The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 17, 1935, Page 1

/_atee.] THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather ‘Unsettled and cooler tonight; ‘Tuesday partly cloudy. ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1935 PRICE FIVE CENTS AND TRIBUTARIES ~ AGAIN ON RAMPAGE CIVIC LEADERS SEEK IRRIGATION PROJECT FOR RIVER BOTTOMS Residents of Lowlands Ordered to Higher Ground as New Torrents Rage RELIEF WORK IS HALTED Latest Peril Delays Recon- struction After Disaster Two Weeks Ago Trenton, Neb, June 17—(P)— Cloudbursts and steady rains sent the Republican river and its tributaries out of their banks in southwestern Nebraska again Monday and residents of lowlands as far east as Alma were instructed to move to high ground. = \JAPS PREPARE 10 [Wheat Income Put at QUST GOVERNOR OF | $380,000,000 for 1934 CHINESE PROVINCE! 14 nepor sere vow, wes FEDERAL ROAD MEN “tern Forveors | BEGIN EX AMINATION have been trapped by new high water. Rains washed out ba ziriets and vice by new washouts. Bus service was cancelled and several communi- ties including Benkelman had neither traffic nor rail outlets. The Red Cross mobilized its forces to prepare for another emergency as the Frenchman river, Arickaree river, and a number of creeks poured their flood waters into the Republican river, . / Many residents of Trenton, Culbert- son and Benkelman slso abandoned their homes and either went to the hills or moved to large brick build- ings which they believed safe, ERNEST BUDGE DIES AT WASHINGTON, D.C. Former N. D. Highway Engineer Succumbs Following Oper- ation for Ulcers Military Council Says Sung Cheh-Yuan Must Quit or They'll Make Him Highest in Four Years ‘Washington, June 17—(#)—Chester estimated the 1094 cach tocome from cas! me from ‘Tokyo, June 17.(7}—The Reng0|wheat, including adjustment pay- “4 ments, at $380,000,000, the highest -4 figure in four years. ‘The estimate compares with §365,- at Hsinking had decided Gen. Sung 990,000 in 1933 and $195,000,000 in ceoroees Sorbie > | seis , must quit office. a ite the severe setback occa- The military council, it was re- ye i ported, decided that if’ the Chinese sioned by the drouth,” Davis said in his annual report on AAA activities, National government did not remove|“income of wheat farmers has been (By the Associated Press) General Sung, the Japanese army maintained at- substantially higher! Headed by H. K. Bishop, chief of “ne plete gto as in- idan rat oe lgged enero the division of construction of the dicating the Japanese army was about by improvement in the supply | federal bureau of roads at Washing- situation, aided by adjustment pay-|ton, a delegation of three federal roads officials Monday began a com- ments to co-operating farmers.” The 1934 planted acreage, was 6,-|Plete check of North Dakote’s high- . way system. 000,000 acres under the 1930-32 aver- age, while the per arce yield of 82] With their inspection hope was ex- bushels compared with a 125-bushel| Pressed by state paneer ree average toesthe iia ianneree Healy at a standstill since March 15, Carryover Is 145,000,000 The maximum indicated United gore patie OP cles Pow- States carryover for 1935 is 145,000,- - federal 000 bushels. ‘This compares with 385,- |¢T% designing expert of the fe 000,000 bushels July 1, 1932; 393,000,-| Toads burean, and . E. Palen. roe 000 bushels July 1, 1933, and 290,000,- 000 bushels July 1, 1934 roads at St. Paul, said he planned a ‘The “farm price below parity price” |*Ur of the system throughout the on December 15, 1934, was 21 cents, a| Stale, together with a study of the drop from 60 cents two years before. away ‘Wheat farmers signed 577,254 ad-|dePartment. «The group will be tn justment contracts for the three-year Bishop explained th a principal period which expires with the 1935), hem was the question of reducing crop. A new program, however, has|Fisintnance costs in the state, He been overwhelmingly indorsed by the) Was"veinstent to discuss other road ONENS. problems “at this time” but sald he Exports during 1933-34 totaled 26,- a 500,000 bushels as compared with the| minaett, © cCtowing completion. of United States quota of 47,000,000 6 COME the analysis of the department active ities, Whether $2,000,000 of road funds now in the state but not obligated by contract or otherwise would be merged with the approximately $6,000,000 al- located to the state under the new works program Bishop was unable to say. Difficulties in connection with the expenditure of the new funds have presented themselves, he said. Under new rules, 40 per cent of the funds must be used for labor costs on the individual project, while the remain- der is used for materials and other supplies. xperts From Washington, St. Paul Will Check System, Make Recommendations determined to add other Chinese province to its sphere of domination, dictating what Chinese officials shall administer office and what Chinese troops shall garrison Chahar as well as Hopei provinces. It was from Hopei province that the Japanese ousted Gen. Yu Hsueh- Chung, who was governor there until Ernest James Budge of the U. 8.