The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 23, 1935, Page 1

‘ . * 7 \ 4 i! 4 . North: Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1878 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1935 400,000 Miners Stay Away From Pits HEART AIMENT IS |Waitkus Uninjured FATAL POR OFAGER |Tanding in Ireland OF RST NATION ase Fn Reourrent Attacks Strike Ve- Gesbtivitee 29 Hour’ teran Cashier Down as He Seeks Palliative Ballinroben, County Mayo, Ireland, Sept. 23.—()—Officers of the Irish Free State air force arrived Monday to undertake dismantling the 1ono- plane of Felix Waitkus, American transatlantic fller, smashed in the forced landing which ended his 3,000- | mile solo flight from New York. The 28-year-old aviator, uninjured in the crack-up and refreshed by a night’s sleep, said his future plans were undecided pending a final re- port from engineers who are exam- ining the plane, but that he consid- ered resumption of his flight to Kaunas, Lithuania, out of the ques- tion, Earlier, the flier had laughed off his mishap with the words: “I got quite a bump, but I can hardly wait te fly on to Kaunas.” Has Sleep. While Waitkus had a long sleep, four civic guards kept an all-night watch over the craft. SERVICES SET FOR TUESDAY Native of Massachusetts, He Traced His Ancestry to Na- tion’s First Families Frank Emery ‘Shepard, 67, for 25 years vice president and cashier of the First Wational Bank and Trust company of Bismarck, died shortly after 3 a, nv, Sunday from @ coronary occlusion suffered in his home, 236 Avenue B, Subject to angina pectoris for Bi past four years, Mr. Shepard ‘been invalided at various times‘ by Prank FE. the ailment. Early in the summer he Shepard, Bismarck Recalling details of his harrowing suffered a severe attack and was bed-| banker, whd died in his home ‘ 3 ridden for ‘months, ” “here Sunday, 22-hour adventure alone over the At- lantic, he said: : “Most of the time I was flying blind in fog, rain and mist—filthy weather all the way.” Plane Hits Tree lis own strength virtually exhaust~ ed and his gasoline supply falling low, Waitkus put his orange and white plane down at 10 a. m. (3 a. m.. CST) Sunday. It struck a tree after the engine stalled. ‘The presence of a number of ani- mals in surrounding fields had caused him to attempt a slow landing. Villagers swarmed to the field ex- pecting “to find the pilot dead, but Waitkus clambered out—stiff from the confinement of his long flight and shaken up after bouncing across the field, but personally without s ; of si “Previous op dagen oie arag § flights retail |#ere. completed by Charles A, Lind~/ See eee end dune of caus|bergh, Amelia Earhart Putnam, year came from the general’merchan- | James A. Mollison, James Mattern dise group, a statisticial report of |®2d Wiley Post. “es os exes 2.2 OATHOLC PILGRIMS THRONG CLEVELAND department, drug, 100/000 Crowd Union Terminal to Greet Cardinal Hayes on His Arrival BANKS TO CLOSE DURING SERVICES Out. of respect for the memory of Mr. Frank E. Shepard, promi- nent member of the Bismarck banking fraternity who died Sun-: day, the First National Bank, the Dakota National Bank and the Bank of North Dakota will close BULK OF SALES TAX COMING FROM 948 “GENERAL STORES ing Derived From Grocery Meat Merchants presidents announced Monday. Recently he had. returned to his position at: the bank feeling fit. Shortly before 8 a,.m., Sunday he had an attack and arose to 9 @ medical palliative. He collapsed in minutes, ‘Was Twice Married > Mr. Shepard was twice married. His first wife was Nettie Knox Little, sister of Col. C. B. Little, president of the First National Bank. By this matriage he leaves one daughter, Miss Anne Shepard of Baltimore, Md. Mrs. Shepard died in 1914. In 1916, Mr. Shepard married Mrs. George Leonard, widow of Dr. George Leonard, for many years a Mandan physician and surgeon who died in 1905. Besides Mrs, Shepard, he leaves two