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

iH 4 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE =, ESTABLISHED 1873 Americans Insulted in Italy Mauna Loa Spews Lava FOOTBALL SCORES HAWAIIAN VOLCANO POURS FIVE FIERY RIVERS DOWN SLOPE Experts Prepared to Dynamite Flow to Divert: It Away from City of Hilo THRONGS FLOCK TO SCENE] Crater Is Huge Furnace of Flame, Reporter Says, After Hop Over Peak Hilo, Hawaii, Nov. 23.—(?)—Mauna Loa spewed fiery lava with undimin- ished fury Saturday, attracting throngs of sightseers by its spectacu- lar eruption. Five blazing rivers of lava crawled down the slopes of the volcano. One mile-wide stream extended 13 miles down the north side to within 25 miles of Hilo. Its future course depended ‘upon the degree of activity within the crater, but there was little fear it would reach the city, largest on the island. However, should the lava approach too close, Dr. Thomas A. Jaggar, gov- ernment volcanologist, was prepared to divert its flow by blasting. Parties came from Honolulu, on the neighboring island of Oahu, by air- plane and steamer, with space only” available on the boats and pessengers sleeping on deck. The molten lava threatened a deso- late country between two big ranches. Nothing could yet be told as to its final course, but there was no im- mediate threat to the Humuula sheep station nor to important trails. A correspondent flew over the vol- cano Priday in a navy airplane, and ®& wall of solid flame, 500 feet wide. 1,000 feet long and 200 feet thick could be seen burning fiercely in the crater & mile away. Fiery fountains played within the crater, while not far away snow covered a large area of the mountain top. # The eruption began Thursday, 18 hours after an earthquake jarred Hilo, and a small tidal wave slightly dam-| ) aged its waterfront. FOOTPRINTS REVIVE LOST FLIER HUNTERS Jungle Growth on Islands Off Siam to Be Searched for Kingsford Smith Singapore, Straits Settlements, Nov. 23.—(?)—Reports that footprints were seen in the sand of Sayer island, off the west coast of Siam, brought fresh hopes Saturday that the missing Sir Charles Kingsford Smith might still be alive. - Captain Hussey, captain of a plane which flew over that area after a steamer reported seeing flares rising from the island, said: “I searched all six Sayer islands and am certain there was nothing on four of them, but I cannot be sure about the others which were covered with jungle growth. “I flew low over the beach of one of these islands and clearly saw foot- prints in the sand.” The Straits Steamship company di- Death and Illness in Family Still Unsolved Moorhead, Minn., Nov. 23.—(P}—A solution to the death of a 13-year-old “mattress | BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1935 Ist N. D. U. i W. MARYLAND 0] MINNESOTA WISCONSIN DDG OHIO STATE MICHIGAN 1 PRINCETON 0] DARTMOUTH OO CHICAGO | ILLINOIS 0 | | PURDUE On OF | INDIANA | IOWA 0] | NORTHWESTERN. {J | NOTRE DAME | S. CALIFORNIA Traveling Man Is Hero in Farm Fire Whitehall, Wis., Nov. 23.—(P)— A traveling salesman who spent the night at the Severin Thorpen home, 15 miles northeast of here, early Saturday saved the lives of three members of the Thorpen family when a fire broke out. Carmen David, LaCrosse woolen goods salesman, smelled smoke at 4:30 a.m. He aroused Mr. and Mrs, Thorpen and their daughter, Helen, and they escaped in their night clothing as the house was ®@ mass of flames. POTATO EXEMPTION LIMIT CHANGE SEEN May Allow Small Producers to Escape Tax on First 50 Bushels of Crop . | ‘ Washington, Nov. 23.—(®)—Tax ex- emption on 50 instead of five bushels of potatoes under the 1935-36 control act appeared possible Saturday under recommendation on the new national advisory board. The control law, becoming effective Dec. 1, provides that a producer may have an automatic tax exemption al- lotment of five bushels annually. A tax of % cent a pound is to be col- lected on all potatoes sold in excess of the national allotment of 226,600,- 000 bushels. Removal of the law’s present ex- emption, it was pointed out, would make it unnecessary for thousands of small producers to get special allot- ments ‘or from paying the excess qouta tax. ‘The new advisory committte is that Princeton, Politician Convicted Grand Rapids, Mich., Nov. 23.