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THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7,.1934 2 SCHOOL HOUSES GET THOROUGH CLEANIN Schools in 24 Counties Benefit by Civil Works Service Health Campaign School houses in at least 24 coun- ties of the state are “healthier, hap- pier, and cleaner” places for school | children as the result of a cleaning | campaign conducted under civil works | service in cooperation with the state departments of health and public in-| struction. | A suggestion by Florence Fergeson of Steele, county nurse and relief worker, that rural school houses be given a thorough cleaning during the| Christmas holidays was passed along | to all county workers by Miss Pearl | Salsberry, director of field work for | the federal relicf committee. The plan cially | for tho: where there is! pinkeye, chicken scarlet fever, scabies and impetigo, Miss Salsberry | said. \ Meeting with favor: c | many coun: the ject was unde a rv-| ice project for women in need of re-} lief, Not just an o1 8 | was done but flo’ H ‘nd desks of the sc re scrubbed with soap d sterilized. In many | papers were placed in ¢ migated, odds and ends in dren's desks were ‘oved, Spend $9,560 for Work Besides: putting the schools in a healthy condition, the vided a means for work out needed reli project pro-| any women to {. They were! hours as needed to cover the family, budget. Local boards of education| furnished materials in most cases. | The service was not rendered where | school boards had the money to pay} for it, but if the board had no funds! the CWS provided the service ‘was a report from the Emmons coun- | ty superintendent of schools who for- warded letters of thanks from the teachers and pupils, one of which said, “If all the school rooms in the county were cleaned as thoroughly as Successful one.” | One hundred fifty-five class rooms were cleaned and sterilized in Em- mons county. Reports from counties show a total} out in the cleaning of these schools.) ‘The figures by counties are: Adams| $569, Barnes $109, Billings $203, Bow- man $171, Divide $887, Emmons $501, Hettinger $736, LaMoure $12, Logan} $569.85, McHenry $593, McIntosh $297, ; McKenzie $70, McLean $128, Nelson $266, Oliver $124, Ransom $30, Ren-| ville $28, Richland $2,358, Sargent $421, Sheridan $342, Slope $56, Towner $302, Walsh 706, Ward $63. BURNSTAD MAN RECOVERING Ole Button, 65-year-old Burnstad man who was brought to St. Alexius hospital Monday night suffering from injuries sustained when run over by @ disc is recovering, hospital attend- ants said Wednesday morning. He} suffered from several broken ribs and / severe bruises, but was resting easily, | they stated. | i IT COSTS SO LITTLE | TO RIDE IN COMFORT On Your Next Trip Try the Train! EXAMPLE FARES from Bismarck to One Round | Way Trip Dickinson - - - $2.33 $ 4.20 Beach-- +++ 3.62 6.52 Jamestown- += 2.05 3.69 Valley City -- 2.74 4.94 Fargo- --- 3.89 7.01 | Duluth ---- 8.93 16.08 Minneapolis - - 6.89 na | These fares are for travel in coaches. 10-day return limit. Corresponding low fares to all | Northern Pacific points. \ T. P. Allen, Agent i paid at 30 cents per hour for as many |; Typical of the program's reception | ours, I feel sure this plan was a very | yy of about $9,560 in relief was worked |p. doorsteps of scores of deserted farm jents in to vash two or three good jdiamond finesse, his contract would {have been defeated. By watching the ° b Weather Report | Mit lhctatctcc Midd | CONTINUED { FORECAST * \ For Bismarck and vicinity: | Gener- | Valley City Group ‘ Ry “ite "cal not’ ‘Attacks Senator in % ‘or North Da- i i kota: Generally} Bitter Resolution fair tonight and, ie ay; Hot) Bolting the convention Tuesday be- : For South Da-|f0re Governor Langer was endorsed, kota: Generajly| the anti-Langer faction will meet fair tonight and about 150 strong at Jamestown, in- quite so cold. jcluding seven Nonpartisan League For Montana: | state officials who have repudiated the Generally fair to- | ranger administration, with the claim i 5- det’ colder "west jof being the “real” Nonpartisan Lea- Fal portion tonight. | gue organization. For #@ ‘uesota: Generally fair to-| The Farmers Holiday association night_and” Thursday; not quite so! also 1 prepared to meet at New Rock. cold Thursday and in west and north | forg within a week or 10 days to nom- NTINUE penta. inate candidates, while the Indpend- ,Jent Voters association, watching with GENERAL CONDITIONS interest the