The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 19, 1936, Page 7

Strong Souls Cling to Land in Dust _ Bowl; Hundreds Bow to Cruel Fate: Dust Victims Fan Spark of Hope the While Nature* Ravages Their Land Paventestrranrtes. Worrave By FRANK HOUSTON Guymon, Okla., Mar. 19.—(NEA)— Another dust storm was at our heels as the car pulled into the farmyard of the Ray Casaday place near Turpin in the Oklahoma Panhandle. He you do not see the spectacular effects of the dust storms so clearly. But appearances are deceitful. Go away from the houses and farm- yards, out where the wheat is grown in the fields, and see the drab wind- swept stretches, the leveled furrows, the crops blown out of their seedbeds, or abated with inches of killing sand, Casaday’s place is like that. Where ther® should be green-sprouting wheat at this time of year, there is a layer of powdery gray dust that set- tled after the Panhandle winds de- stroyed the plowed furrows. Come into the Casadays’ little house, where they have survived four years of hell in the form of dust and drouth. coughing and sneezing, muddy tears The wind is starting to blow again |tunning down her cheeks. Mrs. Cas- as three of the Casadays’ seven chil-|®day was obviously relieved. “Tt dren greet us. They lead the way to|™makes me worry about the children the small, three-room farmhouse. Haven't Starved—Yet Mrs. Casaday, sturdy and reliable, when these dusters come up,” she said apologetically. “How these children do talk,” she is typical of the rugged womanhood | reflected, obviously thinking of Julia’s which is the only type that survives |Temark about hunger. “They remem- in this region, ber things pretty clearly, I guess. “You'd better come inside,” she| After 23 years out here, we grown- says. “We're going to have another | UPS learn to forget troubles as soon blow directly.” The three children, | #5 they're over. We'd have been hun- Bessie, 3, Roscoe, 6, and Harold, 18,|8ty ® lot if it hadn't been for the enter with us. Inside are Julia, Jesse and Vida, ranging from 11 to 16, WPA work. “We did get some free groceries Nine-year-old Mae is staying | nd clothes last summer. That help- . late at school and Casaday himself |¢d. I imagine we'll get through all is out on a WPA road project with| Tight. All we need is just one good his truck. “If it wasn’t for WPA, I don’t know what we would have done this | longing, “mr, | throughout the dust bowl. And they last year,” says Mrs, Casaday. “Sust one good crop!” That is the hopeful word you hear Casaday makes $80 a month with his|Keep trying. In Baca county, Colo., truck, working 16 days a month, and | 150,000 acres of wheat planted this that keeps us going. Of course, his| year already are all blown away. And gasoline, ofl and repairs have to; future prices in the country’s grain come out of that, too.” markets are beginning to allow for Last fall, the Casadays got a $275: Such destruction by tending to go wheat allotment check from the AAA. | higher. ‘That helped tide them over the win- ter. Well-to-Do Hit, Too It is not only the poor tenant “It’s been awfully hard out here| farmers and small owners who have the last four years,” Mrs. Casaday|suffered. Listen to R. R, Ruther- went on. “We haven’t had any wheat | ford, southern Colorado wheat grow- all that time. Two years ago we had |er: So little row-crop stuff that our four} In 1931 he had amassed $40,000 horses and one cow just starved to,from repeated bumper wheat crops. death.” “Getting enough to eat now?” we asked. Like everyone else out here, he thought he saw a “good thing” in large-scale wheat production. He “Oh, yes, we get enough,” she re-| plowed all of his land, including the plied grimly. “We aren’t starving to| pastures covered with tough wind- death yet.” “But, mama,” put in 11-year-old Julia, “don’t you remember last sum- | he recalls. resisting grasses. “We planted everything in wheat,” “Then, in the spring of mer when we went hungry so much?” | 1932, the drouth hit. The fields dried “Hush, child,” her mother ~said, | up. quickly. along all right now.” Just One Good Crop! The dust cloud fell like a shroud about the house. Mrs. Casaday hur- riedly closed the doors and windows. We replanted the wheat. A “You know we're getting|cloudburst hit, and the fields washed away. We replanted a third time. The dust storms hit us then, and blew the land away. We haven’t made a crop since.” In 1933, in 1934, and in 1935, the But the air of the lamp-lighted rooms | wheat was planted. It was all blown began to grow dim with fine dust. The missing Mae burst through the kitchen door in a swirl of dust, away. This year, on borrowed money, Rutherford planted 3,000 acres of wheat on the long chance that he Bismarck’s Largest Selection of the New Styles in Spring We're showing these four Sport- Bak Suits because they set the pace for all sports suits. They show the various trends