest barely preceded dis- covery of the body of Mrs. Harry Pritchard, was held Monday in thi | Kansas sigte reformatory at Hutchin- son, Kansas. ‘The Kansas cowhand was sought in connection with the disappearance November 23 of Mr. and Mrs. Pritch- ard of Wichita, Kas. They disappeared jafter allegedly having scught to col- lect from Wisdom, under threat of prosecution, for a no-fund check. _ Oklahoma and Officers, meanwhile, moved to carry out in a systematic way the search for Pritch- |ard's body that spread over the coun- try south of here Sunday night, when Officers drove the handcuffed Wis- dom ‘over side roads, trying to follow bis confused directions as to where the body was hidden. “He claimed to know where it was jbut he said he didn’t kill them,” said Sheriff Ed Martin of Kingfisher. “There's another man mixed up in it, according to him. Officers seized the swarthy little cowboy before dawn in a hideaway nestled in the lonely eastern Okla- jhoma hills south of Jay, rushed hin hundreds of miles to Kingfisher and, spurred by discovery of Mrs. Pritch- ard’s body under a culvert near Bison, a few miles south of here, started the search for the body of Pritchard. Murray Mobilizes Troops Then the rumors of “lynch law” began to fly. Hearing that “a mob is forming in Wichita,” Governor Wil- “We don’t want any mobs in Okla- homa.” But before the guardsmen could , alarmed Wichita officers 26, insisted at Jay that he knew nothing of the Pritchard's dis- “The search for him became intense when the couple's motorcar, bl spattered and bullet-torn, was found} near , Okla. A-week ago more than 5,000 persons hunted vainly for the Pritchards in southern Kansas, and rewards for! solution of the cise reached $1,200. ! | i | i and stockings, overalls, caps, leggings, pajamas, bedding, mattresses, blan- kets, furniture, stoves, toys, books and household equipment of all descrip- tions. “This probably will be the hardest | winter many families in North Dakota every have known,” according to a statement issued by the committee. including E. M. Davis, Milton Rue and L. V. Miller. “The government is helping many but the federal help alone is not enough. In addition, they need the help which only a neighbor can give. They need your help. “Hunger has been appeased but cold and nakedness stalk abroad. They will grip many men, women and child- ren unless those of us who can help come to the rescue. Work With Relief Group “At the request of the state emer- gency relief committee, the American Legion is collecting clothing for the relief of the needy. The story is an old cne—and a long one. You know it as well as we. Cold and shivering children, poorly-clad; privation-worn mothers nursing sickly babies; strong men crushed beneath a burden of woe from which there is no escape unless the neighbors help. “We ask you to check our list show- ing what you can give in this great ef- tort. We ask that you give whatever you can spare, not just the things you don’t want or need. In the name of humanity and of suffering thousands, we ask your help.” Ninety Boy Scouts, assisting the Legion in the enterprise, were to can- vass the city Monday afternoon, in- terviewing mothers and housewives in regard to what they might be able to give. They were to leave with house- wives lists of articles needed with the request that the women check the items they could donate. (Continued on Page Two) —_— | _ | Apparent Victim | Of Amnesia Found | —_—_—_—_—_——————_—_-o Apparently a victim of amnesia, Charley Bratton, aged McKenzie farm hand, was found Monday morning walking westward along the Northern Pacific tracks near Sunny, several miles west of Mandan. Bratton recognized neither Sheriff Joseph L. Kelley nor Deputy Sheriff A. H. Helgeson when brought here, though he knows them well. Bratton was missing Sunday and a search for him was instituted then. He has been em- ployed for a number of years by ‘W. B. “Billy” Watson, McKenzie farmer. shirts,) FARMERS TO HELP IN NATIONAL PLAN | Treasury Policy Is Expected to! Be Bone of Contention At Session | INFLATIONISTS TONE DOWN! Demand for Paper Currency Is} Expected to Be Less; Taxes Are Big Issue Washington, Dec. 11.