The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 27, 1936, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1878 i Thousands Line City Streets Waitin Ge of War Dern Dies of Succumbs Thursday Morning After Spending Night Un- der Oxygen Tent TWICE GOVERNOR OF UTAH Contracted Illness on Insp tion Trip of Inter-Coastal Waterway Washington, Aug. 27.—(?)—Sink- fing into a coma after a prolonged ill- mess, George Henry Dern, 64-year-old secretary of war in the Roosevelt cabinet, died here today of ‘cardiac nd kidney complications following an influenza attack. He passed away at 10:55 a. m. (ST), at Pat Walter Reed hospital. Six members of his family were near his hand as\be died. Word immeiately was telegraphed to President Roosevelt, who at the Influenza time was nearing Bismarck, N. D., aboard his special train. Plans for the funeral of the secre- four years ago he occupied the gov- ernor’s chair, since the law specifies that only men who served in the mil- itary forces can be buried in Arling- ton national cemetery here. Members of the secretary's family at the hospital were his widow, Mrs. ‘Dern, his daughters, Mrs. Harry Bax- ter and Miss Elizabeth Dern, and his sons, William, John and James. Dr. Fritz Meyer, noted German heart epecialist called here from Boston at the direction of President Roosevelt, ‘was in consultation with army doctors just before the secretary died. During the night, it was disclosed, Dern had been placed under an oxygen tent in an effort to prolong eal life. In April he spent six weeks in the hospital after contracting influenze on an inspection trip down the At- lantic inter-coastal waterway. He was brought back to the capital by plane. Roosevelt Deeply Grieved Over Loss President “Roosevelt, from his special train here, issued the follow- ing statement on Dern’s death: “An upright, able and honest public servant is lost to our nation- ‘al life in the death of Secretary which fall within the jurisdiction of the war department and admin- [Posen pte yo ile gaa a tion and good judgment. “The army of the United States has lost a devoted leader, “For many years George Dern and I have been close associates, first as governors of our respective va and lately, for x: early four Boel gyre AY | tary of war were not immediately announced. It was indicated his body would be taken to Utah, where only George Henry Dern GOV. FLOYD OLSON faz) LAID 10 FINAL "REST AT LAKEWOOD Times Governor in Public Devotional Minneapolis, Aug. 27.— () — Floyd Bjorrtsterne Olson lies Thursday in eternal sleep on a forested hillside in Lakewood cemetery after the largest and most impressive farewell ever accorded a citizen of the northwest. An eloquently simple graveside serv- ice closed a three-hour public devo- tional “Wednesday i which it was estimated by Adjutant General E. A. ‘Walsh dt least 150,000 persons paid their final tribute to the three-times governor of Minnesota. Almost a score of women were either overcome or fainted. ‘The thousands who occupied all of the 13,070 seats in the auditorium told the story of Gov. Olson’s career— friends, colleagues, politicians, the cu- tious, shoddy-clothed laborers, whose poverty the dead man resp aga on as '@ poor newsboy; a millionaire, whose close friend he was at the height of his popularity. With bowed ‘heads and silence punc- tuated only by audible sobbing, they paid tribute to a brilliant personality, leaving to a Catholic priest, Gov. lip LaFollette of Wisconsin, a itheran minister, and a Jewish rabbi, ‘among whose people the late governor grew to manhood, to put into words the respect and honor due the first Farmer-Labor governor of Minnesota and the nation. Said Gov. LaFollette in a funeral eration delivered from amid floral offerings that filled eleven trucks: No Enemy Saw Olson's Back “Not, enemy in Minnesota ever saw thé back of Floyd Olson. Floyd Olson understood the social useful- ness of selfish individualism was end- bg Ee S08 LATE SENN REA. De apse the function of lead- giving constructive direction He reached and wielded 16 vithout fear. He was no hypocrite.’ Rabbi David Aronson: “To the Jews BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1936 g Glimpse of President LANDON RAPS NEW DBAL'S SPENDING, ‘COCKEYED TAXES Demands Repeal of Federal Corporation Tax on Undis- f tributed Income ‘LIVING IN FOOL’S PARADISE’ Republican Nominee Points Out Increase of ‘Hidden’ Assessments Aboard Landon Train En Route to Topeka, Kas., Aug. 27.