The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 8, 1934, Page 1

North Dakota’s ¥ Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather Probably showers, begin: to- night or suntay coolee, ESTABLISHED 1873 Liner Burns Off Jer kx k Dead and Miss x * * BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1934 kkk x“ *kk NOT FIRST OFFENSE Heads Textile BOARD STRIVES FOR | Flies to Break OF WARDEN, SAUVAIN REPLIES T0 OLSON Dell Patterson Ordered to De- sist From Any Further Political Activity INVESTIGATION UNDER WAY Administrative Head Had Form- erly Warned Offender of State Statute Warden Dell Patterson of the state penitentiary was ordered Saturday by Nelson Sauvain, chairman of the state board of administration, to de- sist from any political activity. The was taken by Sauvain following a recommendation by Act- ing Gov. Ole H. Olson to investigate to determine whether Patterson was participating in politics in violation of a state law prohibiting employes and heads of institutions under the board of administration from political activity. Sauvain, in e letter to Olson, point- ed out that two days before the gov- ernor called the matter to his atten- tion he had called on Patterson to inquire about a political address the warden was reported to have made. has canceled a scheduled speaking engagement. . Declaring that the board recognizes Patterson “has been proving a very good warden,” Sauvain informed the governor he nevertheless deemed it necessary that Patterson refrain from political activity. Sauvain said the subject will be brought up at a meeting of the en- tire board. Sauvain Letter to Olson His letter to Governor Olson said: “Two days before the receipt of your letter about Warden Patterson I received information concerning some improper and unwarranted things that he was alleged to have said in his Labor Day speech. I im- mediately called on Mr. Patterson, and he seemed to recognize that he had made a mistake. Since that, I noticed a news item to the effect that he had canceled a subsequent speak- ing engagement. “We desire that members of the board of administration and all offi- cers and employes under the board observe section 268, compiled laws of 1913. To warn against violations of this act, we are sending a copy of the same, as a reminder, to the head of each institution to which this law applies. “We recognize that Mr. Patterson has been proving a very good warden. Nevertheless, we deem it necessary that he refrain from any acts in vio- lation of this law, even when away Tam furnishing your “T am & copy oO! letter to each member of the board, preparatory to bringing up the sub- ject at a meeting of the entire board.” Patterson canceled an address he was scheduled to give here before the Women's Nonpartisan Club No. 1 ‘Thursday night. Mrs, Lydia Langer, candidate for governor, and Mrs. P. Q. Sathre, wife of the attorney gen- eral, substituted for Patterson on the 5 Program. LINES PROMISE T0 RECONSIDER RATES Executives of Two Railroads Say They'll Do All They Can for Drouth Areas Since then, Sauvain said, “poatte| ———_—_- Reconsideration of the suspended ¢routh rates on shipments of feed ind grain to the stricken areas, following a storm of protest headed by Gover- nor Ole H. Olson, was promised by presidents of the major railroads in telegrams to Axel Soder, chairman of the board of county ad ‘The messages, which were received at the Burleigh county agent's office Saturday, were from Charles Donnel- ly, president of the Northern Pacific and ©, T. Jaffray, president of the Soo Line. part consideration of the drouth rates would be continued at # meeting of |dormity all Western lines presidents to be held in Chi ‘Wednesday. rill do all we can to help situation in North Dakota,” Jaffray's message read, Former Convict Is Held at Jamestown Jamestown, N. D., Sept. 8—(P)— George Lyon, 25, former South Da- fy asalting trial on charges of eom- await on = Cay oll prin here, Lyon was lodged in confessed to several James- establishments in June. He told police he 18 months of & Strike Inquiry Heading the voluntary arbitra- tion committee that will inquire into the textile workers’ strike is Gov. John G. Winant of New Hampshire, above. Governor Winant was named chairman by President Roosevelt, who se- lected the three committeemen. THOMPSON SUBMITS RELIEF PROPOSALS FOR RURAL SCHOOLS \Suggests _ Transportation and Central Housing Program as Federal Project To meet an “extremely serious sit- uation” confronting school-children of North Dakota in rural districts, Arthur E. Thompson, state superi tendent of public instruction, Sat day proposed transportation and ce! tral housing of pupils be made a fed- eral project