—(?) ~-George Foulkes, former Democratic congressman from the fourth Mich- district, wag sentenced in fed- eral court Saturday to a year and six his conviction of Student Convicted of "OF Selling P. O. Jobs 2nd 3rd 4th OO 0 10) Final U8. CHECK RAISER Young Farmer’s Plea of Want Wins Two Year Probation- ary Prison Term © A plea of hunger and insufficient clothing for his children, coupled with destruction of his crops, Satur- day gained a two-year probationary term for @ young Max farmer, charged with misrepresenting disposi- tion of monies loaned him by the federal farm credit administration. He was Jake Schalesky, 31, Mc- Lean county farmer living near Max. ‘His story of want gained the proba- tion from Federal Judge Andrew Mil- ler. Schalesky pleaded guilty to the el harges. He admitted raising receipts from an elevator company attempting to show he paid on more Farm Credit administration funds for feed for his livestock than actually paid. Charged with raising one receipt from $5.50 to $50.50 in February, 1935, Schalesky admitted the allegation and confessed to similar acts. He received 2 total of approximate- ly $150 which did not go for feed, Schalesky told the court. Ellsworth Hops Off Again in Antarctic New York, Nov. 23—(#)—The New York Times and the North American Newspaper Alliance said that Lincoln Ellsworth Saturday hopped off on his third attempt to span the Antarctic continent. The weather at Dundee island in the Weddell sea suddenly turned favorable shortly before the takeoff. tigation FE a of the Ellsworth was forced to turn back Arnett, Okla., Nov. 23.—(P)—Inves- pre-statehood slaying “roll-flashing stranger With Undiminished Fury CLIPPER ROARS OUT |COMMUNITY AID IN OVER PACIFIC WITH |FARM REHABILITATION PROFITABLE CARGOWIS SOUGHT BY WOOD Thousands Wait in Honolulu to Hail Start of First Trans- ‘Pacific Airmail Resettlement Director Says Problem of Emergency Help Presents Crisis CARRYING 115,000 LETTERS 8,000 Mile Airway Marks New Significant Achievement in Aerial Navigation , Of 13,000 Farm Families on Relief Only 3,000 Have Yet Been Certified Alamada, Calif., Nov. 23—(?)— The China Clipper arrived over Honolulu at 2:35 p. m., CST. 23.—(P)—A An appeal to citizens throughout the state to give voluntary assistance to the Resettlement administration to get its work under way was made Sat- urday by Howard R. Wood, state di- rector. The Resettlement administration is charged with caring for the emerg- ency needs of farm families and for their future rehabilitation, just as WPA is giving employment to city workers. Latest figures, Wood said, show 13,- 000 farm families on relief, but funds have been allotted to care for 18,000 families on a budgetary basis. Wood is setting up an organization to care for that maximum number. After December 1, Wood said, FERA will practically cease to function and the problem now is to get farm fami- lies certified from the FERA to re- settlement, just as city persons need- ing help are being transferred from FERA to WPA. Lack Personnel, Equipment A crisis confronts the Resettlement. administration, Wood said in a letter sent out to county supervisors, since it is being compelled to assume the administrative burden of caring for needy farmers without adequate per- sonnel or equipment. As a result, boards of county com- missioners, county welfare boards, commercial: organizations and cooper- described the flight as the beginning/ ative organizations are asked to as- “of the greatest and most significant|sist in providing office space, office achievement in the marvelous and,equipment and additional clerical help fascinating development of air trans-|to be employed on a temporary basis portation.” while the business of transferrifig Sister Ship Trailing names from the FERA to resettlement Almost as the China Clipper soared | rolls is being cleared up and the nec- away, her sister ship, the = forms for emergency grants can Alameda, Calif., Nov. thundering Pegasus blazed Uncle Sam's air mail trail across the Pacific Saturday—pushing on from where the Pony express halted. ‘The China Clipper, 25-ton seaplane, soaring easily and swifly under its two-ton load of 115,000 letters, was ex- pected to reach Honolulu, 2,400 miles away, about 11:47 p. m. CST, 18 hours, after the take off here. Hourly reports by radio informed Pan-American Airways headquarters here of the Clipper’s progress, on the first and longest leg of its 8,000-mile flight to Manila, by way of Honolulu, Wake and Guam. Thousands of feet beneath the glistening