The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 2, 1936, Page 1

Sait 4 almost hopeless. since. mi THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1873 —__.. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1936 Estimated U. S. Budget Deficit Pared Fall of Irun Looms As Spanish Rebels Renew Attack DEFENDERS DRIVEN [Levy Elimination Is Unprecedented “BACK 10 EDGE OF : BISCAY BAY TOWN ‘Drive by Land, Sea and Air Brings Success to Arms of Fascist Attackers REPORT HEAVY FIGHTING Defenders Entrenched in Sub- urb Making Last-Ditch Stand; 80 Surrender Spanish rebels were on the out- skirts of Irun, important Bay of Bis- cay city, when night ended a day of bitter fighting in that region Wed- nesday, according to Associated Press dispatches from Biriatou, French bor- der city. The attacking rebels apparently had captured a government redoubt atop Mount “Turiarte, important defensive position, and were reported to be within a mile of the city proper. Be- press them and Irun were only open fields. The village of Behobia, a suburb of Irun, was the scene of intensive fight- ing as night closed down, some re- treating government forces being en- trenched behind sand-bag barricades and others firing from the windows of houses. Some 80 of the defenders, however, fled across the Spanish bor- der and were disarmed by the French. Artillery, airplanes and guns on rebel fighting ships supported the in- fantry in their attack upon the hard- pressed Basque town. The govern- ment troops were reported short of ammunition and replied to the fire of the attackers only occasionally. Seek to Cut Comm Surplus Revenue From Sales Tax Believed Adequate for Operating Cost North Dakota will write another precedent in its history book if a plan to eliminate next year’s annual levy for the general fund is success- ful. Some state officials, including Gov. Walter Welford, are satisfied that sur- plus revenue from the two-per cent retail sales tax will be sufficient to meet the cost of operating the state government, annually figured at ap- proximately $1,400,000, The governor and tax officials con- tend that after all monies assigned from the sales tax to schools and re- Nef have been paid, enough surplus will be available to make a levy on general property unnecessary. Unprecedented Course North Dakota, a state which pio- neered in launching a program of state industries under the Nonparti- san League, would be blazing a new trail, within the state at least, under this new proposal. State tax commissioner Lee Nichols said that “to my knowledge,” there never has been a precedent for elim- ination of the levy for general pur- posts in North Dakota. Governor Welford considered the move would be a strong aid in this period of drouth which has dried up the farm income tremendously in re- cent years, : Drouth was attributed as a main reason for a deficit of nearly $923,000 in the general fund of the state on July 1, which resulted from uncol- lected taxes of $3,274,399 during the four years from 1932 to 1935. Collec- Damage to $8 Car Estimated at $75: Glastonbury, Conn., Sept. 2—. (®)—Deputy Judge Walter F. Foley of the Glastonbury town court addressed John Lasky. “How much damage was done to your car?” “Beventy-five dollars,” Lasky said. y “How much did you ‘pay - for your car?” “Eight dollars.” Lasky explained parts for his ancient vehicle were scarce. FEDS WILL CRACK DOWN ON LIQUOR ~ VENDORS - LANIER | Law Demands Enforcement in ‘Dry’ States Fargo, N. Sept. 2—V)—North| Dakota lodges and fraternal bodies, “night spots” and other establish- ments dealing in hard liquor were warned Thursday by District Attor- ney. P. W. Lanier that federal law is about to crack down on them, that payment of federal license fees is not enough to guarantee immunity from federal prosecution and that a 1936 hed Baxvik. Old students are already reg- BISMARCK SCHOOLS WILL OPEN DOORS MONDAY MORNING High School Convenes in Gym- nasium at 8:30 for Half- day Session {OTHERS BEGIN AT 9 A. M./EN ROUTE TO DES MOINES New Registration System to Be in Effect at High School for First Time Bismarck schools will open Monday. For days the work of cleaning win- dows, polishing floors, installing new ROOSEVELT 10 SUM | UP TOUR FINDINGS | OVER RADIO SUNDAY Will Make Important Announce- ment Concerning Unem- ployment at That Time Sioux Interpreter, William Zahn, Dies Colorful Figure in Territory Mi tory Activities Succumbs at 86 Fort Yates, N. D., Sept. 2—(P)— gat William P. Zahn, 86, Indian tinter- preter and a colorful figure in Dakota territory military activities, died here President Asserts Farm Prob- lem Is Major National Con- cern of Related Parts Aboard Roosevelt Train En Route to Des Moines, Sept. 2—(#)—Presi- dent Roosevelt decided Wednesday to Wednesday. He died at 10 a. m., in the home of his daughter, Mrs. Jessie Pleets of Fort Yates. