The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 14, 1936, Page 1

A er Te: aa ESTABLISHED 1873 ° Maine Gives Ans THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather Partly cloudy and unsettled, with much cooler tonight; Tuesday fair. » BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1936 wer to Major Parties Avalanche, Flood Kill 74 in Great Norway Disaster Duo Forced Down: [4 NORTH DAKOTANS WPA WORKERS IN. (Colorful Minnesota In Newfoundland BEAUTIFUL LAKE I$ DBATHTRAP WITH 2 CITES WIPED OUT Death and Destruction Follow Landslide Into Lake Loen, Tourist Haven NATIVES CAUGHT UNAWARE Bodies of Human Beings, Ani- mals Float on Lake Fol- lowing Catastrophe Loen, Norway, Sept. 14.—(#)—Rescue parties Monday searched beautiful Lake Loen, turned into a deathtrap by a roaring avalanche and resultant flood, for the bodies of many of the “4 victims of one of Norway's great natural disasters. The twin villages of Bodal and * Nesdal, nestled at the foot of 6,388- {oot Rogne mountain in this famous tourist region, were virtually wiped out when a huge mass of rock slid cown into the lake with a terrifying rumble and sent a great wall of water sweeping over the area. The natives, startled from their early morning sleep, had no chance to es- cape from the great wave which poured through the narrow valley after the massive rock—at least 1200 . feet broad and 1,500 feet high—rolled into the lake. Doctors, Nurses Rush Aid Relief workers, including doctors and nurses who flew here from Ber- gen and Oslo, established temporary hospitals in the few remaining homes ia this beauty spot. Bodies of human beings and ani- mals, as well as furniture and house- lhold articles, floated on the surface pf the lake. There were scores of corpses of silver foxes, bred by the farmers of the region. An old steamboat, perched 350 feet ‘up the mountainside since a similar cisaster in 1905, in which 60 were kolled, was swept another 300 feet lugher by the immense wave. - The water rushed a mile inland: dt, ‘ome points, destroying an electricity Plant, sawmills, roads and bridges. Lose All Possessions Most of the survivors in Bodal and Nesdal—only about 20 were saved, and 13 of them were in serious condition— lost all their possessions. The flood swept one farmer 1200 feet, but he came through alive. He had been asleep in a small fieldhouse. Beveral of those killed were carried hundreds of yards, and some appar- ently froze to death, HALE-INCH OF RAIN FALLS HERE SUNDAY September’s 14-Day Total Is More Than Fell in Preced- ing Four Months More rain has fallen in Bismarck during the first 14 days of Septem- ber than fell during the preceding four months. A half-inch downpour between 7:30 and 8 p. m. Sunday brought the Sep- tember total to 1.53 inches. The total for May, June, July, and August was 1.31 inches. The September total is already a third of an inch over the total nor- | 8TOu! mal precipitation for the entire month, 1.23 inches. ‘More on Way’ “And more is on the way,” O. W. Roberts, veteran Bismarck weather observer, said Monday. Bismarck will probably get more rain Monday afternoon or evening, and certainly more before the month is out, he said. The recent rains, which have been general throughout the state, will greatly ease the feed situation, Rob- Pastures began turning P which is now.coming up. ‘i te) ERE i 3 Pe ] > | All That Remains | Is to Pass Away | ——— Burlington, N. C.—(#)—Lawrence G, Freeland has built his own coffin, designed his tombstone and picked out a spot on his 396- _ acre farm for his grave. He explains: “I witnessed the death and burial of several brothers and sisters and realize the expense. ‘The thought occurred to me that I might practice economy.” WOMAN INJURED IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH LIES NEAR DEATH Mrs. George Little's Skull, Arm, Fractured So serious is the condition of Mrs. George Little, Maidstone, Ont., hurt in a head-on automobile collision near Sterling Friday, that she is not expected to live, attending physicians said Monday. Four other persons, all victims of the’ same accident and also in a local hospital, are expected to