The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 30, 1934, Page 6

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, JULY 30, 1934 . French M In Wild Street Rioting urder French By FULTON THATCHER GRANT CHAPTER TEN Part II I had worked my way carefully slong the rue de Rivoli to the Hotel Crillon, hoping to get to the Ameri- can Embassy. I was cut off at the; rue Boissy d’Anglas by the raging battle. I suddenly realized that I was in danger. My coupe-file was just so Much cardboard now, of no value or tion. I crawled back to the front of the hotel and hugged the stone wall. A force of some twenty agents flanked the entrance. I could | not get through. I heard suddenly a howl, far out in the place, as the rioters made their major charge, driving everything be- fore them. I thought they would win the bridge. And then there was a new sound. ‘Then absolute quiet for an instant. ‘The sound was of gunfire. Frenchmen, fighting for their coun- try, had been fired upon by French-| men fighting for political ambition: ‘There was a hush. Not a sound. It ‘was as if no one could believe his ears. Then the crowd lost control, lost its head, tore through the police lines like paper, infuriated beyond expres- sion, forcing them back across the bridge, stepping on them, tramping on them, tearing them. It is impossi- ble to write the savagery of that mo- ment. Bodies Roll on Pavement Then another spattering of gunfire. A scream above me, a woman's scream, Somebody shot by a stray bullet. The agents who guarded the Crillon’s entrance were restless and frightened. They too were exposed, helpless. I took shelter behind a stone column. I could see bodies roll- ing on the cement pavement of the Place. The armed forces had won their position again. They were surg- ing back into the arena. The crowd ‘was retreating, slowly, fighting the way. Another horse-charge. The crowd was broken up. Hand to hand fighting in the place. More trucks brought more bluecoats, mobile guards. Splutter, splutter: was it a machine gun? The density of the crowd was breaking up. Bodies were being “rehie sated the hotel, back from the fray. y were groaning in pain. They were bleeding. I had seen enough. I took a chance and slipped along toward the rue Royale, hoping I would not be noticed, hoping there would be no firing for @ moment. I was lucky. I made the corner and worked my way to Max- im’s. All along the street were fight- ing groups. Policemen had lost their heads. They were attacking and club- bing everyone in sight. A little fam- ily had come out of some doorway, trying to get home probably, and hoping for a cab. They were frighten- ed and clinging to the father. There was the fat mother and two girls, one very young. Two of the rioters, just boys, trying to avoid the police clubs, ran onto the sidewalk. Cops followed them like maniacs. The little family retreated to the wall of a building. The cops, five of them, caught the boy-rioters and struck them down. They beat the head and arms of one of the fallen youths, making blood spurt from his mouth and nose as he lay there helpless on the ground, trying vainly to ward off the blows of the white nightstick. The fat woman screamed. Her husband called out. “For Ee nsore of God, let him go The policemen silenced him, grat- uitously, with their clubs. The fat mother was knocked down violently when she interfered. The youngest daughter was literally kicked across the sidewalk. And the cops were lost and absorbed in the fighting masses in the street. Maxim's Becomes Hospital I retreated into Maxim's for a brandy. I could not stand any more. Inside was a temporary hospital. Un- |gun. But even the scene I was unfor- tunate enough to witness does not de- scribe the events of that tragic night. In many quarters there echoed cries of: “Vive Chiappe! A bas les Deputes! A bas Daladier! Mort aux parlemen- taires!” And each quarter had its special Private tragedy, its bloody assaults, its mob, its battle, its wounded .. . and its dead. The newspapers of February 7 and 8 reported with mor- bid faithfulness the deeds and scenes of that bloody evening. Word of the shootings of the Concorde and of the Champs-Elysees spread like wildfire. “Frot, Daladier, assassins!” was the cry that echoed all over Paris, far in- to the early morning, all the next day, later into the evening of Wednesday. The woman's scream I had heard above me in front of the Crillon was @ young servant of the hotel, killed almost instantly by a stray bullet. In the Avenue Gabriel a