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday with Father Bernard Strass- meler in charge. Burial w:il be in the Catholic cemetery at 2:30 p. m. by the American Legion. Zahn came to Dakote territory to ald in the establishment of what is desks and equipment, and getting a summer's dust off nearly everything go direct to Washington at the con- clusion of his drouth tour to make a now Fort Yates, later served under has been going on in the new high school, the five grade schools, and radio address Sunday night from the White House, summing up impres- General George A. Custer, and be- came @ close friend of many famous Indians including Sitting Bull, Rain- 8t. Mary’s parochial school. Monday morning they will be ready and waiting for the horde of more than 3,000 school children who will descend on theni to start a new school year, Bismarck high school students will convene at 0 a. m. in a general assembly in the gymnasium, where they will receive programs and be as- signed lockers. They will then at- tend all six classes, each hour period shortened to 15 minutes, and will be dismissed at noon, Others Start at 9 a, m. All other schools, including S8t. Mary’s, will begin at 9 a. m., with only a half day's session scheduled the first day. New students intending to enter Bismarck high school are asked to report for registration before Satur- day noon, if possible, according to City Superintendent of Schools H. O. sions of the western farmers’ plight and delivering an important pro- nouncement on reemployment. Just before reaching Cheyenne, Wyo., en route to the Des Moines conference with Gov. Landon and six other state heads Thursday, Marvin H. McIntyre, presidential secretary, announced the president had decided | to go to Washington instead of Hyde after the Indianapolis nce Saturday. It previously had been planned to deliver the radio address from his train during the tour. Officials said the White House af- forded a better place for such an ad- dress, They added the reemployment announcement would have to do with taking persons off the relief rolls and indicated 1t would be “important.” Joined by Gov. Johnson At Cheyenne, where a large crowd appeared at the station, Gov. Ed. C. Johnson of Colorado, Democratic The object of the rebels, apparently, is to cut off land communication be- tween Irun and the French border. Military observers regarded the stra- tegic situation of Irun’s defenders as achine. guns’ installed near the internatiorial bridge between Behobia, Spain, and Behobia, France, would close that artery of communication. The attack began late in the morn- ing after having been delayed by heavy mists, the rebel infantry mov- ing forward under cover of an artil- lery barrage. When government guns in Puenterrabia replied most of their shots went wild. The camouflaged batteries of the rebels were only about half a mile from the trenches of the defenders and poured into them a withering fire. At nightfall the battle still raged with government defenders retreating slowly, if at all. Fatalities, however, were not believed to have been as heavy as in much of the previous fighting. Lo: Claim Success But offsetting the situation at Irun was the claim of the government that its aviators had located and destroyed @ rebel airdrome which had been used to attack Madrid from the air four times within the last week. It was asserted that gasoline tanks and am- munition depots were blown up, huge columns of smoke rising from the “had rejected a demand by the rebels that it surrender the capital lest it (Continued on Page Two! PILLSBURY MILL IS CLOSED BY PICKETS tions before January 1 are expected to meet the deficit, officials said. Sales Tax Earmarked ‘The 1935 legislature put tne North Dakota sales tax into operation for a two-year period, earmark! $1,- 200,000" 10r° the welfare 5 and $2,650,000 for schools wita the re- mainder to go to the general fund, Already the welfare board has been paid off, $1,200,000 has been given schools and $750,000 adilitional’ reve- nue is accumulated for. that purpose. Figuring: the annual income from the tax” at $2,800,000 the state ex- pects to make the balance of the school payment by November, after which all monies can go to meet the general levy. plans to formally consider uhe pro- Posal at.a meeting soon. GOVERNOR RESTING BASILY IN HOSPITAL Talks Politics, Jokes With Call- The state board of equalization |: now being turned. The 1936 liquor enforcement act is an amendment. to. the .Webb-Kenyon, law, known as the interstate shipment act. It reads, in part, as follows: Punishment Outlined “Whoever shall import, bring or transport any intoxicating liquor into any state in which all sales of intox!