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

ESTABLISHED 1873 —_—_____.. 39 Drown As Hurricane Hits French BODIES OF SAILORS, SCIENTISTS WASHED ASHORE AT ICELAND Petty Officer Is Loné Survivor When Vessel Flounders on Reef Off Coast TELLS STORY OF DISASTER Mountainous Waves Defeat Ef-| fort to Launch Lifeboats; Boat Springs Leaks Reykjavik, Iceland, Sept. 17.—(7)— A single survivor told Thursday of the tragic fate of 39 scientists and sailors who drowned after the ‘grounded » French polar exploration ship Pour- quoi Pas was ripped to pieces by a hur- ticane off Icelai He was Eugene Geonidec, ship's pet- ty officer whom the raging waves cast up on the rocky shore. Farmers. found him on the rocks—unconscious, half-frozen and tied to a piece of ‘wood. « Near the spot where he was thrown, the pounded bodies of 30 of the vic- tims were recovered later. Among them was Capt. Jean Baptiste Char- cot, distinguished Arctic and Ant- arctic explorer whose leadership of scientific expeditions won for him the title of “Admiral Byrd of France.” Tells Story of Disaster Geonidec was taken to a farmhouse where, after being given coffee and wrapped in warm blankets, he recov- ered consciousness. He fell into a deep sleep for many hours before he awoke to tell the story of the disaster. The Pourquoi Pas, returning from a five-month expedition, ran into the jiurricane Wednesday, he said. The ship with its crew and scientists was en route to Copenhagen where the ex- plorers were to be welcomed by the Royal Geographical Society. The 449-ton wooden sailing ship irled to beat her way back to Rey- Ayavik but ran aground early Wednes- pet Baie survivor declared, ~The vessel to lesk and its auxiliary engine | Dynamit va stopped, Waves Run The crew tried to launch lifeboats, Geonidec asserted. Their efforts were Tepulsed by mountainous waves breaking over the little vessel. Geonidec, who described his own escape as “miraculous,” said the ex- pedition members and crew then tried their only chance—to swim to safety. But only Geonidec was able to reach | the shore alive. FOUR IN SECURITIES CASE ARE INDICTED, ! St. Paul Men Involved in Alleg- | ed Conspiracy to Trans- port Stolen Bonds New York, Sept. 17. — () — Four men, two from 8t. Paul, Minn., and two from New York, were indicted ‘Thursday by a federal grand jury on a charge of conspiracy to transport $800,000 in securities stolen from the Bank of Manhattan Company Jan. 28, 1935. The men named were Morris Rois- ner, alias Morris Reed, alias R. W. Cutler, and David “Little Dave” Ber. man of St. Paul; and Moe Sedway, alias Moe Sedwarts, and Jacob “Irish” _ Greenburg of New York. ‘ The indictment charged the men with conspiracy to return the securi- ties, part of $1,500,000 stolen from the bank, from various parts in the Unit- ed States where they were held by “persons unknown to the grand jury.” French police recovered four $100,- 000 bonds of the loot and returned them to the United States. Two more of the bonds were found in a suitcase checked in Grand Central station. Roisner, at present, is free on $10,- 000 bail; Sedway on $5,000 bail, Greenburg on $2,000 bell, and Berman is in the house of detention. President’s Date Book Is Rapidly } Filling Up pearance was not disclosed, but White House aides said citizens there had been pressing for # presidential THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1936 Million Fascists in New Drive on Madrid Exploration Ship Need for Tax Law ‘Teeth’ Is Voiced Farmer Gets Corn | Husking Done Free Slayton, Minn., Sept. 17.—(P)— Ever hear of farm workers doing & Roy Riegels? Perhaps no one else did either until eight corn pickers set to work on a farm near Currie to gather seed corn for a local con- cern, After picking 30 bushels on the farm of Andres Threan, the eight were ordered off the farm as trespassers. They were on the wrong farm—by a half mile. Farmer Threan Thursday had 30 bushels of choice seed corn, picked and delivered free. EXPOSE DU PONT'S INTEREST IN GIANT NAZI ARMS TRUST Investments Aired in Final Re- port of Senate Investigat- ing Committee Washington, Sept. 17.—(7)—A re- port asserting that E. I, DuPont De Nemours and Company, American chemical firm, owns $892,671 worth of stock in a giant German armament trust, has been made public by the senate munitions investigating com- mittee. The report showed that DuPont company controlled 7.98 per cent of the voting stock of the Dynamit (CQ) Actien-Gesell-Schaft—largest German explosives manufacturer — and had invested $1,159,004 in another Ger- man chemical firm, the Iv. Farben- Industrie, ~An. informal aj oa A firm providing for the exchange of information and patents and the di- vision of sales territory was also dis- closed by the committee. Raps Commercial Interest The senate invesigators headed by Senator Nye (Rep., N. D.), declared in its final report that “the internation- al commercial interests of such large organizations as DuPont and Imper- ial Chemical industries may precede in the minds of those companies the importance of