mounted police- man was pulled from his horse, near- ly torn to ribbons by the maddened mob, and then trodden under the feet of thousands. Dead, he was only identified three days later, so badly was he mutilated. Another guard, charging on his horse, seized the French flag carried by the war veterans. He was pulled down. His sabre was taken from him. His trousers were ripped and remov- ed. And he was held to the pavement while husky arms spanked him with the flag of his own sword. He went home, they say, pantless. At the Cafe de Rond-Point off the Champs-Elyses, was another incident. Caught in the heat of the occasion, a client sitting on the terrasse seized a siphon bottle as a gesture of protest against the police who were jostling the quiet drinkers and driving them inside with their clubs. An agent, with no other provocation than that, drew his automatic and fired on the whole crowd, wounding one man seriously. The entire terrasse precipitated them- selves upon him, overturning tables in their rage. He was torn and man- handled, his clothes pulled off, his person beaten with his own black- jack, and left for dead. He is in the hospital. Property Damage Heavy All told, five city buses were broken or burned, six private automobiles de- stroyed, and some million francs worth of state property ruined. The rioting lasted, that evening, un- til after two in the morning. “Bloody Tuesday” has become a fact. The situation has changed. The entire French populace was aroused. Every thinking man in Paris went to bed, at whatever time, wondering if the revolution would begin in the morning. But in reality it had be- 1 saw Jean Luit, a young Royalist friend of mine, on the terrace of the cafe du Dome toward three in the morning. He sat with another man whom I did not know. President Will Inspect Vast Do- main to Be Reclaimed by Government KEEN INTEREST IN WORK Chief Executive to View Work on Two Huge Dams to Harness Columbia Vast Domain to Be Reclaimed By Government Harnessing of Mighty Stream This is the first of four stories on the great power, irrigation and navigation projects of the north- west, which are to be inspected by President Roosevelt on his way back to Washington from his Ha- waiian vacation. These great dams are to create new “inland empires” comparable to those in the Tennessee and Colorado val- leys. Succeeding stories will tell of the Grand Coulee, Ft. Peck and Upper Mississippi projects. Portland, Ore. July 30—When President Roosevelt lands here on his way back to Washington he will en- ter the gateway of a new domain to be created by the government's plans to put the Columbia river to work. harness the Columbia at Bonneville and the Grand Coulee are well under way. But they are only a part of the general plan to develop the entire Columbia river basin with a series of other dams, navigation and irriga- tion projects that will virtually create a new empire on a par with those ris- ing in the Tennessee and Colorado valleys. - Since the coming of the white man, the Columbia has been known and used as a mighty avenue leading from the sea far into the interior of the northwest. But it has never been put to work, either for navigation, power, or irrigation, to realize any- thing like its possibilities. PIERCES MOUNTAIN CHAINS The Columbia rises in the high mountains of British Columbia, and then, turning southward, enters the United States to drain most of Ore- gon, Washington, Idaho, and through tributaries, western Montana. Turn- ing westward it cuts through both the Sierra Nevada and Coast ranges, and winds through the vast plain be- tween those mountain chains. In cutting through the mountains, the great river develops steep rapids which have always been one of the great potential sources of electric power in the country. Now it is to be developed, navigation extended as) far up as the Snaké river, and a His clothes were torn and he was still bleeding under bandages on his head and face. His friend’s ip was split like a rabbit's, and his arm was in a sling. Jean was crying like a baby, but not from pain. “My God!” he said. “I can’t be- lieve it. Frenchmen have been killed by other Frenchmen . . . here in Paris. Did you see it? Oh, God, don’t put it in the papers. Tell them not to print it. Don’t let the world know of this shame to my poor coun- try.” You cannot explain away that sort of patriotism. It has nothing to do with flag-waving. (Copyright McClure Newspaper Syn- dicate) BALDWIN BELITTLES EUROPE WAR SCARE conscious men—mere boys, most of girls, the tarts, the “fallen women” whom society affects to scorn and despise, were working like made, cut- up napkins and towels, bandag- terribly ten heads, sto) caressing the suffering. They nurses, those.girls. was dead. The only mark @ small brown stain on blood trickled from under ito his still fingers. That victim of the gunfire. 