- cating liquor containing more than ¢ the majority in ‘dry’ states, as far as itself under this law to keep dry ter- ritory dry. 5 “In seeking to enforce this law, my office will seek first and primarily the big operators. This statement 1s istered. Junior high students were asked by Principal C. W. Leifur to report Thursday or Friday of this week to get books and lockers. a rte a inew..system of registration in the high school. Offer Four Curricula ‘The system, developed by the school board last spring, divides the subjects offered into four separate, curricula, and requires students to} register for one of them. They are labelled academic, com- mercial, manual arts and homemak- in rf Eight and a half of the 16 units re- quired for graduation are constant in each curriculum, required by the state in English, history, economics, poli- tical science, science and physical education. The academic curriculum requires additional units in algebra, Latin, and The commercial curriculum requires additional units in Latin, algebra and junior business training. Junior busi- ness training is offered for the first time this year, and is pl famillarize the student with busi- candidate for the U. 8. Senate, board: ed the train to ride with the presi- dent to. Julesburg, Colo., where late Wednesday the president planned an- other motor tour of drouth regions. -- Speeding across. southern. Wyoming. Wednesday in resumption of his drouth’ tour, the president declared in a.rear platform talk at Laramie that the farm problem was one big tional problem with many inter- related parts. Speaking to a group of townspeople, the president held up a government Grange chart showing overstocked and understocked areas, “I see by this chart, for instance,” he said, “that you have sufficient grazing land here to take additional cattle.” Mr. Roosevelt said the farmers in different sections of the country were dependent upon each others’ pros- perity. If the wheat farmers suffer from drouth, they cannot buy so much meat from the neighboring cat- tle raiser, he explained. Mr. Roosevelt is due in Des Moines at noon Thursday for drouth discus- sions with Gov. Alf M. Landon, Re- publican presidential nominee, and the governors of Iowa, Nebraska, Mis- souri, Olkahoma, Minnesota and Wis- consin, ers About Taxi Mishap at Kansas City Kansas City, Sept. 2—(#)—The condition of Governor Walter Wel. ford of North Dakota, injured in traffic accident Wednesday, was re: ported “just fine” Thursday at St. Mary's hospital. Attendants said he spent a restful night. A rib in the right side of the gov- ernor’s chest was torn from the cart- ilage in front of the chest when the governor's taxicab collided with an- other car at an intersection. given so that there will be no mis- as to the policy of this all | [F and orth become when they are FLT gE assisting receiving such liquors i E i § t of the 1936 amend- La- ig set bE a » providing | uate, had to take 13 of the 16 credits ness forms and procedure, packing operations and related subjects. Additional credit in Latin, algebra, geometry, mechanical drawing and woodwork are required in the manual arts curriculum. The homemaking curriculum calls for added credits in homemaking, Latin and algebra. Leave Optional Courses This new plan, in line with steps! taken at most larger high schools, leave from 4 optional credits, in the academic, to 1% optional credits in the manual arts curriculum for the student to choose for himself. For- merly, all students, in order to grad- in certain specified subjects. Heads Funeral Procession Dressed in formal clothes, the pres- ident left his train at Salt Lake City Tuesday and headed # long automo- bile lon to the crowded taber- nacle of the Latter Day Saints where impressive funeral services were held for his secretary of war. Upwards of 10,000 persons sat in the great hall as Dern, twice governor of Utah, was eulogised. After the services, the moved on to Mt. Olivet cemetery where army and Masonic honors were held at the grave. There, the president and members of the Dern family sat under a green canvas canopy. The president delayed almost half “These new curricula will undoubt- an hour beyond departure time while More Than 200 Men Thrown) * Out of Work as Result of Elevator Strike Minneapols, Bept. 2.