The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 10, 1934, Page 1

” North Dakota’s ¥ Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Probably showers The Weather tht or Tu f perature. * Iittle change in ESTABLISHED 1878 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1934 PRICE FIVE CENTS Suspect Sea Tragedy Fire Bug Olson With Democrats, Speaks at Big Bend GOVERNOR DECLARES ONLY INTEREST 1§ 10 PRESENT TRUTH Not a Candidate for Any Office, Executive Tells Enthusi- astic Meeting IS PRAISED FOR COURAGE 1,000 ‘Attend Speaking Pro- gram; Candidates Promise to End Graft in State Governor Ole H. Olson, a life-long Republican, took the field for the Democratic state ticket in an address at @ political rally at the Big Bend of the Missouri river, in Mercer county, Sunday afternoon. At the same time, he emphasized that he is not a candidate for any Office and does not expect to be, thereby setting at rest rumors that his name might appear in the inde- pendent column on the ballot at the fall election. After making a speech outlining the condition of the state government, Olson asked the privilege of making en announcement just as the meeting closed. In it he asserted that some might ask how it was that he was appearing at a ic meeting. ‘The answer, he said, is that he is in- terested in getting to the people the truth about their state government which will enable him & aseRBS ibis, HF st gh z [ | g ae ine ag "oO Hel ditse He Pate | | day night. uy shige 3 fd gg wEE j : ze § ; H i i E s s a i 3 it if i E id H 83 H § i te 4 § : eB 5 8 3 5 5 Ee : EH i i i g g z i i Dickinson Girl Dies In Mill I City Sunday Minneapolis, Sept. ‘10.—(?)—Miss Mildred Amelia Eee, Minneap- MARTINESON OUSTER HEARING CONTINUES Foster Reopens Prosecutidn to Clarify Phases of Tues- day's Testimony Heart Attack Fatal To Larimore Woman) Larimore, N. D., Sept. 10.—(#)—Fu- neral services for Mrs. Jessie will] Thompson who died unexpectedly as a result of a heart night will be held at 2:30 p. m. Wed- neaday in the Methodist church Although called for the purpose of Permitting defense to present its evi- dence in the case involving C. J. Mar- Atorney C. L. Foster opened the prosecution when the city commission convened in the Burleigh county court rooms, to clarify several phases of testimony given last Tues- Police officers recalled to the stand were Vincent Kavaney and W. R. Ebeling and W. A, Cleveland and Ry- der Hamro. Police Judge Edward 8. Allen also was a witness and testified that the police slip charging Lawrence Ash- craft with assault and battery and attempted rape of a girl, was not called to his attention until after the charge of rape had been erased. He said this was pointed out by Hamro after attack Friday here. | widow. Rabbit Foot Carried by Student As Flames Raged Through Doomed Ship and Scores Met Death Pulls Him Through Sea Disaster Minneapolis, Sept. 10.—()—The rabbit's foot carried by Donald Truscott, University of Minneso- ta senior and campus leader, has pulled him through another dis- aster safely, it was revealed Mon- day, when it was determined Trus- cott was one of the survivors of the ill fated ship Morro Castle. Friends here confirmed the fact the university student leader had been on the boat. Truscott apparently had been acting as night watchman on the Morro Castle at the time the mys- terious blaze broke out on the ship off Asbury Park, N. J., Saturday. Truscott was president of the junior class at the University of Minnesota last year and leader of the junior prom. His trip on the Morro Castle was to be his last and he had planned to return to Minneapolis to enter his senior year at the university immediate- ly after the boat docked. Another freak of fate, similar to the many that have occurred in Truscott’s short but eventful life, got the university senior & Job aboard the Morro Castle. Immediately after the univer- sity closed last spring, Truscott left for New York and got a job on @ cattle ship sailing for Eur- ope. He did odd jobs and rnanet in- Passage back to the Unit- ed States, at New York August 27. On the waterfront, after his re- turn from Europe, Trustcott talk- ed with several members of the Morro Castle crew, and the idea occurred to him to take a trip to Cuba before returning to Min- _Neapolis. There were no jobs open on the boat, but Truscott loitered on the dock and the last minute the captain offered him a job. On the cruise he was made a night watchman, Last year he sailed to South America on a tramp steamer. His ship passed through three hurric- anes and he narrowly escaped death in each. He was lashed to the mast during the storms. Northwest Pioneer Dies at Jamestown Jamestown, N. D., Sept. 10.—(P)— E. 8, Bordwell, 72, northwest pioneer, died Saturday night. Born in Milwaukee, Wis. Borwell came to southern Minnesota as a young man. He has been active in missionary and evangelistic work in the northwest. He had lived here for 17 years. ‘ ‘The body will be taken to his for- M.