split in the League fac- The barometric pressure is high |tion, is considering the placing of a from the upper Mississippi Valley | conservative - progressive” coalition westward to the Pacific coast (Kam- tic, prealve eon loops 30.60) while somewhat lower | 'cket, in the field. | No al ; | pected, however, until after the Dem. wails over stern at pressure prevails over {he eastern and | cratic convention is concluded at Mi- tures dropped somewhat in all sec-|not in April. tions and sub-zero readings occurred Olson May Oppose Frazier in Manitoba and in northeaste:n| Candidates in the field for endorse- North Dakota. Light, scattered pre- | ment by the bolting Nonpartisan fac- cipitation occurred from the Great! tion to meet at Jamestown include T. |H. Thoresen of Grand Forks, Secre- of State Robert Byrne, State Sen- 28.66. Reduced to sea level, 30.58, or C, W. Fine and former U. S. Dis- carn jtrict Attorney P. J. Garberg. Lieut. WERE Jenant Governor Ole H. Olson is being y considered as a candidate against Normal this month tovdate’.... ‘gq, Schator Frazier Total, January Ist to date 14) A court contest to determine wheth- Normal, January Ist to date .. 1.01 er the Jamestown or Valley City con- Accumulated deficiency to date .87 vention is to be regarded as the “real” S - ; Nonpartisan League organization is pide bt cbldecasdielat alt S$ with the Langer faction thre: ng to initiate the action. Grand Forks, clear boris Gis | State Representative W. J. Flanni- Valley City, cle 2581100 J wn, head cf the main. WEATHER IN THE NATION ¢ ta: ion of the state highway ,Ccpartment, made the motion for en- — Sas |dorsement of the governor to climax BISMARCK, N. D, clear 3 20. - 00/2 “AY of rapid-fire developments Tues. é Bose dan clear’... 30 $8 “The mot dopted by accla-| ‘cise, Idaho, clear 30 52 e motion was adopted by - Calgary, Alta. peld! a 16 mation and was follawed by an ova- Chicago, Ill., peld: 28 436 © ©.00'tion for the governor, who took the Denver, Colo., eld} 30 68 n to pledge himself to carry Des Moines, Ia. clear.. 20 30 “the Wonparkieah | Devils Lake, N. D, clear 0 16 .09, CU! the Leh ae | Dodge City, ‘Kans. 24 76 99 League platform. Edmonton, Alta., cld: 22. 114) At. the convention Tuesday, the 18 06 Langer-controlled session sent a com. | 2 00 | mittee to the executive committee of 02 | the party to demand that its records be 36 ’ jturned over, but was informed that ee, oy 4§ 28 tne convention here was considered Medicine Hat, A., cldy. 14 26.00 pete ae as ‘nega. a Miles City, Mont. snow 14 20 .08; John Nystul, chairman of the exec- Minneapolis, M., clear.. 8 26 .00| utive committee, declared an account- lodena, Utah, clear.... 34 72 00! ing cf his committee's activities would Moorhead, Minn, clear 2 18 00/be made at the Jamestown conven. No. Platte, Neb. snow. 18 52 00/11, "tion he considered the “real” Okla. City, ©., eldy. 00 Br Alsen Sask ity) ae league convention. . 00 12.00; Gathering at Jamestown will be ap- 22 =.18| proximately 150 opponents of the 60.01 | Langer administration. a0 2 Talbott Given Mention S. 8. Marie, Mich. w22 38 0 C. C. Talbott, president of the Farm. Seattle, Wash., cid: = 44 56 00; ers Union in this state, was also men- Sheridan, Wyo., cldy... 20 32 .06 tioned for senatorial endorsement as a Sioux City, bf clear... 10° 28 04 candidate against Frazier. y a Tr 00° a Swift Current. 8. peldy. 12 22 00) uons, tne LV.A‘s have been generally Toledo, Ohio cidy, -°:. 30 36 ‘00 |}00ked on as “out of the picture” in Williston, N.'D., clear.. 4 20 .00| this year's election. Observers, how- n, ) 00 Winnemucca, Nev.. clear 28 62 00 ever, pointed out that should Langer Winnipeg, Man., clear.. -8 6 .00|and Olson be the contenders for the ; Republican nomination, the L.V.A. or- ganization may’ consider entering’ the eld to place a “conservative progres- sive” ticket in the field. These ob. | Servers took the view that Langer and March 17.