The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 2, 1935, Page 1

y a) THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Fair tonight Tuesday; colder to- Matt wooeenat warmer Tuesday. The Weather ESTABLISHED 1878 North Dakotans Win Flax Crown Decisive Battle Is Imminent on Italo-E DUGE ‘MOBILIZING’ WOMEN FOR FINISH FIGHT ON PENALTIES League Expected to Approve Enforcement of Oil Em- bargo Against Italy PONDER ATTITUDE OF U. S. Mussolini Transfers Troops From Austrian to French Border in Alps (By the Associated Press) Indications that a possibly decisive battle ma) be imminent were seen in a report in Addis Ababa that 400,- 000 Ethiopian soldiers were massed against the Italians in Northern: Ethiopia. | This report said Ras Seyoum and Ras Kassa, ‘two of Ethiopia’s leading generals, had combined their forces for a general offensive against the Italian troops which have pushed far south of their bases of supply. iperor Haile Selassie was at Dessye, not far south of the troop concentration and Ethiopian sources thought it likely that the emperor has established his headquarters ata; positjon to be close to the scene of; combat. ‘ Italian business leaders said League of Nations sanctions were causing a slackening of trade and that labor and credit problems were developing. Cost Is They stated that if Italy’s normal import and export business of 1,000,- 000,000 lire (about. $80,000,000) a month were cut in half, the reduc- tion would be equivalent to the monthly wages of 1,000,000 men.° The British cabinet debated Mon+ day the problem - of. tightening -the/ fron ring of sanctions imposed on Italy. for initiating a war of tion in Ethiopia. Talk of peace in East Africa, the purpose for which’ sarfction’s were ‘imh- | bad BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1935 Breasted’ Recalls [Tut Curse Victim? o CONTROL CONTRACTS DESIGNED 10 SPEED ‘30 HOG PRODUCTION County Committees to Appraise ‘* ‘and’ Set Farmers’ Bases . Under Program -|. Washington, Dec. 2.—()—Emphas- izing that “balanced” farming is their aim, AAA officials made public Moh- Way details ‘of the’ 1936-37 contracts offered farmers for corn-hog control. Tae ‘contracts, “effective as of Sun- day, are toee to eT a luctiqn, by, 30 per, cent M Eyy of Rogs has led to higher posed, languished as Britain's atten- prices, with protests from consumers. tion turned to an. oil embargo. to freeze that nation into submission to the will of her sister states in tl League of Nations. Wi ab adeesvala 9 Premier Mussolini at the same time took steps to “mobilize”. the .women | of the Fascist domain for a finish fight against the penalties. \ A two-fold problem was before the British, leader in the sanctions drive: | Approval Expected 1, Should an: embargo on oil ship- | ments to Italy be imposed at Geneva; | (Continued on Page Six) VAN ZANDT FORSEES EARLY PAYMENT OF BONUS TO VETERANS Says Issue Scheduled to Come Before Congress in Janu- ary and Will Pass Confidence that the soldiers bonus will be paid in 1936 was expressed | tr, here Saturday by James EF, Van Zandt, national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in three addresses to local groups and au- diences. Arriving Saturday noon, Van Zandt spoke to the men in the veterans CCC camp at Mandan and then at- tended @ luncheon in his honor giv- en by local ex-servicemen, In the afternoon he addressed Boy Scouts at the junior high school and at- tended # dinner meeting in the eve- ning after speaking on the radio. In + ‘Leading -features- of the contracts: 1, Community and county control committees will make appraisals and det ine a farmer’s “base” produc- tion of hogs and his base corn acre- 2. The contracting farmer will be permitted to raise 100 per cent of the hog base. Restrictions Scheduled - 3. He will be required to keep his corn acreage 10 to 30 per cent under his base. 4. A producer will receive $1.25 bene- fit payment for each hog in his base for 1936, 5. Corn benefits will be at the rate of 35 cents a bushel for 1936. Producers must grow at least 25 per cent of the base corn acreage to qual- ify for payments. The 1936 payments are to be made in two installments, the first about Aug. 1, and the sec- ond about Dec. 31. : A pro rata share of local adminis- trative costs will be deducted from each producer’s adjustment