plane, ocean vessels toiled through the waves, their mails due to arrive days and weeks after the sky lines. Thousands Await Arrival Thousands of people waited in the | Hawaiian Metropolis to shout a greet- ing to the first of a sky fleet which ultimately will carry passengers to Canton, China. As far as Capt. Edwin C. Musick, commander, and his crew of eight were concerned, the flight was merely @ routine job. -Postmaster.Genexal-James A. Farley: Clipper, arrived at Acapulco, Mex.,/be provided. from Miami, en route here to be} The Resettlement administration placed in trans-Pacific service. Oth-jalready has in its employ sufficient ers will follow until there are suf-|personnel in the various counties to ficient planes for weekly service be-|care for farm families referred to it tween here and the Philippines. for rehabilitation, Wood said, but it Postmaster William J. McCarthy of|lacks the personnel and equipment. San Francisco said the China Clipper's| necessary to handle the entire relief mail load was the largest single-load|case load in rural areas. “first cover” consignment on record.| In view of the fact that the success Farley said the post office would real-|of the resettlement and rehabilitation ize a profit of $47,000 on the flight, the} program depends in large measuse gross revenue being $63,000 and the|upon the sympathetic understanding cost $16,000. and cooperation of public agencies, Passenger service will not be started|cooperative organizations and busi- until the mail service is thoroughly|ness groups, Wood asked that they under way. immediately take an interest in the problem and give what assistance they can in view of the joint responsibility for caring for the needy. Supervisors Get Orders Supervisors in each district were asked to get in touch with such agen- cies and enlist their ald without de- lay. In some districts, Wood said, more than one county has been assigned to a supervisor, depending on the number of cases to be handled. Thus Walsh and Pembina have been com- bined, as have Cass and Richland. The same holds true in some other districts. Only 3,000 of the 13,000 farm fam- ilies now on relief have been trans- (Continued on Page Six) Dow Elected Head of North Dakota League Devils Lake, N. D., Nov. 23.—(?}— The North Dakota League of Sav- ings, Building and Loan Associations Friday elected C. 8. Dow of Grand Forks president to succeed J. M. Sev- ern of Jamestown, retiring head. C. A. Williams, Fargo, was elected vice president; Fred Traynor, Devils Lake, second vice president; N. M. Ludowese, Williston; H. L. Loomis, Fargo; John D. Gray, Valley City, and Severn, executive committee mem- bers; F. D. McAneney, Fargo, sec- retary-treasurer, and Gray, national committeeman. lharge North Dakota |Penny Candy ‘Bandits’ eee wit KR Wound Girl in Holdup Fergus Falls, Minn., Nov. 23.—(?)— A 10-year-old girl who refused to be robbed of a penny for candy by two juvenile “bandits” armed with a pis- tol Saturday lay in a hospital with a bullet wound in the skull. Barring complications, she will recover. Elizabeth Schoeneberg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. A, Schoeneberg of Perham, and girl companions were ordered to “stick. ‘em up and hand over a penny for & St. Paul, Nov. 23.—(#)—Charges of robbing the State Bank of Roscoe, 30 miles southeast of St. Cloud, Oct. 26, have been filed by Stearns county authorities against Daniel Joyce, of Noonan, N. D., and Thomas of St. Paul, Superintendent Melvin C. Passolt of the state bureau of crim- inal apprehension, disclosed Satur- day. HELPED PROMOTE FRAUD Chicago, Nov. 23.—(?)—Testimony ot an Iowa farmer that he helped promote the Sir Francis Drake estate scheme because he believed in it was given @ federal court jury before the trial recessed for the week-end. Erupting Star Strengthens . Exploding Universe ‘Theory (Copyright, 1935, Associated Press) sr a eeny anemuapiions ston, Soe. Williams Bay, Wis., Nov. 23.