The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 6, 1934, Page 1

¥==| THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1984 | Start New High School in June j. Unemployed Mob Stages Riot in Minneapolis ATWO ATTAGKS ARE MADE ON CITY HALL AND MANY AREHURT 25 Arrested as Police Mount Machine Guns in Effort to Preserve Order RED ARM BANDS DISPLAYED Bottles, Stones and Tear Gas Bombs Used as Officers Battle With Crowd Minneapolis, April 6—(#)—Three thousand unemployed milled about blood-spattered sidewalks Friday af- ter authorities had twice repulsed on- slaughts against the city hall and courthouse at the cost of injuries to 18 persons. Twenty-five others were in jail. b Machine guns, mounted on one side of the building, were not brought into play as the throng launched its second rush for the building about 1:10 p. m. It grew out of the arrest of a delega- tion of their number which had been admitted to the city hall to present demands for continuation of the CWA and for cash relief. ‘The first brush with the law, in which an old woman on crutches and quelled after bottles, stones, and gas bombs were flung back and forth between the police and the throng. missiles. Many hurt but not hospital attention. any further violence. hurled them back, the gas seeping into the building and necessitating the closing of three courts and many offices. The demonstration, several days, leaders later disclosed, ite Socialistic Move The city council, simultaneously, was engaged in a bitter debate over ‘ a | 3g ie fete i I ‘ H i a . a7 = al E H 588 & : in i i Fi i i i ie 8 a i 3 & SF. i #4 Sy Ky & ry li a : Z fl af if ii lh 3 E i i é i 4 a i E f ! i : 8 ti i i 2 i : i i HH i i id t Hf SENATOR PAT HARRISON Leading figures in a wrangle on the floor of the senate Thursday, in which Personalities and uncomplimentary Temarks were freely exchanged, are Pictured above. They are Senat SENATORS EXPUNGE planned for| , Long and Clark Bury Hatchet But Two Southern Solons Continue Enmity fait lt ; E fy Senator Olark took some potshots at Foxy K H i : E j ieE at i i 3 z i a E i E e z x i iy £ ght? E il ; i tu al il | el jue i 4 : i ipl sig off fit Ou E H i ll L E i i Ht i : E i ui SENATOR HUEY P. LONG Pat Harrison of Mississippi, chairman. of the finance committee and admin- istration leader, and Senator Huey P. Long, Louisiana’s contribution to the NORTHWEST AIRMAIL LINE ARE PUBLISHED Proposals Must Be in Washing- ton April. 26; Passenger Service Provided i ze 22 8 » i i p = 8 BE ad if sé Hi ; 4 i ze ut, i brie i : i g i r Ff l g i i : | Had tlle ate is 1 DEATH TOLL RISES AS FLOODS RECEDE IN OKLAHOMA AREA 12 Bodies Are Recovered as Treacherous Washita Riv- er Returns to Course FIVE OTHERS ARE MISSING Officials Fear for Safety of Un- determined Number of Squatters Elk City, Okla., April 6—()—More than 20 people are dead and the prop- erty damage is estimated at more than $1,000,000 in the flood-swept areas of Oklahoma and Texas. Twelve bodies were recovered from the treacherous Washita river in the Hammon area of western Oklahoma ‘as another rise threatened. Five oth- ers were missing Friday and were be- Meved drowned. Officials feared for the safety of an undetermined num- ber of river bank squatters. Four lost their lives in the Saline creek flood Tex. to a point north of Wheeler, Tex., and reported the new rise apparently did not exceed a foot. However, rescue workers and householders in the Adams, her daughters, Opal, 18; Edit 13; Audrey, 10; Lola Fay, 5; Mrs. L. L. Fenter, Stella May Fenter, 12; Levi Fenter, 10; Mrs. Lawrence Taylor, ok Mrs. Leo Bush, 43; Lorena Bush, ‘The Texas dead were Mr. and Mrs. 8 P. Carroll, and their ranch helper named Welch, drowned when their home was swept away, and Mrs. ‘D. H. Teal, 18, drowned when she at- tempted to wade from her stalled au- tomobile to the bank. Her husband escaped. FLOOD IN MISSISSIPPI SHATTERS COFERDAM Winona, Minn., April 6.