during the winter months. He made his proposal in a letter to E. A. Willson, state federal relief ad- ministrator, suggesting a conference at which plans could be made for the Program. Many children may not be able to attend schools in rural sections if transportation is not provided, ‘Thompson said, while the plan of es- tablishing dormitories in céhtral lo- cations has proved in some states to be a feasible and effective one. In his letter to Willson, Thompson said, “I am writing to direct your at- tention to an extremely serious sit- uation prevailing in many parts of the state relating to the question of transportation for rural boys and girls to school during the coming term. “I am prompted to suggest the op- portunity that lies here to create lo- cal relief projects to provide for trans- portation and possibly rooming fac- ilities in convenient centers, it seems to me that this would be a highly im- portant step in the general direction of rural rehabilitation with which your administration is grappling. I believe the effect on the morale of the young people would be powerful for good. “May I ask for an early conference with you and the members of the staff of the department of public in- struction to consider details of oper- ation. Winter will be upon us shortly and we in the department here are receiving some pathetic stories re- garding inability of boys and girls to be transported to school at the pres- lent time. The coming of winter is bound to multiply these troubles very Pecan, also pointed out that in some communities, farmers are faced with the inability of taking their children to schools, because they have no feed for their horses. This could be made a federal project and farmers could be made relief workers in trans- porting children to school, through funds provided by the federal gov- ment. Dormitories have been successfully tried as a federal project in South Dakota, Thompson said. In that state, according to Thompson, the federal government has expended 12 cents per day for each child in the to partially defray costs of food.’ This is extended to families on relief. The remainder of the cost | borne by the family. Where the family is unable to meet the cost, work is given the child to defray the jremainder. i cea RECIPES FOR VOTES Madison, Wis—Conrad Hansen, state senate candidate, seeks the wo- He had pickle recipes Mens yes ne back of his campaign printed on the cards. 1. Pjelstad, running for comy clerk. wants the men’s votes. She listed hunting season and regulations on her cards. ————— § PINCHOT IS CANDIDATE Harriaburs. Sept. 8.—()—Mrs, Cor- nelia Bryce Pinchot, wife and political teammate of Pennsylvania's governor, twice denied a seat in congress, has entered the fall campaign as an inde- pendent candidate for the governor- ship. STRIKE TRUCE WITH NEW IMPASSE SEEN Renewed Activity on Part of Both Factions Indicated for First of Week GREEN CALLS CONFERENCE International Unions to Plan Support for Striking Tex- tile Workers Washington, Sept. 8.—(&)—Presi- dent Roosevelt's board of mediation strove Saturday to find some basis for peace in the textile strike as events shaped themselves toward a new im- Passe in the controversy. ‘While a week-end lull descended on the strike, there were indications of general walkout. In South Carolina, scene of much uired by statute preliminary move if martial law is to be declared. The institute, representing the employers. After the meeting with Sloan, Gov- Proposal for bringing the opposi: sides together had been made, adding that the discussions thus far had been entirely exploratory. Sloan said he described to the board conditions in the industsy before and after the tex- tile code went into effect, while Gor- man gave the workers’ side of the controversy and outlined the demands of the strikers. Gorman late Saturday said the walkout has een ordered Monday of workers in upholstery, drapery, carpet, rug, pile fabric, plush and valet plants. Conferences were still in progress to determine whether walkouts would. be ordered in the hosiery and silk and rayon dyeing industries. A delegation representing the dy- ers’ union conferred with the strike committee while the executive coun- sel of the hosiery workers also was in session. DAWSON YOUTH IS GRITIGALLY HURT Slips From Freight Train at Windsor; Amputation of Left Leg Necessary Jamestown, N. D., Sept. 8&—(?)