—(4)—Gov. Alf M Landon left behind him a charge “wasteful” New Deal spending and ‘cockeyed” tax legislation as he swept through Illinois Thursday on a sched- ule of 10 rear platform appearances and a visit to Abraham Lincoln’s tomb. The Republican nominee was speed- ing toward Topeka on the return leg ct his first presidential campaign in- vasion of the east. In the last of three addresses, he told a Buffalo, N. Y., audience that American youth faced “a heritage of ;debts and mortgages” through New Deal expenditures. Landon demanded the immediate repeal of the law taxing corporations jaccording to the amounts of income withheld from distribution. This legis- lation the Kansan described as “cock- ‘eyed.” He said the entire tax struc- ture, federal and state, needed over- hauling. Makes Rear Platform Appearances After.an overnight ride from the western New York metropolis the presidential aspirant returned to the rear platform of his special train to greet townsfolk at Joliet, Dwight, Pontiac, Bloomington and Lincoln, Ill, before reaching Springfield for a 40-minute halt to place a wreath on Lincoln's tomb, “We are living in a fool's paradise— | far beyond our income,” Landon told his. Buffalo audience, -arrayed- in- * semi-circular grandstand and on chairs blanketing the baseball dia- mond. Landon said that “hidden taxes,” which he described as taxes on “such things as food, clothing, gasoline and cigarettes,” now supply 51 cents of every dollar collected by the federal government as compared with 41 cents in 1932, Taxes Increased 25 Per Cent “In other words,” he said, “the share of the cost of government fall- ing mainly on those with incomes of $25 a week or less has increased 25 per cent during the three years of the present administration. They are paying far more than their rightful share of the cost of government. “Today the administration is spend- (Continued on Page Two) Let’s Face see for himself the ravages of special drouth committee and, sound and constructive action. with rain and which will not ple alive is enough. We must say to parti as a whole. ways are bars to progress, It is not enough that we The ends to be achieved not. to become desert wastes, if to call | Germany, Italy and Portugal will (An Editorial) President Roosevelt comes to North Dakota today to which will reconstruct this area. The event is of vast importance to us because the wel- fare of hundreds of thousands of people depends upon There is no politics in the drouth but we in the drouth area must beware the possibility that politics will be in- jegted into this situation, used to impede the action we must have if we are to be placed on a self-sustaining basis. There is. danger, too, that our own thinking will make it difficult for the government to launch the only kind of program which can be effective, for that program must, of necessity, call for the expenditure of federal money. We cannot play “dog in the manger,” federal funds and, at the same time, attempt to make po- litical capital of the mounting national debt. Before we can reach a decision on this point we must adjust our own thinking. We must decide, first of all, whether we regard the drouth and its attendant evils as a temporary calamity, the effects of which will disappear we choose to regard it as a permanent handicap imposed by our attempt to farm in a semi-arid area. If we regard it as the former we cannot expect the government to jam a reconstruction program down our necks. If the situation is temporary there is no need for permanent rehabilitation. Assistance in keeping our peo- But if we regard the situation as a lem-—and it seems safe to say that a maj zens do consider it as such—we must be prepared to accept the responsibilities which that attitude entails. jisans of all reconstruction of this area is the pa‘ Americans; that the necessities of sound pati view to the future make it imperative. We must realize the need for becomi: ing our best to see that the rest of the our plight and the’ manner in which it affects the country In short, if we are to have a rehabilitation we must’ make it easy for the government to effect, We must do what we can to dissipate tion, the misunderstanding and: the ignorance which al- oe Fi eo 2 @ program is formulated en bi ve it our enthusiastic support tion. direction lies the best interests of North Dakota, é Urea are to have the life end opportunities whlch we like We, as well asthe govbrnment, must face the music. oe SPANISH SOCIALIST ATTACKS ENGLAND, FRANCE ON POLICY Indalecio Priexto, Government's Strong Man, Accuses Pow- ers of Deserting HITS AT NEUTRALITY PACT Loyalists Announce Victorious Offensive in Important Bay of Biscay Sector (By the Associated Press) Spain’s Socialist strong man, de- claring his war-torn country the “Ethiopia of Europe,” burst out ‘Thursday in bitter denunciation of France and Great Britain. Indalecio Prieto, who as leader of the parliamentary Socialist party is the most important man behind the Madrid government, declared Spain had been deserted by the very couns tries which should be its allies in & fight against the spread of European Fascism. The European neutrality pact, he asserted, will hurt Socialist Spain rather than help it because, he said, sign the pact and go on supplying arms to the Fascist rebels. Germany, he said, eventually will present its bill if the rebels win, and he suggested the possibility that Gen. Francisco