The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 4, 1936, Page 4

erty (otete} 1s Seerenaas foam up in the storm. TH facts and FANCIES Heave! Ho! me lads! What have we here? _ By the great hornspoon, this lad has as sturdy a pair of main sails as @ver a Yankee Clipper needed in a stout breeze. What's that you say? He was born a landlubber. And in Bismarck. Well, lower my tops’ls! ? But departing from the more pro- minent features of the cranial quar- ters, we note this youngster also has an inquiring set of eyebrows which go hand in hand with a pair of ears that were born to absorb information and a mouth that promised some day would be barking on a quarterdeck. While yesterday he wore white cloth as undistinguishing as the garb of a newborn babe, today as he paces the bridge of the U. S. S. Northampton he wears the anchors of the U. S. navy. He came naturally by his love for the sea, did this Capital City son, his father being a sailor before him. What would be more natural than that he would follow in his dad’s footsteps. Front and center! He is Lieuten- ant Commander Charles L. Hansen, Jr. son of Mr, and Mrs. Charles L. Hansen, Sr., 1400 Thayer. Graduated SRS se What Did You Say? he married Betty Ross of Denison, Texas, in 1918. Today he is chief engineer of one of America’s more modern cruisers, the aforesaid Northampton. Widely known here, Lt. Com. Hansen last visited Bismarck five years ago. — FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE John Andrews, than whom North Dakota has had few more lucid and penetrating editors, long was the friend of the late P. E. Byrne, Bismarck pioneer, who recently set foot on the trail that all must follow. We do not know how many years back their friendship dated. It eovered a span of years dating from the '80s when John was young scriven- er just beginning to make a name for himself as a puncturer of pompous Politicians, and Pat also was young scrivener just beginning to make a Mame for himself as a promising politician of the kind that are all too few. Andrews was for many years the editor of the Lidgerwood Broadaxe. He was one of the early publicizers of the Nonpartisan League. More recent- ly-he has been doing free lance writing out of Washington and has syn-- dicated a column on politics from the human side under the name of “The Week” by Sam’ Hill. John spoke no kinder words to Pat in life than he did on the occasion Of his friend’s death. We reproduce in full Andrews’ tribute: The death of an old and tried and true friend of 25 years, and that was P. E, Byrne, was hard to take. There was a connection be- tween us that amounted almost to kinship. “Pat,”—for that was the name we knew him by—was born in Ireland about the same time that this writer was born there. As boys both attended academic schools in Dublin, each in his own according to the faith of our fa- thers. We had to cross the Atlantic and meet out on the prairies of North Dakota—but it was like a meeting of old acquaintances. Once that contact of kinship was made it never was broken. Who would want to break it, with a man like Pat? The Green Isle has given to the world many great men as the history of almost every European country and that of our own United States attests. But the land of Pat’s birth has never given the world a better, kinder, more honorable or sincere man than P. E. Byrne. Certainly!—he was a fighting man. What would you expect from Ireland? But you will take note that Pat fought for honesty and against corrup- tion; for the weak and helpless against their oppressors; for right as he understood the right and against wrong as he judged it, and without counting the risk or cost to himself. It is remarkable how catholic were his instincts in this way. The Indian, whom he found to be considered as worthless and with- out a redeeming feature by a sort of common conserit among the white intruders, claimed his sympathy and defense. If you would read a defense of the American Indian, couched in perfect English, get Pat’s book: “Soldiers of the Plains.” There not only is a‘refu- tation of the slander against the Indian, but a picture worth your study of the soul and heart of a true son of Erin. He loved justice - and made himself a voice for those who were without tongue to speak for themselves and demand it. ‘ his writer had the privilege—and it amounts to much more than that’ now—to sit at Pat's bedside in his home last September and have one last and old-time talk. Around