}— Howard Anderson, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hans Anderson of Dawson, was seriously injured Friday night when he slipped from a freight train at ‘Windsor. Brought to a hospital here, his left leg was amputated between the knee and ankle. Anderson boarded the train here, en route home. A CCC worker, he was transferred this week from La ‘Moure to Jamestown and had been given a week-end leave. He appar- ently left the train at Windsor, and was injured as he attempted to board it again, New Orleans Quiet As Truce Is Called New Orleans, Sept. 8—(#)—A truce between Senator Huey P. Long and Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley brought comparative peace to the New Orleans battle ground Saturday, The rivals for political control of ‘Dare’ Marriage | i. Rushing into a “dare” marriage with a truck driver and now pre- paring to rush out of it, Mrs. Kaletta Mulvihill Creen, 17, thrill-seeking daughter of a Pittsburgh oil official, is shown here in fetching pose as she reached Chicago by plane, Cali- fornia bound, to seek annul- ment. She then may continue to Manila to rejoin her mother. HEAVY ENROLLMENT SHEN FOR SCHOOLS OPENING ON MONDAY Over Six Hundred Students Reg- istered Saturday for High School Courses The annual trek of over 3,000 Bis- marck children to the city schools begins Monday. Registration at both the St. Mary's parochial and the public schools has been extremely heavy this year, heads | by of the schools announced, and the enrollment. figure is expected to be 200 over the attendance in 1933. Six hundred and thirty-two stu- dents had registered with W. H. Payne, principal of the high school at noon Saturday. Taking into con- sideration the late students and sub- tracting those that will not enter, Payne predicted that the enrollment would be close to 600, an increase of 50 over last year. At the St. Mary's school 170 high school students had enrolled Satur- day with the expected total near the 200 mark, Sister Magdalene an- nounced. Three new teachers will be added to the staff of the parochial school and changes in the division of the grades are being made to accom- modate the larger enrollment. - Students over the maximum num- ber that can be accommodated in the first and second grades will be taken care of by an additional teach- er and the same arrangement is planned for the fifth and sixth grades. Two eighth grade teachers will be needed to handle the number of stiidents enrolled. B High school students will attend their first assemblies Monday in the St. Mary’s and public schools at 8:30 and 9 o'clock, respectively, Monday morning. They will remain only for the forenoon of the first day and will launch into their regular class pe- the city agreed not to use armed men | riods in Tuesday's Democratic SS Se ee eee eo ae were ordered committee. Mayor Walmsley also accepted one point in the dictatorial program insti- tuted by Senator Long. He gave rec- cognition to the parole powers granted to the police jury jioners by the state legislature which conferred upon Long his powers. ‘This composure of differences put a amps, and the populace of New Or- leans itself was calm. Tuesday morning. Students in the city high school will begin classes at 8 a. m. Tuesday and will be dismissed at 3 p.m. A similar schedule has been arranged for St. Mary’s high school. Grade children will attend classes that open at 9 a. m. each morning. They will be dismissed at different times in the afternoons, the lower Grades earlier than the others. ‘The influx of federal and state em- Corwin Is Housing Program Chairman Appointment of 8. W. Corwin of Bismarck as chairman for the local home modernization pro- gram was announced Saturday by R. B. Cummins, state director of the national act. Corwin will select the rest of the committee which will work through the chamber of com- merce. NEW SENSATIONS IN MUNITIONS SCANDAL PROMISED BY PROBE Hearing Brings Repercussions From Abroad as Similar Moves Are Planned ‘Washington, Sept. 8—(#}—The sen- ate munitions committee, hearing re- percussions from the United States snd abroad to its disclosures, mar- shaled new evidence Saturday for its investigation. In recess until Monday, members of the committee promised further rev- elations next week concerning the far-flung operations of manufacturers of the instruments of war. Evidence has been received that King George V of England intervened with the Polish ambassador in Lon- don in an effort to gain an armament contract for a British concern bidding against the Driggs Ordnance Com- pany of New York. Immediately thereafter, other testi- mony showed that the United States war and navy departments were “co- operating fully with the New York company, in building up its foreign li wonder,” commented Sena- tor Vandenberg (Rep., Mich.), “that peace walks on crutches tod (London newspapers expressed in- dignation and astonishment Saturday that the name of King George had been mentioned at the inquiry. Lib- erals in parliament initiated a move