recover. Mrs. Little received a fractured skull, a broken arm, fractured in two places, a broken leg, and a broken nose, Friend’s Skull Fractured Most seriously hurt of the other four is Mrs. Elizabeth Fairbrain, also of Maidstone, who has a fractured skull, a broken leg and a broken nose. She is improving, the doctor maid. oe y rayne se ~ Others injured in the accident are Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Green, San- ish, and George Little, Mrs, Littie’s husband. Little’s kneecap, a shoulder-blade and three ribs were broken. Green’s collarbone and seven ribs were broken. Mrs. Green suffered a broken nose, cuts and bruises. All will recover. ‘The Greens were on their way home from Grand Forks where they had taken their daughter, Lyle, who en- tered the university, and Mr, and Mrs. Little, accompanied by Mrs. Fairbrain, were en route to Ontario from Glacier National park when the accident occurred. The two cars came together at the crest of a small hill on U. 8. high- way 10. Rescuers Tell of Crash First to arrive at the scene of the crash were J. H, Miller, Bismarck na- turopath, together with his wife and Clarence Sauers and Charles Wey- mouth, all members of the striking WPA, workers’ organization here, who were en route to Fargo. Sauers said Little was out of the damaged machines and walking dazedly around when they arrived but that the others were pinned in the wreckage. The men stopped & passing truck and it pulled the cars apart, after which the injured were taken from the wreckage. Several west-bound cars were stopped by the p and these brought the injured to the hospital here. Sauers said Little told them that he tried to pass another car at the crest of # hill and was on the wrong side of the road when he met the crs driven by Green. Landon Forecasts Victory in Maine Two U. S. Stations Pick Up Garbled Messages From Plane Flying Atlantic St. John’s Nefid., Sept. 14.—(P}— _ Harry Richman’s plane Peace” in which he and Dick Mer- rill were attempting a flight from England te New York forced landing three Musgrave Marsh on the northeast coast of Newfoundland at 2:20 ED.T.) Monday. It was not known immediately if the fliers escaped injury in the landing. (Copyright, 1936, the Associated Press) New York, Sept. 14.—()—Radio re- ports to Floyd Bennett Field said Hi ty Richman, and Dick Merrill, we sighted off Cape Race, New Found- land, Monday at 12:05 p. m. eastern standard time. Earlier reports from the pair flying ‘the Atlantic were heard at 10:05 a. m. after seven hours of silence. Both the eastern air lines station at Newark, N. J., directing the flight, ‘and Press Wireless, inc., reported hear- ing the radio telephone of the Merrill- ‘Richman plane, Lady Peace, at the Same moment. i Neither radio station was able to make out what was being said, al- though the voice was identified as ‘Richman’s. Static conditions garbled ‘the attempt at conversation. Believed 2,500 Miles Out At that time, it was estimated, Lady ‘Peace should have been about 2,500 ‘miles out from England, headed for 'Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, N. Y., ‘and a landing some time after 4 p. m. ‘The fliers, making the return flight fon their round-trip to London from (New York, had last been heard from during the early morning hours. Spend Sicepless Night Both Richman and Merrill were almost sleepless as they headed into the pitch darkness above Southport before the eyes of a thousand English well-wishers, raced on over Galway, Treland, and pl with, the first Tays of the sun inté the niost danger- ous part of the long trip—1,600 miles over the open sea to Newfoundland. Richman had no sleep Sunday night, and Merrill took only three hours. “I couldn’t take any chances,” Rich- man said. “If I'd gone to sleep I would have dreamed of water flow- ing into tanks. So I came down to see that everything was O. K.” ‘The “Lady Peace” carried its ca- pacity of 1,006 gallons of gasoline and 40 gallons of oil for the treacherous east-west flight which many have attempted but which comparatively few have accomplished. KILLER LION ROAMS RANGE NEAR MINOT Farmer Attest to Reality of Animal's Presence i