us two were his be- loved wife, their sons, William (he was always Billie to us!) and Joe and the daughter, Jane. Although all knew that the Shadow of the Valley was passing over that home, there was no sadness and grief hid itself behind the smiling faces of courage. It was as though they faced the Reaper and cried out at him in the words of Paul: “Oh death where is thy sting; O grave where is thy victory?” So went my old friend from death unto life and if we mourn at the parting we have pride in his inextinguishable courage. S 8 * MEMORIES * Picking tiger lilies on the hill where the new state capitol now rears its white shaft ..... Munching peanuts, intended for the elephants, at Ring- ling Brothers circus performance just east of where the new high school is. « «... . Meeting without introduction the grandson of the Marquis de ‘Mores, the Duc de Vallambrosa, at the Chateau de Mores one summer's day, chatting with him for more than an hour, and wondering who the charm-! ng foreigner was touring the United States! ..... Going down a shaft 4m the Washburn Coal mine at Wilton and wondering if we would ever come out alive. .... Meeting Art Townley for the first time and wondering where he had parked the forked tail and cloven hoofs. ~~ * * CONTRAST : ‘Trust Mart Connolly to give his readers a laugh a week in his Het- finger County Herald. His latest: “Teddy Roosevelt strapped on his six-shooter, saddled a bronc and traveled 50 miles down the Little Missouri river to capture a bold, bad ban- dit who had stolen his boat, Teddy walked behind the wagon in which he hauled his prisoner to Dickinson, and then had the late Dr. V. H. Stickney treat his feet for the blisters 50 miles of hiking had put on them. “The other day Teddy's grandson was arrested for shooting at citizens @ith a BB gun. Old-timers in the Medora country are sure thal Teddy furned over twice in his coffin. “Little Teddy Roosevelt has also been found guilty of shooting paper @ads at Uncle Franklin.” * SOW THE NAME ORIGINATED Mott did not derive its name from a railway official as many and many person has believed. It was named in honor of Miss Lillian Mott, secretary ‘William H. Brown, the land man who founded the thriving southwest- ern North Dakota city. Miss Mott had been associated with Mr. Brown for many years in the heyday of the real estate boom in the western parts of the Dakotas. Be- cause of her long and faithful service, Brown decided that the new town on the prairie would be named after her. ‘The city’s famous slogan, “Mott's the Spot,” according to M. J. Con- molly of New England, originated on a baseball trip from Mott to Dickinson’ ® good many years ago. Who thought of it is now one of those things long forgotten. But Postmaster Frank Bonesho, County Auditor Robert D. Beery, Btate’s Attorney George H. Stone and Wellington Iyrsh yelled that day, “Mott's the Spot, That's What.” A lot of enthusiasm for the original snappy slogan which attracted na- jon-wide attention at the time waned, however, when New England base- fans, delirious with joy over a licking their warriors had administered + fo the Mott nine, twisted the slogan to “Mott's the Spot that God Forgot.” eee PENWARDEN’S GHOST To take a look a look at Dick Penwarden, Sr., you wouldn't think he ever believed in ghosts. But Dick, as a boy, was no different than any other boy when it came to passing a cemetery on a dark night. But maybe Dick had some grounds for having a faint suspicion there were nebulous creatures who came from the dark world to plague little 8. Dick was raised in one of the oldest shires of England, Staffordshire, with a history that goes back to the days when the Neanderthal man chiseled odes of love to his hairy sweetheart out of volcanic rock. Penwarden’s home was at Bebbington, a town located on one of the old Roman roads. Its cemetery had been the burial ground there for al - most 2,000 years. Small wonder, them, that a young lad might not be dream- ing when he saw skeletons in armor dancing a jig on the old rock wall in the light of a full moon. But we'll let Dick tell his own story: “I had a hazy notion that such critters might be possibly snooping ‘round old houses, abandoned wells, churchyards and the like. It seemed prevalent and accepted belief that old maids were wont to find male ) under their beds with heavy boots on. But as I understand it, maids) rather enjoyed the experience. home from a piscatorial adventure one day about dusk, we terrific drencher on the old Roman road. We were about ites when bung-eyed I saw through the sheets of rain, on the wall of water, a life-size figure, careening around and itself shamefully and then dodging back whence it came. I had held an idea that ghosts were transparent as a chinese virgin, but no}. this bird. He was i elephant on a rampage. Every time I thought he'd come whisking back and interpose his ghastly lorlorn hope to expect anything resembling humanity to was as sodden and miserable as a wet hen sitting ** - “Then something happened. 