—()—/ Olson would be regarded as making a {bid for the “left wing’ votes of the Neague. homes Wednesday for 45 miles along| Committees appointed by the con. the ice-jammed Missouri river. Caught | vention, which seated 133 out of 141 by such a sudden flood, farmers, their | qualified delegates, were: wives and children escaped with only} Rules and Procedure—Bert Louden- a few possessions and spent the night|beck, McLean County; P. A. Points, huddled in country stores or in pri-| Divide County; William Falconer, vate homes where accommodations | Bismarck; W. E. Hoopes, Carrington, were taxed to the limit. and Oswald Braaten, Grand Forks. Thousands of fertile tobacco, whéat} ‘Resolutions Committee—J. A. Engen, Farmers Flee From Ice Jam in Missouri Atchison, Kan,. Menacing muddy waters lapped at the |and corn bottomland acres were inun- | Lars Siljan, Garrison; Ed Green, Cav- cated, jalier County; Ben Lemke, Cando; E. M. Pomeroy, Bottineau County; E. A. The Virgin Islands were purchased|Boherer, Mercer County; Matt Dahl, from Denmark in 1917. i Emmons County; Mrs. H. C. Williams, CONTRACT «EXPERTS PLAY IT SOLUTION TO PREVIOUS CONTRACT PROBLEM Today’s Contract Problem The conteact is five clubs by North West has bid hearts. East opens the queen of hearts, which holds. He shifts to a diamond. Here's a tip— West holds a singleton club. How should the hand be played? , It requires perfect By WM. E. MCKENNEY Secretary, American Bridge League We all hate to let our opponents cash their good tricks. We don't mind throwing them in and letting them | cash one trick, if necessary, to ex-| ecute a nice end play, but few players’ . even will think of letting their oppon- tricks, However, that is just what Andrew | J. Carran of Cleveland had to do in, today’s hand to make his contract of three no trump. If he had taken the (Blind) (Blind) drop of the cards, he reading on the hand. The Play natural opening against | gained a perfect r ’ ° & A93 South's 8 Bis. Lidgerwood, and Harold Hopto. marek. Burleigh Woman Named Platform Committee—J. M. Ander- son, Benson County; James Wenstrom, and Mrs. C. G. Boise, Bismarck, By-Laws Committee—Elmer Cart, Burke County; William Peterson, Slope County; Hugh Black, Dunn County; Thorwald Mostad, Ward County, and H. E. Flecker, On the committee named to make a demand on the state executive com-| mittee, which led the anti-Langerites | from the convention, for an accounting | of tts activities and finances since the last convention, were State Senator 8. 8. McDonald, Bismarck; Rep. Wm. | Godwin, Mandan, and Ole Stray,| Stanley. H, G. Owen, Grand Forks attorney, launched into a bitter attack on Sena- tor Nye and announced that the Grand Forks County League committee had wired the senator condemning him for | his statements in the U. 8. Senate re. | Wells County; Fred Kietzman, Nelson | County; Walter Welford, Pembina, | jupholding the former executive com- mittee and in trying to dictate to our |convention who shall be endorsed as jcandidates for state offices, and we contend this duty and privilege rests solely and only with the duly-elected delegates to this convention and we wholeheartedly repudiate the action of the former executive committee of Nystul, Lee and Larson and those act- ing with them, in attempting to dis- rupt, disorganize and repudiate this convention, which is, the duly called state Nonpartisan League convention, particularly in view of the fact that said executive committee had not only called the precinct conventions and the county conventions but also duly called the state convention to be held at Valley City, North Dakota, March garding the federal government's charges that Governor Langer collect- ed political contributions from relief | workers. He is a brother of O. T.' Owen, state beer commissioner. State Senator C. G. Bangert of Ran-i som county took the floor to read cor. | respondence and telegrams exchanged | between him and Senator Nye. Ole Stray, Stanley. arose after Bang- ert's recital, to say that Nye's senate speech was inoffensive and merely asked for an investigation, as was asked ':7 Langer himself. Cc ONTINU from page cas Langer Platform In Favor of More ’ Here Are Resolutions Resolutions adopted by the Nonpartisan League cor delegates to the No: state convention as 1 City, N. D., March 6 an following resolutions: “We condemn our former execu! committee of thi te, John Nyst Cc. N. Lee, and E. G. Larson. who selfishly and for thi ing purposes, have the Nonpartisan Leag ciples and who have autocratically at- tempted to dictate to our members the State Industries : Sixth and March Seventh, 1934, See State Progress “We members of this convention, know and we believe the people of the nation have been informed, . both through personal appearances of our governor and through the press, that North Dakota is again taking is place in the forefront of ive com- monwealths through the efforts of the | Nonpartisan League and the governor elected. “Among the most progressive of all are: Governor Langer’s proclamation of a