—() — jal the 1996 amendment effective, designed particularly to protect dry the | territory, operations under this statute’ : will beg.n as soon as the machinery to handle it is shaped, Lanter said. edly meet individual needs (Continued on Page Two) Cities’ League Meets Thursday at Manda better | Beseary, Marril a. Maine telked wi Washington by telephone. in-the-Face and Red Tomahawk. Zahn's life is notabie in that he came into the Redman’s midst an enemy soldier and remained to be the Sioux’s neighbor, friend and coun- selor for over half a century. Lived 69 Years With Sioux He lived continuously for more than 69 years among them. Always friendly, he showed the Indians how to plow with oxen, to plant potatoes and numerous other activities of the white man, Zahn was the first white man to build a log cabin in this ter- ritory and was the first white man up the Cannonball river as a settler. William Presly Zahn was born Oct. 25, 1849, at Pyrmont, Indiana. His ancestors originally came from the Netherlands to Pennsylvania before the Revolutionary War. Eventually his forbearers migrated to Indiana, where they were among the first set- tlers in Carrol county. At 17 Zahn left his farm home in Indiana. He enlisted in the army Aug. 22, 1869, for service on the “western frontier.” In November of that year Zahn came to the Grand River Indian agency ti South Dakota with a regiment of soldiers. Helped Establish Fort Yates On July 4, 1873, a detachment of 26 soldiers, including Zahn, aided in establishing what is now Fort ie N. D., and the Standing Rock In- dian agency. The new town also was first known as Standing Rock but later was re- named in honor of the memory of Capt, George W. Yates, who fell with General George A. Custer in the bat- tle of the Little Big Horn. During the same year, 1873, the soldiers at Grand River moved to Fort Abraham Lincoln, south of Man- dan, Zahn accompanying as a mem- ber of Company G, 17th infantry. Zahn next was assigned to a group which served as an escort to the Stanley expedition, surveyors of the railroad project to the Yellowstone river, Accompanied Custer He accompanied General Custer on his famous expedition to the Black Hills, where a scientific party with him was to determine whether gold had been discovered there. The party left Fort Abraham Lincoln July 2, 1874, and returned Aug. 31. On Aug. 22, 1875, Zahn was dis- charged from the army, ending his military career. He did, however, play an important part in army ace tivities shortly afterward. He served as an interpreter for a Lieut. Ogle, who disarmed Two-Bear's band, op- posite Fort Yates, following the Cus- ter tragedy at Little Big Horn. Zahn as a civilian became engaged in freighting between Bismarck and the Black Hills with bull teams. Dur- ing 1877 and 1878 he worked in & store for Cole Brothers, an Indian trading center. In 1879 he married “Winyan-Waste,” s sister of Chief John Grass, Children from this ma® riage are John Zahn, now living at Shields, and William B. Zahn, a resi- dent of Morristown, South Dakota. Married Secend Time Following his wife's death, he was married on June 11, 1887 to “Kize- WILLIAM P. ORGAN OF VATICAN PLAYS COUGHLIN'S ATTACK ON F. D. R. However, Prelates Say Radio Priest Free to Continue Political Activities Za Vatican City, Sept. 2.—(#)—The Os- servatore Romano, authoritative Vat- ican organ, Wednesday publicly crit- icized Father Charles E. Coughlin’s recent speech assailing President Roosevelt, as “a liar and betrayer.” Prelates, however, said Father Coughlin was free to continue his po- litical activities, provided he does not Genounce public authority: ---- » - The Qsservatore Romano editorial, which prelates said was not to be con- sidered official or semi - official, stated: “In some American newspapers it has been said that when Bishop Gal- lagher (Bishop Michael J. Gallagher of Detroit) was in Rome he was given to understand the Holy See approved completely the activities of Father Coughlin. “That is not true. Bishop Gallagher knows very well what was said to him on that matter. “The Holy See wishes to respect all liberties and all conveniences. “It is extremely notable that an orator offends when he inveighs against persons who represent su- preme social authority, with the evi- dent danger of disturbing the respect due the authorities themselves by the people. “The inconvenience is greater as well as more evident when the speaker is a priest.” In high Vatican circles, it was stressed the Osservatore comment did not mean the Vatican wholly dis- approved of the Detroit radio priest. However, high sources said, the Vatican disapproves Father Cough- lin’s attack on President Roosevelt as an attack on a constituted authority. In New York, Father Coughlin de- ctined to comment on the editorial. There to meet Bishop Michael J. Gal- lagher of Detroit upon his return from Rome, Father Coughlin said he would “prefer to wait,” for the bishop's arrival and “read the article at my leisure” before commenting. JAPANESE WILL NOT SCRAP SUBMARINES Disregard London Naval Treaty in Keeping Ahead of U. S., British London, Sept. 2.