step-sons, Richard C. Leonard, director of the Bismarck Transient bureau, and E. W. Leonard, Minneap- olis, field representative for the First Apptuimately 21 per cent stores; goods establishments; specialty, and-ten-cent stores, itinerant ped ‘and second hand stores. Revenue Producers From 948 general stores in the state, bulk of the tax in this Cleveland, Sept. 23—(#)—The na-; ition’s sixth largest city, teeming with ® Pilgrim throng of thousands, ex- tended joyous greeting Monday to a prince of the Roman Catholic church, Ich | Patrick Cardinal Hayes, of New York, papal legate to the seventh national Eucharistic Congress. : ‘and service}. His arrival, heralded by bells in 150 143, third highest.!church towers, marked the informal came from 1,008 service |onening of a four-day celebration wi es Schrembs of the Cleveland diocese, taxes on professional em level ” \president of the congress. The legate will be honored Mon- day night at a civic recepifon in Cleveland’s vast public auditorium. ‘He will open the congress formally Tuesday by celebrating a solemn Pontifical mass in the same hall. confectionery; cluded. in $863 services, ‘The 12 major groups, under which dppear ‘numerous .sub-listings pro- duced: apparel, $21,063.68; automo- tive, $77,201.45; foods, $86,116.47; furni- ture, $4,984.1: $127,217.55; lumber and building, $28,- : peiteesy| Accom) estluted by Trafic Come 477.83; and $1,480.49; public utilities,| missioner Edward Donahne at 100,000 unclassified, inch all|thronged the vicinity of the city’s BRITISH SAY ITALY COUNTER PROPOSALS ARE. UNACCEPTABLE League Lobbies Pessimistic as Committee Wrangles Over Mussolini Reply DUCE EMPHASIZES 4 POINTS Baldwin Calls Cabinet Session to Discuss Building Up Armaments (By the Associated Press) ‘The lobbies of the League of Na- tions were filled with reports the Italian delegation might quit Geneva ‘as a result of the League's comprom- ise plan for settlement of the Italo- Ethiopian dispute. The committee of five, entrusted with the working out of the plan, de- cided to submit the whole matter to the League council. From London came word, through an authoritative source, Great Bri- tain will not reduce her military and naval strength in the Mediterranean. Deadlock Seen Another possible deadlock in the Italo-Ethiopian conflict was indicated by @ report from Geneva: that the British had found Italy’s: counter- unacceptable, The peace plan, offered as a com- promise to both Italy and: Ethiopia, was accepted by Ethiopia and -reject- ed by Italy over the. week-end. The government at Rome offered counter-proposals which were report- ed to include the demand for a wide belt of Ethiopian territory connecting the Italian colonies of Somaliland and Eritrea, Called Preposterous This demand was characterized, as “preposterous” in Addis Ababa where & spokesman for Emperor Haile Selas- sie said such a grant would cut the most fertile provinves from the em- pire, leaving Ethiopia only mountains and deserts. Salvador de Madariaga of Spain, chairman of the committee, was in- iInvestigation of Charges to Be proposals to the League peace plan! Frank E. Shepard, 67, Bismarck Banker, Dies Sunday Lower Electric Rates Are Effective on Slope Sept. 1 Northern Power and N. D. Pow- er Voluntarily Reduce Costs to Consumers APPROXIMATE 10 PER CENT Started Jan. 1 Under Commission Order Voluntary reduction of electric rates in 12 communities by the North- ern Power and Light Company and the North Dakota Power and Light Company, to result in estimated sav- ings to consumers of $70,000 annual- ly, was approved Monday by the state railroad board. Affected by the order are Bis- marck, Mandan, Dickinson, Ashley, Ellendale, Wishek, Beulah, Glen Ullin, Hazen, Hebron, New Salem and Mott. The new rates will be effective as of Sept. 1. The cuts in costs to consumers ap- proximate 10 per cent, M. C. Black- tun, general manager of the two con- cerns, said. In