national police... .” “Buch considerations of commercial interests were apparently foremost in the re-arming of Germany in 1924,” the report continued, “and in the sale of @ process which could be used to manufacture cheaper munitions in Japan in 1932, shortly after Secretary {of State Stimson had taken steps to express the disapproval of this nation for Japan's military activities in Manchukuo.” DuPont Profited Indirectly When the United States arms em- bargo prevented direct DuPont sales te certain nations, the committee (Continued on Page Two) LOWER JOINT LINE RATES EFFECTIVE}: New Basis Put Into sis Put Into Effect on Freight to North Dakota Drouth Areas Reduced drouth relief rates for joint line movements of hay, fodder and livestock: feeds, including feed grains and cottonseed cake or meal, have been put into effect by western railroads to North Dakota destina- tions in the drouth area, the state to the usual requirement nishing of drouh relief plrrttare the U. 8. department of agriculture ot! states or federal City Officials See Nec See Necessity of Enforcing Personal Prop- _ erty Collections A need for “tor “teeth” in in ‘the law to enforce collection of personal prop- erty taxes was voiced by representa- tive local government officials at a meeting here Thursday with the in-|' terim state tax survey commission. Discussing tax problems confront- ing local governmental divisions in North Dakota, representatives of county auditors, county commissioners and school districts took up consider- ation of whether the general prop- erty tax system has “broken down” as as basis for local finance in the state. A difference of opinion arose with some representatives asserting the system had broken down, but the con- sensus was that the fault was in the collection of the tax. Myron Atkinson, secretary of the North Dakota League of Municipal- ities, asserted the system had “broken down but could not be sbsdndoned.” Fred Krause of Hazen, president of the North Dakota county commis- sioners association, agreed that real estate tax collection “is bad” and per- sonal property tax collection is “worse.” Some representatives claimed the personal property tax should not be abandoned because it “provided a means of residents who paid no other direct taxes for local govern- ment.” Possibilities of an additional sales tax as a means of bringing in revenue and getting everyone were discussed, with some commenting that non-resi- dent property owners would be “bene- tited” and the “poorer class” would be “hit harder.” also was made that some British ici at Harvard Tercentenary John Masefield, poet laureate of England, is shown with Mrs. Mase- field as he arrived in. New York on the liner Aquitania on his way to the Harvard tercentenary observance. The second day's program at America’s oldest university attracted Upmards of ten thousand Harvard men. National Income Soon to Be Double That of Low Point, F. D. R. Asserts Washington, Sept. 17.—(#)—Pres!- dent Roosevelt told an annual meet- «Hing of rthe- (syor ed publicity campaigns and appeals to the residents in Fargo had resulted in a “tremendous improvement” in tax collection. Atkinson suggested that a county assessor for villages and small com- munities and townships, leading to @ more scientific system of assessment, might help in the equalization of taxes but did not favor the idea for larger cities. He sald some of these assessors, em- ployed for only a short period, merely copied the assessment lists for previ- ous years and made no effort to in- clude improvements or other changes. County Auditor G. J. Mustad of Finley asserted the legislature “eases up” with tax moratoriums and the governor's office by proclamation has granted extensions of tax delinquency. J. B. McWethy of Foster county, chairman of the auditors’ delegation, said the general property tax has “broken down only as far as economic conditions exist.” He declared a replacement tax must be found for a large portion of the Personal property tax. Others stated a different method should be advanc- for collection of the tax than sell- re of a person’s property. FRANGE'S TEXTILE STRIKE ARBITRATED Workers Win Wage = Increase But Accede to Employers’ Union Restrictions Paris, Sept. 17.- pipeeine gov- officials late ernment Needs Thursday that national income soon would be double what it was at the low point of the depression and that “confidence has returned to the great mass of our people.” Several times he referred to “return- ing prosperity” and on that thesis built an argument that private relief in |organizations should expect a larger measure of private aid and that every individual has a greater obligation “to ald in the relief of distress in his or her own community.” From the south portico of the White House, Mr. Roosevelt spoke to mobili- zation delegates gathered on the lawn. The organization seeks support for those social services financed by pri- vate funds rather than by taxes. Appeal for Charity “Through you,” the president told his audience, “I appeal to every man, woman