for a similar investigatién into muni- tions manufacturers in Great Britain). L. I, Driggs, president of the Ord- nance company, blushed deeply as the evidence about King George went into the record in the form of a cablegram from his agent in Warsaw in 1932. “That's unsportsmanlike,” Driggs said as the testimony was received over his objection. Later the committee turned to this company’s attempts to sell guns and ammunition in Colombia in 1933 when that nation was in dispute with Peru over the Leticia sector. ATTORNEYS WIND UP ANNUAL CONVENTION Sherriff Warns Against Consti- tutional Infringements in Closing Talk North ‘Dakota’s attorneys Friday ccncluded their two-day annual con- vention, after listening toa warning that democratic forms of government in the nation were being undermined recession of “individual responsi- bility.” ‘The principal speaker, Andrew R. Sherriff, Chicago, sounded the warn- ing in his talk on “The Spirit of the Constitution.” Sherriff said that in the past 40 years, through “appropriation of fed- eral funds without constitutional authority, the constitution has been a}l but abandoned.” He stressed the need for a reawaken- tng of “civic virtue and individual re- sponsibility—which is indispensible to a democracy.” “Moral responsibility must be aroused tf we expect it to survive,” he said. Continuance of expectation of fed- eral relief by states and individuals will “weaken the spirit and undermine democracy.” He return to “eternal truths, which cannot be set aside for any altruistic needs.” A memorial service for deceased members of the bench will be held during September or October, chief justice of supreme court A. G. Burr, announced at the gathering. Sherriff, at the conclusion of his talk was made an honoraty member of the state bar association. Members took under consideration, for action at the next meeting, @ pro- posal that a state highway patrol be established in North Dakota. It was introduced by John Lewis, Minot. Valley City to hold next meeting there ‘were received. Short Circuit Causes Apartment Fire Friday A short circuit in the wiring of an electric stove caused a fire in the Jack Fettig apartment, 206% Main, late Friday afte Smoke had ployes into the city during the last year was given by H. O. Saxvik, pub- llc school superintendent, as the rea- Ben. for Soe age ingrenne tn enroll: ment. tig called the fire department. Only slight damage was done before the firemen arrived and the faulty wires ‘were severed to prevent further trou- Invitations from Grand Forks and] neck and (TALES OF HORROR | VIVIDLY TOLD BY © MEMBERS OF CREW 25 Agree Many Passengers Went to Death Refusing to Get Into Lifeboats SEAMEN FOUGHT FUTILELY Finally Forced to Take Off Leav- ing Many Behind Who Could Have Been Saved Spring Lake, N. J., Sept. 8—(7)— The two hundred or more passengers on the steamship Morro Castle who met death aboard the flaming ship eight miles at sea early Saturday, died because of their refusal to enter the lifeboats, members of the crew of the vessel said today. Twenty-five members of the crew, interviewed separately, told practically the same story. It was a tale of horror, of men and women frenzied by the raging flames and thick pall of smoke, resisting all attempts of the sailors to get them into the lifeboats and to safety. ‘The seamen insisted that practically all passengers could have been saved if they had followed orders. Leroy Kelsey, a seaman from Al- bany, N. Y., dramatically described the scene aboard the big ship, in- bound from Havana, as fire broke in the eerie early morning with a stiff northeastern blowing. ‘The crew had succeeded in getting all passengers on deck, Kelsey said, despite the inferno which raced through the superstructure after starting in the library in the fore part of the ship. Passengers Panic Stricken Flames licked out across the sev- eral decks, smoke swept down by the heavy weather assailed the nostrils of the men and women who had been aroused from their slumbers and or- dered on deck in night clothing and hastily donned garments. ‘The crew urged them to cross the decks and enter the boats. Sparks and cinders fell all about them. The wall of smoke grew heavier and the passengers becoming frenzied refused to risk the few short steps needed to take them to the rail and safety in the boats. “They refused to go through the smoke and the flames,” Kelsey said, “we pleaded with them. We tried to herd them but few of them would go. Many even tried to fight past. us and ee cen tha laaders cto She lamer “Finally we were forced to take to the boats without them as the sparks and cinders were burning the ropes.” Kelsey, a well-spoken man of 27, continued a vivid