The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 13, 1936, Page 1

ye . North Dakota’s - i ESTABLISHED 1878 ; # x IRENE BECK, HAWLEY, Judge Casselman SPS INTO TORRENT sie © F ronncoracway, 28 Victim of He Sister and Three Other Girls Helplessly Watch Victim From High Ground {4TH BIG DRY SPELL OR.LAST 50 YEARS t Dryhess Has Been Scourg- ing America for Uncounted Hundreds of Years North Dakota Resident Since 1883 Passes Away Peace- fully in Home Here ? 63 years a resident of North Ww. 8. an hth j Ai Kod RAIN SHORTAGE WORST HAD REMAINED IN AUTO Kansas and Dakotas Stricken by Seven of 10 Disasters | Since 1889 Body Later Found Five Miles East of Accident Scene; Purse Far Away a Washington, July 13.—(P)—Drouths, if ce reads correctly the records on the trees, have been scourging ica for untold centuries. from 1888 through 1934, records f the U. 8. geological survey show, ‘| there have been 10 major drouths, af- fecting, at one time or another, all but one state in the union—Vermont. But six centuries ago, tree rings show, Pueblo Indians abandoned & settlement of 40 villages in the Chaco E i é : ? 3 Hi SE sf az 8 38: 5 I H EB i i gf | BE | a F i : i i Z Hl : i g ae F. z ae & i i i : a JUDGE-W, 5. CASSELMAN OLSON TO SUPPORT MOSES AND ENTIRE DEMOGRATIC TICKET Need State Officers Who Will Cooperate With Washing- ton, Ole Declares git ae ted 3 = I; iy g 8 Hs ; i of @ 23-year drouth. A pine forest flourished in the canyon 700 years ago, according to i i i i g2 E i : alee & E LH i i i : i t F z agriculture is almost impossible. History Repeats The same story, in greater detail, is told by rainfall records since 1880 kept by the weather bureau and geo- logical survey. Ten times during this half century, roughly, considerable areas have suffered moisture defi- clencies of at least 15 per cent below mean annual precipitation. Kansas and North and South Da- kota, hit by seven of the 10 major drouths, have experienced water shortages most frequently. ‘The 10 major drouths and states af- fected by each: 1888—Montana, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, New Mi I f I 5 i i 4 i if 2 bef I | “8 Mg 3 =e H i F | PLL Hf a nae fEy ; i New Rockford, N. D., July 13.—(?)}— Ole H. Olson, former acting governor and defeated Democratic candidate for ult Hi [ , a rye iE cREe F Wyoming, lexico, North °F 01 (in part), Montana, Utah, Colorado, South Dakota, Nebraska and Kan- sas. 1894—New ft jout! Ree) Arligna, Wyom- Dakota, NeWask: Indi: Ohio, West Vir- laine, New Hamp- lo as I see it,” Olson ee an quit fighting among » Missouri, Ar- Wisconsin,’ Illinois, Indi- support Presid ana, Ohio and Kentucky. 1910—California, | Nevada, _ Arizona, 01 ke , Minnesota, ichigan, Ala- Hampshire, New Mex- South Dakota, Min ‘nia, Nevada, th Dakota, Oklahoma, Paul Shannon of Bismarck Hurt in Auto Accident on Ore- gon Highway il Virginia, oll Delaware, icut, Rhode ‘e and Massa- age 1981—Idaho, Monta: th Dak: South Dakota, Nel Colorado, Utah, Ge Be Carolina, Florida and ada, Utah, North Dakota, Dakota, Kansas, Texas, South Carolina, North g Ff g i pee? : South Georgia, Carolina. ‘alifornia, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexi- Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Mi Michi, sfettet s i oF Ege i Study Situation at First Hand Wednesday Hi E ig ae 5 bs gee i i g & Al E i g | | E E i i i | i Eesanw ie area of New Mexico because |! BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, JULY 18, 1936 LEGION PEACE AIMS BEFORE CONVENTION Has Chance to Become Nation’s Great Peacetime Organi- zation, He Says MRS. PAULSON ALSO TALKS Commander Urges Doubling of Legion-Sponsored Boy Scout Troops Jamestown, N. D., July 13.—()— The American Legion now has the op- portunity to become the “greatest peacetime service organization the country has ever known,” phy, national commander, told more than 1,000 delegates and visitors to the state Legion convention here Mon- day. He urged the Legion to undertake the “greatest program of unselfish service this or any other organization ever undertook,” in his address to a joint business session of the Legion and its auxiliary, marking the second day's program of the three-day con- vention. Prior to his address, Mrs. James Paulson of Redfield, 8. D., national vice president of the American Legion Al , urged the necessity and “duty” of the Legion and auxiliary to teach the youth of today “what war means and what it costs.” Needs Legion Service “The country needs the kind of service the Legion is capable of giv- ing,” Murphy said in his talk, stating the Legionnaires asked “only the right to continue to serve.” He urged a continuation of the work for disabled veterans, widows and or- phans, an Americanization program based on American methods and prin- ciples, completion of a child welfare gion legislative program, Murphy this has been the most successful year the organization has experienced thus far in the legislative field. He said the Legion’s stand on the payment of ad- justed service certificates had been “vindicated” and that “wild tears ex- pressed during congressional consider- ation of the bonus question have been ‘The Legion defense program has been substantially enacted into law, he said, and progress had been made on neutrality laws and a universal service law. He also cited the gov- ernment’s hospital construction and remodeling program. Speaking of the Americanism pro- gram of the Legion, Murphy said that irmly combatting the forces of hile fi violent revolution, we must be on sponsored by saying that over 2,300 troops now had Legion support. Humanitarianism Recalled Murphy also cited the work of the Legion in great sections of the coun- try devastated by storm and tornado and the work of the organisation in ; E ‘community service. Of membership he said that the na- quota would be reached and opportunity w: the ivee dey filer Tanks allotted for July direct grants were THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE \ ooler Weather Again Is Forecast Medora Cloudburst Whirls Minnesota Girl to Death 1986 DROUTH MARKS |MURPHY EMPHASIZES) NY To Save Here’s Record of Biggest Heat Wave rT. F 8. 8. OM. lam... 1% 8 9 8 & 2am... 72 81 92 7 8&8 3am... 7 so 7% 8 4a.m... 7 8 1% #8 Sa.m... 70 6 1% «79 6 a. m. 70 3 4 78 7a. m. 3 85 7% 8 a. m. 7 90 2 9 a.m. J Pad 83 10a.m... 81 99 a lla.m... & 103 8 12 noon .. 90 90 Lp.m... 93 92 || 2p. 96 3p. 99 4p. 5p. 6p. Tp. 8p. 9p. 10 p. 1p. BBSSBSSEERB B EF s: s 8 8 REGIONAL OFFICE OF WPA OPENS HERE TO SPEED DROUTH WORK Moodie’s Staff to Handle Job of Furnishing Jobs in Five States Establishment of a five-state region- al WPA office in Bismarck marked & move Monday to speed drouth relief in five states as officials of the Works Progress ‘and Resettlement .adminis- trations ~ fir“ North “Dakota reported rapid ‘progress in the absorption of drouth victims into the emergency program. * Moving its operations to the heart of the affected area, a regional of- fice of the federal WPA was being established in Bismarck Friday to speed the relief program in North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Wyom- ing and Montana. A staff of five men were accom- panying Howard 8. Drew, assistant field representative from the Chicago Office in opening the regional branch office which will utilize the staff and Personnel of the North Dakota WPA. Functions of the state WPA will not be affected by the regional of- fice under Drew which is contem- Plated as an agency to assist in the direction of drouth work in five states. Thomas H. Moodie, state works Progress administrator, announced that at least 5,500 farmers and farm laborers would be at work in the em- lergency program by Monday night while the office of Howard Wood, re- settlement director for the state, es- timated 10,000 of the 15,000 quota AL-NATION NINE 10 PLAY 2 CAMBS HERE Bismarck Champs Promised Toughest Contests of Sea- son With Visitors E i E BE HE i 3 s i E z i : E | [ i [ E i iB H fl : E i g : H ia tle | E ge ag i EF e z i ; : ii | ; | | rit g i F 858 tg Hs F i 1 .D.Speeds Plans | westsopr areis : PRICE FIVE CENTS SATURDAYS RELIER ‘FZZLED OUT OVER Its Water Heavy Raine Reported From Few Scattered Localities With Mercury Lower Scores of Projects Planned and Being Planned to Stem Drouth Onslaught SHOWERS PREDICTED HERE Nation's Death Toll Now Stands at 1,150 With Lists Mount ‘ Ing Hourly this and other drouth years, suffering from lack of water, burned crops, dy- ing livestock and drying wells and waterholes, machinery of federal and state is moving full speed ahead, on scores of projects. Hundreds of dams have been com- Irrigation, on which its sponsors pin hopes of future crops in dry years, has already ‘@ leading issue in the state. . Dry Farmers Now Wet Many proponents of dry farming in years past, when rainfall was suffi- cient to raise bumper crops, have be- come irrigation supporters, discour- aged by drouth. ‘Those sponsoring irrigation projects hope to finance them through federal grants. One of the chief exponents ‘Kenneth W. Simons, Bismarck Trib- une editor. He pointed out Monday that the B ft e s “ 2 iy F i ! own figures, expended $300,000,000 in North Dakota since May 1, 1933 in farm financing, loans, emergency conservation work, relief, ce C “The government can either step in ‘and develop projects which will en- able our people to become self sup- porting, of in and give assistance at terrifie ex- pense whenever rainfall preves inade- omg and crop failure results,” Stmons 3g Reg slege z He i “They are designed ott waters, to create streams, and constant, sources “Tt is entirely dicted, “that 5 iE His | g hort establiahed for the ‘as the reading Mrs. Dec. 7, 1089 nd Comes to mount mark at laa hen 8 au North and wheat’ Besides her husband she leaves| Seton pola, sedece) nea seven children. They are Otto, Bteele,| Gr Coserver nee N ‘illian, Herth, Roland, that caine Geese if i i ay, | g E ¢ uf g i & ° ¥ 38 rf) zg i , i F E i E z E vf | : eh z ss : i ui 32S a i iH ! I i i | ii ail i fi eit te! 4 F Bi a if j bf B ? z Eg 5 i rf é #8