payments. Tenants, Landlords to Share Provision has been made for ten- ants and landlords to share in the benefit payments according to their |!"8 interests in the assigned corn base, and as the corn crops under the lease are divided on each separately owned ‘act. Aims of the mew program, the AAA said, are to balance the corn crop with livestock feeding requirements; to encourage better.balanced cropping systems; to maintain a balance be- tween producer and consumer inter- ests, and to restore the balance in product between regions adversely affecl by weather during the last two years, Announcement Date Set the evening he addressed an audience of about 500 persons at the city audi- torium, stressing the eight-point pro- gram of the V. F. W. and,explaining its attitude on national affairs. Discussing the bonus, Van Zandt said it is the first business scheduled to come before the house of repre- sentatives when it reconvenes in Jan- uary. The senate also is pledged to give early consideration to the bonus issue and the prospect is that a bill will be placed before the president by mid-January. He hopes, he said, that the bill will be of such a nature that ¥NBSERRE E58 a CCC Youth Succumbs In Fort Hospital Here “! s Death Tut Curse Scoffed at Carven Warning on Pharoah’s Tomb H. Breasted, noted archeologist and head of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, died carly Monday at the Presbyterian Medical Center. Hospital authorities, in announcing the death of the scientist, maintain- ed the same secrecy as to the cause of death as they had concerning his strange illness. Dr. Breasted was stricken last week aboard thre liner Conte di Savoia en route back to the United States. His malaria, but later it was said he was suffering from an undetermined malady. Officials of the hospital announced Dr. Breasted died of a “hemolytic {streptococcic infection.” “The condition at first was mani- fested through a sore throat and tem- perature,” the official announcement continued. “This revived an appar- jently latent malarial condition dat- ing from a malarial attack which Dr. Breasted incurred a number of years ago.” Found Tut's Tomb The far flung research of James Henry Breasted carried him to the tomb of Tutankhamen, and under the carven curse of the valley of the Egyptian kings. - He scoffed at the warning words— “Death shall come on swift wings to {him that toucheth the tomb of Paragah”—and made, the royal burial palace his home while he dug up evi. Gence of the reality of Helen of Troy, tracked the life of ‘human consctence back of 3,000 B. C., and found that surgery, was practiced 4,000 years, ago and that transplanting of glands was 3,000 years old. His’ work alomg: the Ntle was‘but & phase of a life-long study of une jearthied’ Oriental secrets hidden for centuries. The great, Temples of King Sargon of As- syria,: and -public works projects built by King Sennacherib in 705 B. C. the historic sites , yn- his guidance. ‘Dr. Breasted was 70 years old. A graduate of Northwestern university, jclass of 1888, he began his profession- al career as an assistant in Egyptio- jlogy at the University of Chicago in 1884, In that year, he began his ex- plorative work in the Valley of the (Nile, the Valley of the Kings of Egypt. Dr. Breasted 11 years ago persuad- entrance to the tombs of the Phar- oahs. In recent years, the archeologist has remained in Chicago most of the time, directing the work of the ex- peditions in the field. He went abroad recently as a delegate to the interna- tional congress of orientalists in Rome, last September. Before he sailed he was asked about the curse on the walls of Tut- ankhamen’s tomb. “Tommyrot,” he exclaimed, add- Slept, Ate in Tomb “I defy the ‘curse.’ And if anyone was exposed to it, I was. For two weeks I slept in the tomb of Tu- (Continued on Page Six) Brownawell Funeral Is Set for Tuesday Funeral services for Homer Brown- awell, Moffit trucker, who died here Saturday, will be held at 2 p. m., Tuesday at the Webb Funeral chapel with Rev. Walter E. Vater, pastor of the McCabe’ Methodist Episcopal church, in charge. Burial will be made in St, Mary’s cemetery. Pallbearers will be George Buck, Marvin Swanson, Alfred Hoov- er, Carl Olson, Clifford Wright and Irvin Bourgois. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Brownawell and two children, Joyce and Dale, arrived here Monday froth Harrison, Idaho, to attend the funeral. Howard Brownawell is a brother of the de- ceased man, Other out-of-town persons here for the funeral are Mrs. John Lawson and Mason Lawson, Glencoe, Minn.;. Mrs, Bertha Riedman of Valley City, Mrs. Philip Sauers of Sanborn, N. D.; and William Riedman of Richville, Minn. Son of R. L. Melville Is Claimed by Death John Christopher Melville, 9-year- old son of. Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Noted Chicago Egyptologist! New York, Dec. 2—(#)—Dr. James illness was first diagnosed as tropical ; {welfare board, said the problem is a COllege stations have experimented | ed the Egyptian government to allow, thiopian Front “OPEN YOUR HEART’ |FOOD EXHAUSTED AS DRIVE NEEDS AID OF HUNDREDS SEE NEW ALL ORGANIZATIONS TAMPED DIRT GARAGE Inadequacy of Federal Aid tae Marvel at Cheap, Warm,' City Makes Need Greater - Durable Type of Building This Year Than Last on Bliss’ Ranch MORE SUFFERING REPORTED OTHERS PLANNING TO BUILD No Cash Will Be Given Needy;,‘Hard Luck’ Farmers Told Solicitation of Household- Weather ‘Worm’ Has Turned ers Begins Soon at Last in State . By a Staff Correspondent Hettinger, N. D., Dec, 2.—Rammed earth, packed into walls so hard that Decision to invite every organiza- tion in Bismarck to participate in the “Open Your Heart” campaign, spon- sored annually by the American Le- it is difficult to scratch with a pen gicn, was announced Monday by Mil- knife, today was envisioned as a fu- ton Rue, local commander of the vet- ture major building material for erans’ organization. tural North Dakota. Walter J. Brophy was named gen: The same sojl that grows the farm- eral chairman of the annual endeavor ers’ wheat may now be used to build with Rue and Adjutant Herbert shelters for himself, his stock, his Smith of the Salvation Army on the poultry or his machines. fost committee. Assisting them Cheapness of construction, warmth will be Miss Esther Teichmann, city of Mother Earth and durability of a school nurse and chairman of the lifetime are virtues of the new build- Legion child welfare committee; Mrs. ing material expounded Sunday at the John C. Spare, chairman of the Le- house-warming of the first rammed gion Auxiliary child welfare commit- earth garage, financed and con- {tee, and Miss Mary Cashel, executive structed by Col. Paul 8. Bliss, Bis- {officer of the Burleigh county Red marck'’s poet, writer, war veteran, Cross. Miss Teichmann, who served WPA official and self-styled rubber- overseas during the war, is the only ¢ired wheat farmer. woman member of the American Le-| Snuggled against the side of a hill, gion in Bismarck. Brophy is chair-' just 12 miles east of Hettinger and man of the 40 and 8 child welfare north of Haynes and White Butte, committee, the garage is located on Scoria Lily Canvass of the need for help this ranch; a quarter section of land, pur- year as reported by the committee chased by Bliss’ mother a quarter of indicates a greater need for action a century ago. i} than in recent years when the vari-i Sunday it was the scene of great | ous government set-ups were in full activity as close to 800 farmers, busi- | { swing, Brophy said Monday. ness men and federal and state of-! oney ificials inspected the structure as| reason is the inadequacy guests of the genial colonel. Coming of WPA wages to care for men with in automobiles, in wagons and on irge families of small children, some horseback, the visitors listened to talks of whom already are reported to be by. Bliss and C. A. Huber, construc- suffering from lack of food and tion engineer,-and ate 500 doughnuts clothes. and drank two wash boilers of coffee, In addition, there is the problem long before the last of the visitors ar- ba caring for the “unemployables” rived at the building. ;who are about to become a burden on’ thé county by reason of abandon-| Not New Experiment ment of the federal relief system and Colonel Bliss’ rammed earth gar- substitution for it of the county wel- ®8¢ 1s not the first experiment of its | fare boards. kind to be tried nor even the first | Mrs, Elizabeth Wenzel, county FERA uilding of this type to be construct- director and executive officer of the,¢d@ in North Dakota. Agricultural | ve one and that the last week has for some years