and child in the United States for a revival throughout the iength and breadth of the land of the spirit of charity. ... “Increase of the spirit of charity would be a better way of putting it— for I am very proud of the support of the country’s welfare services of all kinds in the past seven years.” Turning to general economic condi- tions, Mr. Roosevelt asserted: “Bince the low point of the depres- sion great and substantial progress has been made. The national income will soon be double what it was then. Cites New Employment “Nearly six million more men and women are now at work in private industry. Three million others are engaged in useful work provided or assisted by government. Factory pay- rolls the first quartér of this year were more than $70,000,000 grester each week than they were in the first quarter of 1933. “Systematic and successful efforts to raise the buying power of wage except a small minority who seek to profit from the preaching of fear.” At the outset, the chief executive said that “clear evidences of returning prosperity” meant that private social services had a right to expect greater assistance, Rescue Crew Reaches Pilots Down in Swamp Musgrave Harbor, 3 Nfld., Sept. 17.— ()—The rescue party led by Capt. Rickenbacker ted Press Photo.) German, Spanish Developments Threaten to Bring Situa- tion to Climax By JOHN EVANS [Coprsiah®: 56, by the Associated New York, Sept. 17.— Swinging fists and shouts of hate in France's social and political struggle symbolize Socialist leader, ‘bespectacled Pre- mmier Leon Blum, is trying to hold back bis supporters, some determined to datervene in the Spanish civil war and others resolved to get better work- ing conditions by force, if need be. Workers Occupy Plants As in the early days of Fascism in Italy, when Communists garrisoned themselves in factories, so French workers again have occupied many plants in the renewal of “stay-in” strikes that pit workmen and employ- ers in a class and industrial struggle. Recent riots at Lille and Lyon, two great textile centers, were the first physical clashes in the social dissen- sion, Blum Thursday took the problem from the cabinet. He hopes to quiet the growing storm. Many others are less confident. They see war without and strife within. They fear the present and they dread the future. ‘Might Makes Right’ “Might makes right” appears to be everybody's slogan. Hitler's great “military machine, armed for defense but “ready at any time,” is a threat along the Rhine. Spain's rebellion, Fascist against Socialist struggling for power, troubles | flour, the southern border. Pessimists speak forebodingly of a Communist wave that will sweep into France. At home, the country boils with unrest. Millions of workers once grumbled but now they act. Factories are occupied, owners are defied and the government is menaced. Few Hunting Licenses Sold in Capital City With the opening of hunting sea- son still three weeks off, few local sportsmen have yet availed them- selves of the opportunity to buy hunt- ing licenses, which were put on sale Sept. 9. Only five have been sold at four auditor's office and the state game fish commission the honor of buying the first loense in this vicinity. purchased it Bept 12 at the French snd. Welch hardware store. Other dealers the licenses reached here ae tli, ena Thuraday after a stormy 17-hour boat | Corwin-Churchill. trip from Harbor Grace to help Harry Richman and Dick Merrill put their deeneehania monneiabe Dees jotp the State’s Farm Income Committee Opens Living Cost Probe Dr. Fannie Dunn Quain Chosen Chairman of Strike Inves- tigation Board Preparations to ascertain the funda- mental facts as to the cost of living in Bismarck and other information needed to decide a just and fair stand- ard of living for persons on relief were made Wednesday night by a commit- tee appointed for this purpose. Heading the committee is Mrs, Fan- nie Dunn Quain, appointed as a WPA representative on the committee. A secretary will be named Thursday night and probably will be some one on relief who is competent to serve in this capacity. Other members of the committee are John Kennedy, assistant WPA administrator; Roy Logan and Homer Spohn, local businessmen appointed by Governor Walter Welford to rep- resent the public; Jean Hunt and Charles Weymoutii, representing the WPA workers, Meet Again Tonight At the initial meeting Wednesday night the committee considered ways’ of going about its job and it is ex- pected that a decision as to procedure will be reached tonight. If the plan of procedure is satis- factory it will be suggested to similar committees which may be set up else- where in the state to investigate con- ditions in each local area. Kennedy Thursday asked local busi- nessmen to give cooperation to repre- sentatives of the committee who may call on them for information as to material costs, so that the committee may do the best job possible. Study Adequate Dict One of the considerations of the committee is what commodities will enter into their cost computations. With