The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 20, 1934, Page 1

q North Dakota’s w Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | 22-| ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1934 PRICE FIVE CENTS Will Restore Airmail Here HURRY 10 AlD OF 30 MEN ON BOARD STRICKEN VESSEL Wireless Reports Steamer Be- ing Battered on. Rocks Near Boston Harbor Coast Guards Battle Sea in Rescue Effort | ||AGED WOMEN BURNED Military Postmen Take Oath of Office eee Ma BMP sere ( TO DEATH AS FIRE SWEEPS INFIRMARY 10 Trapped in Beds by Raging Flames in Pennsylvania Institution COLLUSION STORM THREATENS AWARDS TO OCEAN CARRIERS Senator Says 40 of 45 Con- tracts Made by Brown Are ‘Properly Void’ Architect Honored f ° , NORTHEAST GALE BLOWING Commercial Vessel Also Joins in Attempt to Snatch Victims From Waves HAD NO CHANCE TO FLEE HOOVERITE DEFENDS ACTION All Who Lost Lives Were Wi- dows, Daughters, Cousins of Civil War Veterans Says All Contracts Let by Him Were Based on Open Com- petitive Bidding , ‘ Boston, Feb. 20.—()—The coast guard patrol boat Dix and a commer- cial tug fought their way through a tip snortin’ northeast blizzard Tues- day to save the crew of the steamship Northern Sword, pounding to pieces on the rocks of Winthrop Head, just off Boston harbor. ‘The Northern Sword sent out her first SOS call about 6 a. m. it was Picked up by the Airways Radio sta- tion at the East Boston Airport and relayed by telephone to coast guard headquarters at Boston. The message said: “Helpless and drifting ashore off Winthrop Head.” A tremendous sea was running and visibility was extremely poor. A northeast blizzard roared down the Massachusetts coast and across Cape Cod and apparently drew the North- ern Sword onto the rocks of Win- throp Head, for within half hour, about 6:30 a. m. another SOS from the steamer said: “Vessel grounded and pounding heavily. Crew aboard, send help. Northeast snow storm.” The coast guard patrol boat Dix was ordered out of Boston to the steamer’s aid and the Boston Tow Boat company sent its tug Venus. Takes Terrific Battering The Northern Sword lay in three feet of water and was taking a terrific beating. . She had 30 men aboard. She is a collier of 2,500 tons and was bound from Boston to Norfolk, Va., in ballast. Coast guard said she anchored Mondsy night in President Roads at the entrance to Boston har- bor and during the early morning dragged her anchors. She is owned by the Sword Steam- ship company of New York. z Coast guard surfmen set up ap- paratus on Winthrop Beach to at- tempt a rescue of the crew by breeches buoy. The master of the Northern Sword wirelessed coast guard headquarters that he was not in immediate danger but had swung out life boats in the belief they might soon have to aban- don ship. as it would be extremely hazardous attemut a landing in the shoal water and pounding surf. The blizzard was blowing at a 60- ‘Uncle birds fore they could do so they had to take |Mitchell Field, L. I. preparatory to/ seated Acard? ‘their initial ventures on their new air Monday night as postmen but be- an oath of office. A group of them is shown above being sworn in at Jobs. $170,000 ALLOTTED FOR MATERIALS ON STATE CIVIL WORKS Officials Uncertain, However, as to What New Govern- ment Funds Cover ‘Washington, Feb. 20.—(?)—Allot- ment of $30,605,000 to states for pur- chase of material to be used on civil works was announced by Harry L. Hopkins, ‘administrator. The money Hold. Man Suspected Of Montana Robbery Delthin Smith, suspected of being & member of @ gang which committed |® tpbbery at Baker, Mont., recently. jwas picked up Tuesday morning by ‘Deputy Sheriff Fred Anstrom and is being held pending advices from au- thorities at Baker. Anstrom said a communication from Baker stated suspects held in Montana had con- fessed to committing the crime and had implicated Smith. BISMARCK FARMERS GET WHEAT MONEY allotted must last from Feb. 15 to the; Payment Is Made Here Tuesday end of the civil works program May 1. The allotments, which are the maxi- mum amount that may be spent for materials and purposes other than payrolls, include: Minnesota $200,000; Montana $180,- Afternoon; Will Complete Work Thursday Approximately $113,000 in wheat al- 000; North Dakota $170,000; South Da- eae money will have been receiv- kota $250,000. by Burleigh county farmers by Thursday night of this week, accord- Interpretation of the order alloting| ing to County Agent H. O. Putnam. $170,000 to