—)—Mind-| ful of conflicts ahead, the adminis- | tration has begun to point for the approaching session of congress with 9 view to advancing its program and disarming dissenters as effectively as! possible. ° | Actual formation of recommenda-| tions starts this week. At the front President Roosevelt has placed treas-! ury policy, asking his aides for con-/ ferences on what the federal govern- ment must spend in the next fiscal) year and how to raise the money. {| Whatever is decided, it will provide the hub for one of the many contro- versies to resound in senate and house. Involved is the whole public and civil works and relief policy, li- quor and income taxation, budget balancing and the necessity for pro- tecting national credit. The part to be taken by the mone- tary dispute depends primarily on j What happens between row and Jan. 3. For days the government gold Program has been steadied, but with no assurances of stabilization im- pending. j More Recommendations Seen The capitol debates appear likely !to be colored by presidential recom- |mendations for permanent railroad |consolidation legislation, stock mar- ‘ket control, some possible alterations in but not general revision of the se- curities act, express federal control over the liquor industry, ratification of the St. Lawrence treaty and con- firmation of William C. Bullitt as the first ambassador to the Soviet. Indications at the moment are for 2 less determined bulk of opposition jthan appeared in prospect a month back. On the inflammatory money question, for example, less is being heard here from those who, on the ‘one hand, have been insistent on out- right currency inflation and those on the other who would return to the old gold standard. This is attributed to reports of business improvement. There is no illusion that harmony will dominate, however. Some of the strongest voices in senate and house, Democratic and Republican, are be- ing primed for opposition to Roose- velt and his policies. Both the na- tional recovery administration and the agricultural adjustment adminis- tration will come in for their share. President Is Confident Still entrenched behind weighty majorities, no concern is expressed in the Roosevelt quarter as it looks to the same leadership that maintained last spring: Vice President Garner and Robinson of Arkansas in the sen- ate, and Speaker Rainey of Illinois and Byrns of Tennessee, in the house. McNary of Oregon and Snell of New York, respectively, will continue to head senate and Dee Taking a more ent as the weeks pass will be congressional elections next fall. With more time, and not under the spell of the emer- gency atmosphere of their last meet- ing, there will be more inclination among the legislators for frank and full talk. Into this situation. the first major factor will be Roosevelt's report. That he will seek to use it for all it ts worth, there is little doubt. The present inclination is to defer final drafting until the last. minutes, to have year-end statistics that throw a later light on progress of the re- covery program. Coroner to Probe Mysterious Death An autopsy to determine the cause of the sudden death of Miss Marie Ferderer, 20-year-old Mandan wom- an, was to be conducted Monday af- ternoon, according to W. E. Perry, Burleigh county coroner. An ambulance brought Miss Ferd- erer to the hospital from an apart- ment at 100 Avenue B, hospital au- thorities said, at 11:30 o'clock Mon- day forenoon. At 1:40 o'clock Miss Ferderer was dead. The woman was in a coma when he was called to see her, Dr. C. E. Stackhouse said, and she did not re- gain consciousness. Sheriff J. L. Kelley launched an investigation into the episode. GRANT RESIDENT DIES Carson, N. Dak. Dec. 11.—F. M. Robinson, 60, one of the earliest homesteaders of Grant county, died suddenly Nov. 30 at the home of Mr. iand Mrs. W. ©. Dickinson. Found summoned and a doctor's examination ‘decided he had died from a cerebral hemorr! . Funeral services were eld Dec. 4 and the body was sent to |dead in bed, county authorities were | the New Notre Dame Football Coach In a sweeping shakeup of the Ath- letic staff at Notre Dame Univer- | sity, Elmer Layden (above), a member of the famous Notre Dame Four Horsemen, has been appointed head football coach to succeed Heartly (Hunk) Anderson. | Layden was coach at Duquesne, which won nine out of ten ~ames this season. OUSTER PROCEEDING IS HELD UP ONE DAY worth; Knudtson Revises His Testimony Hearing in the ouster proceedings against R. E. Wenzel, workmen's com- pensation bureau commissioner, was in recess Monday at the request of 8. E. Ellsworth, special assistant attorney general who is assisting the prosecu- tion. Sessions will be resumed Tues- day morning. Saturday's session was marked by the testimony of Carl E. Knudtson, bureau secretary, who underwent a Gay-long grilling, first by Charles A. Verret, assistant attorney general rep- resenting the state, and then by George F. Shafer, representing Wen- zel. Saturday morning Knudtson said he had paid some money to State Treasurer Alfred 8. DaJe or someone representing him, in connection with the referendum on a bill affecting the compensation