| mer home in Jackson county, Minn., for burial. Surviving are one son, Charles H. Bordwell of Keewatin, Minn., and his Grand Forks Milk Producers Strike Grand Forks, N. D., Sept. 10.—()— ‘River, Mass Retail milk prices were raised from eight to 10 cents a quart here Mon: day by a majority of the distributors. The Grand Forks Milk Producers, association, comprising 46 real pro- ducers near the city, has declared a strike against the distributing com- panies and is demanding a new price cf $240 8 hundred pounds for raw milk on the basis of 3.5 per cent but- te: fat. The companies have offered $1.9¢. The association members quit de- liveging milk to the companies Sat- ly, but no shortage has occurred. . A flaming death trap in which between 150 and 200 perished, the Morro Castle, Ward liner, is shown above ablaze six miles off Asbury Park, N. J., as fire enveloped the doomed craft and huge billows of smoke poured out to sea. This unusual aerial broadside view was taken a short time after the alarm souhded..and: the: terrified - pas- sengets and crew started taking to the boats. The palatial liner was launched in 1930 and carried 318 passengers and a crew of 258. A federal investigation into the cause of the disaster is under way Monday. At the left, a little group of the survivors, saved from drowning, are shown as they lined up at Spring Lake, N. J., after reaching shore, to sign their names in the check of the disas- ter’s toll. ~Most of them are only partially clad, escaping in the garments which they hurriedly donned when the alarm was WARNING ISSUED 10” TEXTILE EMPLOYERS BY STRIKE LEADER Settlement by Arbitration or Walkout Will Go on, Gor- man Declares * (By The Associated Press) As the textile strike Monday start- to its second week, with a death toll of 11, Francis J. Gorman, chair- man of the strike committee, issued this warning: “If by 6 o'clock tonight cur proposal (for arbitration) is not accepted, the strike will go on.” In Washington, George A. Sloan, president of the Cotton Textile In- stitute, conferred with the new tex- tile board. A dynamite bomb wrecked part of a road leading to @ mill in Cherry- ville, N. C. About 30 mills, north and south, which the strike had closed, resumed operatians—among them-25 in the {Carolinas, The 25 re-opened behind lines of national guardsmen. ‘The idle in the Carolinas exceeded |106,000. Tabulations placed New Eng- jland’s idle at 156,236, an increase of ‘more than 5,000 over the end of last weel | These 5,000 were added to the idle list as several mills in Massachusetts and Rhode Island closed. | Two Rhode Island plants and one in Massachusetts, previously closed, ‘re-opened. In them, about 600 return- jed to work. | Pickets were active in north and south. One arrest was made at Wil- limantic, Conn., two at Pittsfield, /Mass., and one at Lawrence, Mass. Horace A. Riviere, of Pawtucket, R. I, a vice president of the United Tex- tile Workers, announced New England strike leaders would seek co-operation of truck drivers’ and longshoremens’ junions—a move designed to tle up ‘textile shipments. ||RESULTS OF MAINE POLL SIGNIFICANT KEY 10 SENTIMENT Observers Throughout Nation Await Results as Index of Nation’s Sentiment REPUBLICANS ARE HOPEFUL Gov. Brann, Democrat, Singled Out as Symbol of Roose- velt’s Popularity Portland, Me., Sept. 10. — (?) — Praise and denunciation of the “New Deal” rung in the ears of Maine citi- zens as they marked their ballots Monday in a significant election. Observers throughout the nation = waited to learn whether the con- servative elector- ate, long devotees of the Republican party, heeded the appeal of Repub- lican campaigners to make their votes betoken re- pudiation of the Roosevelt admin- istration. Of paramount importance with- . in the state was Gov. L. J. Brann the question of whether the Democratic party, mori- bund until two years ago, had estab- lished itself as an important factor in the state's politics. Gov. Louis J. Brann, first Demo- ocratic governor in “Maine in 16 years. was singled out by Republicans as the symbol of the | “New Deal’ ularity state. of the : and popular exec- utive, they assert- ed, would be con- strued throughout the country as endorsement of the Roosevelt ad- ministration, Alfred K. Ames Alfred K. Ames, the Republicans’ conservative gubernatorial candidate, 68 years old and a wealthy, retired lumberman, fought the battle on na- tional issues, urging a return to “con- stitutional government.” AREA SCOUTMASTERS MEET WITH NETLAND Co-Ordination and Instruction Meetings Held at Mott, Hettinger, Lemmon pop- in the election Under the guidance of Paul O. Net- land, Missouri Valley Area Scout exe- cutive, co-ordination and instruction meetings were held last week at Het- tinger, Mott and Lemmon, 8. D. George Corey and Louis Cardon, Mott scout leaders, directed the gath- ering at Mott Thursday in which 25 