1 noticed it took his ghostship just about tong- to dodge back and return for another whirl. I made up my mind bes i raat past ae ethereal obstacle, I paused. The question of whether sphenomenon was a from the U. 8. Naval academy in 1917,! “it. When the opportune moment arrived, I made a grand dash: jmore intelligently direct its game ghosts was answered. I did not, for this particular caused by a flickering gas lamp in a cottage opposite New York, Jan. 4—Gentlemen, the Queen! A low bow, please, for Helen Hayes who is impersonating “Victoria Regina” this time at the Broadhurst. Dig into the adjectival thesaurus to hail Miss Hayes’ romp in a regal role. But lukewarm sentiments will do for the play itself. Trust the fair Helen to launch a thousand lips in uttering “Bravo!” when she is on the stage, al- though this particular saga she is in belongs to the library instead of the footlights. This play — if, indeed, it can be called a play—is Laurence Housman’s string of episodes following Victoria around from girlhood to senility; from her ascensions to the throne to her old age. Lustrous, lovely Miss Hayes acts the gamut with beautiful sincerity. She is as fascinating a Queen when she is portraying the: empress as an old Jady as in those scenes when she is feigning the age of thirty. She brings Victoria to life so vividly and understandingly in this sketchy drama that she makes it sound exciting instead of stuffy. Because Gilbert Miller, who never spares the horses or expenses, pro- duced “Victoria Regina,” the show is lavishly decorated with gorgeous cos- tumes and scenery and for the eye alone turns out to be one of the hhandsomest spectacles of the season. At any rate, it was last week's most important occasion in the theater. When Helen Hayes renounced Holly- E BISMARCK ‘Helen Hayes Hailed for Her Portrayal of Queen Victoria Helen Hayes (right) established herself as the Queen of Broadway, her portrayal of Queen Victoria in “Victoria Regina” eliciting bravos while applause for last season’s work as Mary of Scotland still echoes. But all is not drama along the Rialto—George White has opened his new “Scandals” with 75 handsome counterparts of Patsy Ruth (left) to gaze upon, wood, Broadway won back one of its first ladies of the stage. Hollywood Contributes But last week was a busy one on Broadway. The Rialto’s Christmas hosiery was filled to a bulge and first- nighters were kept on the run in Hollywood contributed another of its shining satellites to the holiday sup- ply—Miss Elissa Landi, whose path, to date, has been paved in celluloid. She came here to make a personal appearance in Martin Flavin’s “Tap- estry in Gray” and Hollywood, as a matter of fact, monopolized this show. B F, Schulberg, a film magnate, is the producer and Marion Gering, head man with the megaphone at the picture studios, directed this one for the stage. They could have saved themselves the trouble, the costs and the train-ride east. It wasn’t the titian-haired Miss| Landi’s fault. Not only is she beau- tiful to behold but she can act a role across the theatre's boards without calling for a dozen retakes. It was just that the author had written a hodge-podge of a show about a couple 01 medicos, nvolved in a case. of plas- tic surgery and a girl, that, made lit- tle sense at all. Hollywood may have this one‘back with Broadway's com- pliments. Cornell Has New Man And there was Katherine Cornell who stopped by again for two weeks in “Romeo and Juliet” with her new leading man. He is Maurice Evans |And when I say _ opulently, and he will become this town's new matinee idol before he recites his way through many balcony scenes. It is the magnificent “Juliet” of “Kit” Cornell’s, however, that they are ap- plauding chiefly; and as one reviewer stated, Shakespeare must have writ- ermine, top hats and swallow tails.