The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 17, 1936, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1878 With state banners waved aloft and cheering thousands parading down the aisles, Father Charles E. Coughlin was greeted by dele- gates and visitors to the first national convention of his National Union for Social Justice in Cleveland’s Public Hall. Here is shown the demonstration at its height, with the large number of women in the audience a notable feature of = JOSEPH A. BERGER, PIONEER DAKOTAN, CLAIMED BY DEA Was Prominent Circles; Funeral Will Be Held Tuesday Joseph A. Berger, 308 8. 11th St., @ resident of North Dakota for 45 home at 3:30 p. m. Saturday. He was 68 years old. His death was at- tributed to heart trouble. Before his retirement from active work seven years ago following an automobile accident, Berger was cus- todian of the Liberty Memorial build- ing on the state capitol grounds, a position he held for several years. was born in Russia Dec. 4, E E Z g Fy 5 i ae i & Zz l g i af! 6 i Delegates Cheer for Coughlin the assemblage. Girl in Sterilization Case Again on Stand San Francisco, Aug. 17.—(7)—Ann Cooper Hewitt, 22-year-old heiress, was recalled to the witness chair Monday to take up her story of a sterilization plot where a fit of cough- ing forced her to interrupt it last week. and Samuel G. Boyd, the physicians on trial, additional questions about the suit. PRESIDENT PERFECTS | DROUTH TOUR PLANS .|White House Staff Busy Ar- ranging Itinerary, Confer- ences With Governors Hyde Park, N. Y., Aug. 17.—(>)— President Roosevelt began perfecting details of his forthcoming drouth belt trip Monday, besides dipping into a mass‘ of administration business sc- cumblated. during a three-day tour of gs 8g ease Hi i E : BF z i ii t sé i E 8 2 é i é Z E 8 g Hl i rE i i E : i 5 ees aE Es bs S| Re E i af ATTACKING NEW DEAL BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1936 RADIO PRIEST TAKEN SUDDENLY ILL, WHILE Union Party Chief Rests Easily From ‘Exhaustion, Nerv- ous Disorder’ LEMKE ADDRESSES SESSION North Dakotan Outlines Presi- dental Platform in Ex- “ temporaneous Talk much better after a night of rest, left by train Monday for his home . in Detroit. Charles E. Coughlin rested in seclu- sion Monday after a ‘sudden illness which brought an abrupt halt to an address Sunday in which he renewed hig attacks upon President Roosevelt, asserting that “those surrounding him had mesmerized his intellect.” Father Coughlin slept comfortably after he was stricken by what Dr. George P. O'Malley, Cleveland phy- sician, described as exhaustion and a nervous disorder, superinduced by the intense work of planning and carry- ing out the first convention of his National Union for Social Justice. Preceding the radio priest in ad- dressing the concluding meeting of the National Union's convention, Wil- who doesn't know where he is going. Alf M. Landon is the dying shadow of a past civilization and doesn’t know it.” ‘The North Dakota representative, officially endorsed by NUBJ delegates for president of the United States, also shared the platform with Thomas OBrien, party running his Union week and was stilled on Friday of Holy week which had said: ‘Drive the money changers out of the temple.’ of gold. By 1934, at Christmas time, forgetting the babe that was born in peerless president passed over the coins that he had confiscated from the men and wo- men of the country to the private own- Bethlehem, this remained he stopped suddenly and “I am too ill to continue. nm said Cleveland, Aug. 17.—()—The Rev. ‘Coughlin Stricken at Convention National Income Balances Outlay —____—____+ Bolt of Lightning Sounds Fire Alarm $60,000,000,000 Set by Feder- al Officials Is Highest Since '32 Washington, Aug. 7.—(?)—Com- merce department officials Monday forecast a 1936 national income close to $60,000,000,000, balancing business outlay for the first time since 1929. The department’s estimates, con- tingent upon a maintenance of pres- ent trends, were based upon readings of various business barometers for the first seven months of the year as en with similar figures for pt After dropping steadily from the $81,034,000,000 peak produced in 1929, the national income hit a low of $39,- 545,000,000 in 1932. Since then it has pointed upward. Last year’s income was reported as $52,950,000,000. Officials said they expected that income produced and income paid out would approximately balance. Since 1929, income paid out has exceeded income produced. This excess was only $628,000,000 last year compared with the $8,817,000,000 figure for 1932. ‘When income paid out exceeds in- that industry and business are oper- ating “in the red” to the extent of cess is regarded as savings. The biggest slice of income paid ployes, usually amounting to between 64 and 68 per cent. Next in line are dividends, interest, and income with=| q drawals by the owners of businesses.! rooqs would advance ICKES SEES HOUSING PLAN CONTINUATI 13,196,000 _ timat Nation’s Housing Need by 1945 Washington, Aug. 17.