The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 28, 1936, Page 1

ast. | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1878 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1936 The Weather fais tonight and Wednes* Generally day; little change in temperature. PRICE FIVE CENTS | Marxists Loose Bombers on Rebels a o “« : Northwest Business Increases Despite Drout b CONTINUED UPWAR TREND REPORTED IN THREE JULY WEEKS Farmers’ Income in May and June Runs at Highest Level Since 1930 STORE PROFITS SHOW GAINS Bank Deposits Above Billion Mark for First Time in Recovery Period Minneapolis, July 28—(?)—The ninth federal reserve district Tues- @ay reported a continued upward bus- iness trend in the northwest during the first three weeks of July despite the “paralyzing effect of the drouth on. large sections.” Bank debits for the four weeks end- ing July 22, the district's monthly re- view of agricultural and business conditions said, are at a volume which if continued will raise the index for large and small cities combined’ to 87 or a new high for the recovery period. Farmers’ cash income during May and June was running at the highest Jevel since 1930 in the district. The re- view said the district includes Min- nesota, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and parts of Wisconsin and Michigan. “Complete government estimates for May covering the four states of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Da- kota and Montana show farm income of $48,633,000 as compared with $34,- 799,000 in May last year,” the review stated. Farm income during June from seven important items was estimated at $30,615,000 compared with $23,437,- 000 the same time a year ago. department stores were listed as reporting a 12 per cent h EMBASSY SHELTERS 161 AMERICANS Unable to escape from Madrid, center of the Spanish rebellion, 161 Americans took refuge in the imposing U. 8. embassy (above) whi the Madrid government mobilized a regiment of militant women to “fight the assassins of their fathers and brothers” at rebel concentra. tions in the Quadarrama mountains north of the capital. (Associated Press Photo) Roosevelt N.D.Water Plans WPA WORK LIST AT increase in June over the same month in 1935 and 358 stores noted a 13 per cent increase. The only subdivision reporting a decrease in sales was in South Dakota west of the Missourl river. Deposits of ninth federal reserve member banks rose above the billion mark on June 30, the review said, for the first time since recovery began. ‘The inerease front Mareiié to-June 99 ‘was $52,000,000 of wi city mem- ber banks reported $30,000,000 and country members $22,000,000. Bank debits for the district were ‘up 16 per cent, during June, the re- port said, compared with a year ago. ‘They increased 33 per cent in the southern dairying, mixed farming and livestock feeding sections of Minne- sota and South Dakota. Freight carloads in June were 45 per cent larger than the same month NEW ALL TIME HGH WOT 2330 ADDED 14,250 Persons Added to Relief Rolls by Emergency Drouth Program North Dakota's WPA work list had risen to 23,800 persons Tuesday—an all time high—as the resettlement di- vision disclosed approximately 8,200 emergency drouth relief grants had been issued to distressed farmers. Of the total, the emergency drouth Program includes 14,250+ persons, ac- cording to J. R. Kennedy, WPA di- rector of employment. Approximate- @ year ago with all classes showing important increases except coal and 1. c. 1. merchandise. The review list- ed livestock, forest products and ore as accounting for the largest in- creases. DAWES FORECASTS Chicago, July 28.—(?)—Having seen his 1934 prediction of a business up- swing come true, former vice presi- dent Charles G. Dawes Tuesday en- visioned steel finishing plants of the ‘United States running at capacity at would ‘boost production of steel ingots to ap- proximately 85 per cent by next Jan. 1. Most recent American Iron and Steel Institute figures showed ingot production at 71.5 per cent. In a December, 1934, address to the Association of Commerce, cent of capacity trend cont ES OF MISSOURI VICTIMS RECOVERED é il EEE. ikige E i ly 9,600 persons previously were em- Ployed on WPA projects. Kennedy said the employment fig- ure had been rising steadily and was expected to increase in the next few days as new projects are opened in the state. - The previous WPA employment peak was reached last winter when between 13,000 and 14,000 persons were employed. In the resettlement offices, 8,251 emergency drouth relief