in sport styles for spring! See the originals of these and see the many other sports suits that we are featuring. Unlimited choice of patterns, colors, fabrics. One and two trousers. $19.50 to $35 BLOUSE BACK We repeat: the largest selection of Sport-Bak Suits in Bismarck Alex Rosen & Bro. GUSSET BACK FREESWINGS Up from the horizon comes the blinding cloud of dust. Here is the “duster” that greeted Reporter Houston and Cameraman Helm at Naravisa, N.M. This was regarded by natives as so commonplace as to be scarcely worth mentioning. might be lucky. But it looks as though he was going to lose it all again for the fifth consecutive year. Quit? “No,” he said. “I guess I'll stay. I made quite a stack of money out here, and now I’ve put it all back. But I'm sticking.” ‘Why Leave Now?’ The attitude is common. J, C. Ramsey, owner’ of several hundred acres near N. M,, admits he lost $17,000 in the past three years when drouth killed his wheat and starved his cattle. “Leave this coun- try? I should say not,” he says, em- phatically. “We came here and made our profits. We stayed here and lost them. Why leave now? We'll make ‘em again.” But many cannot hold out. Hun- dreds have picked up their little pos- sessions and taken the trail that leads away from the dust bowl. Un- less unexpected rains come, or the government program is continued and proves effective, large parts of the dust bowl must become bleak desert. In the front-line trenches around Dalhart, Tex., in the battle against the dust JEANNE PAR 1S PLAYMAKERS HEAD Bismarck High School Activity Abandoned for Two Years Is Reorganized Jeanne Paris was elected president of the newly organized Playmaker chapter in Bismarck high school at the initial meeting of the dramatic society. She is a member of the sen- jor class and was active in Playmak- ers before the activity was discon- tinued two years ago. Other officers elected to serve with her are Valdis Knudson, vice presi- dent; Patricia La Rue, secretary; | Madeline Angell, treasurer; Alice | Knowles, scrapbook editor; Mary {Louise Finney, mistress of the ward- jzobe, and Grogory Dahlen, master of properties. Miss Louise Johnson of the Eng- lish faculty will direct the organiza- tion, Miss Johnson has had wide ex- perience in this line of work and has received much favorable comment for her success in coaching the local jun- jor high school operettas. She be- came a member of the senior high school faculty at the beginning of the second semester. The Playmakers will begin a scrap- | book of theatrical notices from other schools, reviews of plays and pictures of stage settings. In another scrap- ! book will be kept pictures of costumes jfor reference, particularly in period plays. A committee will begin col- lecting costumes as the nucleus for a wardrobe for the organization. It has not been decided yet wheth- er the new organization will enter {the state playmaker contest this | spring. | Service Electric Shop Has New Location Expanding business made it neces- ‘sary for the Service Electric Shop to 'move its quarters from 117 Fifth | Street to 206 Broadway, it was an- |mounced Thursday by John B. Kott- sick, proprietor. j Service Electric Shop's new quar- , ters have been remodeled to make it ,one of the best equipped electric shops , in the city. ; Announcement that necessary equip- {ment for the manufacture of Neon \signs has been purchased and in- Stalled also was made by Kottsick Thursday. Kottsick has handled this ; before were these signs manufactured jin Bismarck. In addition to the Neon equipment has taken on the dealerships here for General Electric home laundry equip- ment and Hotpoint refrigerators. The company will continue in its electrical contracting work, including repairing and wiring, and continues to handle rsmall electric appliances. A staff of five men is employed at the shop. Kottsick has lived in Bismarck the last eight years and has been prom- ‘inent in the electrical field for the ‘last four years. He is married and has three children, STRIKERS STAY ON Madison, Wis, March 19.—()— With no settlement of their grievances in sight, WPA strikers, encam| in the state capitol, are making plans to “sit it out” in the assembly chamber for the second week. London has few buildings more than mits ‘construction to a height of 150 feet. ‘type of business heretofore but never | ‘end agency, Service Electric Shop also | TTOURY NOT SEEN AT ROBBERY WITH GUN Government Witness Describes Scene at $78,000 Mill City Mail Holdup Minneapolis, March 19.