interested Scout officials participated. The meeting was called for the pur- pose of co-ordinating the work of the various Scout groups in this area and to discuss the possibility of forming @ district Scout area extending from New England to Raleigh, N. D. Problems concerning the various angles of scouting were discussed and plans formulated for bettering the training given Scouts. Another meeting of a like nature will be held at New Letpzig on Thurs- day evening, September: 13, and invi- tations have been forwarded to all towns between New England and Ra- leigh to attend. In attendance at the meeting were Paul O. Netland, Bismarck; H. Jaeger, A A. Radke, T. T. Otterberg, W. B. Buchanan, and A. Schweigert, Bent- ley; L. Lonn and R. E. Rounds, Leith; J.C. Sleicher, A. L. Sonnenburg, Cur- tis Schleicher, and Olger Olson, Burt; E. Barclay, L. Cardon, D. J. Shults, G. J. Carpenter, and G. Corey, Mott; A. L. Dahl, E. Erickson, J. A. Miller, A. Reiger, Dr. Hamilton, and O. D. Sprecher, New Leipzig. At Hettinger Friday plans were laid for the coming year and the date of the annus! district meeting was set for Friday, Sept. 15. Election of of- ficers will be held at that time and a tentative program for the West river district will be drawn up. Attending the meeting were Ira Martin, G. F. Hendrickson, Dr. L. Ellefson, Rev. E. L. Rude, Rev. G. B.} Caley, 8. C. White, Hettinger; Lester Nelson, Willie Olson and A. A. Welch, Bucyrus, Plans for a mid-winter scout circus were di! | dames Sinclair, president of the Fall association, said workers were almost {pleading with mill owners to re-open their plants. A general conference of representa- itlves of cotton textile manufacturers and the president’s board of inquiry |will be held in Washington this week, Bree Tuesday. | 8. D, EDUCATOR DIES | Springfield, 8. D., Sept. 10.—()— !Prof. T. A. Harmon, president of Southern normal here. was found dead in his car just south of Tripp, 8. 'D. Monday morning. Scouts from Rhame, Bucyrus, Scranton, Hettinger, Haynes, Lemmon, McIntosh and Thunder Hawk were honored at the annual day set aside for them at the tri-county fatr at Lemmon. Demonstrations of marching and drum and bugle work were given by the boys. Police duties on the grounds were handled by the scouts. Corson and Perkins counties in South Dakota were taken into the Area council about a year ago. Since then five troops have been organized, mainly through the efforts of Arthur Berquist, field mer of the council, —% Battles Waves OFFICER IN CHARGE | OF LINER WEEPS AS. - HE RELATES STORY Bases Belief of Incendiarism on Attempt Made on Boat’s Previous Trip HAS CONFIDENCE IN CREW Declares Fire Hose Had ‘Tre- mendous Pressure’; No Lack of Water on Board JAMES D. ROOSEVELT Portland, Me., Sept. 10.—(?)}— James Roosevelt, son of the presi- dent, smiled lightly Monday at the harrowing experience of being buffeted about on the storm- tossed Atlantic for more than 24 hours aboard the 50-foot racing schooner Black Arrow. With the schooner’s crew of amateur sailors, Roosevelt put into Portland harbor Sunday night while 11 coast guard vessels, acting under orders of Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, searched the waters off New Eng- land for the craft. Admitting an “uncomfortable” night in whieh waves broke over the Black Arrow, unmanageable in a northeast storm, Roosevelt scoffed at the danger element. Concerned over his con's safety, President Roosevelt telephoned him from Hyde Park, N. Y., as reilly gia cen oe U. §. WOMEN FLIERS FOUND “USEPUL' IN SELLING MUNITIONS Amelia Earhart, Ruth Nichols, Eleanor Smith Named in Letter Received Washington, Sept. 10.—(#)—Letter by & munitions company official say- ing he was well acquainted with Ame- lia Earhart, Ruth Nichols, Eleanor Smith and other prominent Ameri- cans in the aircraft industry, and that he found them “most useful in the pursuit of business,” was given Mon- day to the senate munitions commit- tee. The letter, written by A. J. Miran- da, Jr., to an official of the Great Lakes Aircraft corporation of Cleve- land in 1932 concerning the firm's efforts to sell airplanes to Japan, China and the Argentine, said: “I am intimately acquainted with such well-known fliers and execu- tives as Major Aldrin, vice president Standard Oil Company, in charge of aviation, Clarence Chamberlain, Rog- er Williams, the entire executive per- sonnel of Curtiss-Wright, the entire personnel of Pan-American Airways, including Presster, the chief engineer and Gledhill, the purchasing agent, Ruth Nichols, Eleanor Smith, Amelia Earhart, Luther Bell and Charles Parker of the chamber, Bernard Mc- Fadden, etc. All of these people I lerson N. Hoover, New York, Sept. 10.