grants, rep- resenting $101,998, were made to dis- tressed farmers in the heart of the North Dakota drouth area during | Bismarck was not “feasible” because to Get Missouri River Dam and Other Water Conservation Pro- jects Listed Plans to lay before a special com- mittee appointed by President Roose- velt a huge water conservation and irrigation program for North Dakota were made-Tuesday ata conference of federal and state officials and representatives of organizations and communities in Bismarck. Capt. O. E. Walsh, assistant Mis- souri river diversion army corps engi- neer, received data on more than a score of projects proposed for the drouth area at a meeting in the capi- tol called by him and Senator Gerald P. Nye. aptain Walsh left for St. Paul Monday afternoon to consult with his immediate superior, Col. R. C. Moore, engineer for this division, who is also a member of a special committee named by the president to investigate what improvements could be made in the upper Missouri, Platte and Ar- kansas rivers, The committee will re- port back to President Roosevelt. Small Dam Feasible Captain Walsh, although stating that a proposed large dam on the Missouri river at some point above of unsound footings, asserted a small- er dam of from 40 to 50 feet high and cost from $18,000,000 to $20,000,- 000 would be feasible for diverting water into the Sheyenne and James rivers and the Devils Lake watershed. He also said that if a dam were not PASTOR’S YOUNG SON ‘DRAWBACKS SEENIN | Three Men Die in CONFESSES HE SLEW HIS BOYHOOD CHUM expectedly Confesses Se- cret Murder KILLED PAL WHILE FISHING Wisconsin Tragedy Revealed as Lad Is Picked Up on Pacific Coast Clintonville, Wis. July 28—()— ‘Searchers groped through heavy tang- led underbrush along the banks of the Embarrass river near here Tues- day, hunting for the shallow grave where a 19-year-old minister's son said he had buried the body of a boy- hood pal he killed two weeks ago ion any premeditation or mo- ve.” Begun last Monday after Tacoma, Wash., police reported confession from Laverne Marks of Ciltonville, the hunt for the body of Robert Bern- stein, 24, Janesville, Wis., centered on the Arthur Salzman farm, eight miles northwest of here, where the two had fished and camped. Darkness halted the hunt Monday night after authorities reported reach- ing the point Tacoma police said Marks described in the confession given unexpéctedly when picked up in connection with four robberies. Captain of Detectives Cliff Osborne, of Tacoma, said Marks dictated a ae confession which said in part: “Two weeks ago today (July 13) while we were in camp, while his back was turned to me, about six feet away, and without any premeditation or mo- tive, I raised the rifle and shot him (Bernstein) through the head, firing only one shot. “Before disposing of Bernstein's body, I took his watch and his wal- let_containing about $20.” The killing occurred the day the pair left on what Rev. Edward Marks, father of the prisoner, said he believed was @ fishing trip to Pelican Lake in northern Wisconsin. The pastor of the Salem Evangelical church said he had not heard from the youths since. Marks, in the confession at Tacoma, said he abandoned Bernstein's auto- mobile at Duluth, Minn., and rode freight trains to Seattle. MARKS ABANDONED WRECKED CAR IN MINOT Minot, N. D., July 23—(—In a Minot garage Tuesday stood a new sedan, front end damaged in a col- lision near Denbigh July 15, mute re- minder of a murder near Clintonville, Wis., two weeks ago, in which Laverne Marks of that city, minister's son, is said to have killed a boyhood friend, Robert Bernstein. The car was towed to Minot the day after the accident, in which the ma- chine, said to be driven by Marks, posing as Bernstein, had collided with one driven by Agnes H. Kozma of ‘Milwaukee. Marks in a confession to Tacoma, Wash., police said that he abandoned the stolen car near Duluth, Minn. constructed that a smaller project to pump water over the divide could be carried out if approved and federal duly. “With conditions brought on by dry weather growing worse daily, we are rushing grants as fast as possible,” Howard R. Wood, state resettlement director said, Wood declared 529 applications for grants were cleared in the state of- fice Monday to farm families not now cperating under rehabilitation loans. In addition 75 requests were cleared to farmers having standard rehabili- BUSINESSMAN BUCKS RESETTLING PLANS Opposed to Anything Tending to Thin Out Population in Their Areas Washington, July 28.—(?)