with rammed earth Been a rush, particularly by country Construction and Assistant Attorney i people, to get back on the relief rolls.; General Milton K. Higgins has a two- {Their aim, she said, is to get them- Story dwelling in Mountrail county rene Ladytron ta ay me botnets cara is notable | administration so that the: ob-| tain cash in return for there labor. |chlefly for the fact that it is the first 159 Applied Saturday time that the rammed earth construc- The county relief office was sched-;tion has been demonstrated and ex- |Technical Knowledge of Music Not Required .of Men | Seeking Membership | Hope there will be a good attend-) ance at the organization meeting to- j night of local men interested in form- ling ® community chorué was expressed Monday by Ralph W. Soule, local voice instructor, who ‘was active in calling the meeting. Soule again stressed the fact that no technical knowledge of music is necessary for membership in the chorus. The main thing is to have a desire to sing. All who seek membership in the chorus will be given voice tests and assigned to sections by voice classifi- cation, Soule said, and arrangements will be made for future practices. The chorus also will be asked to select the type of music it will sing and to form some sort of permanent organization. Soule said he to have the unit trained sufficiently for a public appearance in singing yuletide songs by Christmas. Tonight's meeting will begin at 8 Pp. m., in the Business and Professional Women’s club rooms in the World War; uled to close at noon Saturday but Plained sufficiently to the farmers so til 6 p. m.. All told 169 applications: & jfor help were recorded during the| . Several of the men that attended day. The result of this rush, Mrs |Sunday’s dedication program an- Wenzel said, is that relief investiga- nounced that they would start similar (Continued on Page Six) construction next year principally as Suanconn nS finial Speaking informally to the persons ! that crowded into the 20x22-foot j structure, Bliss expressed optimism | lover the future of the North Dakota farmer, basing his predictions on what he expressed as a long period ning with this year. Sees New Prosperity “Many of you have wondered if you! Jare failures,” Bliss said. “You have had hard luck. You have been try- ing to farm and do business during ture averages have steadily been de- creasing. Well, it's going to be the other way now.” Bliss stated that now is the time to start building. He pointed out the inadequacy of farm buildings in the neglected structures. Construction of a rammed earth building can be started in September. (Continued on Page Six) . Boy Attempts Suicide * In Fargo Jail’s Cell for attempted holdup of the K. M. Hagen shoe store in Fargo Saturday night, John W. Flanagan, 17, at- tempted to hang himself in the city jail Sunday, explaining later he “would rather be dead” than have his He had torn a strip from a blanket and tied one end around his neck and another to the bars in the cell window Memorial building. It previously had| across the.cell door. Officer A. been announed that it would be held] Quam noticed the blanket covered in the memorial building dining room.| door and stopped the youth. 5 |the press of business kept it open un-| {hae they really have become inter- poultry and stock buildings. ORGANIZES TONIGHT: of increasing average moisture begin- @ quarter of a century in which mois- state and the rapid deterioration of Fargo, N. D., Dec. 2.—()—Jailed Parents find out about his trouble. € Half Frozen Minnesota Boy i 5 j E i fi BE BEE iz | il 3 i 8 if il H. Hl fF (000 for work relief | If the full loan is raised the debt Found in Refrigerator Car." Public De $450,000,000 Bond Issue Of-| fered to Obtain Relief Fi- nancing, Ready Cash i Washington, Dec. 2.