Bismarck, Mandan and Dickin- son, Beulah, Glen Ullin, Hazen, Heb- ron, New Salem and Mott, the an- nual reduction to consumers is ex- pected to total approximately $60,000, he said. - Steam Not Affected Steam heat rates are not affected by the order of the commission. The reduction in rates followed negotiations between the companies and the commission, after the com- mission had ordered an investigation into rates charged by the concerns. Later as a result of the negotia- tions, the commission also amended its original order to allow the inves- tigation to start January 1, 1936. By the commission order, the two concerns will impound 25 per cent of collections, pending final valuation of the companies, and setting of rates ‘on the valuation basis. . If lower rates for all communities served by the two companies are or- dered by the commission as a result of the valuation investigation, they will be effective as of Jan. 1, 1936, structed to see Baron Pompeo Aloisi of Italy again and to determine whether Aloisi’s observations, made verbally: to Madariaga Sunday night, constituted an official Italian reply to the League proposals. The political atmosphere in League lobbies after the five-power commit- tee’s meeting was one of pessimism. Reported Proposals The Italian proposals were report- ed to be: 1, Ethiopia should be totally dis- armed. 2, Organization, training and armament of future armed forces in Ethiopia should be entrusted solely to Italy. 3. Italy should -receive a belt of territory passing west of Addis Ababa, connecting its colonies of Eritrea and Somaliland. 4. Italy would not object to an outlet to the sea for Ethiopia pro- vided the port was in Italian terri- Delegates were still at odds over whether Premier Mussolini has really rejected .the committee’s proposals for international development of Ethiopia. Not Flat Rejection Reports emanating from Italian cir- cles said the communique issued Sat- urday by the Italian cabinet did not constitute flat rejection. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin of Great Britain summoned members of his cabinet to No, 10 Downing Street for private conversations as a pre- lude to Tuesday’s full dress meeting. It will be the first major cabinet types of amusements, hotels, bs union terminal as Cardinal Hayes and and magazines, stores, his entourage arrived. and similar: firms, $69,257.32; farm| Someone in the crowd yelled “Hello, ‘and garden produce, $1,153.61; manu-| Al,” and the cry swelled as others , trading or jobbing, $4,922.85. |repeated it. But; Al Smith, for whom A total of 11,214 firms paid retail|/the welcome was meant, arrived on sales taxes during first. two} another section of the train, about 20 minutes later. z Smith told reporters he was not WPA Sanitation Plan _ [ht ‘ ‘ak politics. s“s| Funds Are Authorized|Fibowoods Rodeo Is revealed at Sine, Doar Thomas 1. Mood! Magnet for Hundreds » N. D., Sept. 23.—Indians by. From Mishap Injuri Senator Oscar E. Erickson of Kid- session since Aug. 22 when Baldwin called an emergency meeting for the decision which led to the massing of Assume Probe Costs In addition, the power companies agree to assume the cost of the probe “up to but not exceeding $7,500,” re- gardless of whether the 1935 law em- powering the commission to under- take investigations on its own motion, should be held unconstitutional. In the event the law is held consti- tutional, the companies agree to make investigation payments as demanded by the law. Under the law, all costs of the Probe are to be borne by the utility. The investigation ordered by the ‘commission will extend to rates in all of the cities and towns served by the two companies. The new rate schedules, for each of the communities are: Ashley, Ellendale and Wishek: Resi- dence service, with range, 30 KWH at 9 cents per KWH; next KWH at 5 cents per KWH; next 60 KWH at 3 cents per KWH, excess of two cents per KWH; without range, 