moratorium in foreclosure and 3 protecting the farmers and wners and proving to the that the Nonpartisan League tration places human rights | property rights, e our farmers are compelled to ne products of their labor and for far less than cost, ruin. nevitable. Governor Langer, ywer conferred upon him by gislature, tried to remedy n by declaring an embargo ‘portation of farm products, fact cannot be denied that embargo have remained in states had joined, the 1d have been in a position to a great extent, even though realized. t for making the state in-; nore effective agents for pro- lection of candidates for office at our legally-called state convention at. down. Valley City, N. D.,‘March 6th, 1934, }and further we condemn that group jot self-seeking politicians who have represented us throughout those years jas state officials for their action in Claim tures Cut partment. resolution. governor to cooperate with President Roosevelt in his recovery program, putting idle men to work on state roads, his recognition and protection of labors right to organize is acknowl. edged by laboring men of the state. Backs Water “We endorse Governor Langer’s espousal of water conservation by jrecommending construction of dams for impounding it locally, and his jbacking of the Missouri river diver- sion and other reclamation projects. “We specifically condemn the ac- tion of the federal CWA authorities in_ removing Governor Langer as CWA relief administrator in this had compelled contributions from workers for political purposes. without a hearing and without the Production of any evidence. “We condemn this because the re- moval was made for what appears to be political reasons only in an effort to destroy the Republican~ party of this state, now in the hands of the Nonpartisan League, and for the ap- parent further purpose of building up the Democratic party within this state and this is particularly so when it is known throughout this state that Governor Langer has at no time been anything other than the honor- ary head of the CWA and the active hands of the now acting administra- tor, Judge Christianson. of the welfare of the people of “We Mave heard much political circulated about this and the prices of flour have come “With the aid of the legislature, Governor Langer has succeeded in cut- ting the expenses of the state govern. ment from approximately ten million dollars to less than half that amount, without causing injury or neglect to a single department of the state govern- ment or unduly burdening any de- “The Bank of North Dakota has ‘Made it possible for many of the school districts of the state to keep schools Open and has served the state in its many other functions, so complicated that we cannot name them all in this “We believe it right to mention that Governor Langer has been fair to or- ganized labor; to all workers employed and unemployed. He was the first governor since Lynn J. Frazier to champion labor in a strike and caused. the pay to be raised to what the work- ers demanded as fair. He was the first state for the alleged reason that he | polit Bismarck, N. D. | three no trump was the king of hearts, \ which Carran, the declarer, refused to’ win. South continued with the queen, | |East winning with the ace. | Carran cashed four spade tricks,’ |winning the fourth spade in dummy. the ace, South’s nine dropping. The AK%63 HQI35 Solution in next issue Too Late to Classify HAVE your HAIR and SCALP ex- fuons free. Harrington's. Phone 130. EMPHASIZE YOUR LOVELINESS with clusters of ringlets to form a Mlattering hairdress. Price $3.50 and up. Royal Beauty Shop, 414 Bdwy. Phone 270. Jean Lavine, TOMORROW’S CAR TODAY F Rubber bridge—Alll vul. i Opening lead—y K. South West ' North East Pass Pass Pass 1N.T. Pass 2N.T. Pass 3N.T. 7 North let go the four and deuce of clubs and @ small diamond. Declarer’s next play was the jack clubs from dummy. North played the queen and East won the trick with | drop of the nine marked South with a singleton club. The declarer knew that he could ' go over to the king of diamonds and j take the diamond finesse, hoping that | it would win, but he could not see the | advantage in taking a chance on a play that might fail. He knew that South held nothing but hearts and diamonds. Why not throw South into the lead, and, when he cashed his good hearts, he would be forced to lead diamonds? It is true that if South originally held |six hearts, this play would be-defeat- led, but it was the