The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 11, 1934, Page 1

=| THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE -2==2= | ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1984 PRICE FIVE CENTS 2,000 CLAIM HUGE TOLL, AVIATORS REPORT Whole Towns Destroyed by Landslides Which Swept Down Mountain Sides COAST CITIES HARD ‘HIT 25 Inches of Rain in 24 Hours Bring Disaster to Little Republic San Salvador, El Salvador, June 11. the vicinity of San Salvador alone following last week’s disastrous hur- Ticane and rainstorm. The Salvadorean air corps Sunday sent up airplanes to survey the na- tion. They returned to report death and destruction everywhere. L. C. Calloway, Pan-American air- ‘ways airport manager, who went along as the result of the rains. In the Lempa river he saw the fun- nel of a river boat sticking out of the water and bodies floating around it. The coast from La Libertad to La Union was hard hit and the villages issued a decree that prices on food- stuffs must remain the sameras before the disaster. Electric power was restored over the week-end in San Salvador. ‘The capital city is receiving drink- ing water again, although it is only issued two hours daily. Stricken settlements. ‘Thus far, only the locality around the capital can be reported upon with any exactness, but the isolated villag- ers are handling their own covering up the ravages of the 25- inches-in-24-hours rainfall ‘Wednesday. Lakes Guija and Coatepeque arisen far over their banks and s' several hundred feet from where the mountain track had been. ‘There was no way of telling from the air, but it appeared likely that inlA person on the train had been Practically all the agriculture in El Salvador has been wiped out. 500 REPORTED DEAD IN Biaiernae anne - a Tegucigalpa, luras, June 11.— ()—Many lives were believed: lost ‘today when heavy rainstorms flooded the Ulua river which has risen 45 Langer Enters Flat Drowned in Salvadorean Flood RAINANDTORNADO ||__When Moca itndea Worst Drouth in Towa’ History ___| ‘The farmer who lived here hoped long and anxious ly for rain and he finally got it. When the down- pour near Sioux City, Ia., had subsided, most of his land was submerged and water swirled about his vorches and through his barnyard. Drainage canals and creeks in northern and western lowa over- flowed and the torrents swept many square miles of farming country, forcing families to flee homes. MISSING AIRLINER IS FOUND BURNED; SEVEN KNOWN DEAD Search for Craft Ends When Tragedy Is Discovered; Disappeared Saturday Patched to the scene. The craft disappeared Saturday af- ter leaving the Newark airport at 4 Pp. m. A wide search for it was conducted ‘Sunday and early Monday, many air- planes cruising over the area in which it might have fallen. Christ Mosbrucker, Glen Ullin, Succumbs Christ Mosbrucker, 75, retired farm- er of Glen Ullin, died at a local hos- pital Sunday at 8:30 a. m., after a illness extending over a pe- lingering riod of five years. Funeral Nimmo Is Medalist Devils Lake, N. D., June 11.—(®)— gold champion. ship as a result of elimination match- 62 golfers from 10 clubs services will be held at the Sacred Heart church of which he was In Lake Tournament |tery =O SNESS, 18 YEARS "ea Sens Gri SAYS ANERGA [eaten] IS LEADING WORLD IN ARMAMENT RACE ing trading in grain futures at Says Cruiser Took Munitions the nation’s markets, has been a contributing factor in a crop price Maker to Europe to Show Turks His ‘Goods’ rise of better than 27 per cent in little more than a month. Despite heavier buying and sell- ing of future contracts in antici- pation of the agricultural status at the end of the 1934 Kennett Square, Pa., June 11.—(7)— bullish . 8. Senator Gerald P. Nye said Sun- news, indicating n dearth of pub- | AY night the United States leads the characte! UV. lic speculation, has rized : in the race of armaments. Addressing the 82nd yearly meeting Eahie: erence aa: of Friends in historic Longwood meet- The price of wheat has in- creased 19 cents, corn 7 cents, |!