Lansford, N. D., Sept. 14—(P)— Seventeen dead sheep in a pasture and one farmer and his dog “plenty scared when the lion jumped up just a little ways ahead of us” had given enough evidence Monday to convince residents of this region, 30 ‘miles north of Minot, that stories of a lion reported roaming the country are not; just fiction. Scoffers who flatly declare “there ain’t no lion” will meet a ready an- swer from Lansford people. Jack Zimny, farmer living southwest of Hurd, went out to a nearby pasture recently to inspect his flock of several hundred sheep—and found 17 lambs and young sheep strewn about the range, 5 And there is Aksel Sagsveen, farmer seven miles northeast of Lansford. a field last Friday when a tawny | animal popped up from a slough, a few feet from him. “If I'd never seen @ lion in all my life, I'd still have known that was declared. shotguns and .22 caliber | rifles, a group of “lion-hunters” later that day drove cars across pastures and prairie, inspecting sloughs, cou- lees and rockpiles, hoping to find the “The people of Maine as of all New) ¥' of the funda- animal hiding out. But all that could be found was one lone footprint in was tawny colored and raist high, had a bushy tip to its tall. B 2 E i if i ee 3 Ss as fl MEET ACCIDENTAL DEATH ON WEEK-END Two Traill County Officials Drown When Boat Capsizes in Minnesota Lake TWO ARE HIT ON HIGHWAYS Both Automobile Victims Re- turning Home From Dance; Drivers Absolved (By the Associated Press) Four North Dakotans and five from other northwest states met accidental deaths over the week-end. Two of the North Dakota deaths were caused by automobile accidents—two by drowning. Two Traill county officials, W. M. Backstrom, state's attorney, and Peter E. Balkan, deputy sheriff, were the drowning victims. Their boat cap- sized in Twin lakes, near Mahnomen, Minn., Sunday. The men were fishing on Twin lakes, east of Mahnomen, when the mishap occurred. It was reported & third man in the boat was saved. Fred J. Lord, 23-year-old Bottineau: laborer, was killed instantly early Sunday when he was struck by an automobile driven by Howard Benton of Minot. : Lignite Laborer Killed Fred Cuttle, 45-year-old laborer of Lignite, was fatally injured Saturday when he was hit by an automobile on a highway a short distance south of Lignite. In each case the victim was re- turning home from a dance, and in each case @ coroner's jury sbsulved the driver of the velsicle of blame. Lord was lying in the middle of the highway when he was hit. Cuttle, driving his own car, had stopped on the highway and stepped into the path of the approaching vehicle. Other northwest victims: ‘ Joe Edtund;~ 22," of, ‘Fergus’ Fallé; Minn., killed in a collision 10 miles west of Detroit Lakes, Minn., in which five other persons were injured. Mar- tin Wold, 61, Ada, was held in jail without charge pending investigation of the accident. Highways Take Toll Frank Kirkpatrick, 68, Kellogg, Minn., killed when struck by an au- tomobile near Kellogg, Minn. © George Norton, Iron River, Wis., killed when his car overturned on 8 curve. Mrs. Katrina Johansen, 81. Hen- ning, Minn., killed in automobile col- Usion near Grantsburg, Wis. James Jackson, 41, St. Paul, killed Sunday when he was struck by an automobile. Over the nation automobile acci- dents took of at least 84 lives. a toll itler Says Germany Never to Be Cowardly (Copyright, 1936, by Associated Press) Nurnberg, Germany, Sept. 14.—()— Reichschancellor Adolf Hitler warn- ed his soldiers Monday “serious times may come but they will never find us wavering, disheartened or coward- Der Fuehrer, in a brief ten-minute address at the fourth annual Nazi convention, told his troops: “The future belongs solely to the brave.” He them: “For the two, years I demand of you I will return ten years of better health. What you) give the Fatherland in your youth will be repaid to you in old age.” After Hitler, in an informal con- guard jealously the principle of pri- vate business enterprise, the army began its day. RURAL AREAS NOT FAVORING STRIKE Possibility Looms That Men on Projects Outside of Bis- marck Will Protest SOUP KITCHEN IS OPENED