safer play. | Therefore, the three of diamonds | was led and won in dummy with the jking. The nine of hearts was played | sad & clue dieoarsed. South won with He cashed his five and three of {hearts on which the declarer discard- jed his two clubs. South now was forced to lead from the queen-ten of diamonds into Car- ran’s ace-jack. (Copyright, 1934, NEA Service, Inc.) Cuts need of choke fo minimum Turns your gasoline money into miles CMPORTANT! Fast starting though it is, not even Quick-Fire Superfuel can Bick the heavy, thousand-fingered grip with which some motor oils seise pistons and clutch bearings in cold weather. Here's the running mate which gives your engine summer-like ease of operation: Use NEW WINTER GRADE 180sVIS “D”, The Anti-Sludge Motor Oil. 10-W Pours at 20° Below Zero—20-W Pours at 5° Below Zero. STANDARD RED CROWN STATIONS AND DEALERS, ALSO DISTRIBUTO! or AT ALL STANDARD received for newspapers friendly to our organizations. These attacks are deemed unjustifiable and without basis in fact because they imply to the public that these contributions have been forced or compelled. We assert the right of the common peo- ple to organize, and the fight of our prodicers and our laborers and our voters to give voluntary contributions for political purposes. The very par- are members of political organizations that have been receiving political contributions for years and years and in large and extravagant amounts from big business: the international bankers and the large corporations. Hit Back at Democrats “We demand that the agencies which have been complaining about political contributions, the Democratic workers, who are on the pay roll under federal employ in this state, are contributing for purposes of building a Democratic party in this state and that likewise ————$ 5 O | Bits of News From Throughout World (By The Associated Press) ties who have raised the hue and cry bea, ‘Warsaw, of Germany that those who have tried to disrupt this organization and this convention tell the public where they are getting the funds to advertise and hire a host of employees to go about this state in an effort to destroy our organization. “We criticize O. B. Lund, the auditor employed by board of state auditors, for his failures to discover and report up- on the monies which were found to have been embezzled by the former ‘secretary of the industrial commission, and also the former manager of the ‘hail insurance department, and we criticize him for his recent audit upon the state mill and elevator which was one-sided, biased and not based upon all of the facts and which was evident- lly permitted by him to be used for itical purposes in an effort to dis- credit the administration of Governor “We endorse the Missouri River Di- |version and the St. Lawrence Water- |ways project pending before the U. 8. Senate and urge the representatives in congress to support the same, and we demand that the next legislature establish a water conservation pro- gram for this state. “We endorse the Frasier bill in con- |gress for farm loans at low rates of in- terest. “We pledge ourselves through our elected officials and through legisla- {tive action to restore the policy of’state jhail insurance in North Dakota, a pol- believe Governor Langer de-| program has at all times been in the icy which was a part of the early Non. Partisan League program but which has gone into decay under the ad. ministration of the present insurance commissioner. The Olympic games were revived MRS. R. HEADS SOUTH Port-Au-Prince, De HUNT STAVISKY JEWELS CLOSE FARGO BRIDGE Fargo, N.. D., 'was unsafe for March 1.—(?)}—The front street bridge, one of three spans Joining Fargo and Moorhead over the Red river, was closed Tuesday, fol- lowing order of the Moorhead city council which Monday received an engineers’ report stating the bridge ‘WARD GETS WHEAT CHECKS » March 7.—()—' benefit payment checks to 3,881 Ward County, N. D., farmers who reduced Washington, their acreage in in Athens in 1906. Still sells at the price of “Regular” QUICK-FIRE . SUPERFUEL Cape. 1884, Stendesd 04 Co, ATLAS TIRES AND BATT > -CORWIN-CHURCH MOTORS, Inc. ILL DOUBLE GUARD AT HAVANA rumors of a possible machine and Poland met to sign @ peace protocol ending an eight-and- one-half years tariff war. ene} JUST A BIG DOGFISH Petit Haiti— After an overnight stay here, Mrs, Franklin D. Roosevelt and a group of friends took off in their plane, the American Clip- per, for San Pedro Macoris. a »