|a week ago, together with his army. bureau of public roads and formerly | Nanking government troops also are an engineer with the North Dakota | evacuating Hopei. highway department, died Sunday at oe ey Gopher Court Hears ‘Washington following an operation Olson Ouster Case for gastric ulcers, according to word received here Monday. He had been Minneapolis, June 17.—(P)—A peti- tion by one of the 29 plaintiffs in the ill since April, being in the hospital suit that he be allowed to withdraw about four weeks. on the ground his signature was ob- ‘The son of Mr. and Mrs, William Budge, deceased, pioneer residents of tained fraudulently opened hearing of an action here Monday asking Fargo, Ernest Budge attended Grand Forks schools and graduated from the |Gov. Floyd B. Olson’s removal. Tronnes, whose name is University of North Dakota college of Herman Usted first among the plaintiffs, ask- in the middle west. ed permission to withdraw. Judge H. ‘He eniisted at Kansas City, Mo, in|D. Dickinson took no immediate ac- the tank corps and was with the/tion on the matter, assuring William American expeditionary force in|K. Hall, attorney for Tronnes, that he France until the armistice. Donan |evea. be. given adequate Beating co overseas service he suffered an matter. bers The action seeks Olson's removal under the corrupt practices act, alleg- ing he obtained $20,000 worth of free publicity in the Farmer-Labor Lead- er, Farmer Labor Aassociation publi- cation, without making reports to the secretary of state as required by law. Attorneys for Gov. Olson, who was present, asked the petition for the contest be barred as evidence on the sion on physical valuation of railways bushels under the world wheat agree- ment, Davis asserted that restricted pro- duction will not be the focal point of & permanent policy for agriculture. Problem Is Changing attack of influenza and much of his period of enlistment was spent in a hospital. Following the war, about 1920, he He said that problems of agricul- tural adjustment “have changed as the pressure of emergency has les- sened,” and declared “there is oppor- tunity now to replace temporary mea- sures, appropriate only to extraordin- ary conditions, with an agricultural Policy looking forward toward long- view objectives.” Use of referendum methods of ob- taining opinions of the farmers to- ward adjustment programs was said by Davis to have been one of the most significant developments of the year. +> During 1934, he said, more than 3,600,000 adjustment contracts were signed and several hundred thousand other farmers participated in the con- trol programs through marketing agreements and licenses. The wheat processing tax is only one-fourth responsible for the in- crease in the price of bread since April, 1933, Davis said. “Davis defended the 1935 corn-hog program as having prevented dislo- cations in the corn-hog industry more violent than those which followed in ‘was employed as an in the bridge department of the N. D. high- way department. About 1929, he re- ceived his appointment with the U. 8. bureau of public roads in Washing- ton and was in the bureau at the time of his death. ground it was not a proper one, that In 1924, he married Miss Ella Wip- the signers were not legal voters and Bismarck high |that it was filed after the legal limit for such action. by. £. | Italian Nation Is Put on War Basis Rome, June 17.—()—Italy went on @ semi-war basis Monday, with near- ly a million of her men called to arms and her silver partly nationalized. The pace of departures for East Africa of troops and war materials was speeded up, while the. Italo- Ethiopian arbitration commission pre- pared to meet again. PLAN JOINT CAMP Hettinger, N. D., June 17.—(#)—A|to view a production control program was Alpha Tau Omega. At the uni- versity, he was prominent in sports. Funeral arrangements have not een made. Calles to Withdraw From Mexican Scene A Bismarck man’s bravery and & Mandan airplane pilot's skill saved themselves and five other, The pilot, John Osterhouse, took his six-place plane to the at Golden OF N. D. HIGHWAYS Reclamation Plan for 3,500 Acres in Missouri Flats Considered Practical FELLOWS TO MAKE SURVEY Feasibility, Approximate Cost to Be Included in Report to PWA Officials A definite step toward the irriga- tion of approximately 3,500 acres of land in the Missouri river bottoms south of Bismarck was taken Monday by the Association of Commerce com- mittee, headed by J. W. Guthrie, working in cooperation with city of- ficials, Surveyed three different times since 1904 as the site of a possible govern- ment reclamation project, the irriga- tion of the river bottoms has always been considered practical from the engineering standpoint but has never been pushed to a successful conclusion. Five years of intense drouth again brought