| ten the part especially for her. All of which brings us around to Rudy Vallee and the new George White's Scandals. The 12th edition opened last week and the tired busi- ness men are already mopping their brows. Because in addition to Rudy's sweet and low roundelays, Bert Lahr’s comical cut-ups and Willie and Eu- gene Howard’s hilarious high-jinx, Brother White has gone out and fetched 75 stunning shapely girls who will be a sight for the sore eyes of any bald-headed row. There are some tunes in this new “Scandals” that are | bound to find their way soon to your receiving set-or gramaphone and the chorus numbers are opulently staged. I don’t mean that the girls need too many clothes. There were a few more new Broad- way events, that need not detain us long. One was the return of .Lucienne Boyer, the Pafisienne chanteuse who has an idea that she is the Eleanora. Duse of Song, in a '36 edition of “The Continental Varieties.” It is high- toned vaudeville and pretty dull. The other was a play by Arthur Richman entitled “The Season Changes.” It opened and closed the same week, like @ swinging door, ACCEPTING FDR DEFY, | KNOX OFFERS PLANS Republican Presidency Seeker| Says His Program Is An- swer to President Washington, Jan. 4.—()—Accepting President Roosevelt's defiant challenge to New Deal critics, Frank Knox, Chi- cago publisher and Republican preési- dential possibility, proposed Saturday @ seven point federal program which he said was a positive alternate for present policies. In a statement handed to reporters, Knox said the president’s annual mes- Sage to congress, was “an undisguised political speech by the prospective candidate of the Democratic party.” “Specifically candidate Roosevelt de- manded that his opposition provide an explicit alternative program if they were dissatisfied with the fruits of the’New Deal,” he said. “That 1s not difficult. Here is one. tion of governmental expenses, “2. A sound currency to be main- tained at all hazards. “3. Maintenance of the national credit by a federal budget annually balanced. “4. Unemployment and old age in- surance under state laws. “5. The removal of the government from all fields of private enterprise. “6. Opposition to the unsound pol- icy of restricting agricultural produc- tion. “7, Strict and impartial enforce- ment of the anti-trust laws to pre- vent monopoly.” Hunters Are Asked To Report on Kill An appeal to all North Dakota sportsmen to file with the state and fish department a statement of the number of game birds killed by them last’ season was made Saturday by A. H. Erickson, deputy commis- sioner. By determining the number of ‘birds killed and the place where the take was heaviest the department can propagation activities, Erickson said, ‘gates, throwing its light on an image just inside the gates and thereby its shape on the heavy bank of rain,” at once. iFormer Local Man Dickinson Pastor to Assist at Allin Rite Dickinson, N. D., Jan, 4—Rev.| Cherles W. Langdon, pastor of the| Methodist church here and formerly of Drayton, will assist at funeral services for Roger W. Allin, former | governor of North Dakota, which will ; be held in Park River Sunday. Gets Important Job J. E. Kaulfuss, one-time assistant chief engineer of the North Dakota highway department, has been ap- pointed state director of Pennsylvan- ja’s highway planning division, ac- | | i Immediate and drastic rediue>| e(e6ce COMES FROM “BleLios? THE NAME GIVEN He would like to include the figures in his annual report and asks all hunters who shot anything to report THis Curious WorRLD cording to information received here. In his new position Kaulfuss will direct the expenditure of $65,000 in collecting data upon which will be based a long-time construction and maintenance program, Since leaving North Dakota Kaul- fuss has been professor of highway engineering at Pennsylvania State college. He was granted 4 year’s leave of absence from that position to take up the new work, The present sugar beet production adjustment contract has been extend- ed by the secretary of agriculture to include the 1936 crop year. The con- tract provides that such extension may be made. American countries vary from 25 to 20,000 square miles in area. By William Ferguson THERE ARE OVER 300 /NSECT SPEIES THAT PREY ON THEM/ 4 TRUCK LOAD OF TURKEYS FOR A TRUCK LOAD OF BEAVERS. ee TRIBUNE. SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1936 COUNTY DADS FACE REMOVAL CHARGES F. M. Jackson Will Represent Governor at Hearing in Hettinger Monday Hearing of removal charges against two Adams county