The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 19, 1935, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1935 « League xk kk SCORES INJURED AS GOTH TREMOR ROCKS MONTANA'S CAPITAL Damage May Run as High as Million Dollars in City of 12,000 Persons ARMY HARVARD YALE NAVY NATIONAL GUARD MUSTERED pea aalt NOTRE DAME Temblor Lasting 12 Seconds) prengRURGH Peels Bricks Off Principal Buildings Helena, Mont., Oct. 19—(7)—An earthquake, dealing death to two men and injuring a score, scattered wreck- age Saturday in the main streets of MICHIGAN WISCONSIN FOOTBALL SCORES x * * Votes Boycott of | kkk 2, Killed As x kk - a - b& 3 Ae > = La ag i} Ba: ‘Montana's hilly capital, focal point for a week of tremors tracing a crazy pattern across the northwest. The severe overnight shock, 60th of the sequence, tore at the mountain- ‘ous continental divide and spread into MINNESOTA TULANE three states—Montana, Idaho and Washington, and one Canadian prov- ince, Alberta. The vibrations gripped this city of 12,000 with such intensity that Oscar Baarson, city engineer, estimated the damage might run as high as $1,000,- 000. Other estimates were several hundred thousand dollars lower. Col. E. H. Williams, commander of the 163rd infantry, Montana national guard, ordered members of the Helena company to be prepared in uniform for service, but martial law was not declared. Lasts for 12 Seconds As the quake swayed Helena for about 12 seconds, the brick facing ov many buildings peeled, crashed into the streets and was scattered. The shock began at 8:47 p. m., central standard time. The front wall of an unoccupied structure fell and killed David Harris, a Negro. It was several moments be- fore anyone in that section knew the quake had taken a life. The body was under a pile of bricks which stood 2 feet deep in the street. Charles Siggeling of Appelton, Wis., 8 transient, died at 6:30 a. m. of in- juries he received in the collapse of a roof at the transient camp. Siggeling sustained a ruptured lung, broken back and broken legs. The entire city was thrown into darkness for a time by the paralyzing of light and power facilities. A new half-milliop dollar high school, which went into use this fall, suffered severely. The roof of the state arsenal fell and damaged trucks and national guard motor vehicles. Shrine Temple Damaged A large part of the coping on the Algeria Shrine temple, perhaps the city’s outstanding structure from an architectural standpoint, was torn away, but the spire, about 400 feet tall, was unscathed. After the walls of the high school auditorium collapsed, flames flared briefly in the chemicals of the labor- NORTHWESTERN OHIO STATE PURDUE CHICAGO BONDS POSTED BY Floren ‘Accepts $2,500 ‘Guarane tees of : Appearance on Charges of Perjury Former Governor William Langer and State Senator.O. E. Erickson ap- peared before U. 8. Commissioner S. A. Floren late Friday and posted $2,500 bonds each in connection with the new indictment brought against them on charges of perjury. R. A. Kinzer, Sr., former secretary of the relief organization in the state, and former highway commissioner Prank A. Vogel were out of town and did not make their appearance. They were expected to do so later Satur- day, Floren said. - ss Already under bond in the case for which the four will be retried in federal court here Oct. 28 on charges of conspiracy to corrupt administra- tion of an act of congress, no bench warrants were issued under the per- jury indictments. Trial of the four men on the new indictments will come immediately on the conclusion of retrial of the conspiracy case which will be pre- sided over by Federal Judge A. Lee Wyman of Sioux Falls, 8. D. HOUSEWIVES’ FEET front door step, there to said, for the night. Youngsters were hastily wrapped in blankets torn from darkened clothes. closets, some dashed into the chill of @ brisk fall t meagerly clad and their teeth Minneapolis Meat Strikers Claim Numerous Converts As Boycott Continues Minneapolis, Oct. 19.—()—Acl though feet marked the close of the first day’s from fright none was badly hurt. ign against “exorbitant” meat Hayden Simpson, once a trombonist for Sousa and Whiteman, brought his horn into action on Main street in a medley of march tunes. ‘Three hundred students celebrating @ football victory at Inter-mountain Union college were unhurt when the wall of a gymnasium in which a dance was being held caved in. Students filed out in orderly fashion. Almost the entire western half of Mrs. I. G. Scott, vice president of converts to the “meatless days” as a group of women laid down banners and placards demanding a “25 per cent cut in meat prices” after seven hours of picket lines Friday. “This picketing is hard work,” she sighed, “harder on the feet than a within Shelby, Mont., in 1823, ‘hooks but damage LANGER, ERICKSON; ACHE DUE PICKETING' hing |for Dyer act. aeagags BEE 68 88 ea aa & a mT | ron ya i Wee = pees ake ae ‘oodie Will Never | gain Be Candidate > ; _ St. Paul, Oct. 19.