the irrigation possibilities to the attention vf civic leaders with the result that steps have been taken to have the program presented before government PWA officials in the hope that the reclamation program may be carried out. Fellows to Conduct Survey A. Lincoln Fellows of Denver, for- merly state engineer, who conducted two of the preliminary surveys, was secured by the local civic group to look over the project and report on the feasibility of the plan. Fellows arrived here Sunday from Denver and began Monday to go over the old surveys and alter the plans drawn up at that time for presenta- tion to the PWA heads. His report, to be made sometime in the next two weeks, will cover the practicability of the project, the approximate cost, the number of acres that can be success- fully irrigated and a plan for pump- ing and distributing the water from the river. Preliminary surveys of the irriga- tion project were made in 1903 and 1904 but full topographic maps and reports were not prepared until 1905. These surveys were submitted to the federal irrigation officials that year but no action was taken. Appointed by Governor Sarles in 1905 as state engineer under the fed- eral government's irrigation code, Fel- lows studied the Bismarck project more thoroughly. At that time he recommended that surveys also be made of Apple Creek on the possible storage and distribution of water. Project Passed Up ‘The plans were further perfected by T. R. Atkinson, now city and county engineer, but again the project was Passed up by the government. Years of sufficient rainfall followed and the project was shoved into the background until] 1924 when the sur- vey and report of the Apple Creek Project was completed, The plans for the present project provide for the irrigation of approx- imately 3,500 acres of land by pump- ing water from the Missouri. A skeleton plan will be drawn up by Fellows to be submitted to the PWA board in the near future, Fellows, accompanied by his wife and daughter, is staying at the Prince hotel while conducting the survey. Since leaving here in 1907, he has been connected with the irrigation division of the department of agriculture. MERCER CROPS ARE GOOD Stanton, N. D., June 17.—(7)—With “excellent prospects,” crops are grow- ing fast with the warmer weather, declared O. K. Cline, Mercer county adjustment agent, Monday. He esti- mated a 50-per-cent improvement in condition over a year ago. Heroism of Bismarck Man Prevents Crash of Plane plane and, supporting himself on @ strut, hooked the safety belts of the passengers to the wheel. By pulling on the belts it then was possible for the men in. the plane to hold the wheel ap- proximately in place. Osterhouse line ran out, then drifted down Joint boy scout camp of the West/in the cattle industry as necessary to River and Grand River scout districts another over-expansion of will be held on the Grand river near|cattle numbers, he added. White Butte, July 9 to 16, district offi- cials announced. ¢| Welford Speaks at Four Are Dead in | Mercer Celebration d Golden Valley, N. D., June 17.— bility for public affairs to those who bave ttin'thelr hands.” Hed it not been for Wilson's bravery, Osterhouse said, he might have had serious trouble. The passengers, he said, did not seem pi ‘ly alarmed when told that/the wheel had vy Calles, TORNADO INJURES FIVE Pierre, 8. D.—A tornado on the Hughes-Sully county border Saturday Minnesota Tragedy Warning that federal relief would be Jackson, Minn. June 17—(7)— unless the sales tax was kept Leslie Day, farmer, killed his three|in force, Governor Walter Wel *¢ ‘drove young children and himself during| pleaded for support for the tax $ 1 the night, authorities said Monday. | ure before a large crowd that att: He was reported to have beenjed the Mercer County Old Setticrs) brooding over the death of his wife,|celebration here Saturday and Sus-}- « who succumbed May 14, two weeks/day. r after she gave birth to a baby. Wellord also predicted that, uniegs; ‘The dead, in addition to Day, are: |the measure was passed, the currieu! Richard 7, Orlo, 5, and Roland, 6|and teachers in rural state schools. weeks. would be heavily curtailed. Sectetary) on} ; i injured five persons, killed 60 head of|~ Their bodies were found Monday of State Jam:s D. Gronna talked gattle and caused other damage, : ‘the pioneers of the state. might have 5 faction of one was to inquire whether it would cost him any mop for the trip if they went to Nandan. fn the plane were Zep, and his son, Reuben; , Zap, Fritz Fisc Zeisler, Cars Ordered Off Mrs. Gibson Weeps in Local Courtroom New Cloudbursts Threaten Nebraska Flood District (ti is umes > REUBUCAN VE | PaO AND HER DAUGHTER Of Omaha Streets Dickinson State’s Attorney Late News Bulletin (By The Associated Press) LISTS ‘MUST’ LEGISLATION Washington—In a speech to the house, his second since January, Speaker Byrns listed the following legislation as “must” for this session: AAA amendments, Wagner