—Nova |). faba re ate jc berg girl's skull, She was taken to the hospital and the ‘pellet was removed. Men With Bank Raid 1S TAKING OVER FROM FERA; Weinstein’s ‘Nap’ Ra tag Gets First Buck Leonard Johnson and Earl Kuehn, Bismarck deer hunters, got their first buck on the first day of the North Dakota hunting season Friday. Beating the brush in the Mis- souri river bottoms near here, they heard a rustling in the bushes near them. Pushing Kuehn aside, Johnson fired in the direction of the noise. A body could be heard threshing around, Kuehn, first to the scene of the kill, yelled to Johnson, “You got your buck, Johnson.” Johnson had scored. It was a buck sheep. SHOWS AND DANCES SWELLING FUND FOR ROGERS MEMORIAL Many Communities Active as Thanksgiving Deadline for Drive Nears | Bismarck Hunter — ° With benefit shows and dances and numerous contributions being report- ed, the campaign to raise a suitable memorial to the late Will Rogers rounded into the home stretch Satur- day. ‘The campaign, which has consisted solely of a good-will solicitation, will end Thanksgiving Day. Largest of the benefit shows being presented throughout the state is that at Fargo in which the entire commun- ity has joined under the leadership of Ed Kraus, campaign chairman for the gate city. ~ Meanwhile a proposal by the Com- muity Players to stage a benefit per- formance for the fund here fell through when it developed that sev- eral members of the organization would not be here next Wednesday evening, the time selected for the show. Further contributions from Bis- marck residents, however, raised the total subscribed here to $319.95. Of subscriptions reported Saturday, $2.61 came from milk bottles which have been placed at strategic locations around the city as a repository for good-will pennies, nickels and dimes. THE FUND TODAY Previously listed . Jean Plomasen .. Bruce Plomasen . W. F. Jones . Milk bottles . B,C. Ward .. P. C, Bakken J. W. Hintgen .. John A. Hoffman Geo. T. Humphreys F. A. Copelin Total + $310.09 25 Ftd tt | S3ssssees SUBSCRIBE NOW Eyeryone has an opportunity to give something toward perpetu- ating the memory of this fine American and it is hoped that everyone who smiled with Rogers will come forward with a subscrip- tion. Take or send your donation to any bank or to this newspaper. Use the ing coupon 60 accompany: that you may be given proper credit. ‘The memorials will be of humanitarian, charitable or edu- cational nature. USE THIS COUPON In consideration of the nation- wide effort to create a memorial or memorials to the late Will Rog- ers, of enduring form and for charitable, educational or hu- manitarian purposes, and in con- sideration of similar subscriptions by others, I hereby subscribe for $5,250 to Sell Liquor Any More, Not Even to Miller ‘William Weinstein of Bismarck, al- leged liquor law violator, had an ex- pensive sleep which cost him $250 in federal court Saturday and may cost his bondsmen $5,000. i Federal Judge Andrew Miller slap- ped on the fine Saturday with the jail until he pays it, because Wein- stein slept Friday while federal court impatiently waited. Fifteen searchers sought frantically jto find Weinstein while 12 jurors, drawn to try him on a federal liquor tax evasion charge, twiddled their thumbs. Ordered $5,000 Forfeited With his non-appearance, Judge \Miller ordered the jury discharged. He forfeited Weinstein’s $5,000 bond and issued a bench warrant for arrest of the missing defendant. Later in the day, Weinstein ap- peared, offered an explanation but was refused to be heard by Judge Miller, who gave him until court he should not be held in contempt. Saturday. Weinstein, through his attorney, Scott Cameron, told the court he had gone to a hotel, but be- cause of crowded conditions, was forced to take a room recently va- cated. Not Called by Clerk As a result, Weinstein explained, ister or call-book. Likewise, he claimed, he was not called by the clerk, and slumbered on until after court hours. “There is no excuse for not appear- ing in court,” Judge Miller told him. “This is a serious matter.” Weinstein in contempt, assessed the make an application to Judge Miller for reinstatement of the bond. Humor Enters Court Stinging rebuke and humor shared attention in court Friday as he sen- other offenders, Judge Miller, characterizing one de- fendant as a “menace to any com- munity,” pronounced jail and peni- tentiary terms on three members of @ liquor ring rounded up by the gov- ernment in an expose of farm home alcohol caches. penitentiary, Judge Miller said: “There is no excuse possible to be found for you. You are a persistent bootlegger and a menace to any com- munity because of it.” To Probe Shooting Swen Swenson of Devils Lake re- months. Judge Miller granted a con- tinuance to Claude Vanderlin of Dev- ils Lake, confessed conspirator, for in- vestigation of a Devils Lake hi-jack- ing and shooting. Vanderlin claim- ed he took no part in it. (Continued on Page Six) VOLCANO RUMBLING Southern. Italy; Mount Etna Menacing Rome, Nov. 23.