& house near Kennett Square, Sen- 4 , +» ator Nye said this country from 1913 oats 15 cents and rye 9 cents in to 1930 increased its military a approz:imate figures since April priations 197 per cent. PPro The increase for Japan during the same period was 142 per cent; for Great Britain 42 per cent; for France 30 per cent; for Italy 44 per cent, and for Russia 30 per cent, he asserted. ni “Not another record on earth equals ATINSIRANGE POST = ses ce so-called greatest peace-loving nation in the world,” Nye said. —e “It was a sad awakening for me to discover my own country guilty of this thing as the investigations into armament makers began.” Nye is chairman of the senate’s special -Gomanivas _lnvesiiening the ee connection of ternational munt- (Editor's note: This is one of &! tions. series of sketches of candidates in]perga mers and war prope the va Dakota primary election,| “The present appropriation for Seeks Re-Election on Thoresen- for-Governor Faction of Nonpartisan League with another $1,000,000,000 just added by the vicious and defenseless Vinson bill and hundreds of millions stolen com the public works funds,” he add- “Yet we call this getting back to post on the ticket advanced by the Thoresen-for-Governor faction of the Nonpartisan League. Olsness always has been affiliated with the League faction and is one ers. “During 1928 when President Cool- ‘Telemark, Norway, Feb. 7, 1866, Ols- ides was most active in his efforts received his education in a com- Private school. Immigrating to North Dakota at the age of 20, he became the owner of considerable land and farm prop- erty, gaining experience as a farmer, common laborer, r, mere chant, municipal office holder and insurance man. ‘His first office was as clerk of Greenfield school district and as township clerk for about ten years, after working on a farm and as a railroad laborer. He later was secre- ROAD DEPARTMENT TO LET CONTRACTS ON MANY PROJECTS Bids on 39 Different Jobs to Be Received June 22, Says Announcement WILL SPEND LARGE SUM Total of Awards Is Expected by Officials to Aggregate at Least $750,000 One of the largest letti ever held by the state tighwiy “aepart~ ment is slated here June 22 when bids will be opened on 39 projec‘s com- Prising *pproximatel: 180 miles of road construction work, F. A. Vogel, comraissioner, said Monday. It will be one of the largest, both in number of contracts and in the amount of money involved. State highway officials estimating the cost of the work will aggregate at least three quarters of a million dollars. This letting and another large one Planned for July 20 will include main- ly secondary and municipal projects with the impending letting including 39 projects of which 12 are feeder roads and 18 are municipal projects. Work on state highways is “pretty much under contract; only five state highway projects being included at this letting,” highway officials stated. Proposed projects includ. 106 miles of grading with six structures; 35 miles of graveling, 27 miles re-gravel- ing, eight miles oil mix surfacing and Paving, 4.171 miles concrete paving, and 0.151 miles landscaping. Com- pletion dates on the projects are in September and October of this year. Projects prot awarded June 22: Emmons county—0.329 miles, Brad- Emmons—6.7)2, west of Strasburg. Eddy—15.822 on state route No. 15, New Rockford east. ‘Towner-Ramsey:-7.411, Maza east. Cavalier—0.448, Osnabrock, north and south, Pembina—6.604, Backoo south and Hensel vast. Towner—11.462 on stat: route 43, Barles west. Cavalier—4.108 on 8. R. 29, west of Milton. Dickey — 9.966, (from northwest corner of sec. 30-131-66 east). Nelson—5.042, on U. 8. 2, Michigan east. Richland—11.575 on 8. R. 18, north of Wyndmere. Kidder—9.036 on U. 8. 10, Steele east. Gravel Surfacing Wells—8.743, Bremen south and west; 13.212, Harvey east; 9.263, south of Fessenden to county line. Pembina - Walsh — 27.517 regravel surfacing on U. 8. 81, Hamilton to Grafton. Foster—3.927, Carrington east. Oil Mix and Paving Burke—.621 on 8. R. 8 in Bowbells. Rollette—.602 on 8. R. 30 and 5 in armament is well over $700,000,000, | Rolla. Dickey—2.009 on U. 8. 261 and 8. R. 11 in Ellendale. McIntosh—1.003 on 8. R. 13 in Renville—573 on 8. R. 5 in Mohall. Hettinger—938 on 8, R. 22 in New England. McIntosh—1.014 in Ashley. Stark—1.217 on 8. R. 22 in Dickin- son. Concrete Paving Richland—976 on U. 8. 