The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 4, 1936, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 [RIVAL ASPIRANTS POR PRESIDENCY | DISCUSS DROUTH Exchange Views on What {s|- Sound Program to Help Farmers in Kansas IGNORE POLITICAL SUBJECTS ‘Kidding’ Reference to Size of Boat for Fishing was Only Mention Des Moines, Sept. 4.—(?)—Presl- dent Roosevelt and Governor Landon went their separate ways Friday and left the nation looking for the “political effects” that Gov. Clyde L. Herring of Iowa said “result when either of them lifts his hat”—even at @ non-political drouth conference. These ranking political opponents, one of whom seems destined to be president during the next four years, came face to face Thursday in Iowa's statehouse to discuss Kansas’ drouth problems at the president's invita- tion, But before they talked of this they lunched together on fried chicken and chatted about fishing. After considering what to do for Kansas’ sun-baked farmers, they dined together on filet mignon in the president's special car and engaged in the kind of conversation a White House assistant said “you would ex- pect from intelligent people.” Beware a Big Boat “The nearest thing to politics I heard,” one governor who sat at the luncheon table with them said, “was when the president remarked to Lan- don ‘if you take my place in the White House, be sure you don’t use too big a boat to go fishing.’ “But the president was just kid- ding. He'd been explaining that he liked to go fishing on s° small boat because he didn’t have tc’take alot of people along.” ait President Roosevelt left Des Moines at midnight for Hannibal, Mo., where he will dedicate a bridge across the * drouth-shrunken Mississippi river Friday, Then he will swing across Illinois on his special train and con- fer with Illinois’ Gov. Horner, Satur- day, at Indianapolis, Ind. he will talk with governors of Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Kentucky. Then he will go direct to Washing- ton, D. C., where Sunday night he will report to the nation by radio on what he thinks of drouth conditions and what should be done about them. Landon Back in Topeka’ Governor Landon, who motored 270. miles to Des Moines from Topeka, Kans., to confer with the man he is campaigning to oust from the White House, started back to Topeka last night as soon as he finished dining with the-president. He planned to drive as far as St. Joseph, Mo., catch a little sleep there and then travel on to the Kansas capitol. “Political effects?” said one veteran | political writer. “I'll gyess with you. This is one of those things you can’t figure.” Both the president and Gov. Lan- don fought shy of politics at their THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NO DAKOTA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1936 1 Spanish Cabinet Resigns As Irun Falls The Weather Unsettled and somewhat cooler to- night; Saturday generally fair, PRICE FIVE CENTS COMMUNIST BODY, i Nation Eyes Political Effects of Des Moines Conference Welford Laughs at Taxicab Injury NOW AT HELM, IS The injury which sent Governor Walter Welford to a Kansas City hospital after a taxicab crash, damaged as is shown by this picture, taken after the doctors had “made him comfortable.” Pictured with Welford is John K. Brostuen, McKenzie county farmer and chairman of the Republican state central com- mittee, who was riding with Welford at the time of the accident. Brostuen was unhurt. Three Asphyxiated his ribs but not his spirits, By Gas From Silo (BENDIX RACE PILOT ~ JUMPS 10 ‘SAFETY ASPLANE EXPLODES Amelia Earhart Putnam Battles Flapping Door as Planes Speed West Kansas City, Sept. 4—(#)—Drama involved two contestants in the trans- continental Bendix air speed race Friday as they shot westward from ‘New York toward Los Angeles. Joe Jacobson, 31, Kansas City, parachuted to safety when his Ney rup Gamma plane exploded near Staf- ford, Kan., after he had flown from ‘New York to Kansas City at a speed exceeding 195 miles an hour. Amelia Earhart Putnam, famed transoceanic woman flier, battled a flapping emergency door on her west- ward flight to Kansas City, with a loss of time she estimated at 40 min- utes or more. Three of the seven contestants land- ed here during the morning for re- The president, after inviting Lan- don and the governors of Iowa, Ne- _braska, Oklahoma and confer with him, declared the confer- ence would be “non-political” and said he was making his drouth tour, ee @ candidate, but as the preai- lent. Landon seconded the president, de- claring that “the relief of human suf- (Continued on Page Two? FIRE PREVENTION COMMITTEE NAMED Throughout Nation to Re- duce Fire Hazards ys fueling. One refueled at Wichita and another at St. Louis. Two were un- Teported. Favorite Lands at Kansas City Benny Howard, Chicago, favorite to win the race, landed here at 9:03 a. m. after a flight of 4 hours, 5¢ minutes from, New York. He took off 16 min- utes later, and said he planned no other stops on the 1,431 mile flight to Los Angeles. Los Jacobson telephoned a.report of his experience to Gale Enos, a friend, at the airport here. “Gale, I've had some terribly bad | | flying at about 5,000 feet when| secrlved Girl Fats into: Gas-Filled: Pit; Others Die in Attempting» to Rescue Her Poplar Springs, Md., Sept. 4.