—(?)—An A. Agriculture Officials Consider Washington, Aug. 17.—()—Predic- come produced. it means, in effect,! tions of rising food prices were made Monday in the kitchens of the army the excess. Similarly, when income| ®% Sériculture officials studied ways produced tops that paid out, the ex-| of helping farmers in the drouth areas through the fall and winter. While Secretary out goes for compensation of em=| sides considered 2 $10,000,000 seed purchase of foodstuffs for the civilian conserva- tion corps, whose diet is the same as the army's. Improved well as the drouth, advance the prices of the 39 kinds is Estimated as| of food ice army considers & A third development in the drouth situation was a report received at the agriculture department from Dr. C. Gallitzin, Pa. Aug. 17.—@)— Gallitzin firemen claim the rec- ord for the quickest fire A bolt of lightning struck a siren on their building, sounding Me fires Ouse ‘The firemen saved the building. RISING FOOD PRICE FORECAST ARFECTS DROUTH AID STUDY $10,000,000 Seed Pur- chase Program Wallace and his to assure ample program supplies for next year’ planting, army juartermasters figured ordinary basic as much as 20 millions of dollars in business conditions as they sald, would ‘Thornthwaite, former climatolo- Ww. 8 gist of the University of Oklahoma, ¥. of L, estimate that 13,196,000 new| who proposed that 59,000 families be will be needed by 1945 w8s| moved from the western plains. coupled Monday with an opinion by Secretary Ickes that ‘necessity itself will assure the continuation of @ valid Ger to the Texas panhandle, housing program. Ickes said he hoped that, with no federal funds available for new low Projects, communities the work forward as * views cost housing would “carry local enterprises.’ The PWA administrator's In a study of the whole strip of ie land from the Canadian bor- Kent were expressed in a letter to General tang and the chairman + R. E. Wood, of the execu- tive committee of the PWA Chicago general advisory board on housing. ‘Wood had written to Ickes saying de- Present program were Gestitute farmers and that additional desperate, cases were being received daily. Aho Bismarck Has Biggest killed when car plunged down em-|' ted tankeasnt on quediru nt cit }Mass Executions. Answer Rebel Fire | _—— Flames Rage Over Minnesota Forest This remarkable picture shows a crown fire, one of the most dan- gerous type of blazes in a forest conflagration, raging trees through near Moose Lake, Minn., in the general wave of fires that have swept Minnesota and Wisconsin. Dried out by heat from ground fires, the treetops burst into flames, the blaze leaping far in the air, whipped in all directions by the wind. This photo was snapped at, extreme risk by Ranger P. W. Swedberg of Moose Lake station. Accidents Take Ten Lives in Northwest LOne. North Dakotan Killed in Week-End Traffic Casualties One North Dakotan, and a total of 10 over the northwest met death in week-end traffic accidents, accord- ing to the Associated Press. wood, N. D., was killed Saturday night, Dr. thwaite that mil- when the car she was driving and an lions of acres in the wheat country be returned to sod. From the Works Progress Admin- istration, Howard ‘Hunter, director of relief jobs, reported that six states— jucky, Minnesota, oncoming truck attempted to pass too closely on a highway near Pertland, and the van of the truck rammed into the windshield of the Turner auto. Her husband, the only other passenger in the car, escaped with minor injuries. The driver and two passengers in the truck were uninjured. L, J. Hammond, 25, Karisas City drug, salesman, -was fatally injured when @ car in which he was riding with Gean Tourand, 21, of Winnipeg, and W. C. Calhoun of Kansas City went into @ ditch near Ardoch, N. D., Monday. Hammond died at noon Monday in @ Grafton