—Rexford G. Tugwell, the resettlement admin- istrator, said Monday the resttlement Program was meeting some opposition town businessmen in the funds supplied. Sivert Thompson, president of the Missourl River Diversion association, Pressed the program at the confer- ence, stating that any feasible plan to divert waters into the Sheyenne and James rivers and Devils Lake area would be strongly supported by the people throughout the state. Representatives from Sanish, Par- shall and Van Hook were present, urging that their area be considered if a site for a dam is selected. A group from Garrison, headed by Rev. Mandry, also held a conference with Captain Walsh, Senator Nye and Gov. Walter Welford later, urging the Garrison site. City asked that the proposed reservoir on the Sheyenne river, 10 miles north of Valley City, be further and the president's committee. The reservoir would control the flow of the entire Sheyenne river, he stated. Another project especially pressed for the drouth area was that of a dam in the Grand river serving Bow- (Continued on Page Two). He Blood Poisoning Takes Lehr, N. D., Girl’s Life The car here, however, has been iden- tified as Bernstein's. Marks was on his way west when the collision took place. He abandoned the car and con- tinued, according to his confession, on freight trains. Glass Splinter Stabs Youth Fixing Window Hot Springs, 8. D., July 28—(?)}— d thes long. The youth was attempt- to replace a window during Sun- g EFBe te 22 g Li INCOME FIGURES ON IRRIGATED FARMING Arrested for Robbery, Youth Un-|Nearby Projects Insufficiently Prosperous to Repay Capital Costs INVEST ABOUT $100 AN ACRE Many Factors Must Be Taken Into Consideration in Figuring Costs By KENNETH W. SIMONS Searching for an answer to the question: “Would irrigation pay in a normal year as well as during & drouth?” The Tribune has obtained data from the bureau of reclamation which bears on that point. The three big irrigation projects nearest to North Dakota are those at Billings and Sidney, Mont., and Belle Fourche, 8. D., and examination re- veals that they have not been so pros- perous as to repay much of the capi- tal cost with the exception of the project at Billings which has made & much better than average showing. In what is known as the Huntley project at Billings there are 17,114 acres, irrigated at a capital cost of $1,384,543.29 or $80.90 an acre. Of this sum $730,260.95 has been repaid, leaving a balance of $854,282.34 still charged against the land. Only $267,844 Repaid On the lower Yellowstone project at Sidney, the capital cost was $3,- 390,229 of which $267,844.28 has been paid, leaving a balance of $3,122,- 384.42 assessed the land. At Belle Fourche the cost was $4,- 920,639.84 of which $622,214.86 has been paid, leaving a balance due of $4,298,824.98. There are 45,698 acres in the lower Yellowstone project, making the capi- Quints Splash in "FLOATING EMBASSY” T0 HELP AMERICANS SET UP BY BOWERS Havre Forest Fire Intensive Aerial Warfare Order- | Pool on Birthday Callander, Ont., July 28—(#)— The Dionne quintuplets were 26 Campers’ Unextinguished Blaze Touches Off Deadly In- ferno of Woods ed Against Outlying Re- volt Strongholds BLAST AMMUNITION DUMPS months old Tuesday with nothing better to do than splash in their bathing pool. They have played in the pool each day now for more than a month to the vast amusement of watchful but unseen crowds. The visitors peer at them through glass and screening but the ba- bies can’t see them. Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, the ba- bles’ physician, said they are all in glowing health, adding weight: gradually and growing physically and mentally. ROOSEVELT RUNNING NATION FOR COMMON MAN, BERRY STATES Bankers President Aided Now Want to Fight Him, Gov- ernor Asserts Havre, Mont., July 28—(?)—One thousand men were thrown Tuesday into the 25-mile long battle line against @ roaring forest fire which al- ly had burned three men to death. Trapped in @ mountain cave near the Fort Belknap Indian reservation, Cameron Baker, 24, of Havre, and John Rowles, of Landusky, were en- Gulfed in the swirling flames and perished. Fate of Many U. S. Citizens Still Matter of Conjecture in Spain (By the Associated Press) Loyal federal forces on land and bombing fleets in the skies smashed with new might at Spain’s Fascist rebels Tuesday while the American Sawyer Reed Brockunier, of Lowell, | cruiser Quincy anch i Mass, died attempting to 'get out of/ern harbor of Allcante. awaiting the path of the fire that ate huge chunks out of the