—()—Chief Of- ficer William F. Warms, master of the Morro Castle as fire brought death to more than a hundred of its passengers Saturday, told the govern- ment inquiry Monday he suspected the blaze was started by an incen- diarist. Earlier he had broken down and wept as he told of the death of his captain, Robert R. Willmott, aboard the ship the night before the tragedy. Warms said he based his belief on DEAD AND MISSING IN SEA TRAGEDY TOTAL 137 | A revised list of casualties in Saturday's sea tragedy when the Morro Castle burned at sea show- ed Monday: Identified dead 79. Missing, passengers 27. Missing crew 31. Total 137, The identified dead total in- cludes Captain Robert Willmott, whose body has not been recovered. He died of natural causes before the Morro Castle caught fire. the fact that an incendiary attempt ‘was made on the boat on its previous voyage. He also thought significant the fact @ blaze was discovered in the ship's locker, which “blew out” at the start of the fatal fire. The inquiry, presided over by Dick- assistant director of the bureau of navigation at Wash- ington, opened before a packed hear- ing room at the New York custom house. Fire Started in Locker At the hearing table with Hoover was Martin Conboy, United States at- torney, an “observer,” John L. Crone, superintendent of steamboat inspect- tors of the 2nd inspection district; James Smith, local int of boil- ers; and Captain Carl C. Nielson, lo- cal inspector of hulls. “I think somebody put something in that locker that burned and smold- cee fire a long time,” Warms testi- fied. “It smoked, and we saw that smoke first, and then it burst into flames.” “Any other place?” asked Hoover. “The only other place seemed to be the je.” “Do you think lightning hit the ship?” “That was not true.” He said a locker “blew out” as the second officer put a fire extinguisher on it. “There was gasoline in it.” “I sounded the general alarm a few minutes before 3 o'clock.” “I told the lookout man to turn out the crew and ordered the stewards and salon watchman to waken the pas- sengers and use tin pans if neces- sary.” Has Confidence in Crew Warms said he had every confidence in his crew. “What about reports that 70 or 80 of the 85 or so to land in a lifeboat were members of the crew?” asked Hoover. “I don’t know anything about that,” ‘Warms replied. “Did the crew leave ship without helping passengers?” “The boats were not lowered until I gave the orders.” “Was there any trouble?” “I saw some panic among the pas- know well and I find them most use-|Sengers. I saw, too, a steward force ful in the pursuit of business.” A few minutes earlier the commit- tee had been told that American com- mercial and military attaches in Rio De Janeiro had been “100 per cent helpful” to Miranda in his efforts to sell munitions in South America in 1933. A little earlier, the committee had been told that both Peru and Colum- bia arranged during their armistice in the Leticia dispute for American mun- itions concerns to send them war supplies if the armistice should be fol- lowed by war. The orders were not filled, how- ever, because the armistice was fol- lowed by peace. Morton County Man Dies in Bismarck Herman Apenes, 62, former Man- dan merchant and later a farmer west of Mandan for a number of years, died Sunday at a Bismarck hospital of a tumor of the lung. He had been ill for several months and bed aa a hospital patient since july 6. ir. Apenes was born in Oslo, Nor- way, Nov. 29, 1872, and emigrated to America in 1901, settling at Chicago. In 1909 he came to Mandan where he enrnene in the clothing business. Later he moved to farm west of that city. On December 29, 1927, he was married at Mandan to Nancy Christ- enson, who survives him. Funeral services will be held Wed- nesday at 2 p. m., at the Heart River Lutheran church with Rev, 0. 0. Andvik, Mandan, officiating. H @ woman into a lifeboat.” About 28 minutes after the fire was discovered, Warms said, the chief engineer said the engine crew could not go on and all power failed. “He said,” Warms related, “it was so thick with smoke the crew could not remain.” Smith asked if there was any dis- content in the engine room. “We were just like one happy fam- ily,” Warms replied in a strong voice. Fire Hose Had Pressure When the electric power failed, Warms explained, he could not steer the ship. With no engine crew at their posts the ship was helpless. Asked by Crone to comment on re- ports of survivors of lack of water pressure in the fire hoses, Warms re- Plied forcefully: “All the hoses I saw had tremend- ous pressure.” (Continued on Page Two) PWA Allots Funds For Erosion Tests Washington, Sept. 10—(P)—A $5.- 000,000 allotment with which new sox erosion projects probably will be start- ed in Arizona, Colorado, Minnesota, Laos Dakota, and Kentucky, was mi by PWA Sunday to the soil erosion service. Additional states also will share in the distribution of the money but only five have been named as yet in ten- tative plans to retard soil erosion loss, estimated st $400,000,000 annually. Projects are undertaken in coopera- tion with local interests. ‘Twenty-five projects now are under way. % ba