hospital of @ fractured skull. The others were not seriously injured. N.D. Traffic Toll tony §7 ‘= 53 Another North Dakota death at- tributable to automobiles occurred Friday. Clem ‘Redmond, 48-year-old business man, died as the result of injuries sustained in a crash @ month ago. Other northwest accident victims: Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Tostenson, Freeborn county, Minn. killed in head-on crash of their car with one driven by Clarence Brunsvold, Han- or Ia. The latter escaped in- jury. Cecil Quesinberry, 20; Crandon, Wis., killed when auto crashed into tree. Lawrence Solenger, Duluth, killed MG collision of-two motorcycles near Alfred Sharp, 83, Ashland, Wis., Forsberg, 15, Forest Lake, Minn., injured fatally when thrown off a motorcycle near the state re- N. D., Aug. 17.—()—Saved with | several shook iff (CONVICT BANISTER EXTORTIONIST TRIO ‘Mrs. James: Turner, 45, of North-; Jury Deliberates Only Few Minutes Before Returning Verdict New York, Aug. 17—(?)—Three men were convicted Monday of having ex- torted $1,800 from Harry L. Ban- nister, former husband of the actress, Ann Harding, incident to the legal fight between the two over custody of their child. The three were Jerome A. Jacobs, 48, an attorney, New York; Raymond Derringer, 39, a motion picture ma- chine operator, New York, and Harry Hechheimer, 63, a salesman, of Con- cord, N. H. The jury deliberated only a few minutes, ‘The money was alleged by the state, in present evidence in court of general se: , to have been obtain- ed in November, 1934, from Bannis- ter by threats of imputing a bad character to him in connection with his efforts to obtain custody of his daughter. ‘The daughter, Jane, seven years old, has been in the custody of her act- ress-mother since the two were di- vorced in Reno, Nev., in May, 1932. Only last May Bannister made a spectacular airplane flight to Mon- treal in a fruitless effort to prevent Miss Harding from taking little Jane to England. He carried an abduc- tion warrant. The extortion charge grew out of the legal fight between Bannister and Miss Harding over custody of their child, had been told the actress employed detectives to obtain evidence against bim and that De advised him the case could be “settled” for $100,- Hunting Regulations To Be Published Soon Reports were read at the New various The Weather Cloudy tonight; generally fair; cooler. Tuesdsy PRICE FIVE CENTS TROOPS WIN BITTER TILT WITH FASCISTS BARRICADED IN JAIL Government Army Takes Sever- al Towns in Mediterran- ean Stronghold PALMA IS NEW OBJECTIVE Bloody Conflict Rages With Royalists Advancing on Madrid BATTLES RAGING @nd San Sebastian Monday with swift death for hostages before firing squads, reports reaching the Franco- Spanish frontier stated. ‘The rebel battleship Espana rode in the Bay of Biscay with guns trained on Fort Guadalupe near the two towns. Then the first shell whined from a 12-inch gun. prisoners were being executed in retaliation for the shell-' ing—just as government troops pre- viously had warned. About 1,200 hostages were held in Trun and 700 at San Sebastian. The number of deaths was not known, Ready for Attack Government forces prepared to meet anticipated rebel attacks by land and air in addition to bombardment from the sea all along the coastal strip on the Bay of Biscay near the French border, Gen. Francisco Franco, leadet of the rebellious Fascists, instilled new. enthusiasm into his followers.in a quick trip from southern Spain to re- fj bel headquarters in Burgos in the northern part of the country. - 4 Leaders apparently perfected plans q for the long-awaited simultaneous at- tacks from north and south, Smoke from funeral pyres of gov- ernment dead rose over which lay in ruins, and rebels con- tinued executions of defeated defend- ers of the city near the border of Portugal. In _ southwestern Badajoz province bloody fighting was reported as the government sought to block the rebel advance on Madrid. More than 1,500 prisoners were re- Ported executed in Badajoz, and countless others awaited their turn before a military tribunal. A bruise on the right shoulder, proof to the rebels that a rifle had been fired against them, was evidence enough to send a victim to his death. Shot in Groups of 20 In groups of 20 they were shot, and left ae: they slumped in death. against rebels on the island of Mal-. lorca reported from Madrid was den- ied in rebel reports reaching London,