commissioners is scheduled to open at Hettinger Mon- day before a special representative of Gov. Walter Welford. A. J, Fordahl and J. E. Bales are the two commissioners against whom charges were filed with Welford wittt | @ demand they be removed from of- fice. Welford appointed F. M. Jackson, Hettinger attorney, as special commis- stoner to hear the action, to be prose- cuted by States Attorney Henry Moen, The two commissioners remain in office pending final disposition of the charges by Welford, who ordered there be no suspension during pen- dancy of the decision. | The ouster demand was filed by a | Spurns Man Won | by Wife’s Suicide group of petitioners including P. A. Peterson, Tom Berg, George P, Moel- ler, E, L. Hokenson, Frank Peterson, Tobie Cook, Albert Rytter and W. L. Golden. THREE FACING TRIAL IN BREMER ‘SNATCH? j which are used for\ medicine. Onetime Barker-Karpis Gun Molls to Testify Against Trio in St. Paul St. Paul, Jan. 4.—(?)—Three wom- en, one-time companions of the Bar- ker-Karpis gang, were brought here Satirday from various prisons on the eve of the trial of three men for com- Plicity in the $200,000 Edward G. Bremer kidnaping. The three, Edna Murray, Dolores Delaney, and Wynona Burdette, are expected to be witnesses against Harry Sawyer, alleged “fingermdn,” Wiliam ‘Weaver, indicted as an actual kid- naper, and Cassius McDonald, De- troit engineer, alleged money chang- er, who are to go on trial Monday. Edna Murray was brought from the Missourl penitentiary where she is serving out’ a robbery sentence. The other two women were sentenced for harboring various members of the kid- nap gang. Five persons, including the late John J. McLaughlin, who died re- cently at the Leavenworth peniten- tiary, were sentenced July 7,.1935, to prison terms in connection with the Bremer kidnaping. State Is Involved in Suit Over $2,000 Note Whether or not William Langer has any right to collect salary for that portion of his term which he did not serve because he was removed from office by the supreme court has be-! come a corollary question in a suit filed against Langer by a Jamestown woman, the Associated Press reported Saturday. The action, begun by Mrs. Mary La Fond as executrix of the state of Susan Breen, seeks to collect on a promissory note for $2,000 of which had paid only $500. It was filed two months ago. Following Langer’s acquittal of con- spiracy charges in federal court, how- ever, M. C. Fredericks, attorney for Mrs. La Fond, made the state of North Dakota a joint defendant and sought to attach any money Langer might have coming from the state for that portion of his term which he did not serve as governor. If Langer has anything coming Fredericks wants tt. Attorney General P. O. Sathre is representing the state In the action while Langer is represented by Alvin Strutz of Bismarck. Fine Says Farmers of Nation Desire Peace Cleveland, Jan. 4.—(%)—More than 7,000 persons heard war denounced by & dozen speakers Friday night as the third annual three-day congress of the American League Against War and Fascism got under way. Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, the principal speaker, warned that the Ethiopian situation was “only a trial of strength to determine the lineup of nations” for a second World War. “4 to begin, probably in the far east.” State Senator ©. W. Fine of North Dakota asserted “farmers of this na- tion are for peace.” Earl Evans Is Bound Over.to Higher Court Earl Evans, McKenzie farmer fac- Pridiay after a preliminary hearing before H. R. Bonny, justice of the peace. Evans was committed to the county jail in default of $1,500 bonds set by the court. Evans was arrested for the alleged theft of snow fence, owned by the Northern Pacific rail- way company; a hay mower and a automobile trailer. Plans Gym Classes For Bismarck Girls Al girls and women of Bismarck are invited to take part in the bas- ketball games and gymnasium classes which will be held at 7 p. m., Mon- day and Thursday evenings at the Wachter school gymnasium, Mrs. Beatrice Oliver, women’s recreational director for the WPA in Burleigh county said Saturday. She said there is_no limit and that the program operates on the principle of “the more the merrier.” Adjustment payments in North Da- kota to wheat, corn and hog, and sugar beet producers from July 1 to Oct. 1 totalled $1,849,624.16. In October and November large payments have been made on wheat contracts which baal not included in the foregoing The Saiga antelope of Asia is be- coming extinct because the Chinese pay exorbitant prices for its horns, Love won at the cost of another woman’s life has been spurned by Josephine Carden, above. 