Strikers Ask Cash, Food Dona- tions; Mass Meeting Is Called for Tuesday Possibility that WPA strikers in Bismarck may encounter the active opposition of other WPA employes in rural Burleigh county who are not in favor of the strike loomed Monday £ the most important development, the current trouble here. Apparently there were no other de- velopments in the situation, other than the proposal to make the strike savers if it ts not settled by Tues- In a statement the strikers asked all WPA workers, rural as well as city, to attend the meeting called for 10 a. m. Tuesday at the city audi- torlum. At the same time they ap- Ppealed for donations of cash and food to be used in the soup kitchen, which | tion. has been established in the Trades and Labor Assembly hall. As yet only men have patronized the soup kitchen, but women and children in strikers’ families will be asked to get their meals there, also. Officiais Canvass Situation Meanwhile the situation was being ‘canvassed by Governor Walter Wel- ford, WPA Chief Thomas H. Moodie, Resettlement Administrator Howard Wood, Attorney General P. O. Sathre and Frank Milhollan and E. A. Will- £0n, president and secretary, respect- ively, of the state welfare board, in a meeting Monday afternoon at the gov- ernor’s office. At that time the relative responsi- bilities of the state and federal gov- ernment in meeting the relief situa- Hon, toes ner with the Biamarck strike,. ‘wete expected to be discussed. - reed Rural Men Off Job One of the sources from which tame word that the strike was not popular with rural WPA workers was William Baty, who six years ago was secretary of the common laborers’ union in Bismarck and who now lives on & farm north of McKenzie. Baty and about 60 other farmers, were working on a dam in Frances township when 150 strikers arrived in trucks and passenger cars. They were led by 8. 8. McDonald, Burleigh county politician, who is credited with having said that he came out to see that the men stopped work. The visitors were armed with clubs| and Baty said he thought he saw a gun in one of the trucks. The farmers were not inclined to quit work on demand but the fore- man ordered the project closed rather than have any violence. Representatives of the strikers said Monday they recognized the fact that “some farmers” were not in favor of striking, attributing this to the fact that they are able to live more cheap- ly than persons in the city. Statement Hints Violence A statement sent to The Tribune by the striké activities committee, however, contained an unfinished sentence, which had it been com- pleted, might have indicated an in- tention to use force. This is the un- finished sentence: “When this was refused there was but one thing for them to do and that was refuse to ‘work for less (than 50 cents an hour) and see to it that others, who may not see the need of standing for an existing wage, not to speak of a liv- ing wage...” What they would “see to” was left hanging in the air, but the inference (Continued on Page Two) WPA Strikers’ Views Presented to Readers } bez § Lr gz healthiest of the’five.” Some of the Magnus Johnson, 64-Year-Old Former U. S. Senator, Suc- cumbs to Pneumonia Litchfield, Minn., Sept. 14—7)— Minnesota Monday had lost one of its most colorful political figures with the death of Magnus Johnson, 64, Kim- ball, Minn., dirt-farmer who served two years in the U. 8. senate and one term in the house of representatives. Johnson died of pneumonia at a hos- pital here Sunday, following a three- weeks illness, his second in less than @ year. His widow and six sons and daughters were at his bedside at the end. The Swedish-Arferican immigrant, @ one time Wisconsin lumberjack and a leader in the liberal movement in Minnesota, was stricken with the fatal illness Aug. 23, the day after his form- er Farmer-Labor chief, Gov. Floyd B. Olson, died at a Rochester, Minn., hos- pital of a stomach ailment. Johnson had tried to visit Olson shortly be- tore the latter’s death, but was de- nied admission to his hospital room due to the governor's serious condi- Born at Varmland, Sweden, Sept. 19, 1871, Johnson worked as a sailor and a