—(P}—Japan, in a formal note, Wednesday announced it intended to retain 15,598 tons of ;| submarines in excess of the United ;| States and Great Britain. That will make Japanese submarine Mrs. | strength one-third superior to that of Flying Tackle Puts Huge Heron in Zoo garage. A great blue heron, a young one standing feet tall and baving - a'wingspread of feet, stood .| the other two naval powers. ve was taken 10) rer of Japanese mot reply to Great Britain’s recent invo- cation of the escalator clause of the PRICE FIVE CENTS SHAVETWOBILUON OFF FIGURE OF 1996; PEAK INCOME SEEN Revised Summary Forecasts $2,097,000,000 Deficit in Current Year i RECEIPTS SET AT 5 BILLION $500,000,000 Believed Limit of Additional Drouth Relief Expenditures , i ‘Washington, Sept, 2.—(?)—Predict- ing a new peak in the government's peacetime income, President Roose- velt’s revised budget summary Wed- nesday forecast a $2,007,000,000 deficit for the current fiscal year. ‘This figure, fixed in a re-check of earlier budget estimates late Tues- Gay, compared with $4,764,000,000 last year, enero in 1935 and $3,989,- The president's relief estimates had both favorable and unfavorable as- pects. Although saying that unem- ployed are steadily being absorbed into industry, he balanced this with assertions that “substantial” expendi- tures would be necessary for drouth relief and that it will be several months before it can be determined whether work relief rolls can be cut sufficiently to bring them within the limits’ of present available funds, Half Billion Believed Limit Even should additional appropria- tions be found necessary, however, Mr. Roosevelt said these would total leas than $500,000,000. Estimating receipts at $5,665,839,000 for the year ending next June 30, the chief executive pointed out this was & net: increase of $12,000,000 over his original budget estimate last January despite $668,000,000 of unexpected losses in revenue through invalidation of special taxes under the agricultural adjustment act and the other causes. Another factor which developed after preparation of the original esti- mate—passage of the bonus—also was Eliminating $580,000,000 of status tory debt retirement from the gross deficit to arrive at a net figure of $1,- 517,000,000, Mr. Roosevelt said the public debt would not be increased by that amount because the treasury’s working balance in the general fund would be reduced by $1,100,000,000. This balance on Aug. 29 was $1,451,- 576,000. Puts Debt Increase at 410 Million Mr. Roosevelt estimated the net in- crease in the national debt this year at $410,000,000, bringing it to $34,188,- 543,494 on next June 30. After record peacetime financial operations during the last fiscal year to raise funds for the soldiers’ bonus and relief needs, the summary Tues- Gay disclosed that new borrowing of $750,000, is contemplated this year. This was exclusive of refunding is- sues and statutory debt retirement. The revised summary brought s quick attack from Representative Bolton of Ohio, chairman of the Re- publican congressional campaign committee, who said: “We have had budgets and ‘revised budgets’ every year under the New Deal. But we have never had a solid, complete and faithful advance state- ment of federal finances or federal fiscal policy.” Revenue Act to Boost Receipts In estimating receipts for the cur= rent year, Mr. Roosevelt said that an increase of $410,000,000 was expected from the revenue act of 1936, includ- ing $82,000,000 of non-recurring rev- enue from the “windfall” levy on un- taxes under the in- Giving the first post-enactment estimate of returns under the 1936 tax Anis he! aiised hes eal 50 Deel eee $652,000,000 annually. In the present iuscal year, however, only the first and quarterly income 2 Brothers in Triple Killing Still at Large Yreka, Calif., Sept. 2—()—An of- from District Attorney James Davis for John H. and Clark T. Brite, hunted as triple belief of officials here strengthened of| Wednesday the brothers will surren~ Davis announced he does not in-