30 KWH |there. at 9 cents per KWH; next 30 at 5 cents per KWH and excess cents per KWH; a KWH at 5 cents per KWH; next 60 KWH at 3 cents per KWH and ex- cess at 2 cents per KWH; without range, 30 KWH at 7 cents per KWH; next 30 KWH at 5 cents per KWH, next 60 KWH at 3 cents per KWH land excess at two and one-half cents per KWH; commercial lighting, 100 EWH at 7 cents per KWH; next 300 KWH at 5 cents per KWH; excess at the British fleet in the Mediterranean. One of the major points arising at the cabinet session was expected gen- erally to be the question of building up Britain's armaments. 200,000 Called to Colors Two hundred thousand soldiers of the classes of 1911, 1912, 1913 and 1914 reported for duty Monday, bringing Ttaly’s total military mobilization to the 1,000,000 Premier Mussolini prom- ised would be under arms before two and one-half cents per KWH. Beulah, Glen Ullin, Hazen, Heb- cents per at at 3 ing, 100 next 300 and excess at 3 cents per KWH. 3 J} U. 8. Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois lies critically ill in a Moscow hospital. WM. REED 10 FACE CHARGE OF MURDER Alleged Slayer of Thomas Hom- er Held in County Jail; Funeral Is Monday Charges of first degree murder will be brought against William Reed, al- leged slayer of Thomas Homer, his father-in-law, according to State's Attorney George S. Register of Bur- leigh county. Reed has been held without charge in the county jail here since the shooting in which Homer was fatally wounded in the back following an argument over horses the two were inter-changing during the harvest season. Mrs. Reed, daughter of the dead man, was the only witness to the shooting which occurred Thursday at the Reed farm home, 25 miles south- east of. Bismarck in Telfer township. Funeral services for Homer were conducted at 2:30 p. m., Monday at the Glencoe Presbyterian church. In- terment will be made in the Glencoe cemetery. Homer was bron Sept. 16, 1870 in England. He came to the United States when he was eight years old and to his present farm in North Da- kota 25 years ago. He was Telfer township treasurer at the time of his death. Homer leaves a son, John, and two daughters, Mrs. Reed and Mrs. Selby Dutton, both of whom reside in Telf- er township. An autopsy conducted Saturday de- termined that Homer had died from ® gunshot wound, the bullet having shattered both the fourth lumbar ver- tebra and the psoas muscle and pene- trated the small intestine, lodging Fargo Bishop to Be Installed on Nov. 6 Fargo, Sept. 23.—(7)—Rev. Aloysius J. Muench of Milwaukee, named suc- cessor to the late James J. O’Rielly as bishop of the Fargo diocese, will be installed here Nov. 6, it was an- nounced Monday by Very Rev. V. J. Ryan, administrator of the Fargo Father Muench will arrive here Nov. 5 and elaborate plans are being made by both Catholic clergy and laymen in the North Dakota diocese for the installation. Friday the 13th Jinx Plagues Leith Farmer Leith, N. D., Sept. 23.—Friday the 13th_was a holiday for the jinxes at the Mike Wessel farm near Leith. the fire, ran away and hit a chicken house, moving it two feet and break- |ing the hayrack. Mother Leaves $40,500 to Son Not Seen for Years [{ Sevcken ix Russia (SENATOR LEWIS 1S SERIOUSLY SICK IN MOSCOW HOSPITAL Outlook Unfavorable for Illinois Solon Stricken With Pneumonia in Russia Moscow, Sept. 23.