—(7)—A fed- eral court witness Thursday identified “Silent Jim” Ryan as a gunner in the $78,000 mail robbery here three years ago but testified he did not see Tom- my Touhy gripping a machinegun near the scene of the crime. The witness was Frank C. Rogers, postal employe. Called by the gov- ernment to testify in the trial of Touhy, charged with complicity in the crime, Rogers said he drove a mail truck to the depot about 9:30 p. m., Jan. 3, 1933. Ryan is serving time in the Alcatraz island prison for his part in the holdup. While he was unloading the truck, he said, he saw @ man standing by @ post near the mail transfer office. “One of the postal employes was coming out of 1 shack near the trans- fer office,” the witness testified. “when a guy standing near a. post shouted, ‘Get back in there or I'll ‘shoot you.’ “He had @ sawed-off shotgun. He shouted to me and other workers to stand still and not to move or he would shoot. The other fellow with me jumped and ran. I jumped to the ground at the same time. Then I saw three men coming into the alley off the runway nearby. They got into an automobile and drove away. I didn’t see them carrying anything.” Under cross examination by Ro- bert V. Rensch, defense counsel, the witness. said he did not see anyone near the scene of the crime with a machinegun. The government claims Touhy, the last of the once notorious Touhy mob from Chicago, was a look- out and a guard in the holdup and manned a machinegun. Capital Punishment Return in N. D. Asked Fargo, N. D., Mar. 19.—()—Roused to action because of the double mur- der on Jan. 30 of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Biever, who were slain in cold blood and their small store-filling station burned, citizens of Watson township, at their annual election Tuesday adopted a resolution demanding the restoration of capital punishment in North Dakota at the next legislative session. The resolution, unanimously adopt- ed, calls attention to three murders in Cass county in less than two months. First National Bank Of Neche Liquidates Voluntary liquidation of the First National bank of Neche, whose assets have been taken over by the Citizens ‘State bank of that place, has been an- nounced by the federal comptroller of the currency in atement received here, The bank, which is going out of business, had a capital stock of $25,000. Evan D. Saltzman was named as liquidating agent. Ellendale Endorses Proposed Expansion Ellendale, N. D., March 19.—(?)— After conferring with J. D. Harris and R. M, Rishworth of the state board of edministration here Wednesday night, Ellendale civic leaders in effect en- dies at the state normal and indus- trial school here. FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: £0. U.S. PAT. OFF. 100 feet tall. A new law however, per- | Even a good scrap is a waste of effort. ARCH 19 ROOSEVELT'S RELIEF FUND REQUEST HAS LITTLE OPPOSITION Principal Criticism Aimed at His Demand for Money in One Lump Sum Washington, Mar. 19.—()—Presi- dent Roosevelt's request for a $1,500,- 000,000 relief appropriation for next year led. to clashes of opinion on Capi- tol hill Thursday, but Democratic leaders predicted congress would ap- prove it. Republicans and some Democrats were critical, but many in both parties conceded the program would pass be- cause, they said, concerted opposition sufficient to stop it was not in sight. The $1,500,000,000 requested is smaller than some “liberals” hoped for. It compares with $4,880,000,000 appropriated last year. On the other hand, by adding the $1,500,000,000 to ‘unexpended balances and relief money Provided in the regular budget, the president proposes to build a $3,000,- 1936 MEET AL JOLSON, JR. 000,000 relief fund. This almost |’ matches the demands of the liberal spenders. A recasting of fiscal figures indi- cated that total government spend- ing next year would exceed $9,000,000, 000—topping all previous peace-time records. Mr. Roosevelt, evidently fig- uring on increased revenues, forecast that the deficit would be smaller than this year’s estimated $3,234,000,000, Senate liberals withheld comment pending study of the program. They noted with satisfaction, however, the president's warning that “another appropriation” would be necessary if industry did not absorb some of the burden. Chief criticism of the president's request was that he asked for another “lump sum,” or as some characterized it, a “blank check.” MINNESOTA OBTAINS QUARTET'S CUSTODY Three Men and Two Women Will Face Burglary Charges They Have Admitted Fargo, N. D., March 19.—(#)—Min- nesota officials, after an all-day con- ference with North Dakota officers, ‘Wednesday night were given custody of three men and a woman arrested here Monday after a chase through downtown streets. Authorities said they had gained an admission from one of the quartet that he had participated in burg- laries at Slayton and Maynard, in Minnesota, and sufficient evidence from the others to warrant prosecu- tion in Minnesota. ‘The four, Ingval Leroen, alias Roy Anderson; Fred Swanson, alias “Gas- pipe” Nelson; Helen Olson, 23, former waitress here, and Robert Keller had been held in the Cass county jail in connection with four burglaries at Buffalo, N. D., and one at Wheat- land, Police said Leroen admitted taking part in the Buffalo and Wheatland burglaries, robbery of a store at Slay- ton, and a jewelry store at Maynard. All waived extradition and were re- moved by the Minnesota officers, Le- roen and the girl to Montevideo for prosecution on the Maynard robbery charge, and‘ Swanson and Keller to Slayton. The four are from Minne- polis. Eddie Agre Chosen Jimmie Co-Captain Jamestown, N. D., Mar. 19.