—(#)—Pres- sure caused by waters of the abnor- mally high Mississippi river early Fri- day broke the cofferdam surround- ing the nine-foot channel dam under construction at Fountain City, Wis., near here, flooding the entire project and causing extensive damage. The river, swelled by recent rains which caused widespread damage in western Wisconsin, rose a foot over night. Forms of concrete were swept away and freshly poured concrete was dam- aged. Workmen were idle, awaiting recession of the waters, and officials said the flooding will delay the project because it will be necessary to con- struct a new cofferdam and pump it dry. Oklahoma Constable Is Slain by Bandits i Hbge que i Hl bf ie | i i 5 NEARLY 1000 SCHOOL CHILDREN TAKE PART IN MUSIC FESTIVAL Rural School Pupils Present In- teresting Program Friday at Auditorium HAVE ABANDONED CONTESTS Superintendent Huber Believes Interest Greater Than Ever Before Between 800 and 1,000 rural school pupils participated in the Burleigh county music festival Friday at the Bismarck auditorium under the su- pervision of Marie Huber, county su- perintendent of schools. For the first time in the history of the county, there was no competition between individuals or schools and Miss Huber said Friday afternoon she believed the interest was even greater than when contests were held. Singers and dancers from seven high schools appeared on the morn- ing program. Each school presented music or folk dances peculiar to vari- ous countries as follows: Moffit, Rus- sia; Wing, Native American; Ster- ling, Spain; Driscoll, Scandinavian countries; McKenzie, Germany; Me- Henn Scotland, and Canfield, Ire- During the noon hour groups from .) the high schools of the county, com- bined into boys’ and girls’ glee clubs, practiced for the program in the aft- ernoon in which all will take part. In the morning rhythm bands from four schools played programs sepa- rately and in the afternoon they combined for a concert. They, too, practiced together during the noon hour, Schools represented by rhythm bands were MoKensie, Sterling, Can- field and Menoken. Beginning at 2:15 Friday afternoon the f Program was rendered by the all-country music groups: “By Bendemeer’s Stream,” Gatty, and “The Stars Are Brightly Shining” —girls’ glee club directed by Miss Clarice Hildre, Wing; “Sylvia,” Speaks, and “Home on the Range,” Guibn—boys’ glee club, directed by Bverett Velzy, Moffit; “Intermeszo Russe,” rhythm band directed by Miss Lucille Johnson, Canfield; “The Lit- tle Brown Church in the Vale” and “Bweet and Low” from the Commu- nity Song Bonk—fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grade chorus directed by Mrs. Ruth Reitzel, Menoken; “Gay as the Rose,” Saar, and “North Dakota Hymn,” Putnam-Minard — mixed chorus directed by Miss Madge Ru- ney, McKenzie. CO-OPERATIVE GRAIN BUYERS MEET FRIDAY Farmers National Grain Cor- poration Officials Confer With Elevator Managers Democratic Standard Bearers THOMAS H. MOODIE HENRY HOLT Thomas H. Moodie, Williston editor, and Henry Holt, Grand Forks, were Selected as standard bearers in the state Democratic campaign by vote of the Minot convention. Moodie was the unanimous selection for governor, while Holt defeated G. 8. Lamb, Michigan, for the sena- torial endorsement. CLAIM BILION WENT | ITO. MANPULATION OF UMUITY stocks \ Senate Hears Cities Service Company ‘Rigged’ Market | for Its Shares | | Washington, April 6.—(?)—Evidence that the Cities Service company ob- tained more than a billion dollars WIDOW, SON ENTER DENIAL OF POISON MURDER ACCUSATION rate Claims of Incocence; Say They Do Not Know How Zirbel Died Fessenden, N. D., April 6—(?)}— Learning for the first time Thursday that the state is proceeding on a theory that the body of Henry Zirbel, from American investors during the/Chaseley farmer they are charged' boom days and used most of it to maintain the price of its stock was before the senate banking committee Friday. As it began a drastic revision of the stock market bill in executive ses- ston, the committee made public tes- timony given it in private by Robert E Healy, chief counsel of the federal trade commission. Healy said the utility company drew with murdering, contained poison, his widow and eldest son Thursday night emphatically repeated they do not know how Zirbel died nor how his. body, trussed -with .barbed. wire, came to be upon a burning haystack. Members of the family discovered the body about two miles from the farm home on March 19. der bonds of $5,000, Mrs. Agnes Zirbel, 45. and