North Dakota for purchase | This amount is estimated by Putnam of materials to be used on CWA work! to represent two-thirds of the total has been asked from Washington, ac-| expected here. The remainder is ex- cording to John E. Williams, secretary | Pected of the North Dakota Federal Relief Committee. soon. Burleigh county wheat checks were received in two batches on Tuesday The question bothering the commit- | and Wednesday of last week by E. M. tee is whether the amount allocated | Anderson, county wheat allotment to the state for materials includes| treasurer. The wheat committee, Wil- to| truck and team hire as one of the|llam B. Falconer, Axel Soder, John items. If it does, it wilt not allow for/ Benz and Anderson sent out notices @ great deal of construction work,| ‘to individual farmers that told where ‘Williams said. and culverts for CWA projects for materials which WILL KEEP FEDE STATION AT MAND: by Congress Fargo, N. D., Feb. 20.—(?)—Restor: day from Crosby, on Thursday from ation of the item for dry land agri- meerey. and when they would receive the The money has already been allot-| checks. ed for purchase of building materials} The first of the meetings at which and a| farmers received their checks and further allotment of $140,000 was re-| Signed receipts, were held Monday at quested would| Wing, Regan and Arena. Tuesday include the important items of truck|morning = meeting was held at Wil- and team hire on projects already| ton. ‘Tuesday afternoon farmers in the territory adjacent to Bismarck receiv- ed their money at a meeting at the World War Memorial building. According to Putnam, the remainder of the checks received last week will me paid out in meetings.on Wednes- day and Thursday. $123,695.20 18 BEING DISTRIBUTED IN DIVIDE , N. D., Feb. 20.—()—Wheat Crosby, Promotion Body Chief Hears’ puiacwoaeie. chicks totaling 9138 008-9 been received here and are to Appropriation Is Approved | be distributed this week to 1,820 farm- ers who have signed the acreage re- luction contracts. Checks will be distributed Wednes- ry and from from Wildrose. fet ne Bek 3 Pi Hf i i 2 a i a g i eg il § BRUSSELS IS MECCA FOR THOUSANDS WHO VISIT KING'S BIER Royalty From Many Lands to Attend Funeral of Belgium's Hero Monarch Brussels, Feb. 20.—(4)—Brussels be- came Tuesday a mecca for the mourn- ing. Sorrowing subjects of Albert I, King rof the Belgians, poured by the thous- ands into the black-draped capital and to the palace where lay the body of the monarch who fell to his death while mountain climbing Saturday. Royalty from other lands came, too, and knelt at the biergo which the body was borne in the fantastic light of torches Monday night. Persons of all ages and social cir- cumstances formed a silent, sober line outside the palace, to be marshaled in by police for a last glimpse of one they knew as the “knightly king.” The palace will be open for the same purpose Wednesday. The body will be removed Thursday to the old cath-| edral of Saint Gudule for the funer- al services. Burial will be in the royal crypt at Laeken. Queen Elizabeth, broken by grief, visited alone the body of her beloved husband and king, shortly before it was removed from the royal chateau at Laeken in the gathering dusk Mon- day. ‘The 32-year-old Crown Prince Leo- pold, who will become King Leopold III Friday, walked behind the gun car- riage which bore the body of his fath- er along the three-mile route to the Palace. Surrenders Him Te Nation Before viewing the body, the bereav- ed queen received personally some of the visitors who came to offer con- “It is the last time I can see him for this evening; I must surrender his body to the nation he loved,” the queen was said to have sobbed to her ladies- in-waiting as she left the room with halting step. ‘The meeting in the house of depu- ties was marred by the fiction of half-dozen Communists and Flemish separatists. Just before the prime minister, Count de Brocqueville, rose to deliver & speech (also repeated in the sen- ay 4 R> 5 j rf aL | | | i ef bE it i i i : i | qi Brookville, Pa, Feb. 20.—(?)