The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 18, 1936, Page 7

Picture H Appailing Ruin Is Seen on Jour- ney of 1,500 Miles Through Desolate Area WORSE STORMS ARE FEARED ‘All We Need Is a Little Rain,’ Say Those Who Still Have Faith Throats rasped by dust and half-blinded, Dust Bowl of the southwest, where the destructive dust storms are already beginning. Houston’s word-picture of the area today, in the first of three stories, puts you on the ground of America’s most tragic scene. By FRANK HOUSTON Logan, N. M., March 18.—(NEA)— Completing a 1800-mile tour of the Dust Bowl of the southwest, I have seen the March lion shaking his mane over that stricken area in the first of what may be worse dust storms than the ones which shocked the country last year. From Amarillo, Tex., westward to Clovis, N. M., then northward into Colorado, eastward again into Kan- sas, and down through the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandle, an area larger than all New England, we' have seen a stage set for tragedy. Within five days three dust storms were encount- ered. The land throughout the Dust Bow! is in just the right condition to blow away. Frozen hard throughout a’ rainless winter, it has now thawed out and pulverized, fine as face pow- der. ‘The rising March winds have al- ready begun to sweep it away, and there is every reason to expect more Already spring’s “dusters” is pitifully evident. To drive through this area today is like moving up to the front line on a battlefield. Here is the skeleton of a horse; there one of a cow; there a dilapidated windmill, an abandoned cultivator, a reaper, half-buried in sand and falling to pieces. Here are fences buried in powdery dunes, and there a deserted and dis- long high’ rippled silt. It rises in choking clouds with the slightest breeze. Like An H. G. Wells World . It is like another world, some strange deserted planet in an H. G. Wells fantasy. It is unbelievably barren. No trees, except an occasion- al dead one stretching gaunt arms or shrubs except an occasional tum- ble-weed rolling crazily across the plain, No longer can you see the miles of waving golden grain thet used to be. A few gasping farmers cling to their homes and their acres. Around Clovis, N. M., the young green wheat stands, a couple of inches high. The farm- ers. have done what they could. But now they stand about the dust is flying again. One weatherbeaten old man at Clovis told me: “I’ve plowed wide furrows across my fields, as the gov- ernment said. If that doesn’t work, and the dust gets at us again like it did last year, I lose a whole square SO Dead mulberry trees stretch gnarled fingers into the sky near Dalhart, Tex., their trunks scoured clean of bark by the flying sand of repeated dust storms. Ii from abandoned fences. To the wind’s & few feet in front Of] giass used in office buildings, etched -cap. The sun disap-| by the flying sand. eerie half-light. The farmhouse floor was covered by several inches of fine silt. All furniture had been taken away, but there remained a broken baby buggy, one tattered shoe, a frayed broom sticking up out of the dirt. On the wall a grimy calendar told the story. It displayed the month of April, 1935. That was the month of the worst dust storms in this area, when the wheat literally was blown fhere| out of the fields. In April, 1935, this farmer gathered up his belongings and trekked away, defeated. Dust Deep in House In another abandoned farmhouse, gt dust had drifted silt as fine as the flour form- we proceeded northward. About erly put in it to make bread, miles away we came on a farm-| r,"sti1 another, the dust was as ouse which told the whole story Of) geep as two feet on the second floor. ] \When we walked through it, floury gee haze. At still another abandoned place, broken-down wagon stood half-cov- 50 ae that no one sould eres .|ered in the yard, while the wooden peed eee: the windmill clacked and flailed wildly. one. almost frosted) not a drop of water came from the —_— | dry and rusty pipe. breaks through your heart toe see. mous Cimarron country area in Ok- lahoma have moved away. Yet those who remain continue to ope with a good-natured humor: that seems to defy all nature. AN INVITATION “All we need is a little rain,” they UNINC CIMT am | O0°" <Mavbe St will come this year, ‘This half-resigned, half-defiant at- titude was well expressed by H. J. Bosworth, proprietor of the Crystal Cafe at Boise City, Okla. “We don’t even have good dust any more,” he com “When this There are about 310,900,000 cubic miles of water in the oceans of the 1 | world. we found the cook-stove oven full of| an old auto without wheels, and a! n the bare, dead branches, crows have built nests from strands of broken and rusted barbed wii far horizon, nothing breaks. the force,, NORTHWOOD PIONEE I$ FATALLY BURNED Mrs. Elena Tandberg, 72, Dies After Kerosene Explodes in Her Home Northwood, N. D., March 18.