recital of the mad activities on the burning ship. He was asleep in the crew's quar- ters in the forward part of the ship when he heard the alarm. “I jumped up and got into my clothes,” Kelsey said, “and ran up on deck. The wind was blowing hard. A lot of fellows in the crew came after me. I should say there were about a dozen of us. We grabbed the fire hoses and began shooting water on the fire which was raging through the midships section. We smashed windows to get our streams through. People were shouting. You could hear them crying out and all the time the fire was getting worse. Pumps Stopped Working. “It was pretty confusing. Well, we saw we couldn't do much about the fire and we didn’t want to stand there and roast, for just about this time the water suddenly gave out. I think the pumps must have stopped. There we were holding useless hose in our hands. i “Someone yelled about getting to the oars and we all made a move there. The passengers had ringed us and we knew we had to get them off the ship. Well, we told them pretty plainly they would have to get. through that smoke and probably get singed by the flames before they reached the boats. But we all had to take the same chance, we told the men and women. They didn’t seem to understand. “I knew there were three girls who had the nerve to follow us, and they Got ashore all right. “We made a break for it all at once. We knew it was that or get, burned. “We got to the boats. And then you know we had to work fast. You couldn’t stand there talking about it. are made to be lowered did work fast with “We got the boats away and we didn't do it any too quickly, for I think in a few minutes the boats would have been burned and we would all have been lost.” MORE QUINTUPLETS St. Agathe Des Monts, Que.—Mrs. Ovila Dionne of Calender, Ont., gave birth to quintuplet daughters; Mrs. G. Dionne of Lantier, near here, raised quintuplet carrots. The five carrots rae one top. Thg.Dionnes are unre- hospitals through police - cleared sey Co ing Total 193 PRICE FIVE CENTS ast xk * Fire Breaks Out At 3 A.M. While Passengers Sleep Catastrophe Occurs Only Eight Port After Seven-Da' Miles Off Shore as Ship Nears y Cruise to Havana; 318 Passengers on Board BODIES VISIBLE IN WATER OFF SANDY HOOK Flames Caused by Bolt of Lightning Which Struck Oi! Tank: Spread Quickly to All Parts of Vessel Making Rescue Work Impossible Spring Lake, N. J., Sept. Ward line luxury liner Morro city. rain-swept new Jersey beaches. Of the 558 passengers and exposure. A wide discrepancy in the ception. List of Dead Figures compiled by the Associated Press from all sources, showed the following totals: Living Dead 4 61 2% «(31 10 0 ‘That many passengers may have perished in the flames that whipped about the 11,000-ton liner in the blackness before dawn Saturday, was evidenced in reports of survivors stat- ing that many persons were seen hud- dled on lower decks. Other scores were reported sighted swimming or floating in the sea near | Paste! the big ship. Rescue Work Hampered (Copyright, 1934, by The Associated Press) 8—(AP)—Dead and missing numbered 193 Saturday afternoon, hours after the $3,000,000 Castle burned in the open sea eight miles off the Jersey coast and 30 miles from New York The known dead totaled 60, their bodies washed ashore on Missing were 133. crew aboard the liner when it left Havana Wednesday night, 365 had been brought ashore by rescue vessels or were washed to the beach by heavy seas. Many of the survivors were described in a critical condi- tion, and emergency crews worked desperately in first aid sta- tions and hospitals to offset the grave effects of burns and The official passenger list totaled 318 and the crew 240. total number aboard was noted in Ward line figures and reports to coast guard headquarters at Washington from the cutter Tampa—standing by the smouldering Morro Castle—which wirelessed that the total was 6503. This was at variance with the figures given out by the line and it was thought possibly due to garbled wireless re- incoherent accounts of one of the worst peace time marine disasters, they were told by members of the crew of the Morro Castle that more '7| than 200 passengers died because they refused to enter lifeboats. Tales related by passengers and crew were those of horror and hero- ism—but, in the accounts of the crew, tragic overtones were of rs fighting attempts to place them in the boats. Out of the night came news of the disaster—mutely incomplete as the flames spread with terrific rapidity: “SO8—Morro Castle afire off Scot- land light—.” The first frantic “SOS” was picked up at 3:23, eastern standard time. So swiftly did the roaring flames en- velope the vessel, with its 