The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 21, 1935, Page 1

War | OD INSEML-CONSCIOUS AP STATE ARTER CRASH ON HIGHWAY CURVE Kidder County Legislator Has Concussion of Brain, In- ternal Injuries RIDING ALONE NEAR RYDER 63-Year-Old Man Tossed Through Top of Car As It Turns over Thursday. quietly at 3 p. m, Saturday. State Senator Oscar E. Erickson, Ww There was little change in his chairman of the Republican state condition’ from when he was central commiitee, es seriously brought to the hospital, atten- injured. from automobile accident : State Senator Oscar E. Erickson of Kidder county lay in a semi-conscious condition in a Bismarck hospital Sat- urday, the result of an automobile accident, complete details of which have not been ascertained. Erickson’s injuries were . described as serious by his physician, Dr. M. W. Roan. He has s.veral fractured ribs on te left side, internal hemorrhages of thi 5 NEUTRALITY POLICY WILL BE BOLSTERED: NYE ASSERTS HERE Foresees Restrictions Against Loans ‘and Credit to Na- tions at War top. Taken to Ryder about 10 p. m. after being found beside his automobile by farmers, he was brought to St. Alexius ‘ospital here Friday. Erickson, who is 53 years old, makes his home ‘at 419 Seventh St., in Bis- AUGUST RELER LOAD INN. DROPS 6.00 Expenditures Decrease from $963,000 in July to $882,- +\¢.7+' 000 Last 3 Days oe Pye orl Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota predicted Saturday congress next January will strengthen its neu- trality policy in an effort to keep out of war. . Conflict between Italy and Ethiopia is imminent, he asserted, and said it is “evident” America will have a. “holt “sivor"~ from 4! ‘ance oF entanglement tending to “pre- x The chairman of the senate muni- tions investigative committee in an interview predicted the next con- North Dakote’s relief load 1, N. D. Sharpshooters ‘Auxiliary Bishops for Consecration Named County Defense Fund. Chairmen Subpoenaed ‘HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1935 Off for Lithuania Homer! Dead of Woun Burleigh Farmer Dies After Giv- ing Undivulged Statement to ‘State's Attorney ‘Thomas Homer, 65, county farmer, shot in the back Thursday following an argument with “Coyote Bill” Reed, his son-in-law, died at a local hos- pital at 1:10 p.m. Saturday from the gunshot wound. Before he passed away, Homer gave a statement to State's Attorney George 8. ster regarding the fa- tal shooting. Details of the statement were not divulged. Register expressed doubt that an inquest would be conducted in view of the fact that the dead man, the ac- cused and Reed's wife were the only witnesses to the shooting and also because Homer died after receiving medical care at the hospital where the attending physician could deter- mine the cause of death. An autopsy will be conducted, how- pee to determine the exact cause of Funeral Not Set Funeral arrangements have not yet ibeen made. Homer leaves his daugh- ter, Mrs. Reed, and one son, John Homer, who farms near his father in southern Burleigh county. The occurred during an peeps Raat — horses which the iwo men n trading k and. Tertti" for oe tradictory stories are told of which man. struck first as they came to blows. In the tussle that followed, Reed is understood to have pulled out the gun. The first bullet grazed his own hand and missed Homrr but the sec- ond lodged in Homer's back on a level with the second lumbar vertebra. Reed is being held in the Burleigh county jail, where he was brought by Deputy Sheriff Joe Kohler, pending developments in Homer's condition. nly charges have been filed against "TRAINING CLASS FOR CITY CHIERS ADVISED North Dakota Municipalities Warned Against Surrender of Powers | Grand Forks, N. D., Sept. 21.—(>)— Place in U. S. Meet "22! ¥-lJohn F. Duckworth, Fort Lincoln, to *\the .