—()}— Burns and shock suffered Monday re- sulted in the death 12 hours later in a Northwood hospital of Mrs. Elena Tandberg, 72, resident of this district since 1882, Alone in her home she is believed to have attempted to hasten a fire with kerosene, which flashed and set fire to her clothing. She ran to the basement and tore off her burning clothing. The smoke from the jsmouldering articles attracted the at- tention of a son and son-in-law, who found her unconscious. A native of Norway, Mrs. Tandberg ,eame to Northwood in 1882, and was jmarried two years later to Andrew ,; Tandberg, wh- died several years ago. | Survivors are six children, Mrs. Os- It is a picture of desolation thaticar Berg and Mrs. Ben Rinde ofjigaken in several North Dakota and |Hoople, Reuben and Arthur Tandberg More than half the people of the fa-jand Mrs. Carl Thingelstad and Mrs.|nesday by authorities from the two/ Claus Hegge of Northwood. A brother, Gilbert Shera, lives in Minneapolis and a sister, Martha Paulson, in Grand Forks. Gifford Admits A. T. T. Is ‘Virtual Monopoly’ | Washington, March 18.—()-—Testi- ‘mony that the American Telephone | and Telegraph Co., is the world’s larg- (est private enterprise, controlling 85 per cent of the nation’s telephone business and enjoying a ‘virtual monopoly,” was given the communi- ! { | cations commission Tuesday by Wal- ter 8, Gifford. The A. T. & T. president was the first witness at the commission’s first public hearing in its $750,000 investi- gation of the company. | The witness testified he received $100,000 a year when he was chosen | president in 1925, that this was in- ; creased to $250,000 by 1929 and that : he now was receiving $203,000. Physicists have acknowledged that light's velocity is one of the most \fundamental constants of nature. early victims of this spring's dust storms in t! the southwest. clump of soap 8! _THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1936 Writer and Cameraman Brave Dust Storms to orror of Ravaged Southwest Bow DANCE RECITAL IS | SCHEDULED TUESDAY Ensemble Famous in Europe and America Is Being Brought by Music Club One of the leading attractions of the year’s entertainment bill will be offered next Tuesday evening, March 24, when the Thursday Musical club presents Grace and Kurt Graff in a dance recital in the Bismarck city auditorium. The program is the third in an ar- tist series embracing four concerts which will be concluded early in May with a musicale by Ruth Ray, violin- ist, and Robert Long, tenor. The fourth program will be given free for high school students of Bismarck- Mandan as was the Reinhold Schmidt concert which was presented before 1,000 pupils free of charge through the courtesy of the concert manage- ment. In announcing the concert Mrs. O. I, Devold, Thursday Musical presi- dent, noted that the sponsoring of four pragrams by American artists is in line with the suggestions made by Mrs, John Alexander Jardine, Fargo, ot business. tremendous increase in use President of the National Federation the telephone, service was some- times aot as tapid os asual. But of Music Clubs. Win Amasing Success The Graffs, formerly known as Grace Cornell and Kurt Graff, have won amazing success as dancers in both Europe and America. The pub- lic and press during the last three years have recognized in their work a Most perfect dance ensemble. Walter Winchell adds his word of praise when he says, “The Graffs are a Class A dancing combination. They reveal training and tone. Their work is outstanding.” The reviewer for The Daily Mirror, London, stated that he had never seen dancers move more beautifully. Berlin’s Uhr Blatt writer says, “One rarely sees a choreography and cre- ative fantasy so perfect in every de- tail” In Paris, Kurt Graff was ranked among the very first Geyman ldancers. The New York Evening World comments, “We have few such performers as Grace Graff (nee Cor- nell), and fewer still so gifted with originality and humor.” Won Home City Again In a recent concert at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago tickets sold at $2.20, In Bismarck, the sponsoring group is offering four concerts for a smaller figure. Single admissions will be sold at the box office for both of the coming programs. Of the Chicago concert, The Chi- cago American critic wrote: “Grace and Kurt Graff, both ex- quisite creatures, enthralled us anew at their dance recital in Goodman Theatre last evening. ie Graffs| have something original to offer in their art and that is mostly because their originality lies within them- selves, “They are fine; they are magnetic; they are fascinating. Their religious dance was something to remember for @ long time, so chaste, so ‘ethereal and so realistic a portrayal as that of Mary supporting her Son to the cross has not been our fortune to witness in many a day; by contrast the chil- dren’s dances, entitled ‘Street Urchin’ and ‘Little Boy,’ were so piquant, roguish, characteristic and irresist- ably funny as to call for an urgent repetition of both numbers.” ENTERS FRUIT BUSINESS Buenos Aires.