—()—Thomas H. Moodie, North Dakota works pr Girector,.and:. former governor of that state, said here Saturday he will never again be @ candidate for public office. He was here to confer with F. A. March, regional“WPA director. “I have no political ambitions,” said Moodie, “and one experience convinced me that I never again want to get mixed up in politics.” He said $1,500,000 in WPA proj- ects have been approved for the state, and that he discussed with March plans to speed the pro- SEVEN SENTENCED BY FEDERAL UURT Auto Thieves, Illegal = Immi- grants and Obscene Letter Writer Penalized Fargo, N. D., Oct. 18.—()—Seven persons, four of them minors, were sentenced by Judge Andrew Miller in federal court here Friday. All were indicted by the recent grand jury session. ‘Those sentenced and the charges Leo McCann and Raymond Mc- Ardle, both 18, two years in federal reformatory for Dyer act. They stole 8 car in Wisconsin, later traded stolen cars three times in Minnesota, stole a car in St. Cloud, drove it to Moor- head where it was abandoned and an- other car was stolen and driven to Sentinel Butte, N. D. Joe Marino, 20, and Edgar Chefalo, 19, four years in federal reformatory They drove a stolen ca from Spokane, Wash., to James- wn. Frank H. Saunder, Winnipeg, 30 days for illegal entry, second offense. James Carlson and Lawrence Ben- Jamin, 10 days each for illegal entry. Eugene Carroll, Wimbledon, N. D., the league, claimed numerous new|charged with sending what Judge Miller said was the most obscene let- ter he had ever seen through the mails, pleaded guilty and is to be sen- tenceg later. Jail Sentences Given Med to game wardens, P..H. Miller, chief 2.Hunters at Mandan Jail sentences were imposed on two Ny Fe-| North Dakota hunters who allegedly sccording DIRECT BID FOR U. $. IN BALDWIN ADDRESS British Prime Minister Asserts America Is Up Against Peril of War SPEAKS TO CONSTITUENTS Britain Does Not Aim at Over- throwing Fascism, He Says; Seeking Peace Worcester, Eng., Oct. 19.—(P)— Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin de- clared Saturday that no nation is secure from war and “even America ts up against that peril.” The premier linked his warning with what some of his hearers inter- preted as a direct bid to the United States to join the League of Nations to insure the peace of the world. He declared he would not accept the failure of peace efforts as mark- ing the end of the League. In a speech to his political con- stituents, he warned that the world woula find a vast difference if war broke out today from the conditions prevailing ir the World War. “Not one country today, if war broke out,” he declared, “could regard itself as secure until that war ended. Even America, which has talked of isolation, is up against that peril.” The prime minister said: “It is a dangerous lie to say the object of the British government is to overthrow Fascist. Italy.” Instead, Baldwin said, “the object we seek is peace and we seek it with the nations composing the League of | Nations.” He added: “In no step do we go before them, in no step behind, and no step do we take except in full unison with those who are” working with us.” He said that since the League and the Kellogg pact had failed to pre- vent war, “it became the duty of the British government if possible to cir- cumvent and try and stop the war and bring about peace, “This conflict—if that be the right word to describe it,” said the prime minister, “is no British-Italian con- flict. It is a conflict rather between Italy and the League. “We are always ready to avail our- selves of any opportunity of concilia- tion which may present itself. “Our path, we think, is peace, We are trcading a new path. We cannot ia what that path will turn out to Italy Imports From U.S. Are Quadrupled Washington, Oct. 19.—(4)—Com- merce department trade experts dis- closed today from official figures that @ major part of the big increase in Italian imports of four classes of products easily made into munitions. Italy’s foreign trade figures, not yet available beyond midyear, show her purchases of American cotton waste, iron and steel scrap, copper, benzol. toluol and xylol in the first half of the year were double to quadruple the Yolume for the first six months of 1934. None of the commodities is on the list of war materials subject to the embargo ordered by President Roose- velt although cotton waste, for ex- ample, can be turned into gun cot- ton by a simple chemical process. ONLY 66 DAYS TO XMAS Seattle, Oct. 19.