1 was sick and frightened. night's work ahead of me, tragic story, but I bed and forget what EE8 & gh eRe uu Past ‘Weber’s—two more hospitals. More French citizens being carried or dragged inside. The tables of the ‘Terrasses were covered with limp, got igh the confus- running. I got a carried me puties, past Eg i i u u E i er : i { i g F i i Ht ff i ! i i i ! i it Acting Prime Minister Says No Immediate Danger Despite Difficulties London, July 30.—(#)— Stanley Baldwin, acting prime minister of Great Britain, said in the house of commons Monday that there is no immediate danger of war in Europe despite the difficulties and perplex- ities of the present situation. He made his statement in defend- ing Great Britain’s recently an- nounced plans to increase its air He opposed the Labor party’s mo- tion of censure, declaring: “There is no cause at all for a Panic of any kind. As far as I can see, there is no risk in the immediate future of peace being broker “It might well be that peace will not be broken and there are a great many people in Europe who will do all they can to see to it that it is not broken.” Declaring “the question of imperial defense and disarmament had oc- cupied the minds of the government and the house of commons itself for many years,” Baldwin continued: “In the Saar, in Memel, and in Danzig there have been disturbing events, and the recent and most tragic incidents in Germany itself, and, last of all, in Austria, which showed there was a spirit abroad in parts of Europe which, if it could z promise of irrigation brought to near- ly 2,000,000 acres of now arid and un- productive land. When the cruiser Houston has wound its way up 100 miles of the lower Columbia, the Presidential party will sight Portland, largest fresh-wa- ter harbor on the west coast, nestling below Mount Hood on the Willamette river where it enters the Columbia. And the president will realize that the making of that river channel and the building of this fresh-water port is a triumph of planning and deter- mination such as he now hopes to re- peat and extend farther up the river by the new dams. WORK UNDER WAY ON DAM The lower Columbia once had only @ narrow, shallow channel of shifting The two huge dams being built to} | Cofferdams at the point between ous and difficult. Now, by extensive) Comcnmmss at, the, Point bet planning and public works, the chan- nel is fixed and deep, and the port) has ample docking facilities ‘for the great trade in grain and lumber that takes ship here direct for Liverpool and the ocean ports of all the .world. Forty miles up the Columbia above Portland, the foundations of the Bon- neville Dam are completed, and the 72-foot structure is beginning to rise. Crags half a mile high tower above the construction camps on either side. Upstream is the roar of Cascade Rapids, soon to be stilled forever by the rising waters behind the dam. Back of the cliffs rises the majestic ever-white cone of Mt. Hood, 11,000 feet tall. LOCKS WILL SKIRT DAM Ships will sail over-the submerged rapids, and pass the new dam by means of locks. Even the salmon which work their way up the river each year by leaping up the falls and rapids will be provided a “fish ladder” by which they can pass the dam. Two railroads and two high- ways must be moved from territory that will be under water. The $11,000,000 just allotted by Public Works Administrator Ickes to the job should bring it close to com- pletion. Work started last year with an original allotment of $20,000,000. The dam itself and six units of the powerhouse are being built with PWA funds, but other power units may be added later if needed. Fifteen hun-| dred men are now at work on the pre- | Roosevelt Will Visit Huge Dams _ Rising to Chain Columbia River ‘Sees Time As Political Solvent *** # * EAST LAUGH ** & * * ee # S AT N. D. * # s *# @ Benson Notes View in Washington Asserting that Senator Gerald P. Nye “knows his onions,” George A. Benson, Washington correspondent for the Minneapolis Journal and a former North Dakotan sees time as the best solvent of North Dakota's Political tangle, particularly as it ‘concerns Mr. Nye, now “in bad” with the dominant faction in the Nonpar- tisan