81 and 8. R. 13 in Wrhpeton. geet. 00: M5 ta Tae, jon, Pembina—.606 on 8. R. 18 and 5 in Cavalier. Cass—.848 on S. R. 18 in Casselton. Burleigh—1.051 shoulder widening, sidewalk and incidental on U. 8. 10 in Bismarck. Quadruplets Born | To Couple in Iowa —_—_—— Sac City, Ia., June 11.—(7)—A 30- year-old mother who does not believe i ; Fe Hea = i Ly 3 Eg fei PREPARE FETE 10 MARK ANNIVERSARY OF NRA MOVEMENT Johnson and Aides to Celebrate Birthday of New Deal Scheme Saturday DEAD CATS AND BOUQUETS Both Fill the Air as Result of Actions; Many Millions . Affected ‘Washington, June 11—()—NRA, that amazing offspring of hard times, attains its first birthday next Satur- day. Born in economic gloom, mothered by enthusiasm, the infant has drawn the attention of the whole world. Ob- servers everywhere are trying to as- tore its accomplishments and its fu- ure. As Hugh 8. Johnson himself pre- licted, NRA, in these later days, has stood amid a strange shower of bou- quets and dead cats. But as Johnson bids his pioneer NRA workers and high officials to a jubilee party next Friday night, the hard-hitting general is confident. Since President Roosevelt put his signature to the industrial recovery act June 16, 1933, it has affected more millions of people than any new deal legislation except laws dealing with money and banks. The objectives were: To substitute ordered competition for catch-as-catch-can warfare. To make more jobs by limiting ey of work and by wiping out child To guarantee all workers the right to organize without interference to negotiate better working terms, Many Ups and Downs In the year there have been ups and downs, progress and stalemate, popular fervor and some reaction, but the birthday finds certain definite things achieved: 1, The bulk of industry is operat- ing under voluntary codes. Many ob- servers say compliance is spotty and in places bad. The codes are in a constant process of revision and cor- rection. . 2. Payrolls are up sharply. 3. There is fairly general agree- ment that private industry has em- ployed three million more men. 4. Child labor has been placed un- der a ban in all legitimate, codified manufacturing and sharply limited in trade, 5. There have been large increases in trade union membership. The story of NRA’s first year is that of Hugh 8. Johson. This hard- worklag, hard-talking, one-time gen- eral is not sole author of NRA’s basic ideas, but his personality and his be- Denial Says He Talked With No One on Leader Proposal Testifies He Told Committee to ‘Clean It Up Immediately’ When He Heard Federal Relief Employes Were Being Solicited to Support Newspaper FELT STATE WORKERS SHOULD CONTRIBUTE TO IT Insists, However, All Money Received Was Given Voluntarily; Conceived Idea of Five-Per-Cent Collection While He Was Sick in Local Hospital BULLETIN Governor William Langer testified in his trial in federal court here Monday that he obtained $19,000 from the fund of “The Leader”, state administration newspaper, as part of a debt due him from the Nonpartisan League. Under cross-examination by District Attorney P. W. La- nier, Langer testified that the Nonpartisan League owed him $21,000 for money advanced on a project to establish a party newspaper in 1928, for office rent, stenographic help, and his work in connection with the project. In 1980, he said, the Nonpartisan League executive com- mittee agreed that it owed Langer $21,000, he testified. Langer said besides the $21,000, the Nonpartisan League owed him “a good deal more” for money advanced since the original debt. was contracted. “The $19,000 you refer to comes from the five per cent that went into ‘The Leader’ account?” Lanier asked. “Not entirely,” the governor answered. “A good percent- age comes from advertising.” “How much from advertising?” “I don’t know.” Lanier questioned Langer closely about disposition of funds in “The Leader” account. Langer testified further that over his voiced protests, po- litical contributions, approximately more than $6,000, were made to his 1932 campaign. Asked to reveal what corporations had contributed to the i dren which Langer testified Monday morning, inger protested : “I’ve no objections to giving you and Judge Miller a copy of the contributions, but I don’t think it’s quite fair, in open court, so that the companies will get into the newspapers.’ Judge Miller ordered the question answered after he had inquired of District Attorney P. W. Lanier, “I suppose it goes to the credibility of the witness,” to which Lanier answered, “It does.” Emphatic denials that he had counseled with any of his. four co-defendants in establishing a state administration news- paper came from Gov. William Langer Monday as he testified in his own behalf in federal court here. — He denied that he had conferred with any of the other de- fendants about plans for the newspaper, except that he dis- cussed the matter with Highway Commissioner Frank A. Vogel, a defendant, who was represented as vigorously opposed to the proposal. , tioning by Deft Attorney J. M. Hanley, Mandan, fiatiy denied, the Prisha Mlegstions Jn the federal indictment, bearing on the charge that he conspired to solicit federal employes for contributions for support of “The Leader”, the newspaper around which the trial revolves. He testified that on being advised that federal employes were being solicited he ordered members of the relief committee to “clean it up imme- diately.” governor, speaking often in an emphatic tone of voice, told lets have dominated it every step of the way. He moved first to get the big key industries under codes. Cotton tex- tiles were first, for code number one. Steel, oil, lumber, automobiles, bitu- minous coal and electrical manufac- ture followed. Code number one set the prece- dents of the child labor ban and the 40-hour week, which most industries have adopted. The year ended with some 250 codes in force and with evidence that the test of industry was coming in. Largest Quintuplet Is Gaining Strength Corbeil, Ont., June 11—(#)—Yvon- ne, the heaviest of the Dionne quin- tuplets, although she weighs but 40% ounces, showed improvement Monday and alarm over her condition was largely dissipated. The other children also were re- ported to be in a satisfactory condi- tion by their physician, Dr. A. R. Dafoe, Yvonne had seemed much weaker Sunday. Ovila Dionne, French-Canadian farmer, and his 24-year-old wife, vis- ited their children Sunday, peering down at them through masks, worn to Prevent the possibility of a visitor communicating germs. They looxed at the youngsters through the glass tops of the five in- cubators. Only the five nurses handle the infants. Attendants were encouraged by the fact that the children collectively gained 412 ounces over the week-end and now weigh a total of 10 pounds 11% ounces. Roosevelt to Sign New Tariff Measure Washington, June 11.—()—Presi dent Roosevelt expected to sign Mon- day the tariff The the jury that contributions to “The Leader” were voluntary and that he knew of no force used at any time. ‘Vogel said he had heard rumors about the newspaper, Langer said. “He said he thought it an unwise thing to do,” Langer continued. “Politically, he said, he was opposed to it.” Langer said he told Vogel the administration absolutely had to have s newspaper, “that we had a moratorium and had to tell the people about it.” Langer was the last of the five defendants to testify. He had been pre- ceded on the stand by Oscar J. Chaput, business manager of “The Leader”; Harold McDonald, solicitor for the publication; R. A. Kinzer, former secre- tary of the federal relief committee, and Vogel. iuataecee the governor |=aid he was under the care of & phy- In making application for relief aye EN om ‘i sa tae funds, he merely attached his name nd never made any changes. He knew of no instance where em- ployes’ salaries were reduced for fail- to contribute to “The Leader,” or ir pay increased because they con- buted. He transferred funds of “The Lead- er” to his personal account because the fund was threatened with gar- nishment. Bought Wheat as ‘Farmer’ FP. Shafer, had activities in the northwestern part of the state. “At the time you took office, did any members of the previous istration confer with you?” “No.” “When you were able to investigate what did you find regarding govern- ment funds being available in the state?” “I found that the outgoing admin- ag i a. Hanley, taking item by item the al- legations of the government, as con- tained in federal indictment, brought from denials in rapid succession that there was any con- begat ge 5 8 Z Ee ad g a 5 wa Ease [ B| i