timber, unusually dry after days of 100-degree temper- atures. Baker and Brockunier were mem- bers of a U. 8. geological survey crew. A survivor whose name was not learned told forestry service chiefs of the attempts of John McCarthy, Jr., of New Haven, Conn., to rescue Baker and Rowles as flames were sucked in- to the cave where they took refuge. Knocked McCarthy Out “McCarthy rushed in the cave and tried to drag the two men out. But there was no chance for them. They must have died instantly. Someone, I don’t know who, had to hit Mc- Carthy and knocked him out to get him away from there.” McCarthy for a time was reported missing, but he had been taken to a Jamestown, N. D., July 26—(P)}—A vigorous defense of President Roose- velt was before the North Dakota Young Democratic convention Tues- day following an address by Gov. Tom Berry of South Dakota. “Roosevelt helped the bankers and now they want to run without his in- terference, but he is running the country for the common people,” Berry said. tal cost $74.19 an acre while the Belle Fourche project contains 61,680 acres' and the obpital cost-is $79-an acre. For an irrigation project to be suc- cessful, therefore, the land must pro- duce enough to pay the cost of the water, the additional labor required for this type of farming and interest and retirement costs on the capital investment. Invest $100 an Acre The figures given are for improv- ing the land. Its original cost is ad- ditional. Allowing $15 an acre as the original cost of the -and, it 1s clear that the total investment on each of, (Continued on Page Two) WORKERS, FARMERS TO MEET SATURDAY Mass Gathering to Discuss Re- lief Situation and Welfare Board Set-Up elected president, Gov. Berry said jnine-per cent of the union ‘candidates’ sre will be taken away from Roose- velt. “One thing Roosevelt has done is to make banks safe and had he done nothing else his administration would have been worth while. You know Roosevelt took government away from Republican leaders and gave it back to the people,” the speaker asserted. President Roosevelt's “good neigh- bor” policy was alluded to by the speaker. “If you were in trouble and your hospital at Malta. Four others suffered burns but were expected to recover. Forest service chiefs said the fire was started in Lodge Pole canyon, apparently when a vacation party failed to extinguish a camp fire. Worst Ever Known ‘The fire, described as the worst known in the Little Rockies, broke out near Lodge Point, Mont., Saturday and for a time threatened the min- ing camp at Zortman, famed for its activity in territorial days. ‘The re- scores of United States citizens still Marooned in Madrid. Although previous advices indicat- ed the evacuation of foreigners from the capital had started, the Wash- ington state department received word the Madrid embassy’ planned to bs berg esicd 150 American re- flugees out ursday morning, = sumably by train. ve Columns of troops, anarchists, and laborers, supported by new bombing planes, converged on the rebel strong- hold of Zaragoza in the north, other aerial fleets struck at remaining in- surgent garrisons elsewhere and loyal raiders blasted enemy ammunition dumps in the mountains north of Madrid. Four Planes Detained At Bordeaux, France, authorities detained four British airliners pend- ing investigation of a report they were bound for Spanish Morocco to ferry rebel reinforcements across the straits to Spain. Aboard the “floating American em- bassy,” the cutter Cayuga, United States Ambassador Claude G. Bowers directed efforts to rescue American nationals on the Bay of Biscay and elsewhere in Spain. Artillery, too, was wheeled again into action to crush Fascist garri- gion is noted for its gold and silver/ine mines, still producing after yeers of activity. Belknap reservation in Harlem and Malta, and from the nearby mining camps and farms was pressed into service to fight the fire. Trucks and men were rushed from Missoula, Great Falls and Helena and airplanes brought two radio operators and supplies. Mules were rushed to areas inaccessible by truck. neighbor helped you, you would feel that you would stand by him and that is the way the people of North VANDENBERG POINTS and South Dakota feel about Frank- lin D. Roosevelt, who will never let anyone starve in this drouth-stricken area as long as there is a dollar to be used,” Berry said. “India and China have famines, but this will not occur in the United States. Preceding Governor Berry's ad- dress Monday, State President Donald Murtha introduced