— Trapped in their beds by as raging fire, 10 aged women were burned to death in the infirmary of the Penn- sylvania Memorial Home early Tues- One other women received slight burns and four others were ‘un! harmed, Firemen and attendants stood by helpless in 18-below zero weather as the flames raged through the 18- room, one-story frame building. The victims, ranging in age from 64 to 94, all widows, daughters or cou- sins of Civil War veterans, had no opportunity to flee from their hospi- tal beds as the fire started about the yond recognition, were found huddled in the ruins, The dead: Mrs, Helen Sutley, 75, widow, Tion- jesta, Pa. Mrs. Jenny Showers, 94, Reynoldsville, Pa. Miss Mida Crampton, 65, daughter, Scranton, Pa. is Miss Martha Moore, 74, daughtet, Baxter, Pa. Miss Margaret Perry, 76, daughter, Grove City, Pa. Miss Mary Marvin, 81, ‘Verona, Pa. “ Mra. Elizabeth Loveland, 76, widow, » Pa. Miss Christie Bobst, 64, daughter, Reading, Pa. widow, sister, Pleasantville, Pa. Mrs. Mary Gannon, 80, Scranton, Pa. Only Five Escape Burned, but not in critical condi- tion, was Mrs. Lavina McGrody, Rey- noldsville, burns about the head. Those rescued unharmed were: Mrs. Mary Gresh, Lititz, Pa. Mrs. Rebecca Gould, Cool Spring, Mrs. Cora Druce, Dubois, Pa. PBR hee nny sDicoeee AP me. She tried to get to a te! but Porgy ener Pore groped her way to a fire alarm. She said the fire seemed to have started in a washroom and firemen express- ed the belief the blaze was caused by ‘®@ short circuit. The alarm aroused Mrs. Mary B. other at- building im In the fought her way through the several of the rooms, aroused of the women who were able to walk out-unaided, and led the other two to| - safety. Firemen then turned their atten- tion to the main building aged to cave it. Gammons Appeals to He 4 atl il ul ¥ z 3 2 | g Z iy Z i a i i i i Mrs. Florence Roberts, 86, cousin, | 445,440, Washington, Feb. 20.— (#) —The “collusion” storm which grounded holders of airmail contracts, whistled ominously Tuesday about the heads of ocean mail carriers. About 40 of the 45 ocean mail con- tracts made during the postmaster generalship of Walter Brown in the Hoover cabinet are properly “void,” according to Senator McKellar (Dem. Tenn.), because competitive bidding was lacking. Brown was called back Tuesday for further testimony before the sen- ate mail investigating committee. The former postmaster general said in a statement Monday that 20 ocean mail contracts during his term were “awarded by open competitive bid- ding.” The Hoover administration postal chief described as “without justifica- tion” charges of conspiracy in letting air mail contracts. As for ocean mail, Brow.. said: ‘All but one of these contracts were let to the lowest responsible bidder whose proposal met the specifica- tions.” McKellar contended that in the case of about two score of these compacts there was a provision by which it was assured, or thought to be assured, that “no other company .. . could get the contract.” McKellar named $412,684.304 as the entire contract pay for the whole terms of the ocean mail contracts, but sald “the actual costs from 1928 to the beginning of this month totaled $107,- The president issued an executive orter giving the house naval commit- tee authority to open the income tax {returns of naval airplane manufactur- ers. Meanwhile, house investigators of both naval and military airplane con- tracts sought to block the awarding of contracts for more than 100 new planes to cost $7,500,000. ITALIAN SUGGESTS Would Have Leading European Nations Guarantee Peace in Austria Rome, Feb. 20.—(}—A proposal by Deputy Ezio Garibaldi that a four- power conference be called to settle Austro-German difficulties followed closely Tuesday the arrest at Trieste lieve were to have been smuggled into Austria. Enforced dissolution of the Na- tional Socialist (Nazi) group at Trieste came almost immediately thereafter, eeeege Roosevelt’s Son Is i| Like Many Another | |S... e ‘Stutsman Boston, Feb. 20—(7)—James Roosevelt, son of the t, doesn’t always agree with his father. Father and son can't seem to eet together on the question of “atificaion of the proposed federal | FOUR-POWER MEET: COL. HORATIO B. HACKETT Col. Horatio B. Hackett, an execu- tive of the firm of Holabird and Root, ‘Chicago architects who designed North Dakota's new capitol bullding, has been honored by the government. Appointed manager of the Federal Public Works Emergency Housing corporation, Hackett will direct the work of slum clearance sponsored by the government. CONFERENCE CALLED TO FIGHT TAX SUITS BY N. D, RAILROADS ] States Attorneys to Gather Here Next Monday on Sathre's Invitation A conference of state's attorneys has been called by Attorney General P.'O. Sathre to consider three court actions brought against the state by the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Soo