—(?)—Sixteen rein- deer, harbingers of Christmas, left here Saturday to help Santa Claus spread the holiday spirit in the mid- dlewest. to} JOINING LEAGUE SEEN | ONE the United States has been supplying | ¥ (Associated Press Photo) i Gasoline toaded on this truck exploded when the truck was hit by this train at a crossing near Hicks- ville, Long Island. R. W. Gould, driver of the truck, was killed. This was the wreckage after the crash. 7 CCC COMPANIES TO WINTER IN §. D. Bismarck Unit Included Orders Transfering Work- ers to Black Hills in Orders commanding removal of seven CCC companies to South Da- kota, and demobilizing of one North Dakota company, were received here Saturday by Capt. Patrick. Kelly, quartermaster at Fort Lincoln in charge of company movements. Orders for the removal came from Neb., Capt. Kelly said. He explained movement of men from the state will begin about Oct. 25 and will be com- pleted by Nov. 1. Approximately 1,300 men will leave the state as a result of the order, he jsaid. The men will be moved from companies at. Watford City, Mandan, Bismarck, Wishek, Valley City, La- kota and Park River. To be demobil- ized is the company at New England. The men will be moved by train. Demobilization of the New England company is in line with reduction of CCC enlisted personnel, be said. Orders for five of the companies to be located near Rapid City, 8. D., were received by Kelly, who explained he expected the remaining two com- panies, to be located in similar terri- tory. ‘The order will leave 12 companies in the state, he said, approximately twice as many as were wintered here last ear. Of these, two companies are on “discontinued projects,” the company at Fargo and one at Watford City. What disposition will be made of these two has not yet been determined. Remaining are companies at Mo- hall, Kenmare, Kramer, Foxholm, International Peace Garden, two at Watford City, Medora, veterans camp at Mandan, Kensal, Larimore and a veterans camp at Fargo. Jamestown Girl Is ‘U’ Homecoming Queen Grand Forks, N. D., Oct. 19.—(P)— Student voters Friday elected Justine Rand of Jamestown queen of the University of North Dakota home- coming Oct. 24 and 26. Miss Rand won over Ruth Fiskum, 505 to 369, in PROCLAMATION Whereas, during 1934, 35,500 persons lost their lives in automo- the can:pus electiot , climaxing an un- dergraduate “political” campaign. toll in history; and corps area headquarters at Omaha,’ ‘that the penalty for late payments i oe Duce’s Flying Son Cheats Ethiopians FRAZIER-LEMKE ACT | BY NORTH DAKOTAN bullet holes in the wings of his Petition to Force Bill Out of plane, like those the ship of his brother, Bruno, received a few House Rules. Committee Will Be Signed days ago. Vittorio, son of Premier Musso- Uni, received his “baptism of fire,” Italian press dispatches said Sat- urday, in another flight over Ethiopian territory. Sharpshoot- ers struck his plane, but he re- turned uninjured. MERCHANTS WARNED NOT T0 DELAY TAXES Penalty for Late Payments on Sales Levy Will Be In- voked Monday Washington, Oct. 19.—(#)— Good chances for passage of the Frazier- Lemke farm mortgage refinancing bill next session were seen Saturday by Senator Frazier (Rep., N. D.), co- author of the legislation. The measure, which is opposed by administration forces provides for government refinancing of farm mortgages on a long term basis at lower interest rates. The refunding would be swung with a $3,000,000,000 new money issue, which the adminis- tration opposes as‘ inflation. “There is a great demand for this aid,” Frazier said after a trip across the country through the agricultural belts, “because so many of the farm- ers’ debts got so high they cannot get out from under. They can’t re- finance them from such institutions as the Farm Land Bank, and there has to be a scaling down and lower rates of interest. “There is a great demand for lower rates so the farmer can hang on to his land. So I think the chances are good for action this session.” ‘The North Dakotan predicted a pe- tition to force the bill out of the house rules committee for action on the floor would be signed up early session, this petition bore within three or four of the 216 signatures needed to force the bill out. “It is conceded generally, I think, that if it does come to a vote in the house it will pass,” Frazier said, add- ing that he thought favorable action might also be expected on the senate ROOSEVELT