—Erik Peterson, Jamestown, and Eddie Agre, Bismarck, were elected co-cap- tains of the Jamestown college bas- ketball team for 1937 at a dinner given the lettermen Wednesday night by Coach E. J. Cassell. They succeed Ken Thunem of Bowman, the retiring captain, Lettermen named in addition to the above three included: Al Schauer, Jamestown; Ernie Manney, Bis- marck; Gus Schlickenmeyer, Bis- marck; Leroy, Aneta; and Bud West- by, Jamestown, Schauer and Thunem were the only seniors on the squad, Mrs. Bannister Found Guilty of Harboring Dorchester, N. B., March 19.—(#)— New Brunswick's celebrated eg baby” case brought Mrs. May B: - ter, convicted of harboring a kidnaped child, face to face Thursday with a posesible maximum sentence of three and one-half years imprisonment. A jury found the woman guilty Wednesday night of this charge, but decided her innocent of two more ser- ious charges—the actual kidnaping of Betty Ann Lake and taking the child unlawfully with intent to deprive the parents. She will be sentenced later. Mrs. Bannister’s 19-year-old son Ar- thur awaits s mandatory death sen- tence ypon conyiction of murdering the kidnaped baby’s father, Philip Lake. Her other son, Daniel, 20, will face trial March 31 on a similar charge. p.- emrre City and County | OMERARARRe Deere Mr, and Mrs, Frank Van Kent, Apartment A, Nicola Apartments, are the parents of a girl born at 5:20 a.m. Wednesday st St, Alexius hospital. A baby girl was born at 7:30 a. m., Wednesday to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Deals in thelr home, 906 Fourteenth 8 A girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. William Smith of Steele at 11 a. m., Wednesday at the Bismarck hospital. 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The state board of administration proposed wrecking one of the build- ings at Hebron and moving it to the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks, where it would be re-built as a WPA project, Sathre said. Work at the substation was discon- tinued about 10 years ago, and mov- able equipment was transferred to the university to centralize work. “In considering the fact that the experimental station was created by the legislature and an appropriation made to defray the cost, and that ac- cordingly buildings were erected for experimental purposes, I am of the} opinion the board of administration would not have authority to author- ize the wrecking and removal of the buildings without legislative sanc- tion,” Sathre said. “In other words, it is my opinion that it would be necessary for the legislature to auth- orize the wrecking and removal of such buildings.” Resettlement Setup Shakeup Scheduled Lincoln, Neb., March 19.—(?)—A. Lynn Kelly, personnel advisor of the regional resettlement administration office here, Wednesday night an- nounced more than 200 of its employes in Nebraska, Kansas, and North and South Dakota will be dismissed. He said a 15 per cent reduction in the RRA staff was ordered to reduce administrative costs of the program as much as possible. A new series of i T examinations will be given remaining employes, he said, in an effort to in- : | Advertisement. crease efficiency. MINOT WOMAN DIES * Minot, N. D., March 19.—(?)—Mrs. J. A, Selthun, 89, a resident of Minot since 1918 and an early resident of Northfield, Minn., died Wednesday at the home of children here. Shoes for the whole family at a saving. Every pair guar- anteed. People’s Dep’t. Store. MENTHOLATUM Gives COMFORT Daily throat spray, call for the MEW MENTHOLATUM LIQUID in bottle with dropper Mississippi Valley Authority Hearing Set Washington, March 19.—(?)—A sub- committee of the senate agriculture and forestry committee considering the Norris bill to create a Mississippi Valley authority announced Thurs- day it would open hearings on the measure March 24, The bill would create a federal corporation to administer flood con- trol, improve navigation, develop irri- gation and soil conservation projects, and generate and sell power. The corporation's authority would extend over the Mississippi river and tribu- taries except the Ohio river. Broken Water Main Floods Minneapolis Minneapolis, March 19.—(4)—Own- ers Thursday began an inventory of damage caused by water from a brok- en main which flooded basements of buildings in the market section, Wa- ter a foot deep swept over streets in the area before workers succeeded in turning it off Wednesday. 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