Franco, the insurgent com- mander-in-chief, might one day give the Balearic islands to one of the Fascist powers. ‘France Has Broken Word’ With Great Britain and France ap- pealing jointly for non-intervention to countries which have not yet placed arms embargoes on shipments to Spain, Prieto charged France had broken her word by refusing to ful- fill terms of an arms contract which she, herself, insisted upon. The Franco-British neutrality ap- Lpeal was diected particularly, countries Oxzechslovakia, pat arms peoaiaser Germany, Russia and Italy have announced their ad- herence to the pact, although Italy has not effected an actual embargo, contending a system of export Hoenses will serve the same 3 PETERSEN 10 PROBE MINNEAPOLIS STRIKE Plans Investigation Before Tak- ing Action; Union Refuses to Arbitrate \torious counter-offensive in the Bay | of Biscay sector and moving in on the long-besieged rebel city of Voiedt in the northern mining country. On the other hand, the rebels said they were, about to capture the im- portant southern seaport of Malaga. U. S. Warns “orci ie From the Western Sorry re tl Se United States warned Madrid it will! Minneapolis, Aug. 27.—()—Gov. insist on the freedom of the seas for | Hjalmar Petersen Thursday consider- Seeks First-Hand Information on Drouth (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White; Copyright, 1935, NEA 8ervic PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT Here Is Summary ~©f Drouth Report Committee Would Hal Would Halt Wast- age of Soil by Erosion; Build More Dams MANY THINGS ARE NEEDED Better Engineering, Agricultur- al Practices and Financ- ing Mentioned (By the Associated Press) American shipping. Spain has nojéd the strike of wholesale grocery Here is the text of a summary and drivers, announcing he would take no action until he made a thorough in- vestigation. “I am going to confer with Adju- tant General E. A. Walsh first and then probably with representatives of both sides,” said Governor Petersen in St. Paul. rp A delegation of the strikers, headed by Patrick Corcoran, of the Milk! Drivers Union, notified the gover- nor’s office they were on their way to the capitol to state their positions fi to Governor Petersen. Governor Petersen received a letter from the Hennepin County Farmers Protective association enclosing a resolution criticizing the strike and serving notice on “the Communist leaders of General Drivers Union, Local No, 574, under the guise of Truck Drivers Union No. 544,” that they will not permit the strikers to bar them from the streets of Minne- (Continued on Page Two) the Music drouth, hear the report of his , perhaps, outline a program hold out our hands for soon occur again, or whether ent prob- ity of our citi- litical groups that lotic du’ rot all good tism and a vocal, for do- ion understands the sit back and ask the govern- and oe dar people and their chil highlights of the great plains drouth committee’s report made to President Roosevelt here Thursday afternoon: Arrest of the wastage of soil by erosion and efficient use of the water resources of the region are basic in any long-range program for the great Jains drouth area. Accomplishment of these two ob- jectives involves engineering, proper ogricultural practices, financing and revision of policies by all public agencies concerned. The region should be subdivided into sub-areas and studies should be made to determine the kinds of agri- cultural practice and engineering treatment required to fit each portion to its indicated use. To Retire Poor Lands Certain sub-marginal’ lands should be taken permanently out of commer- cial production, Soil conserving practices should be followed on arable lands, such as re- grassing, contour plowing, listing, ter racing, strip-cropping and the plant- ing of trees. Grazing can often be (Continued on Page Two) COUNTY AUDITORS CHOOSE OFFICERS Name Minot 1937 Convention City; Create New Legis- lative Committee With election of officers and choos- ing of Minot as the 1937 convention city, the North Dakota County Aud- itors’ association closed the formal part of their three-day convention in Bismarck Wednesday afternuon. Officers lected were Martin Haugan, Grand Forks, president; C. rosie G. toe +) sas City, that Nebraska will be in his Roosevelt to Hear Drouth Committee, See Effect on Tour Plans for Reconstruction of Semi-Arid States to Be Submitted by Group Which Examined Area; Time for Tour Set at 3:30 P. M. LARGE CROWD WELCOMES EXECUTIVE Will Take Auto Trip Into Country Late in After- noon After Parleys With Committee Mem- bers, State and Federal Officials President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrived in Bismarck at 12:20 p. m. Thursday to begin a American drouth area. president felt “very badly” at the president’s plans. Dern’s death. STEEN TO EMPLOY 1,600 NEW RELIEF CLIENTS AT ONCE More Than 2,000, ‘Assigned by WPA, Expected to Be at Work by Sept. 1 Approximately 