318 sleeping ngers en route home to New York after a seven-day excursion to Havana, that the ship soon was aflame from stem to stern. Rescue work, hampered during; much of the day by poor visibility en- gendered by fog and rain, continued unremittingly into the duskas work was started to tow the smouldering hulk of the liner into New York. A true compilation of the lost will probably not be known for hours, pos- sibly days, due to the wide spread shore points of rescue and the fact many bodies may be carried by tides and winds to sea or distant shore points, The cause of the fire, which blazed in the night and was visible to thou- sands on the Jersey shore, was un- known and wrapped in elements of mystery. Rumors of sabotage trickled through the reports that lightning may have struck the ship or the blaze started accidenally in the passenger quarters from a cigarette. Secretary Roper of the Commerce it announced in the after- noon at Washington that an investi- gation would be conducted personally by D. N. Hoover, assistant chief of the federal bureau of navigation in New York at once. Sharks Add to Terror Sharks added to the terror of the disaster, the skipper of the Diana, a rescue craft, said after he had brought in twelve bodies to Brielle. He count- ed three sharks in the area where sur- vivors were struggling, he said. ‘The crack Furness liner Monarch of Bermuda, which raced at full speed through the rain whipped dawn to the Morro Castle side, brought 70 liv- ing and one dead into New York. Many of the living were in a dying condition. The Andrew F. Luckenbach, which also reached the blazing liner’s side in time, carried 22 persons to New York where they were rushed away to streets. A special train left for Asbury Park shortly before noon to bring back to hospitals 100 of the survivors on the beach—all of them members of the crew. save five women and three men. Seventeen bodies came ashore at Point Pleasant, indicating that many ae ieee sighted in the water were dead. Vessel Being Towed In A fleet of coast guard vessels—many of which battled raging surf in the morning storms — manage dte get a line on the smouldering hulk of the 11,000-ton liner and began the slow, painful job of towing it up the coast toward New York. Ward Line tugs sped down the bay to assist and hurry the work in the face of new storm warnings flying along the coast. As authorities began to correlate Shortly after 10 a. m. eastern standard time, fewer than 250 sur- vivors had been landed or picked up by nearby steamers racing to the rescue. Bodies were visible in the water off along the Jersey shore pushed through the heavy seas in search of survivors. ‘The blaze started apparently in the library, according to some of the mem- Hers of the crew reaching shore in a life boat. It spread to the great tanks of fuel oil and enveloped the 11,620-ton liner in a pillar of flame visible along the Jersey coast. Dr. Charles Cochrane of Brooklyn, who came ashore in a boatload of sur- vivors, gave a graphic description of the scene which greeted his eyes as he turned out of his cabin in the Pitch blackness of night. “The front pert of the ship was all aflame,” he said. ‘I do not believe any passenger who got caught in the hold or cabin at any point in the ship beyond the li- brary had a chance of escaping.” Few Ships Within Reach Shipping along the Atlantic coast was stunned by import of the Morro Castle's broken “SOS,” and though the liner was in the heart of the greatest shipping region in the world there was not a ship nearby. J As coast guards and police battled ‘in heart breaking failure to beat their way in launches through the surf and raging white-capped seas, those mem- bers of the crew escaping from below managed to lower life boats from one side of the flaming vessel. In mute and pitiful evidence of the failure of many of those aboard to Teach safety, life boat after life boat landed with barely a crew to fill it. The Morro Castle's boats had a ca- pacity of 70. ‘The Morro Castle left Havana Wed- nesday night. Friday night her com- mander, Captain Robert Wilmot, died from a heart attack, leaving the ves- sel in command of Chief Officer W. F’. Warms when she caught fire. Furness Liner Picks Up 65 First to reach the blazing ship was the Monarch of Bermuda, crack Fur- ness liner. She took off 65 persons. Next was the Andrea F. Luckenbach, which picked up 22 persons and wire- lessed ashore to have ambulances awaiting. Reaching the scene then were the President Cleveland and the City of Savannah. . Life boats were launched and those landing along the Jersey coast re- Ported they had drifted beside the blazing ship for an hour without see- (Continied on Page 3),