labor dis- putes, utilities holding company, urg- ent deficiency appropriation, bus reg- ulation, extension of Tennessee Valley authority, Guffey coal, federal alcohol sono: and “possibly” ship subsidy s. GERMANS BEAT AUSSIES Berlin—Germany beat Australia in the preliminaries to the Davis cup tennis contest and will meet Czecho- slovakia for the right to enter the inter-zone finals with the United States, The interzone winner will meet England in the challenge round, FARGO ASKS IMPROVEMENT Washington—Among _ applica tions filed with the PWA allo- cations under the works fund is one for $24,500 for improvements at the veterans facility, Fargo, N. D. TIGER WOMAN PAROLED Tehachapi, Calif—Clara Phillips, called a “tiger woman” when on trial 15 years ago for the hammer mur- der of a woman she thought was too friendly with her husband, was re- leased from prison on parole. The husband who vowed that he would be waiting for her when she bskeg released was not here to~neeet, r, MOODIE IN WASHINGTON Washington—Thomas H. Moodie, new works administrator for North Dakota, indicated he would leave his post as housing director when he said he doesn’t know who his successor will be. ATTACK SECURITY BILL ‘Washington—Senate Republicans began a drive against the social se- curity bill by attempting to strike out some of its important parts. Huey Long and other radicals sought to liberalize it. HOLIDAYITES PLAN MEETING Directors of the state farm hol- iday met here Sunday and set July 22, 23 and 24 as the dates for the annual convention to be held here. State political leaders will speak and Huey Long also will be asked to appear. MINOT MAN KILLED BY MACHINE GUN AT GUARD ENCAMPMENT Accidental Discharge of Weap- on Proves Fatal, Mars Annual Celebration Devils Lake, June 17—(#)—Private John E. Cretes, 27, of Company D, Minot, died in a Devils Lake hospital shortly before 7 o'clock Sunday night from a bullet wound received in the accidental discharge of a gun in the afternoon at Camp Graf- ton where the 164th-Thfantry en- camped. An investigating board composed of Lieut. Col. B. ©. Boyd, senior officer of the regiment, Major A. Bohoneck, ordinance department, and Major Lee B. Greene of the medical detachment, appointed by Colonel Leroy Baird, is investigating the circumstances of the case. Seventh Corps area headquarters at Omaha and the war department at Washington also have been notified of the man’s death. Company D was engaged in balloon shooting competition in the after- Noon as a part of the governor's day ceremony and had completed firing when members of the company were returning to their headquarters to clzan the machine gun. The weapon accidentally discharged, the bullet entering the thigh of the man and coming out through the small of his back. Scores Volunteer Aid Scores of militia men volunteered for blood transfusions, resorted to in an effort to save the man’s life, but he died three hours later. The accident marred the Governor’s Day celebration, marked by a review of the troops by Governor Waiter Welford, Adjutant General Frayne Baker and the members of the gov- ernor’s staff. The crowd was esti- mated at 5,900, During the ceremony Company EB of Williston was presented with the William Randolph Hearst trophy for excellence in collective rifle fire in a competition conducted this year un- der direction of the chief of the na- tional guard ouregu. The company «Continued og Page Three) (nebraska Governor ‘Cracks Down’ When Tram Firm Ignores Ultimatum § WOULD ARBITRATE STRIKE Chief Executive Takes Personal Charge After Rioting Causes Two Deaths Omaha, Neb., June 17.—()—Gover- nor R, L. Cochran Monday took the street cars off the streets of Omaha as the Omaha and Oouncil Bluffs Street Railway company ignored his ultimatum that the company name an. arbitrator by 10 a. m. in his efforts to bring an end to the strike, started April 20 when organized employes of the company walked out. The cars were off the streets by 11 a.m. Higher wages, shorter hours and full recognition of their organization were demanded by the men when they left their jobs, on strike for the third time within @ year. Four riots marked the present strike. Two men were fatally wounded and 150 others injured before national guardsmen took over the city Saturday night un- der martial law. Governor Cochran assumed direct charge of the situation Sunday night. With the power of a dictator, he de- manded at a conference of company officials and strike leaders that each side name one arbitrator by 10 8. m. Monday and agree on a third if pos- sible, Strikers Meet Ultimatum ‘The strikers met the ultimatum and named their man. The company, however, ignored the 10 a. m, dead- dine and set 2 p. m. as the time for a directors meeting to consider the governor's orders, Governor Cochran countered with his order that the cars be taken off the street until such time as the com- pany agrees to his arbitration plan, Martial law was declared over the entire