bureau, passed last win- ter by the legislature. Later he denied that he had paid any funds to Dale or that the treasurer had anything to do with the matter, although he had spoken to him about it. Attacks Bond Purchases In an objection entered in the record, Verret indicated the state will seek to prove the compensation bu- reau made bond purchases contrary to law, chiefly because of the manner in which the minutes of the transac- tion were handled by the commission- ers, When Shafer cross-examined Knudtson regarding the bond pur- chases and the minutes in connection with the transactions, Verret entered @ motion to strike out cross examina- tion testimony “as immaterial and as not tending to prove or show any compliance with the statute” in mak- ing the bond purchases. On direct examinatioin, Knudtson said he, Wenzel and another compen- sation commissioner, W. C. Preckel, had shared in financing circulation of petitions to refer the law empower- ing the governor to remove compen- sation commissioners without cause. Cross-examined by Shafer, he tes- tified he paid $100 to either Dale or to some one representing Dale. Paid Dale No Money Examined later on this point by then replied to a question as to whether he paid any money to Dale for furthering the referendum by say- 38,075 PUT TO WORK Minneapolis, Dec. 11—(#)—From Ottumwa, Ta., for burial. ° persons on jobs, state director a Delay Taken At Request of Elis-| of its operations in August until last Saturday the Na- tlonal Re-employment service in Min-| nesota has placed a total of 38,075 MERCURY SCUTTLES TO BOTTOM OF BULB IN CAPITAL SUNDAY Minimum of Five Below Is Re- corded; Other Parts of Nation Affected PACIFIC COAST HAS FLOODS Heavy Rains and Melting Snows Fill Rivers in Western Washington Bismarck experienced sub-zero temperatures over the week-end for the first time this season as the ele- ments brought a variety of weather conditions throughout the nation, thea @ trail of death and suffer- eB Several automobile accidents were reported in the Bismarck-Mandan vicinity Saturday night and Sunday morning following a light snow which made pavement extremely slip- Pery. No one was seriously injured. At least two autos slid off the Bis- marck-Mandan highway and turned over, and at least half a dozen others were damaged by collisions on the inter-city highway and in the two cities, In one instance an automobile | crashed into two parked machines on the highway shortly before 10 o'clock Saturday night. The two parked cars were owned by Russell A. Young, of 515 First St., Bis- marck, and D. C. Scothorn of 110 Sec- ond St., northwest, Mandan. They had stopped on the highway to assist Oscar Johnson of Mandan, when lock- ed brakes threw the latter's machine into a ditch near the Ben Elelson air- Port, where it overturned. Johnson's wife and child were riding with him when the mishap occurred. ‘The automobile which crashed into the Scothorn and Young machines was driven by Mrs. Molly Kottsick of Mandan, who said she was blinded by bright lights and bothered by the slip- pery pavement. The Scothorn ma- chine, in the middle, was badly dam- aged. Mrs. Kottsick suffered a cut on her forehead. Mrs. Young was seated in the back seat of the front machine, holding her baby. The tot was thrown in the front seat by the impact but not hurt. Five Below 8: Temperature here dropped to five degrees below zero Sunday forenoon. At 7 o'clock Monday morning it was two degrees below, according to O. nah Roberts, federal meteorologist ere. The forecast is for snow flurries throughout Monday, with warmer weather Monday night and lower temperatures Tuesday. Snow which fell here over the week- end measured .6 of an inch, ‘Western Washington, with flood waters from the Puyallup and Nis- qually rivers, was hard hit. Eleven deaths were attributed directly to the flood waters during the last week and two indirectly. Scores of persons were made home- less. All railroad lines between Seattle and Tacoma were reported washed out. The Midwest was in the grip of a cold wave, with a prediction for a further drop in temperatures over {most of this section Monday. There was a blanket of snow in the Great Lakes region and over the Northern Plains states and the Rocky Moun- tain region. Warm weather was promised for the East, which shivered over the week-end. Pennsylvania attributed three deaths to the cold snap, while New York had two. Score of Towns Hit A score of western Washington cities and towns had the highest flood waters in years swirling about and through them Monday, while authorities sought the bodies of pos- sible victims. The high waters were described in various districts in these terms: fe