—(?)—Miguel Angelo Carcano, Argentina’s new minister of agriculture, plans to establish 100 fruit stands here in the capital to pro- vide low price sales direct to consyum- ers, thus helping the growing fruit industry in the Rio Negro valley. NASAL CATARRH Just a few drops of Vicks Va-tro-nol clears clogging mu- i cus, reduces swollen membranes, brings comforting relief. VICKS VATRO-NOL e but Telephone “Roads” were Open! Dares the blizzards and sub zero weather ot recent weeks, tamilies everywhere have depend. ed upon the telephone more than ever betore. Travel was difficult tor many it was impossible. Gut the telephone kept snow. bound tamilies in touch with rel atives, friends, doctors end place: Nearly everyone increased their use of the telephone. The daily aumber of calls went up... 40.. 50... per cent...in some cases trip d All-time records were broken 0 both Iccal and tong distance calls. With this practically all telephone “roads” were kept open. Thetelephonehelped highway workers, railroad men, police, firemen, doctors and others to of carty on. In countless ways it was an invaluable messenger in time of need. How the Telephone Helped The stork “walked telephone wires” into several homes. Doctors, unable to reach these homes, gave directions by telephone. eee {o many cases ot illness and accident, it was impossible for doctors to reach patients. Treatment was prescribed by telephone. eco Travelers in blocked trains and automobiles sought shelter in nearby homes... telephone calls fashed home news of their safety...en- abled them tocancelappoint- ments...make new plans. eee Schools were dismissed in many places because of bliz- zard conditions. Parents were notified by telephone so that they might come for children. ece Homes and communities threatened with fuel and sent word by and highway crews could open the roads and bring supplies and medical aid. coe Hundreds of persons sufter- ed from exposure. But mil- © Bovina, Tex., the carcass was found in a a ghastly forerunner of what will be seen lions of trips were made over telephone wires by persons warm and comfortable with- in their homes. This cow is one of the “Dust vl"? of aeRecoinae NORTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY on a large scale unless unexpected rains halt the rising dust cloud of 1936 © s TO PUBLISH POEM INNEW ANTHOLOGY Work of Mrs. Georgia Burt Knudtson Is Recognized by Eastern Publishers “Safely Anchored,’ poem which Mrs. Georgia Burt Knudtson of 406 Fifth St., wrote in 1928 and which was published in The Evangelica) Messenger, is to be included in the sixth “Paeber Anthology of Verse” to be published soon by the Paeber com- pany of New York City. Mrs. Knudtson, who has homes both in Bismarck and in Apple Creek town- ship, first became interested in writ- ing verse in 1927 and since then has had many works published in religious publications and in local newspapers. For subjects, Mrs. Knudtson writes about farm and country life. While most of her verse is of the religious nature, she also has turned to humor- ous treatments in some of her writ- ing. She has a collection of some hundred poems which she hopes some day to publish in book form. The daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. FP. J. Burt, Mrs. Knudtson has spent most of her life in Bismarck and its vicinity. ROBBERY SUSPECTS WILL FACE GRILLING Minnesota and North Dakota Authorities Confer on Cus- tody of Quartet Fargo, N. D., March 18,—()—Loot| Minnesota robberies was studied Wed- states at a conference here regarding! possible action against three men and} & woman, all of Minneapolis, who were captured and jailed by Fargo) authorities Monday. 1 Participating in the conference are! Sheriff G. A. Rankin and County At- torney C. J. Donnelly of Lyon county, Minnesota, Edwin Jensen of the Min- nesota crime bureau and sheriffs and state’s attorneys of three North Da-: kota counties. Grilling the four suspects, Ingval Leroen, Robert Keller, alias Jack! Pipe” Nelson, and. Helen Olson, 23,| \former. Fargo waitress, Tuesday night failed to elicit any information. 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