18- year-old Chicago high school student. and James Hayden, 23, below, has lost both the mother of hie 18-month-old baby and the girl blamed for wrecking their home. Mrs. Hayden shot herself after calling the pair to her home and demanding that her husband choose between them. Hayden chose Miss Car- den, who at first said ‘she would wed bim at once, then said she was tired of bim. MOYNIHAN RESIGNS Chicago, Jan. 4.—(®)—Tim Moyni- han, former Notre Dame star, Satur- day revealed that he had resigned his post as line coach at the University of Texas. Moynihan said he was seeking the coaching position at Okla- homa A. & M. ; Roosevelt’s Neutrality. Plan Wins Isolationists t Nye Terms It Great Advance; Wants Arms Embargo Made Mandatory Washington, Jan. 4.—(4)—President Roosevelt's neutrality plan drew cheers Saturday from congressional isolationists and removed many of the obstacles in the way of writing a new and permanent law to safeguard .| American peace. The administration program, pro- posing epochal changes in America’s historic policies toward warring na- tions, went than many mem- bers of congress had expected. Some who were ready to fight for what they wanted, found their desires conceded ‘in the legislation introduced Friday. On the other hand the administra- tion asked for some discretionary pow- ers which did not satisfy those de- manding strictly mandatory legisla- tion. They proceeded to draft a mea- sure of their own. Eliminates Major Hazards Chairman Pittman, of the senate foreign relations committee, said the measure would “eliminate the major hazards of a war in which we were not directly concerned, without des- troying our normal commerce.” Though finding some fault with the bill, Chairman Nye of the senate munitions committee termed it “a great advance, of historic import- ance.” Nye and his group were parti- cularly pleased the administration bill would require that any embargoes apply to all belligerents. They like- wise commended the proposal for re- stricting trade with belligerents to normal levels. They added, however, that “there are a number of provisions giving the president wide discretion which we believe should be tightened.” In this connection they demanded that, the mandatory arms embargo should ap- ply at the outbreak of a war. Provides Arms Embargo - The administration bill proposed that the embargo on arms should go into effect “upon the outbreak or during the progress of any war” in which the United States was not en- gaged. disagreement among congressional students of the neutrality problem over the vital sec- tion of the administration bill dealing with trade in war materials other than outright munitions. The bill would require the president to apply curbs upon finding that it was in the interests of neutrality to prohibit more than normal exports of such commodities. Other Features Other features of the administra- tion’s proposed legislation would: Prevent loans to belligerent govern- ments, except normal short term credits, if the president should find them desirable. Permit power for the president to j withdraw diplomatic protection to na- tionals ‘doing business with belliger- ents, and reequir them to operate at their own risk. MIKES RECOVERING Chicago, Jan, 4.—(#)—Phillip Mikes, milk wagon driver who killed his wife and stepdaughter, shot his stepson, then attempted suicide last Monday, Saturday was re recovering from his wounds by physicians at the i Bridewell hospital. There was some Uncle Alm 19 Write today for a copy of this unusual, attractive almanac, now being distributed to its readers by The Bismarck Tribune This book has been assembled mainly from gov- ernmental material, and is mass of data that will be citizen. Sam’s anac 36 an ideal condensation of a a constant help to every Printed on heavy paper with a durable, colored cover, it will be ready for mailing about January 1st. In order to gauge the size of the edition, Mr. Has- kin asks for advance orders, and the only way the reader can make certain of securing a copy of this valuable publication is to send in the order in advance. : Mail This Coupon Today ey The Bismarck Tribune Information Bureau Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. 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