—(#)—The pub- lic debt headed for a new high Mon-; |day as the treasury sought $900,000,- | | financing and ready cash, will reach approximately thirty and one-half billion dollars. Secretary Morgenthau’s statement. offered for cash subscription a $450,- 000,000 issue of 2% per cent 10-year bonds, and an equal issue of 1'2 per} cent five year notes. i Holders of $418,000,000 in 2'z per cent notes maturing Dec. 15 were of- fered the right to exchange them for; the new notes or bonds. This offer-| ing is in addition to the $900,000,000 of securities, Full subscription of the cash offer- ing would bring the total such bor- rowings since July 1 to more than $1,700,000,000. According to Presi- dent Roosevelt's recent estimates, this would leave about $862,000,000 to be raised during the last half of the fis- Up to 30 Billion bt Heads S ees Clarence Magrum, 19, formerly of Braddcck, is serving a life sen- tence in the North Dakota peni- tentiary here for the murder of cal year, assuming the entire sum al- located for recovery and relief is to be spent, Assurances recently have come from President Roosevelt that spending is soon to be kept closer to income, fol- lowed by reduction of the debt. MARKET FOR U. S. SECURITIES IS UNAFFECTED New York, Dec. 2.—()—The market jfor U. S. government securities show- ed no pronounced reaction Monday to the treasury’s December financing program, involving $1,318,000,000. Early dealings in the treasury is- ‘sues on the New York stock exchange resulted in slightly lower prices for the 3%s of 1943-45, and also for the 3s of 1951-55 and the 2%s. The 3% were 1-32d of a point higher at 103.18. . PERJURY TRIAL OF FOUR DEFENDANTS OPENING TUESDAY Judge Wyman. to Preside in Third Act of North Dakota Courtroom Drama Facing perjury charges, former Gov. William Langer and three fellow-de- fendants Tuesday will move into their’ second trial in less than three weeks in United States district court here. Outgrowth of an affidavit of preju- dice filed against Federal Judge An- drew Miller, Langer will be tried with Frank Vogel, former state highway commissioner; Oscar E. Erickson, chairman of the State Republican Central committee, and R. A. Kinzer, once executive secretary of the North Dakota relief organization. Seventeen days ago, trial of the four on federal conspiracy charges came tu an end in a jury disagreement. It was the second time Langer, Vogel and Kinzer had been tried on the charges and the first trial for Erickson. Judge Miller presided at the first conspiracy trial. It ended in a con- viction, June 17, 1934, which was re- versed by the U. 8. circuit court of appeals and a new trial was ordered. ‘The quartet filed an affidavit of Prejudice against Judge Miller, Oct. 2, taking exception to alleged state- ments made by him to the jury panel, and Claiming he made out commit- ments prior to return of the jury's verdict. As a result of the affidavit, Federal Judge A. Lee Wyman of Sioux Falls, 8. D., was assigned to sit in the sec- ond conspiracy trial. ‘The government contends the sworn statements were “untrue.” The four were indicted for perjury by the fed- eral grand jury at Fargo, Oct. 17. Judge Wyman will preside at the perjury action. Regent Man Faces Charge of Forgery Carl Hazel, 22, of Regent, N. D., was lodged in the Burleigh county a ; z g Ze if 533 a EE i i ma Ess a i | points out editorially, the change may Carl Wilson, Hettinger farmer. PRICE FIVE CENTS MINTO MAN SHOWS FINEST SAMPLE AT CHICAGO EXPOSITION Canadians Sweep Wheat Divi- sion But North Dakota Is Next in Line EXPERTS BEGIN JUDGING Selection of Grand Champion Steer Tuesday to Be High’ Light of Show Chicago, Dec. 2—()—Some 12,800 pure blood farm animals ambled Mon- day over the path of glory that leads but to the slaughter house. As the judging of fat cattle began, Cleo E. Yoder of Wellman, Iowa, showed the blue ribbon Aberdeen “a steer in the 1,000 to 1,500 pound cl ‘Best in the 875 to 1,000 pound divi- sion was a steer entered by William E. Scripps, Lake Orion, Mich. and West Virginia university, Morgan- j town, took the blue ribbon for Aber- i deen Angus steers weighing 750 to 875 pounds. Other winners were: Champion Poland China barrow, Columbia stock farm, Grandview, Mo.; champion pen of barrows, Purdue university, La- fayette, Ind.; champion Berkshire barrow, Pennsylvania State college, State College, Pa. Magrum, sweetheart of Mrs. Wil- son’s sister, said he shot the farmer through a window while the victim munched popcorn be- cause he was “trying to save her (Mrs, Wilson's) family.” LOGAN COUNTY FERA OFFICE REMOVED 10 GACKLE AFTER ROW Napoleon Loses Big Payroll and Relief Business by Lack of Cooperation Napoleon, N. D., Dec. 2.