J. J. Nygaard, Jamestown, and Henry Holt, Grand Forks, candidates for congress; John Moses, Hazen, candidate for governor; 8 A. Olsness, Sheyenne, candidate for insurance ner; M. 8. Asserting there “is no chance in the world for William Lemke,” to be QUT MAJOR ISSUES ON VISIT IN TOPEKA Landon Admits Kansas Must Depend on Federal Relief Money for Needy Examination of the federal relief system from the standpoint of “work- ers and farmers” will be made at a mass meeting to be held here Satur- day in the city auditorium, according to announcement by Otto Anstrom. Participating in the affair will be representatives of the Burleigh Coun- ty Farm Holiday association, the Cen- trad Trades and Labor assembly, the North Dakota Labor association, the Labor Club of Bismarck and the “state Unification Committee of WPA Workers” which, so far as could be learned, comprises elements of the of the organizations listed. A statement announcing the meet- ing said the main question would be “immediate relief for the needy in adequate amount so they can take care of their families as well as the ‘Anstrom said there was some con- tention that the government was not moving fast enough to meet the emer- gency and that such a meeting might act to speed up the administration . | relief, The call for the meeting also indi- ted that the welfare board set-up was slated for discussion and prob- able criticism. Diabolical Drouth Due Man in Moon’s Milking Hyland, Fargo, commissioner of rail- roads, and John Heiling, Valley City, candidate for treasurer. . Schneider’s Mishap Dims Junior Hopes Bismarck’s hopes of winning the American Legion Junior baseball championship of North Dakota in the tournament at Grand Forks this com- ing week-end received a severe set- back Monday night when Nicky Schneider, catcher and pepperpot of accident the team was injured in an near Hebron. Schneider had gone to Hebron in truck with a friend and was return. ing home when it turned over in a ditch. He suffered severe cuts in his right forearm, forehead and nose which may put him out of action in the tournament. In addition, he was badly bruised. Team managers were to confer with his physician Tuesday night to deter- it Topeka, Kansas, July 28.—(?)—Sen- ator Arthur ‘andenberg, arriving for a campaign conference with Gov. Alf M. Landon, told a press conference Tuesday that “a combination of major group issues” would put the Republican candidate in the White House. “No one issue is paramount,” Van- denberg said. “This is an interesting campaign in that it presents a series of major issues, each a personal in- Michigan senator examples of these issues, the civil serv- ice, reciprocal tariff treaties, relief, spending and budget balancing and the constitution—“which to probably 5,000,000 people is the most living, mine whether or not it would be ad- ap visable to take him on the trip to Grand Forks in the hope that he might games of the tournament. The Legion team is scheduled to leave for Grand Forks early Wednes- @ay morning. The first tournament game is scheduled for Thursday eve- Man and Wife Perish in Kansas Prairie Fire nt Tbe able to get into one of the inter| ty Every avilable man on the Fort yy surgents at Oviedo apparently still were hanging onto their garrison, but the government prepared a new bom- bardment. ‘With new and intensive aerial war- fare ordered against outlying rebel Garrisons in several provinces, new outbursts of civil war rocked the mountain barriers to Madrid itself. Both Claim Victory Both the Leftist government and the Fascist rebels, marching down out of the north, claimed victory. The Loyalists asserted a raid had blasted insurgent ammuni- tion dumps out of existence. Rebel headquarters, 50 miles from the cap- ital, announced the capture of a Guadarrama mountain village in bloody fighting, with hundreds dead and wounded. Gen. Emilio Mola, Fascist chieftain, Predicted his men would reach Madrid “Thursday or Friday” and said a “strong military dictatorship” would follow. His words found no support in the Leftist capital. Rebel Claims Discounted Government leaders claimed not only a successful defense of the cap- ital, but said Madrid, Barcelona, To- ledo, Albacete and Guadalajara were under complete Leftist dominion. Vic- tory for Loyalist troops was fore- cast at Cordoba, Granada, Seville, Cadiz, Oviedo and Zaragoza. U. 8. Ambassador Claude G. Bow- ers, marooned at the start of the rebellion in the Biscay bay resort of San Sebastian, informed the state department he -would establish a “floating embassy” fue bgt H