|lican headquarters declined Saturday “the harvest season. Con-| Soars Away from New York With 8,000 Pound Load on 4,500 Mile Flight New York, Sept. 21—(#)—Lieut. Felix Waitkus, 28-year-old Kohler, (Wis.) flier, took off from Floyd Bennett airport Saturday on a solo, nonstop flight to Kaunas, Lithuania, & distance of about 4,500 miles, The , Lithuanica II, lifted from the field at 4:45 a. m., (central standard time) and soared into the air after a northeast run of 3,000 feet jin a dead calm, A “dolly,” a small four-wheel truck, supported the plane’s tail as the run was made. Two fire trucks, @ police emergency crew and an am- bulance stood by. Waitkus kissed his wife, Martha, goodbye shortly after 5 a. m., and climbed into the cockpit. The sun, an enormous ball of red, rose over the eastern horizon just be- fore he gave his plane “the gun” a half hour later. Low at First ‘The plane left the ground ana went some distance not more than 50 feet in the air. The fire, water trucks, ambulance and police crew raced down the field to be ready in event of a crash. Slowly the Lithuanica II gained altitude. Little more than a hundred feet up it became a speck in the dis- tance, and was gone. The route’ planned by Waltkus would take him over Newfoundland, Ireland, England, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, entering Lithuania by way of Memel. The total load with which he took oft was 8,000 pounds. Flying Conditions Bad Weather reports from Newfound- land said flying conditions “could Scarcely be worse.” Waitkus was unsighted along the North Atlantic coast. No concern was felt for his safety, however. ‘The’ plane is not equipped with radio sending equipment and, in ad- dition, Waitkus planned to fly as much as possible in the substrato- sphere. Officials at Floyd Bennett field said if Waitkus did this, he would miss the bad ‘weather lying ahead of him. He was due over Newfoundland late Sat- Wife te Follow Him Waitkus arrived from Coney Island |hotel, where he spent the night, short- ly after 4.a.m. His wife, to whom he |was married a year and a half agd, {Planned to remain in New York un- | til Wednesday. She will sail then on | the Normandie to join him in Kaunus. The flier carried a thousand letters for delivery in Lithuania. He also carried ribbons, contributed by Chicago Lithuanian-Americans, to drop on the graves of'Stephen Darius and Stanley Girenas, who, attempt- ing @ similar flight, crashed just over the Polish border on July 17, 1933, with their goal only 375 miles away. Assault Charges Are Withdrawn | by Straub Charges of assault and battery against William Weinstein, 123 Fifth St. were withdrawn by Arthur Straub, 302 Avenue D, and the case was dismissed by H. R. Bonny, jus- tice of the peace, here Friday, Straub failed to obtain evidence in the assault charge and decided to withdraw the charges. Duckworth Gets New Fort Lincoln officials were inform- ed Saturday of the transfer of Major CONSTRUCTION OF 10 HOMES FOR MINERS AT BURLINGTON SET Actual Building at Rehabilita- tion Project Near Minot to Begin Soon HOUSES WILL COST $30,000 Future of RRC and Resettle- ment Administration to Be Decided Oct. 7 Construction of 10 homes on the site of the Burlington rehabilitation project for miners was authorized Saturday by directors of the Rural Rehabilitation corporation. Bids on units, to cost approximate- ly $30,000, will be called for within the next three weeks, and actual con- struction work is expected to begin’ within 30 days, officials of the corpo- ration said. Originally plans called for construc- tion of 30 homes on the site of the project, which has been under way for many months. ‘The homes are to be one-story structures of five rooms each, prob- ably of stucco, according to corpora- tion officials. Estimates presented by engineers have been under discussion for a lengthy period, and were met with objections that costs were figured too high, directors of the corporation ex- plained. Changes recommended by Wash- ington authorities, to create improve- ments and savings in expenditure have been incorporated in the re- vised plans, E. A. Willson, secretary of the corporation, and FERA admin- istrator for North Dakota, explained. The project will move into its final stages with construction of the build- ings. Previously, crops have been planted.on the site. and. a dam. structed as the source Of an = tion system for each of the small acreage plats accompanying each home. Another meeting of the RRC is scheduled for Oct. 7, at which final the date set for the preliminary accel Detail With Reserves|ine John Running With Elaine Tagging Along Tenaciously decision is expected to be made on the future program of both the RRC and rural resettlement administra- tion in North Dakota. PARLEY AVERS GOP HAS SECRET FUNDS Asserts Corporation Formed to Conceal Names of Donors to Poll Chest Endicott, N. Y¥., Sept. 21.