—Business- men of this community are counting their municipal sins as a result of} action by the county FERA and re-| settlement administrations in moving their offices to Gackle. Failure of Napoleon to co-operate with them and failure of the Napoleon county com- missioners to furnish suitable office space was given as the reason. Gackle businessmen leaped into the | breach and made space available in that town and the offices were promptly moved. Discord had prevailed between the county commissioners and the relief agency for some time but two in- cidents finally brought the matter to a head. One was the matter of office space. The FERA had been using a part of the courtroom and partitions which had been set up were removed when a@ term of court was held recently. The court term over, the FERA asked that the partitions be restored. The county commissioners refused. The straw that broke the camel's back was the failure of Sheriff Franz Braun to assist the FERA officials in handling one Marcus Schmidt, who was raising a disturbance in the FERA office. The sheriff was called but refused to remove Schmidt from the place. Schmidt had demanded some coal and flour from Roland Mathews, in charge of surplus commodities. When they were refused he struck at Mathews and L. A. Albrecht, another FERA employe, with a cane which he was carrying. Gackle first offered free accom- modations for the FERA offices last winter when trouble first occurred. Following the latest disagreement, the Gackle town board offered free office space in the Gackle Legion hall, free light and fuel and police protection. The offer was accepted and Gackle furnished the labor and trucks to move the office equipment. The FERA setup in Logan county employs 10 persons with an estimated payroll of from $800 to $1,000 a month. In addition, the Napoleon Homestead throw to Gackle business places the patronage of relief clients who may recelve as high as $10,000 a month from the public agency this winter. Teacher Wrecks Car A two-year-old bull, Bapton Orator, owned by Englands Prince of Wales, won first prize in his class in the breeding shorthorn division, nosing out another Canadian entry, Cruggle- ton Wellington, owned by Imperial CANADIAN WINS WHEAT CHAMPIONSHIP Chicago, Dec. 2—(7)—W. Fre- lin Wilford, grain farmer from Stavely, Alberta, Can. crowned wheat king for 1935. Wilford won the title, one of the major honors of the big farm show, with grain of the “Reward” variety. His samples weighed 66.6 Pounds per bushel, Reserve champion of the wheat growers was another Canadian, ‘William Rogers of Tappen, B. C. He showed durum of the “Min- dun” type. His grain weighed 65.4 pounds per bushel. Wilford showed hard red spring wheat, The victories of Wilford and Rogers gave Canadian growers 52° out of 87 wheat prizes at the show. Tt also was the 14th time Canada has carried off top honors in the 17 years of grain com Mon- bey having won in 1921, 1927 “Reward” wheat, deve! in Canada in 1928, has won. ene ohne Pionship every year since its in- troduction except 1931 when Her- man Trelle, Wembley, Alberta, won with a sample of durum. In 1933 Wilford was wheat king at the world grain conference in Regina, Sask., winning against more competitors than are entered in the present show. Oil, Ltd., Toronto. The bull, bred on the prince's ranch at High River, Alta., was named Bapton Orator be- cause of his voluminous bellow. The chief prize of the exposition, the title of “grand champion steer,” will be awarded Tuesday, with Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace in the audience, Judging began in seven breeds of swine, 10 breeds of sheep, two breeds of draft horses, and fat cattle. Lack of daylight halted judging in mid-afternoon Sunday. It was ex- Plained that since cblor is important, = indeee would not trust artificial ight. Isabel Travis, 17, of Sun River, Mont., was named national 4-H Club canning champion as the club con- gress opened Sunday. She canned 2,- 000 pints of fruits, vegetables, pickles and meats, Lorraine Tanz, of Eau Claire, Wis., was chosen national food preparation champion and awarded a $400 college scholarship for projects including canning, preparation of meats by nu- tritional standards, and poultry raising. Awards in Grain Made Awards showed a tabulation of hon- ors for the northwest characteristic of its leading place in agriculture. The list included: Flax—Joe J. Shoults, Minto, N. D., first prize with his “Bison” variety;