glass-blower before coming to this country when he was 19. He became interested in the labor move- ment in politics while in Sweden, and| carri led that interest with him to America, Joined Nonpartisan League ‘When the Nonpartisan League be- came a factor in Minnesota politics, in 1916, Johnson joined the movement and was elected to the senate, where he served four years. With the growth of the Farmer-Labor party he con- tinued his allegiance to the Liberals, and it was as a member of that party that he was elected to serve out the unexpired term of the late Senator Knute aie in 1923. Peres While..in-Washington he attained nationwide prominence through his contest with the then secre- tary of agriculture Henry C. Wallace, in which he was defeated, and his wood-chopping contest with the same man, which he won. He played marbles in front of the capitol and made innumerable speeches in his picturesque Swedish-American talk. His “Py Golly” became a capital by- word, On the serious side, one of his major accomplishments while in the senate was that of obtaining a survey of butter imports and a protective tariff against those imports in the in- terest of the American farmers whom he consistently championed. Beaten by Schall He was defeated for re-election to the senate by the late Thomas D. Schall, but went back to Washington as a representative in 1932, when Min- nesota’s congressmen were elected at large. In 1934 he was again defeated, this time by Rep. Harold Knutson. He be- came supervisor of public stockyards and in 1936 filed for governor, but was defeated in the June primaries. His body will le in state Tuesday, with funeral services set for 12:30 p. m. Wednesday, at the farm home, and & public service at the Litchfield com- munity auditorium an hour later. An honor guard of veterans of for- eigif wars members, to be named by State Commander A. C. McQuiggan, will stand watch over the body while it lies in state. Honorary pallbearers included: ‘United States Senator Lynn Frazier ‘of North Dakota and Congressman William Lemke of North Dakota. Two Men Charged as ‘Fences’ for Youths Moorhead, Minn., Sept. 14.—(7)— Ben: Nelson, grocery operator and his clerk, Larry Hanson, were held- by suthorities Monday for investigation ‘on charges of being “fences” for a ring of five boy shoplifters, ranging in age from 10 to 12 years. Police found two suitcases in the rear of the store, filled with part of the loot, estimated worth $150 and taken chiefly from Fargo, N. D., stores. James Garrity, Clay county attor- ney, said the pair had not only “re- ceived the stolen goods,” but alleged they had “encouraged the boys to steal.” Nelson and Hanson said they had no knowledge of the loot found in the pues quarters in the rear of the Political Figure Dies o—_____¥4 | 1871 — 1936 | ——$<$£@@§_q ____—__4 MAGNUS JOHNSON POPE PIUS BLESSES DEFENSE AGAINST COMMUNIST MENACE Fascist Warriors Complete Oc- cupation of Fallen City of San Sebastian (By the Associated Press) Pope Pius XI, with the whole world as’ his audience, gave his solemn and passionate blessing Monday to a mili- tant defense against the forces of Communism which, he said, menace “the very foundations of all order, all culture and all civilization.” The holy father pardoned the killers of bishops and priests in Spain and declared subversive forces there and elsewhere aim at arming the masses “and throwing them madly against every form of institution, human and ¢ivine.” On the battlefront, Fascist warriors completed their occupation of San PRICE FIVE CENTS SPECTACULAR STATE CAMPAIGN PREFACES BALLOTING MONDAY U. S. Senator, Governor and Three Congressmen to Be Chosen by Voters DEBATE SLOGAN’S ACCURACY, Landon Predicts ‘Great Victory* in Portland Address Cli- maxing Tour Portland, Me., Sept. 14—(7)—Thé nation watched Maine ballot Monday in a state election which long has been a disputed harbinger of nations! success to the winning party. The echoes of an unprecedented campaign in which three presidential nominees visited Maine hung over the polling booths as a U. 8. senator, gov- ernor, three congressmen and minor state and county officials were chosen. Likelihood