—()— Swift-acting, suffocating ensilage gas—almost pure carbon diox:de given off by fermenting cattle feed—lelt a mother, her nine-: -old daughter, and her foster-daughter dead Fri- day. Two men narrowly escaped asphyx- fation while attempting to rescue then. Anna Richards, 9, playing with two small boys, fell eight feet into an old underground icehouse, converted tecently into a silo. Screams of her playmates brought Mrs. Ella Malinda Richards, 37, her mother, to the pit. Mrs. Richards jumped into the dank hole, sought to lift the child and was overcome by fumes from the rotting green corn husks, Mary Sine, 19, Anna's foster sister, lowered a heavy ladder into the pit, descended to the level of the husks and drag- Anna's body across the ladder's lowa’ rung before she, too, collapsed. PETITIONS OF LEMKE ELECTORS SUFFICIENT Filing May Face Legal Action Because of Candidacy for Two Offices Names of presidental electors for the Lemke-O'Brien Union party were on file with Secretary of State James D Gronna Friday. Deputy G. A. Gilbertson said the carried suddenly the plane exploded. It felt | manager of the Union party campaign. Uke someone had hit me in the face. “I was thrown clear of the plane. | are Tangled Line Delays Opening “I pulled the ripcord of my chute and the lines tangled and fouled. the para. unhurt.” para-| tine, ‘Thé-four presidential electors named George Engel, McClusky; D. Riley, Minot; Ole 8. Gunderson, Chris- and Thomas Mohagen, Grafton. Their names, filed under the Lemke- O'Brien Union party designation, rep- resent Congressman William SECOND MAN DIES STRIKE SHUTS DOWN | FOLLOWING CRASH OF LOADED TRUCKS Jacob Heidrich Succumbs in Hospital From Injuries Re- ceived Near Denhoff BROTHER IS RECOVERING Accident Previously Had Claim- ed Life of Jacob Hieb Early Thursday A second life was claimed by # truck crash near Denhoff early Thursday when Jake Heidrich, 22. of near Strasburg, died at 11 p. m., Thurs- day in a local hospital. His skull was fractured, an arm was broken, and he had sustained severe internal in- Juries. Heidrich was the son of Max Heid- rich, farmer living 11 miles west of Strasburg. His brother, Harry, driver of the Heidrich truck, is in a Bismarck hospital suffering from se- vere cuts and internal injuries. His condition was described as “fair” by a doctor Friday, who said he probably will recover. N.D. Traffic Toll mew 71 ‘se 63° The driver of the other truck and the third person involved in the acci- dent, Jacob Hieb, Denhoff, was in- stantly killed in the collision. The two. trucks came together 21: the intersection of highways 14 and 7 one-half mile east of Deahoff. In the early light of dawn, each driver ap- peso. failed to see the other ve- Jake Heldrick: was born July 13, 1914 at Strasburg. He leaves in addi- tion to his parents six brothers and five sisters. They are Harry, Carl, An- seln, Isaac, Magnus, Max, Rufjna, Hermenia, Veronica, Rosina and Mrs. D.|$16,801. | Peter Brown. They all live on the Heidrich farm near Strasburg except Mrs. Brown, who lives at Pollock, 8. D. ‘The funeral will be held Sunday at 10 a. m. in Holy Trinity church, Stras- burg, with Father ard Eichner of- ficiating. Burial be made in the Catholic cemetery there. $450,000 IS SENT OUTTO N. D. SCHOOLS Money Taken From State Equalization Fund to Help Pay Teachers of State Distribution of approximately $450,- 000 to North Dakota counties from the state equalization fund on the basis of teacher units was announced Friday by A. E. Thompson, state su- perintendent of public instruction. ‘The monies for the second half of the 1935-36 school year are distribut- ed $14 per month for elementary school teachers and $12 per montn for cach high school teacher, school offi- clals said, The amount apportioned to 51 counties totaled $448,386.25 for the second half, with two counties, Sioux and Steele, yet to be certified. Cass county receives the largest amount, $26,925.75 with Ward county second, $19,286.50; Stutsman, third, $17,452, and Grand Forks, fourth, Other amounts included: Adams, $4,574; Billings, $2,871; Bowman, $4,- 195.50; Burleigh, $10,631; Dunn, $7,- Emmons, $9,202; Foster, $5,- 105.50; Golden Valley, $3,762; Grant, $7,426.50; Hettinger, $5,759.50; Kidder, 333; Logan $5,203.50; McIntosh, ; McKenzie, $8,244.50; McLean, $12,929; Mercer, $5.592; Morton, $12,- 062.50; , $20,206; Oliver, idan, $5,272; LAST 3 MILL CITY ELEVATORS FRIDAY 10,000 WPA Workers Ready to Leave Jobs in Four-Day ‘Holiday’ Protest ONE STRIKE IS SETTLED Manufacturing Jewelers and Their Employes Agree on New Wage Basis Minneapolis, Sept. 4—(?)