—(7)— Postmaster General James A, Farley demanded Saturday that congress and the state legislature take immed- jate steps “to prevent the secret col- lection and use of a vast Republican fund to influence the elections.” “It is announced from Washington that the Republican national com- mittee has organized a private cor- poration to gather this huge fund land hope that by this device the names of contributors may be con- cealed,” he told New York Democrats at an outdoor gathering. GETZ DENIES CHARGE New York, Sept. 21—()—George Getz, treasurer of the national Re- ublican committee, denied Saturday organization is secretly collecting: @ huge fund to influence elections. REPUBLICANS SILENT ‘Washington, Sept. 21.—()—Repub- to discuss the statement made by James A. Farley that a private cor- poration had been by the G. O. P. to solicit contributions as a device to conceal the names of donors, : POWERS Fargo, N. D., SET 21.—()—Fun- mined to head him off, chartered a Teached n Three Weeks Forecast | } Senator Erickson Is Seriously Hurt/League’s Peace Proposals [ Siow bieret TJ, S, Solo Flier Hops Flatly Rejected by Italy EUROPE. DISCUSSES WHAT NATIONS WILL BE DRAWN INTO WAR Statesmen Agree Duce Is Not Likely to Reverse Policy Once Row Starts London, Sept. 21—(?)}—The con- census of Europe's diplomats is that, barring the surrender of Mussolini to League of Nations pressure, the Italo- Ethiopian war will break out between |Sept. 29 and Oct. 15. The gravest of the ensuing ques- tions, these troubled diplomats Rome, Paris, Geneva and London said Saturday, was whether hostilities could be localized or whether the African spark would ignite another world conflagration. Mussolini’s refusal to compromise, combined with the approaching end of the rainy season in Ethiopia, has converted Europe almost overnight from speculation on the likelihood of @ colonial war to discussion of what nations may be involved. Most offical and diplomatic spokes- men in Europe's capitals agree that there is only the slenderest chance that I Duce will turn back once his blackshirts have crossed the Ethiopian frontier—even if they penetrate only far enough to capture Aduwa, 25 miles inward. ‘Will Compel Sanctions erally believed, would compel the League to swing into action with the of sanctions to punish the unprovoked aggression against one of its mem- bers. Immediately these questions would arise: 1, Would the League fall in its attempt: to, bring the hostilities. to-a swift. end? 2. Would Italy withdraw from the league? 3. If Italy did withdraw would the in! Such an act of aggression, it is gen-; whole creaky and untested machinery ® PRICE FIVE CENTS Diplomats Wonder If Italo-Ethiopian Hostilities Can Be Localized or Whether African Spark Will Ignite a World Conflagration General European War Feared If Sanctions Are Applied Against Mussolini; Britain and Spain Mass Navies Near Gibraltar (By the Associated Press) Italy Saturday rejected the League of Nations’ suggestion for settlement of the Italo-Ethiopian controversy, but League officials reminded diplomats that the action did not necessarily preclude later acceptance of different proposals. The officials said the next step of the peace forces would be to bring the report of the five-power committee, which made the suggestions, before the League council. It would be up to the council then to make the report its own or declare the con-_ ciliation phase ended and draw up a new series of recommenda- tions. ; The new series, they said, could include provisions for sanc- tions and give Italy and Ethiopia a last chance to accept or re- ject. Before the Italian decision was announced, officials |throughout Europe had predicted that, barring a sudden re- versal in Italian policy, hostilities would break out in East Africa some time during the first fortnight of October. The Italian press, continuing its attack on the British em- pire, declared Britain already had “adopted sanctions against Italy,” adding that the beginning of Italian military operations in Ethiopia might easily mean the beginning of hostilities with Great Britain. Britain, frankly pessimistic that I] Duce would have a change of heart on his announced program of “marching straight ahead,” continued its own “marching ahead” with warships into the Mediterranean. The report that Britain and Spain had come to a secret un- derstanding was taken as evidence that the British empire was preparing for a possible conflict by every means. These impres- ,Sions were strengthened by Spanish troop movements to points of strategic importance along Spain’s Mediterranean coastline. xk * European capitals had feared that MUSSOLINIIS POLITE (i: sSeseter ane BUT FIRM REFUSING France, too, while avoiding any ~ shtow of military preparations or talk of sanctions for the present, League's prestige survive such a blow? 4. How fer would Great Britain go in advocating sanctions to restrain ‘Italy? Will They Follow? 