LEAVES SIN BLAS INDIANS Expects to Fish in Atlantic Wa- ters Before Heading for Charleston, S. C. With only approximately 30 per cent of the second quarter of the 2 per cent retail sales tax paid, R. R. Smith, director of the sales tax division, Saturday warned merchants will be invoked after Monday. Although Oct. 20 is set as the final day upon which payments may be made without penalty, Smith an- nounced the deadline had been ad- vanced a day, because the date falls on Sunday. After Oct. 21, a penalty of 1 per cent of the tax due will be assessed against the merchant for each month in the quarter. Those who have not paid their taxes for May and June will pay an additional penalty for those months, he said. In this quarter taxes must be paid on sales made in July, August and September. Smith said he expected approxi- mately $700,000 would be collected this quarter from merchants of the state, ot which nearly $200,000 had been de- livered thus far. Talmadge to Control | 'Georgia’s Pocketbook Atlanta, Oct. 19.—(7)—Gov, Eugene Talmadge’s financial dictatorship of Georgia may become complete Jan. 1. The governor said Saturday the state constitution gives him authority to operate the goyernment’s business since the 1935 legislature failed to enact an appropriations bill for the next two years, This year Georgia's affairs are be- ing roaneed under expenditures ap- Sa ees proved by the 1933 general assemb! Aboard the 8. 8. Houston, but after Dec. 31—unless there is &lto the United States, Oct: 19.—(P)— special session—the governor says {ull | president Roosevelt pulled out into fontrol of spending will pass into his ithe atlantic Saturday from the San a ra sai ee ae \Blas islands for Cent Tubing. Pe ial 4 ; < fore pointing the Hot British Ship Sinking |‘: nono. APRS PERIDES . ic sun laces , Off Hebrides Islands of the prestdez.t and his party, but —— : all hands aboard are eager for anoth- London, Oct. 19.—(#}—Lloyd’s re-ler try at their luck in deep sea fish- ported the British steamer Vardulia|irg. ing “now abandoning ship,” soon af- ter asking for immediate gssistance ‘because of @ dangerous list. The vessel was about 420 miles Three Injured PRICE FIVE CENTS © taly * Earthquake Hits Helena DIES AS TRAIN HITS TRUCK LOADED WITH GAS ITALY ENGLAND AND FRANCE DISCUSSING MISUNDERSTANDINGS Tension Eased as Diplomats of Three Nations Seek Way to Avoid Conflict LAVAL’S WORK IS PRAISED Armies in Ethiopia Sharpening Bayonets for What May Be Decisive Battle (By the Associated Press) ‘The League of Nations genera) committee of 52 nations Saturday night voted to drop the guillotine of a drastic “buy nothing from Italy” boycott on the Italo-Ethiopian war. The assembled delegates set Oct. 31 as the date when the League mem- bers will decide just when to let fall bo Se egal ear ad kind in his- | In other words, Premier Mussolini has just 11 days left to think things over. If he has not capitulated in that time to the league’s demand for Peace, the Leagte will: 1, Amputate,70 per cent of Italy's exports—the petcentage normally sold to countries which ate members of the League; 2. Extend mutual og to apnea a a ad re : this blockade of or 3. Refuse to let Italy ‘xeceive any “key products” used: for*the maru- facture of war materials from. League members. Maintenance of peace in Europe re- ceived tacit guarantee Saturdsy, and establishment of peace in war-torn Ethiopia appeared to be more than #. possibility. ~ a Britain Eases Tension. British diplomacy, hard at work in succeeded centers, calming fears of extended con- flicts at arms incident to the Italo- Ethiopian war, Negotiations among Italy, Great ‘Britain and France revived hopes for & stilling of guns in East Africa. Just when Italian-British tension that the crisis, at least for the mo- ment, was past, and that some of Britain’s vessels in the western Med- iterranean eventually may be with- drawn. Rome, in a fever of excitement over the African campaign and bitter against what the press characterized as British interference, breathed eas- ier. Premier Mussolini and Sir Eric Drummond, British ambassador to Italy, were understood after a long conversation to have cleared away misunderstandings between the two nations. Di See Peace: Diplomats were quick to construe this as a definite contribution to peace, emphasized the more by efforts of Premier Pierre Laval of France to arrange a settlement of the Ethiopian conflict. France, too, contributed to the gen- eral feeling of relief. Laval delivered Fargo-Mill City Hop Made in 50 Minutes St. Paul, Oct. 19.—(#)—Shattering and two-motored Electra pl m., and landed in nm, sengers, Accident Near Medina