League. w Benson sees Nye as the eventual wooded mountains where a huge powerhouse will rise at Bonneville Dam ... and begin putting to work one of the great rivers of the world. A sheet of foam rises as a dynamite blast tears the Cascade Rapids above Bonneville Dam . .. rapids that will be submerged forever when the waters rise behind the new dam. liminary work at Bonneville. | At least three more dams between VAST LAKE TO BE FORMED ‘the Bonneville site and the Grand ‘When the dam rises to its full Coulee are projected for some time lake behind it and make slack water system of river control and use like as far up the river as The Dalles and that visioned for the Tennessee Val- Celilo Falls, 60 miles upstream. When lee. Here, too, development of cheap the power units are all installed they electric power is expected to bring should produce 450,000 kilowatt hours iz-dustries to the valley, and to open of electricity, or 600,000 horsepower. | up @ new era of farm life by bring- The plans for the Bonneville Dam ing electricity to the country. project were drawn by army en-| SOIL WILL COME TO LIFE gines, who have been studying for| In the plains between the mountain years the latent possibilities of the! ranges are thousands of acres of rich Columbia River. Navigation as far up| voleanic soil, but whic!) are useless as the Snake river will be assured by! cor farming because of lack of water. the Bonneville Dam, and locks to per-' With controlled irrigation it can be mit river and perhaps even ocean’ rade most fertile and productive and sandbars, and navigation was hazard- steamers to pass are being provided.|can be put under cultivation to re- height of 72 feet it will create a huge iu the future, to make up a complete} place the inuge tracts of poor land that are being bought up by the gcvernment and retired trom farming. The president’s visit to Portland to inspect the Bonneville project has a |Decullar significance because of the |fact that it was here that he made his campaign speech on electric power and river development. Now he will see with his own eyes the actual building of the projects he was plan- ning and visioning even before his eiection. . NEXT: The Grand Coulee, vast power and irrigation project that aims to create a garden spot where rich, thirsty soil new cries for water. Strike Serpent Invades ‘Industrial Eden’ | tly file Hl H i i (LEFOR FINDS BANKS ~ ~IN GOOD CONDITION State Examiner Says -Institu- tions in Best Shape of victor, particularly if times improve so that threat of want and privation no longer dominate the land. Mean- time, he gives a facetious touch to the situation in the following article, re- Printed from the Journal: “North Dakota’s gay political bur- lesque, attracting nearly as much at- tention in eastern newspapers as the’ San Francisco and Minneapolis strikes, poses one question in official Washington: What effect will it have on the fortunes of Senator Gerald P. Nye? “Mr, Nye's term still has four years to run, and much can happen in that time to change the situation. If he were seeking indorsement from a Nonpartisan League convention to- day, doubtless he would be hurled out by the scruff of the neck, for Langer’s forces are in control for the nonce, and Langer has no use at all for Nye. “The junior senator from North Dakota has no more use for Langer, and the two of them simply could not get along on the same ticket. They profited jointly two years ago, but that was because they both cared little for Hoover and his pi 5 and each kept discreetly silent about the other. “Silence about each other no long- er is possible, and things being as they are, Nye. is at the ebb of Non- partisan League tides. It is his good fortune that the senior senator, Lynn J. Frazier, heads the ticket this year. Frazier has not incurred Langer’s en- mity, and will not incur it, for Frazier says nothing critical about anybody or anything but Wall Street and the Big Interests, which have been hor- rendous bogey men to North Dakota's husbandmen for many years. Nye Needs Better Times “But Nye, who went to North Da- kota in the closing days of the pri- mary campaign to oppose Langer, is in ba! with all save the anti-Langer crowd in the League ranks. “Senator Nye’s fortunes, then, de- pend on better times in North Da- kota, or an awakening of the rank and file of the League farmer mem- bers. If things improve, the farm- ers will have little stomach for the sort of stuff Langer has been preach- ing. If they do not, they will con- tinue to