—Com- Pleting the tie-up of the Minneapolis milling and terminal elevator indus- try, three more flour mills and their private grain warehouses will be closed down late Friday, as the result of the strike of union mill and elevator workers, One elevator, owned by the Farm- ers National Warehouse corporation, has continued operation through an arrangement with Flour, Feed, Cereal and Elevators Workers union 19152. Picket lines were thrown Friday around the plants of Washburn-Cros- by, Company, Inc., and Northwestern Consolidated Milling company and King Midas Mill company. On orders of the management, workers made no attempt to enter the mills and elevators. Federal conciliators, sent to Min- neapolis, to work for restoration of in- dustrial plants, are investigating the mill and elevator controversy as well as other labor disputes under way in Minneapolis. They are expected to Flames Consuming Fallen Stronghold F. 0. OLSON, FARGO, ELECTED PRESIDENT OF CITIES’ LEAGUE Myron Atkinson Renamed Sec- retary at Concluding Business Sessions F. 0. Olson, Fargo mayor, was elect- ed president of the North Dakota League of Municipalities at Friday's closing session of the annual state convention. G. J, Manning, Dickinson city com- missioner, was named vice president; H. W. Swenson, Devils Lake city audi- tor, a member of the executive com- mittee and Myron H. Atkinson, Bis- marck city auditor continued as sec- retary. Fargo was selected for the 1937 con- vention city. The city officials adopted a resolu- tion extending condolences to the family of the late Matt Murphy, Fargo city attorney. Municipal ownership and taxation problems were highlights in discus- sions Friday. The sessions Friday were devoted to group conferences of mayors, aldermen, assessors and other officials. Melvin Hagen, Fargo city assessor, advocated enactment of a new mora- torium law, with greater restrictions upon those eligible, at Thursday night's session. Provision should be made to require make recommendations in a few days, looking to a start of negotiations be- tween employers and employes. Meanwhile, 10,000 WPA workers were prepared to leave their jobs for # four-day “protest holiday.” ‘The*general ‘WPA walkout, whicty covers projects in Hennepin (Minne- apolis) county and Fridley township of adjacent Anoka county, was voted by the Workers Alliance, an organi- zation of federal workers’ groups, Thursday night on demands for wage and hour adjustments. The organization, refraining from calling the walkout an actual strike, described it as “a protest four-day holiday demonstration” and warned that if demands are not met a city and countywide strike will be consid- ered at a mass meeting Tuesday night. Officials Hold Hearing The “holiday” was called after a hearing before WPA officials at which the Workers Alliance voiced wage de- mands. M. A. Fitzgerald, Minneapolis Cistrict WPA director, will present a report on the hearing to Victor A. Christgau, state administrator. Manufacturing jewelers and union employes’ representatives approved a settlement of that strike at a meet- ing in the office of Frank Miller, secretary of the employer-employe labor board, Thursday night. It was to be submitted to employes Friday for ratification. By terms of the proposed settle- ment, 200 workers in eight firms will receive hourly wages ranging from 50 te 90 cents, an increase of about seven actual proof of inability to meet an obligation before exemption is grant- ed, Hagen told city officials in re- viewing the present moratorium ap- plying on delinquent taxes and penal- ties and interest on such taxes, Nye Lands Sanitation Senator Gerald Nye lauded Ameri- can sanitation methods compared with those of the orient, but declared Jap- anese and Chinese were far ahead of this country in conservation of water and intensive cultivation of soil. Failure of some farmers and land owners to appreciate the cooperative nature of the Works Progress Admin- istration farmer-dam program was reported by State Administra{ Thomas H. Moodie in a talk Thursd night. Speaking