—()—A terrific two- southern Italy followed by reports of more than 75 Mount Etna. | Mandan Woman Promises Not alternative of staying in the county opening Saturday to show cause why| his name did not appear on the reg- He found $250, fine, qpdered him remanded to or Aaa | jall until the fine was Two bondsmen of Weinstein will tenced liquor runners and penalized When sentencing Ralph Nelson of Devils Lake, admitted liquor conspira- tor, to a year and a day in a federal ceived four months in the county jail and Elmer Augustad of Goodrich six The court indulged in an amusing conversation with Rose Campbell of AS STORM SUBSIDES) 75 Killed as Terrific Gales Hit day storm which scourged Sicily and subsided Saturday, deaths and menacing rumbles from PRICE FIVE CENTS UNITED STATES FLAG STRIPPED FROM CAR ON STREET IN PADUA Minnesota Women Terrified But Unharmed by Mob Sur- rounding Vehicle HAD BRITISH LICENSE TAGS Franco-British Boycott Duce’s Answer to Pinch of League Sanctions Harar, Ethiopia, Nov. 23—(P)}— (Reuters)—Unofficial reports re- ceived here Saturday said Ethi- opians had retaken the fortified town of Gorrahei, which the Ital- ians captured some time ago. Reliable information indicated Italian Somaliland troops had mutinied, killing 30 Italians, (By the Associated Press) An anti-American demonstration at Padua, Italy, in which American flags were stripped from an automobile by @ street mob complicated the diplo- matic picture Saturday in the Italo- #Ethiopian situation as Mussolini an- swered the League of Nations sanc- tions campaign by enforcing a Franco- British boycott. The flag incident at Padua was re- ported to the American consulate at Milan by Dr. and Mrs. J. Moersch and Dr. and Mrs. J. L. Bollman, all of the Mayo institute of Rochester, Minn. They started for France, cutting short a two-weeks’ tour of Italy. Mrs. Agnes Moersch and Mrs. Mi- dred Bollman were sitting in the ma- chine, which bore British license plates but carried several small Amer- ican flags, when hooting Paduan stu- dents gathered about them. The women said they were terrorized, but not harmed. They recited the stu dents slashed one tire of the machine, deflated the other tires and tore off the flags. Police Apologetic ‘The police and the crowd became apologetic when Drs. .Moerach. and Bollman displayed their American passports. A warning that an oil embargo “would mean war” was reported un- officially to have been given Premier Pierre Laval of France by the Italian ambassador. The Fascist state notified the in- ternational labor office at Geneva it would not be represented at the Inter- national Maritime conference—in- terpreted in official circles there as an expression of resentment against sanctions, May Walk Out Speculation arose as to whether Italy would walk out of the league, bag and baggage, if an embargo on exports of oil, coal, iron and steel to Italy were added to the arms, financial and economic sanctions already put into effect. Simultaneously, the Fascists an- nounced success for their arms in Ogaden province, on the southern Ethiopian front. The entire region, with all its population, said a gov- ernment announcement in Rome, has come under Italian control. In London, where the British gov- ernment remained grimly determined to stop the undeclared war between Italy and Ethiopia by international pressure upon the , @ belief developed the government might sup- port an extension of sanctions to in- clude oil and coal if such an embargo could be made effective. U. 8. Course Not Plotted The American neutrality ments, already has applied le eae + | Navigators of the Strait of Messina, * | that after the n ary | tc eras checks payable to RoG- | rains abated, hot blasts were felt from Etna, in northwestern Sicily, flames issued from the volcano and wi sounds were heard. Two slight earth shocks were felt at the nearby Sicilian seaport of Mes- sina, but were not registered at the Crushed Beneath Car) srs roe Thursday and per aaa a 'y it - Devils Lake, ND, Nov 23—(m)—| peed. BnGey, ce yinds tearing Pinned beneath a car, Arthur Reed.| down wires, causing many fires and 21, of Devils Lake, suffered a crushed plunging Messina into darkness, | running) Son of Tom O’Leary ‘'umse-| Dies From Laryngitis ee botliy born.