believe that Langer’s con- viction by a federal grand jury was a rank miscarriage of justice. squat, when election time rolls around again. Of course, he might rally his supporters within the league and car- ry them into the independent camp) as its candidate—which was what Langer once tried with no conspicu- ous success, Nye Knows His Onions “Senator Nye has always been bit- terly objected to by some Nonparti- san League leaders, one of whom is William Lemke, now a representative in congress. Nye wis chosen by the late Governor Sorlie to fill Senator| Ladd’s unexpired term, and this was @ bitter pill for the Leaguers to The day he was chosen, some ti leaguers, among them Mr. conferred with Governor Sorlie, one firmly of the opinion that BE time for the League convention indorse a senatorial candidate on Quarter-Century - North Dakota state banks are in better financial condition than at. any time in the past quarter-century, Adam A. Lefor, state bank examiner, said Monday on completion of the June 30 bank call. Added confidence in banks through operation of the federal deposit insur- ance corporation has resulted. in swelled deposits, and a general better tone throughout the banking . situa- tion, he said. Volume of banks'in the state has decreased from its peak of 713 in 1920 to 142 state banks and two trust com- Fy : fay 8 ! North Dakota senator, and it him the enthusiastic applause of ‘so-called liberals. i Ur Fe fee Hi oft li HA = l ? E i a MH a Hi E | and on a trial before a federal court. “It makes no difference who made the charges that led to Secretary Ickes’ inquiry. North Dakota news- papers had made much of Langer’s activities for months before the Pub- lic Works Administrator dispatched investigators to determine whether Langer was assessing federal relief employees a portion of their salary. That investigation ran on for some time. What the investigators report- ed to Mr. Ickes was studied for sev- eral days. Evidently. the secretary was convinced that there was enough material in the detectives’ report to warrant prosecution. But even then. there was no prosecution till the De- Partment of Justice had looked the report over. And not until the De- partment of Justice passed the evi- dence on to the United States District Attorney in North Dakota was there & prosecution, “And, of course, the trial before a should be appointed. When it camejdid not stop here, jury in a federal district court speaks for itself. , “So in Washington Langer’s request that his own legislature make its in- vestigation and give him another trial is put down as another screwy item in North Dakota’s long record of screwy politics.” In line with Benson’s comments is an editorial in the staid old Boston Transcript, most conservative pub- lication in the habitat of beans, brown bread and codfish, which credits this state with “adding to the Joy of life in a troubled world.” Says The Transcript under the — “Comic Opera in North Da- ota”: “North Dakota may be said to be adding to the joy of life in a trou- bled world. The situation there, suf- ficiently serious for the state itself, nevertheless partakes of the nature of a comic opera with its chorus of troopers and country folk, presum- ably containing its contingent of merry village maidens. Two men claim to be governor. One has the support of the courts and the protec- tion of the National Guard. The other commands the legislature, which meets despite his rival's efforts to prevent its assembling. “In the present situation is a re- minder of the fect that when the Constitution of North Dakota was framed there were written into it elaborate provisions for the removal of governors who stepped from the straight and narrow path, or other- wise became unfitted to hold office. It was not sufficient to say that a governor might be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors. As the fundamental law was laid down in North Dakota, ‘in case of the death, impeachment, resignation, failure to qualify, absence from the state, removal from office or the disability of the governor, the pow- ers and duties of the office for the residue of the term, or until he shall * se ge or the disability be re- be « Shall devolve upon the lieu- tenant governor.’ “The Constitution of Massachusetts has it that the leutenant governor shall serve ‘whenever the chair of the governor shall be vacant by rea- son of his death, or absence from the Commonwealth or otherwise.’ a reat TlH I Kathleen & Hs at 8 i . 3 il i fi zi E i ee p EB Vi g ‘iff €