quarter of a million population of Omaha Saturday by Acting Gov. Walter H. Jurgensen after local auth- orities appealed for troops to crush three days of rioting in South Omaha, where two men were killed and more than 150 persons were injured. Eighteen hundred guardsmen rule the city and no serious violence has accurred since their occupation. A military court was called to try a dozen violators of a military order to stop liquor and beer after 6 p. m. daily. Strikes at Both Sides Cochran’s peace program: discon- tinuance of private street car cum- pany guards; banishment of outside agitators and negotiation only with Nebraska representatives of labor; continued military restriction of street car service to the daylight hours for at least four days; appointment of a three-man arbitration board and agreement to abide by the ar- bitration board’s decision for at least one year, Cochran asserted Omaha and Doug- las county authorities failed to take adequate action to prevent rioting and that Jurgensen’s calling out of the guardsmen was imperative. He added it would be futile to withdraw the troops until the strike, initial cause of the violence, is settled. Post Loses Faith In Old Winnie Mae Bartlesville, Okla, June 17.—(P)— Wiley Post, convinced after four at- tempts his world girdling record ship the Winnie Mae cannot carry him to & transcontinental speed mark via the substratosphere, will confer here Mon- ® moplane in which he was forced down Saturday by @ broken piston. FARGO TRAVELER DIES Fargo, N. D., June 17.—(#)—John F. McGrann, one’ time president of the former McGrann-Reynolds Fruit com- pany and active in U. C. T. circles, died of a heart attack in a Fargo hoe late Sunday. He was 66 years o Tragedy Is Climax | To Much Misfortune New York, June 7.—(?)—The world was meaningless and drab Monday for George Hoyt and his wife, for in s Brooklyn morgue lay the bodies of their three little boys who died in a tragic climax to two years of ill fortune, The three boys, George, 7, Eugene, 5, and Arnold, 3, went out to play Saturday morning while their father was trying to get money for food. Jobless for two years, his only means of livelihood was an old truck. In the truck was an icebox he had been trying to sell and in which the boys had been accus- tomed to play hide-and-seek. He opened the icebox and found three bodies huddled in its narrow in- terior. The police listed the deaths as accidental, caused by auffocstion, Takes Stand; Bares Al- leged Confessions GOT STATEMENTS OF GUILT Tells Jury in Murder Case Ad- missions Were Made Here and at Washburn Mrs, Gladys Gibson burst into tears Monday as testimony accusing her alleged paramour of illicit rela- tions with her 17-year-old daughter was injected into her trial for the murder of ‘her husband. The testimony came while State’s Attorney Theodore Kellogg, acting as his own star witness in the state's case against the widow of the Dickine son mail carrier, testified to two ade missions in which Mrs, Gibson alleg- edly admitted shooting her husband to death while he slept. The firt of the three alleged admis- sions came Saturday when the testi« mony of Jim Harris, special investi gator for Stark county, corroborated by two other witnesses, was entered in the evidence, Under cross-examination by 'De- fense Attorney Charles Starke, Kel- logg stated that he sought to secure subsequent statements of guilt from vis, special operative employed by Stark county, she thought how awful them and she came down shot him. She said she held close to his head. She dozed off at the time she shi The alleged 2 court reporter and a deputy listened to the conversation. It functioned better in the car because it was all enclosed in glass.” (Continued on Page Three) M’Keever Convicted Of Missouri Murder Fulton, Mo., June 17.—()—A death penalty confronts George McKeever, North Dakota convict, whom a jury convicted of first-degree murder for the slaying of a Missouri police offic cer, The jury required less than two hours to find McKeever guilty and return the death penalty against for the shooting two years ago Ben Booth, highway patrolman. Huge Tax Measure Is Passed by Congress two years “tempor bring in $501,000,000 annually. ) Unless the senate approves the reso- lution by June 30, the treasury will lose about $1,500,000 in revenue daily because most of the extended taxes expire at the end of the month, ‘The house adopted the resolution after only 40 minutes debate under = “gag” rule forbide ding consideration of amendments. President Roosevelt had said he considered extension of these taxes Pa the financing of the budget for 1936.” The house ways and means committee concluded too, thas since expenditures will exceed ree ceipts for both the 1935 and 1936 fise cal years, it would be “extremely un- wise” to let the taxes expire. Besides postage and gasoline, the oil, brewers’ wort, grape concentrate, imported petroleum, imported coal, tires and tubes and furs, CURFEW TO RING