1,600 drouth relief clients will be put to work imme- diately on water and wildlife conser- vation projects in North Dakota, M. O. Steen, project administrator for the department of agriculture, bureau of biological survey, announced here Thursday. Additional relief workers are being assigned daily by the works progress administration, and more than 2,000 men will be at work Sept. 1, Steen said. The workers are being employed on 4i conservation projects, the largest of which is located near Dunn Center, where a dam, which will inundate more than 1,200 acres of land and create an artificial lake having a stor- ge capacity of approximately 8,000 pernsleet of water, is under construce ion. 125,000 Cu. Yds. of Material When completed, the huge earthen dam will contain 125,000 cubic yards of materials, and will create the largest reservoir in the state built exclusively with relief labor, Steen stated. “The impression seems prevalent that biological survey projects have ino function other than the protection jand propagation of wildlife,” Steen said, “but in truth this is but one of the purposes for which the projects are constructed. Other advantages in- clude recreation, erosion and flood centrol, and particularly, water con- servation, “The projects, by reason of the fact that they are uniformly located on large, flat reservoir sites, are playing a large part in the water storage pro- gram of the federal government in the drouth area, as the storage capacity of this kind of reservoir is much greater than that of any other type. 138,000 Acre-Feet Capacity “The work relief projects now in operation, or previously constructed under the direction of the biological survey in North Dakota have a total storage capacity of approximately 138,000 acre-feet or in other words, water enough to flood six sonneuire cf land to a depth of one foot. In tion to work relief projects the biolog- ical survey also is developing five pri- mary government-owned refuges in North Dakota upon which dam and dike constuctions store very extensive bodies of water. The largest of these is the upper Souris storage reservoir Lemke, Union party presidential can- A pT A ered by airplane from Sioux City to Kan party's column next November, Newspapermen and accompanying officials swarmed from the train upon its arrival at the Northern Pacific depot but there was no sign of the chief executive. His secretary, Marvin E. McIntyre, explained that the personal inspection of the great the death of War Secretary George Dern in Washington and would not appear until 3:30 , p.m. The crowd of approximately 5,000 persons, however, con- tinued to wait, no public announcement having been made of The schedule here and in South Dakota will be carried out as previously announced but the remainder of his trip through the nation’s dust bowl may be rearranged because of Secretary If the funeral is held in Salt Lake City, Dern’s home town, the president _ probably will head westward from South Dakota to attend it, thus des laying his conference with the gov> ernors of drouth states for two days and setting back ofher engagements along the route. : At the governors’ conference, slated for Des Moines, he is slated to discuss with Gov. Alfred M. Landon of Kane sas, Republican presidential candi date, what may be done to improve. . cénditions in the sem!-stid West. Lunches With Welford, Holt 3 Following lunch with Governors Walter Welford of North Dakota and ~ Elmer Holt of Montana as his guests; the first item of business on the preai= dent's schedule was a conference with the committee which investigated cone ditions in the drouth area, ‘The report was ready for peesendies tion and members of the committee. assumed that the president would give it out as soon as the conference was” finished. In addition to the written report, members of the committee, each an expert in some field, were to give the president any additional in- formation he might desire and ane swer his questions. More than 30 cars were to take part in the motor tour which the president will make, beginning at 3:30 p. m., to view water conservation projects in this area. Only 20 were listed Weds nesday. Lorenzo Belk, district engineer for the WPA, was to drive the car carry ing the president in order that he might be handy to answer any ques- tions asked regarding the various Projects, Out-of-State Delegations Here Delegations were here from South Dakota and Montana to meet the president but Governor Tom Berry and other South Dakotans at home, awaiting his arrival there. On the train with the chief execue and Wheeler and Murray of Montana, They were to take part in a conference slated for tonight, along pors Welford and Holt, members of and E with the president and back to the depot to talk phone again, The president leave his private car. At Jamestown, wi the epned ahs about 10 a. m., a aves ed for the president to ton, F the rear i oy ek g i +3 E é Al BE Ft i ? g rail if