of a record vote was forecast. The secretary of state's of< fice estimated the total would ap- proach and might exceed 300,000. The largest recorded Maine vow was 295,538 in the 1932 presidential election. Maine was one of the six Hoover states that year. Capitalize on Slogan Accuracy of the slogan, “as goes Maine, so goes the union” has been debated since its coinage in 1840, but Republicans and Democrats made ex- ceptional use of it in the campaign which ended Sunday night in a flur- ry of eleventh hour political oratory, centering mostly around the New Deal. President Roosevelt, Gov. Alf M. Landon and Representative William Lemke were the three presidential aspirants to come to Maine during the campaign. Landon predicted a “great victcry” at Portland Sunday night; Lemke aided his party candidates and fore- cast his own success, and Roosevelt, in a non-political visit to Eastport, promised “we will have Quoddy,” re- ferring to the abandoned $40,000,000 fide-harnessing project, there. Senate Fight Is Best Polls opened generally et 6 & m. (EST), and were to close at 7 p.m, although towns of 300 population or less could close two hours earlier. The fight between U. S. Senator Wallace H. White, Jr. (Rep.), and Democratic Governor Louis J. Brann for White's senate seat drew the widest interest. White attacked the New Deal and all its policies; Brann, although ap- Ppealing to the people chiefly on his state record, upheld the need and usefulness of federal relief money in Maine. The new political thought engen- dered by Dr. Francis E. Townscnd and the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin sent complexity to the political picture. In the campaign’s dying moments, one Townsend official came out for White, another for Brann. Neither of the candidates espoused the old- ege pension plan, Sebastian and set up a civil adminis- tration headed by the governor of Pamplona. Government defenders, Who abandoned the city to the ad- vancing insurgents early Sunday, set up a new front at Orio, but Basque Nationalists among them were fleeing to France rather than fight further. Loyalists Claim Victory Other government forces, to the south, claimed they had flung back a vicious attack at Talavera, on the road to Madrid, capturing mortars, machine guns and arms. Diplomats, mean- while, were trying to obtain the re- lease of women and children among the 1,700 Fascists who have been be- sieged under shell fire in the Alcazar at Toledo for more than eight weeks. In Paris, the French minister of public works charged Spanish Fascists had stoned the French flag at an in- ternational station, causing the halt- ing of railway service into insurgent territory. ‘ Rightists in France charged the So- c:alist government with trying to pro- voke a native uprising in French Mor- cco in the hope it would spread to Spanish Morocco. Symphony Orchestra Conductor Succumbs Detroit, Sept. 12—()—Ossip Ga- brilowitsch, conductor of the Detroit Symphony orchestra since 1918, died Monday after a long illness, He was 58 years old. Gabrilowitsch was in the front rank of symphony orchestra conductors and pianists since the early part of the 20th century and after 1917 the ma- Jor portion of his artistic achieve- Orchestras responded to hig skilled baton in Munich, Paris, Berlin, Vi- KOBS NEW HEAD OF JUNIOR GIVIG BODY Will Be Installed With Other Re- cently-Elected Officers Next Monday .O. A. Kobs will head the Bismarck Junior Chamber of Commerce for the coming year, according to elec- tion results announced Monday. The remainder of the organization's second set of officers will be Dr. Richard Krause, first vice president; Albert A. Mayer, second vice presi- dent; and John Lobach and William 8. Moeller, members of the board of directors for two-year terms, ‘They will be installed at the next meeting of the Junior Chamber of Commerce Monday, Sept. 21. Kelly Simonson is retiring presi- dent. Sister of Zap Man Dies in Minnesota St. Paul, Sept. services will be held at day in Blooming thilds Calvert, St. Paul, John Bartholomy of Leonard, N. and two brothers, Nels Johnson of New York Mills and Albert Johnson of Zap, N. D.