on the WPA program, Moodie cited instances where farmers had been wrongly advised and as the result had declined to give easements which are required by the government, after they had promised to do so and after WPA engineers had made sur- veys. Easements merely require that the farmer keep a road open to the impounded water so that the public may use it. Many farmers are cooperating mag- nificiently, Moodie said. For example at the Hans Nielson dam near Har- mon which President Roosevelt visit- ed, there is no blue clay available for acore. However, a neighboring farm- er gladly donated it. Some farmers declare the WPA dams will double the value of their property. and one half per cent. A forty hour week was retained. Truck Drivers Still Out Meanwhile efforts to settle the con- troversy over wages and union recog- nition between striking truck drivers and 17 Minneapolis wholesale grocery firms continued in the hands of two federal mediators. No progress in negotiations was reported. No immediate settlement was in prospect for two minor strikes at a pole treating plant and a biscuit manufacturing company. OO WPA WORKERS REMAIN ON STRIKE No Effort Made to Begin Work Agents of Water Conservation Moodie declared that the WPA claims only for the dams that they will serve as valuable agents for the restoration of ground water levels, for stock watering, and for recreation. There are now 192 small farm dams, to cost between $2,000 and $5,000 sur- veyed and either in operation or about to be. More than 1,000 dams will be in operation if there is full coopera- tion from land owners. At the present time 39.3% of WPA projects in North Dakota are high- (Continued on Page Two) Commodity Prices Show Small Decline Washington, Sept. 4—(7)—A slight drop in wholesale commodity prices last week was reported Friday by the labor department. Decline in food and farm products prices, the department said, was ly responsible for a decrease of Until Men Are Ready, Says Milton Rue $3,233.50; She: Slope, $3,702; Stark, $0,721; Wells, $9,002.50; and Williams, $! . Richman and Merrill Headed for Croydon Bristol, Eng. Sept. 4.—(?)—Harry| Dick 8° ! I I i i i : ae if ge il eit ul HH H i i | : H 5 i E 3 Ly ceil i i [ gEs q i ae Hi FE i 58 5 R? 4 cl weeee : i g i i z A | a i } ihe il i H i [ E i : #8 rf d ii i i i i ; LEGION GAME POSTPONED Spartanburg, il Baz ag | largel 04 per cent in the general price level. Farm product prices dfopped 15 per cent and foods 0.4 per cent from the previous week, sending the gen- eral level of prices to 81.2 per cent Of its 1926 average. Northern Packing Co, Strike Closes Market Grand Forks, N. D., Sept. 4—(P)— lorthern icking” Ne Co. | i Hl BE g ek bf t E i i ; : Rebels Advance Warily Down lrun’s Streets, Eyewit- ness Relates By ROBERT B. PARKER, Jr. (Copyright, 1936, by Associated Prees) Hendaye, Frané, Sept. 4—Rag- ing fire engulfed almost the whole of Irun Friday as victorious Fascists rebels advanced through the fallen city. Flames shot high into the sky and ciouds of smoke rolled across the border into France. Rebel troops in completing their occupation of the onetime Madrid Socialist government stronghold ad- vanced warily down the street through the blazing ruins. Rebels Occupy Behobis Behobia, across the border in Spain, was completely occupied by the rebel forces. A Fascist colonel crossed the inter- national bridge to Behobie in France and informed French officials he and his chiefs were anxious to maintain “the best of relations” with France. The colonel crossed the rebel-held bridge between French Behobie and Spanish Behobia, twin frontier towns separated only by the Bidassoa river. Spanish head of the other interna- tional bridge between Hendaye and Irun, was recaptured from the vic- torious Fascists early Friday after- noon by @ small and desperate band of government militiamen. A young Spanish militiaman who crossed this latter bridge, wearing a sub-machine gun slung from his shoulders, carrying a fried chicken in one hand and holding a can of potted meat in the other, declared the government force holding the bridgehead against the rebels had been reduced to 15 men. 500 Stragglers feft Nearly 500 go ent stragglers, the youtlt declared, still were scat- tered throughout Irun, fighting street battles. Other government militiamen who crossed the narrow river told con- flicting tales of the plight of some 500 hostages. Some said they were lined up against a cemetery wall and shot by militia execution squads Friday morn- ing. Others declared they were trans- ferred by motor car to San Sebastian, Present goal of the rebels. Defenders Slay Monks In the early morning, the