5. How far would France and the other nations follow the British lead? 6, What would Britain do if France failed to fall in step for action to punish Italy? 7. Would Italy threaten British interests in the Mediterranean and Africa in reply t« sanctions and what is Britain prepared to do acting alone to protect those interests? 8 Would the Italian and the British armadas, drawn up in dan- gerous proximity in the Mediter- ranean, be launched at each others throats by an incident such as the sinking of the Maine? 3 9. What effect would the sanctions What would Germany do in the event of an Italo-British war? First Aduwa Attack Military circles in Rome asserted that Italy’s opening move in Ethiopia would be to attack Aduwa—perhaps without a declaration of war. With Aduwa captured, Mussolini must decide whether to order his 250,000 troops n.assed in East Africa onward to Addis Ababa or to with- draw and draw up terms for peace. Scarcely anyone of official authority: doubts that Mussolini will proceed. Whatever happens, Great Britain has powerful concentrations of forces in Africa and its Mediterranean fort- resses to repulse any Italian en- croachment on her interests. Frazier-Lemke Act’s Validity Faces Test Louisville, Ky., Sept. 21—(P)— Federal Judge Elwood Hamilton Fri- day reinstated the mortgage fore- closure case of W. A. Radford, &r., appellant under the new Frazicr- Lemke moratorium act. The court, GENEVA SUGGESTION forth “sanctions” at Geneva—a move which diplomats feared might result in @ general European war. ‘Italy's Rights and Interests Not Conclusively Consider- ed,’ Duce Says continued to reinforce her troops in French Somaliland, bordering both on Italian Somaliland and Ethiopis. The French cabinet was called to consider the nation’s future course. Emperor Haile Selassie studied the recommendation of the League with Rome, Sept. 21.—(7)—Benito Mus- solini’s cabinet politely but firmly turned down the League of Nations plan for peace in Ethiopia Saturday. The Italian cabinet of ministers announced it was “appreciative” of attempts by the league’s five-power committee to prevent a war, but added it “considers such proposals unac- ceptable since they do not offer a min- imum basis sufficient for a conclusive realization which would finally and effectively take into account Italy's Tl Duce, who alone holds eight cab- inet portfolios, made a full, up-to-the-| the minute report of the political and military situation, the communique stated, ¢ Another meeting of the ministers was ‘called for Tuesday “to follow developments in the political situa- tion and to complete the order of the day with regard to administrative af- fairs,” because, it was hoped, the five- power committee's will be so nullified by that time as to per- mit Italy to reconsider them. On Tuesday, therefore, there was a possibility a different kind of answer might be given to a peace-seeking wor! id, Great Britain has “adopted already sanctions against Italy” and Italy certain recommendations, especially the sections referring to the emperor’s veto power over League appointments and the maintenance of Ethiopia's open door policy with respect to com- merce, ‘The Italian consul at Gondar and his staff were forced to travel by caravan to Khartoum, in the Anglo- Egyptian Soudan while en route to the Italian colony of Eritrea, when they were refused admission to enter the and Wi Johnson law would prevent nations, which have defaulted in their previous war debts, from securing war loans in this country. Great Britain and Italy both have defaulted on their payments. Reports from Rome stated that the government-inspired press has pub- lished the new Vatican plea for peace on back pages and devoted its head- lines to renewed viriolic attacks on