her son, Raymond, 21, the two $1,146,518,000 from investors from 1927 to 1930 and used $965,000,000 of it to keep the price of the stock. He told a vivid story of a high- Pressure sales campaign, conducted by the company while it maintained the market price by market operations. The market regulation bill would end such practices, he said. The trade commission, Healy de- clared, has uncovered writeups of as- sets of industrial corporations total- ing more than $1,150,000,000. The bill, he further argued, would disclose such operations. “The market operations of the Cit- ies Service company,” he said, “was one of the most striking things we have come across in our utilities in- vestigation.” During the entire selling campaign of four years, he added, the company bought more than 73 per cent of all the stock sold on the market. As Healy's testimony was uncov- ered, the committee closed its doors to vote on the stock bill, section by section. There was strong indication the measure was in for serious re- vision. Federal Men Sleeping In St. Paul Postoffice St. Paul, April 6. — (#) — Federal agents are concentrating so much on justice department men, moved cots into the building Thursday night. More than 20 agents slept there so could be ready to get up and go at a minute's notice. haired es NRA Failure If Shakeup I Isn’t Made defendants, returned to their home to await convening of a preliminary hearing originally scheduled Thurs- day and postponed to May 7. Both prosecution and defense at- torneys agreed to the postponement and all of the attorneys expressed hope that a district court judge, sit- ting as a committing magistrate, will Preside. i. ‘Until Thursday the state had con- cealed its contention that there was Poison in Zirbel’s body. It was on the basis of a prelimin- ary report submitted by Dr. G. A. Abbott, head of the chemistry depart- ment of the University of North Da- kota, who made an examination of some of Zirbel’s vital organs, that the state was prepared to include in the complaint an allegation of poisoning. On the basis of preliminary exam- ination, Dr. Abbott indicated he had reached a conclusion there was strych- nine in Zirbel’s stomach, but he de- sires to make further examinat SENATORS, PRESSING FOR HIGHER LEVIES ONLARGE FORTUNES War-Time Income Taxes Reject- ed; Solons Turn to New Estate Imposts PRICE FIVE CENTS WORD IS RECEIVED HERE THAT MONEY NOW IS AVAILABLE Allotment for Structure Is Form- ally Approved by Federal Administrator LOCAL BOARD SPEEDS WORK Moves to Begin Excavation as Soon as Preliminary De- tails Are Complete Construction of Bismarck’s new high school building probably will be- gin in June, it was said Friday after receipt of word from the federal bub- lic works administration that an al- Ictment of $308,700 had been made for that purpose. Informaton as to the allotment was received here in a telegram from H. C Knudtson, state PWA engineer at Devils Lake, and local officials imme- diately made plans to speed work on the structure. School Superintendent H. O. Saxvik said the work will be started as soon as preliminary details can be com- pleted and bids received, estimating that ground for the building will be broken in June. The minimum time for the adver- tisement for bids ig 20 days, but Sax- vik said this period will probably be extended in this case. Plans for the structure have been drawn by Ritterbush Bros., architects, that 88 men would be directly employ- ed in construction work and 236 others would be employed in factories and in Producing material for it, all for @ Period of 10 months. Jury Holds N. P. Must Pay Wibaux Merchant Billings, Mont., April 6—()}—A jury in federal court Thursday awarded ipany as compensea- tion for his loss in the Wibaux floods, June 7, 1929. Wagner claimed the company was liable for damages in that the railway grade through Wibaux backed the flood waters of Beaver creek into the town. It was also contended the bridge over Beaver creek formed an insufficient opening in the embank- ment to permit the floodwaters to Pass. The railway, in its defense, sought to show that it was an unprecen- dented storm south of Wibaux which ‘Washington, Avril 6.—()—Senators Rs st Hd 8 s g f : it IE Pe