monks at Fuenterrabia monastery had been shot by the defenders of Irun. Their bodies, clothed in white robes, could be seen lying on the roof of the monastery from vantage points in Hendaye. Advance forces of the rebels pressed relentlessly on San Sebastian, only eight miles to the west of Irun. Government Gunboat No. 3, which had shelled the rebel position from the river, ran aground on a sand bank while attempting to escape. It was deserted by its crew. Among the hostages reported shot by the retreating Irun militiamen were the bishop of Valladolid; Victor Parada, leader of the Spanish Tra- ditionalist party, and Honoria Maura, Monarchist deputy. Some panic-stricken miltiamen waded the Bidassoa at low tide and reached Hendaye. As the flames swept through Irun, violent explosions could be heard. The cries of the wounded sounded behind the billows of smoke. Halt Bridge Traffic Traffic on the international bridge was cut. Rebel reinforcements were rushed to the Spanish bridgehead to relieve insurgent foreign legionnaires fighting there. The reinforcements came marching up under the gold flag of the rebellion. The Fascists left a city strewn with corpses and splattered with blood. Defending government soldiers were either killed in their tracks or exe- cuted summarily after being taken prisoners of war. Ricardo Alvarez, a Socialist deputy from Jaen province, asserted some of the government troops had been mut- ilated by Moorish legionnaires as the insurgent advance swept through the cit on the northern front, who person- ally directed the advance on Irun, was reported to have left for Burgos after the capture of the city. Twenty French volunteers in the ranks of the it were LED BY EXTREMIST 100,000 French Demand Blum Abandon Neutrality, Help Defenders TROOPS SHELL ALCAZAR frun, Almost Another Verdun, Is City of Fire, Blood and Death (By the Associated Press) Spain’s seven-week civil war gov- ernment gave way to a new cabinet including Communists Friday while Spanish Fascism hoisted its red and gold flag over Irun, a city of fire and death. Premier Joe Giral Pereira, who ts] took the Madrid helm at the start of the war, resigned, and a new cab- inet was installed. The new premier is Francisco Largo Caballero, Social- ist_extremist leader. Facing a long siege, the Madrid leaders said they desired a cabinet more representative of all the Leftist factions which are supporting the fight against Fascist army rebellion. While Irun fell, a roar of support for Madrid came from 100,000 French Popular Front adherents who massed in Republic square in Paris and de- manded the Socialist premier, Leon Blum, abandon neutrality and fur- nish guns and bullets to the Spanish defenders. The Communist party asked So- clalists to join a delegation to de- mand that Blum “end the blockade” of the Spanish government. Fascists Rebels Maurice Thorez, the Communist leader, in a letter to the Socialist executive committee, demanded an end to French non-intervention be- militiamen renewed their long shell- ing of Toledo’s Alcazar, where 1700 webels are entrenched, with destrucy tive-vigor. The northeast tower of Toledo's ancient Alcazar crashed un- der fire. With almost the whole of Irun burning, with the streets littered with the bodies of Socialist defenders, with grim, conflicting reports of the fate of as many as 500 hostages who had been held by the fleeing govern- ment militia, the rebels advanced victoriously through the fallen town. Government Holds Brideghead One tiny band of desperate govern- ment sealots, however, seized the in- ternational bridgehead at Irun in a wild dash and held it by virtue of machine guns, grenades and shot guns. New international facets of the Spanish civil war, now ending its sev- enth week, included a plea by Pope Pius for a ‘crusade of prayer” to cure (Continued on Page Two) CIVIL SERVICE FOR ty. Gen. Emilio Mola, rebel commander | hold HOLC FOLK URGED Roosevelt Suggests Standards Be Applied Pending New Laws by Congress Washington, Sept. 4.—(#)—Hinting of legislation to put the home owners loan corporation under the civil serv- ice, President Roosevelt Friday called for the application of civil service “standards” to the organization. The president’s suggestion was made jointly in letters dated August 25 to Harry B. Mitchell, president of the civil service and John H. Fahey, chairman of the fed- eral home loan bank board. The action did not actually place the vast lending agency under civil service. That, the president ex- plained, would require an act of con- gress. “Pending legislative authority,” he and Teported killed in the final defense. 10 Men Nominated For J. C. of C. Board