Line for an aggregate reduction of $1,257,377 in thelr 1933 tax assessments. The|“%2. meeting will be held here next Mon- day. ‘The cases have been filed in the federal court at Fargo. The Great Northern seeks a 40-per-cent tax re- duction, the Northern Pacific a 30- per-cent reduction and the Soo Line @ 57-per-cent reduction, all on the that the state board of equal- ization fixed their valuations at an unreasonable figure. Arrangements have been made for the payment of 60 per cent of the Great Northern taxes and 70 per cent of the Northern Pacific taxes by 1. The lawsuits affect almost every county in the state. “We have not heard whether the Milwaukee plans to bring an action,” Sathre said, “but if it should, every county will be involved.” Besides discussing ways and means board of equalization 1933 taxes on the properties railroads in North Da- follows: Great Northern, Northern Pacific, $1,182,- and Soo Line, $525,306. e contested its 1931 and actions brought in the ‘The road was allowed of 11 per cent in its 1931 and 13 per cent in its 1932 ibky E EE Ez es. railroad assessments for 1933 by Weeks on Board of State Tax Chiefs ence. Fred C. Stewart, California board of elected i} ‘FARLEY ANNOUNCES ARMY WILL RESUME SERVICE 10 AREA Small Military Planes, However, Will Not Attempt to Carry Passengers | DATE STILL IS UNCERTAIN Fliers Have Difficulty in Getting Started Because of Bad Weather Bismarck was without airmail serv. joe Tuesday for the first time since June, 1931, the Northwest Airways having flown the last mail plane through here Monday, but prospects are bright for an early resumption of the service, according to a news dis- patch from Washington. Postmaster General Farley Monday Usted among the new airmail routes to be operated soon by the army are those from Chicago to St. Paul and Minneapolis and to Fargo and Bil- tenon Sie to Butte, Mont. jo date was set for resuming the service, however. Under the new arrangement no Passengers will be carried as the gov- ernment planes are smaller than those used by the Northwest Airways. They are army planes and not design- ed for carrying passengers. The Northwest Airways office at the airport was closed Monday and the only employe of the company re- maining in Bismarck was Ottc Richardson, radio operator, who said Tuesday morning that he had no idea, what the future plans of the com- pany are. Finds Plenty of Trouble Reports from all parts of the coun- try indicated the army was having plenty of trouble in its new venture. Blinding snow, sleet or fog ground- edi nearly all army mail planes ip the East. To the west and south the service planes were able to fly, except in spots. One mishap occurred Monday night as| the army took over the mails wrested from private companies by Postmaster General Farley's cancel- lation of their contracts. An Atlanta- Richmond plane nosed over at the Greenville, 8. C., airfield, bent its Propeller and smashed its undercar- riage. Lieut. E. T. Gorman, pilot, es- caped injury. High-spots of the airmail situa- were: Newark, N. J.—Heavy snow and a low ceiling kept all mail craft “sit- ting down.” celled and Lieut. George Sulgen, sec- tion commander, foresaw no flying until noon. ‘Washington—Lieut. Thayer Olds landed on an icy field at 5 a. m. . “Everything went smoothly,” he said. “A tail wind helped me over the mountains.” Dallas, Tex.—Two planes roared away on schedule Monday night, for Kansas City and Memphis. Fails to Surmount ‘Hump’ Sacramento, Cal.—Lieut. John C. Crosthwaite tried unsuccessfully to surmount the “hump” of the Sierra Nevadas on the first eastbound army Chicago—Four planes left here Monday night and early Tuesday as the army mail service got away to a Prompt start. They headed for Omaha, Kansas City, Nashville, Tenn. and Newark, N. J., The mer- cury flirted with zero. Before the elements closed down on the airmen, aviation concerns which lost their contracts succeeded in making a final aerial gesture. A giant transport ship captained by Eddie Rickenbacker, world war ace, sped from the Pacific to the Atlantic in 13 hours and 5 minutes and landed at Newark, N. J., with a new air mail record in its possession. Meanwhile, the private concerns who lose millions in revenues by the postmaster general's order, prepared to curtail commercial operations. Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., for which Col. Charles A. Lind- bergh is technical adviser, announced Teductions,” those Jail,