—(#)—Physicians in attendance on Senator J. Hamil- ton Lewis of Mlinois, ill with pneu- monia, issued a bulletin Monday de- scribing his condition as “very seri- ous ... the outlook, although not hopeless, is still unfavorable.” DOCTOR HALL’S KIN Dr. A. Rumreich, attending Sen- ator J, Hamilton Lewis, in Mos- cow, is the son-in-law of former Congressman and Mrs. Thomas Hall, 512 Ave. B. Mrs. Rumreich was formerly Edna Hall, well known in Bismarck. Mrs. Rum- reich is a sister of Mrs. James K. Blunt, 205 Second 8t. It was signed by Dr. A. Rumreich, physician to the United States em- bassy, Dr. O. Ling of the German embassy, Dr. M. Vovsi, chief of the medical clinic of Botkin hospital, and Dr. V. Vasilieff, chief of the seen division of the Botkin hos- pital. An English-speaking nurse is com- ing to Moscow from Berlin by sir- Plane in response to a telegraphed request by Mrs, Lewis. The bulletin follows: “Senator Lewis’ condition has not changed markedly in the last 2¢ hours, The bronchial pneumonia which involved almost the entire right lung has not extended farther, “This pneumonia, which developed secondarily to severe bronchitis con- tracted prior to the senator’s arrival in the Soviet Union, is complicated by Pleurisy with an effusion on the right. “The heart is somewhat dilated and heart action is weak and irregular. The senator's mind is clear and alert. “His general condition remains very serious and the outlook, although not hopeless, is still unfavorable.” An English-speaking Kremlin hos- pital nurse, previously engaged to at- tend the senator, fell and broke her arm yesterday and was unable to work today. Another nurse who spoke German, which the senator also speaks, was taken ill. KELLOGG RESIGNS AS HAGUE COURT JUDGE ‘Compelled by Circumstances to Leave Permanent Bench of International Justice Geneva, Sept. 23.—(#)—Former U. 8. Secretary of State Frank B. Kel- logg resigned Monday as a judge of the permanent court of international Justice. ‘The League of Nations issued the following communique: “Mr. Kellogg has informed the president of the permanent court of international justice, in a letter dat- ed re gpd he finds himself com. 14 Held as Suspects In Chicago Assaults s oat Me ee ean The Weather PRICE FIVE CENTS WAGE CONFERENCE IS DBADLOGKED IN, WASHINGTON HOTEL Failure to Reach Agreement at Midnight Automatic Sig- nal for Strike ROOSEVELT TO TAKE ACTION Heavy Relief Needs Seen If Walkout Is Prolonged; Snagged on One Issue (By the Associated Press) The soft coal strike called by the United Mine Workers of America reached out Monday to 26 states. to Colorado, Mon- tana and Washington state, In Pennsylvania and West Virginia, 250,000 men walked out. Union leaders claimed these figures for other states: Alabama 20,000 idle; Illinois 25,000 affected; Iowa 8,000 on strike; Wash- ington state 2,000 ordered to strike; Montana 1,600 affected; Tennessee and eastern Kentucky, “the miners are not working.” Answer Strike Call Indiana 8,500 affected; Ohto 30,000 idle; Kansas 3,000 affected; Maryland 6,500 affected; Colorado “the miners are answering the strike call.” Other states involved are Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa, Missouri, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Utah, Vir- ginia, Wyoming and Texas. In Washington, D. C., United Mine workers officials claimed 400,000 of Ree. members had dropped their In the capital, an afternoon con- ference was planned to try to get. ference that blocked negotiations at 2:30 Monday Edward F. McGrady, assistant sec- retary of labor, took a report on the situation to the White House but did not ask presidential intervention. He said he thought prospects “good” for a scettlement. Sent Out in Advance ‘The strike call, sent out in advance, had instructed the miners to do no work Monday unless operators had ‘agreed to a new wage and hour agree- ment by midnight Sunday. MAY NOT AFFECT N. D. ‘The United Mine Workers’ strike may not affect lignite miners in North Dakota, M. ©. Blackstun, general manager of the North Da- kota Power and Light company, operator of a large mine at Beulah, said Monday. The miners in the state are not united with the organization now striking, and have mostly local unions, Blackstun said. At that “zero hour,” the Appalach- jan joint wage conference, composed of 56 operators and union representa- tives who had been arguing over wages for months, was still snagged in a dispute in a Washington hotel room, At 2:30 a. m., E. 8. T., the confer-