regard to food the aim will be to list items necessary for an ade- quate diet but will exclude luxury ms. The present intention’ is to use prices last year, which prevailed at the time WPA wages were set, as base for comparison, the Reriinpien being “that WPA wages then were adequate. Having ascertained what the increase in living costs is, if any, the committee then will consider how best to make a like increase in the incomes of relief families. To Use Sample Cases The probability is that a careful in- vestigation will be made into the con- dition and budgetary needs of repre- sentative relief families, taking their cases as samples, The committee approached its work in a fine cooperative spirit, Kennedy said, and indications are that all ele- ments represented will work in har- mony to reach a fair decision. Although no time limit has been: placed upon it, the expectation is that it will complete its work in from two to three weeks. PICKETS SURROUND MILLS AT OPENING Police Squad Cars Patrol Dis- trict But No Disorders Are Reported Minneapolis, Sept. 17.—(7)—Pickets watched Thursday as two mills closed as a result of a month-long strike of » feed, cereal and elevator Workers continued operations re- Sumed earlier this week. A police detail was present at the “Archer-Daniels-Midiand linseed plant, first to reopen, after a crowd of Pickets estimated by Police Chief Frank Forestal at between 200 and 300 Persons gathered early Thursday. There was no disorder. Only a hand- ful of pickets was present at the Washburn-Crosby flour mill which opened its doors again Wednesday. Meanwhile, Gov. Hjalmar Petersen appealed to striking WPA workers in western Minnesota to return to their jobs. He emphasized that limited federal funds will be spent elsewhere if they cannot be used in Minnesota. The WPA workers seek wage in- creases. Bedding and food had been taken inside the plant of the Midland com- Pany, manufacturers of linseed prod- ucts, and indications were the firm | Motorist Robbed | After Good Deed Cleveland, ©., Sept. 17—(?)— Joseph Dickard, national organ- izer for the fraternal order of Eagles, went to the aid of a fellow motorist—and regretted it. He used his car to push the other fellow’s apparently stalled machine around @ corner to a side street. There the stranger drew a pis- tol, robbed Dickard of $140 of lodge funds, he said. ‘STOP-GAP” FARMING POLICIES WOULD BE CHANGED BY LANDON GOP Nominee to Outline ‘De- pendable, Permanent Pro- gram’ at Des Moines Topeka, Kans., Sept. 17.—()—Gov. Alf M. Landon, preparing to carry his presidential campaign into the agri- cultural middlewest, said Thursday the Republican party offers a “depend- able, permanent program” to replace “present stop-gap policies of this ad- ministration.” “The policies by which this admin- istration is trading off the markets of the American farmer must be He left details for discussion at Des Moines, Sept. 22 in the first of three major speeches to be made on the tour. “I am happy to accept invitations to speak at Des Moines, Minneapolis a|and Milwaukee and to visit with my fellow cipizens in the agricultural mid- dle west and Take states,” the gover- nor said. ‘Stop-Gap ‘Policies Mast End’ “The present stop-gap policies of this administration need to be replaced by a dependable, permanent program that will give farming the equality it deserves. The Republican party has Such @ program. “The policies by which this admin- istration is trading off the markets of the American farmer must be changed. Drouths and floods have made imper- etive a proper federal-state water and soil conservation program, so far neg- lected by the present administration. A well worked out land use program has become a necessity.” The midwest campaign swing will be through Iowa, Minnesota, Wiscon- sin and Illinois. He will speak Sept. 24 at Minneapolis and Sept. 26 at Milwaukee, (All three will be broad- cast, on scheduled for 8: a (CST), Address Young G.0.P. Friday at 2 p.m. (CST), the gover- nor will address a national conference of Young Republican leaders here. Fred A. Seaton, head of the Kansas Young Republicans, emphasized that the meeting will be open to all young voters, regardless of past political affiliations. Wednesday U. 8. Senator Rush D. -|Holt (Dem. W. Va.), conferred with Landon and later told newsmen he was favorably impressed with the Re- publican nominee, “I won't make any statement at all on whom I'am going to support for the presidency,” he said. MILLION IN DROUTH AID SPENT IN ND. 34,897 of 36,763 Farmers Cer- tified Have Been Assigned to Projects Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 17. — (®) — A total of $1,052,001 has been advanced in drouth aid loans and grants in North Dakota so far, Cal A. Ward, Tegional director for the Resettlement administration, said today. Emergency subsistence grants to- changed,” the nominee told newsmen.; ‘ The Weather fair, frost tonight; Friday fair; little change in temp. PRICE FIVE CENTS THREAT OF MASSED DEATH HANGS OVER REBELS IN ALCAZAR Government Troops Ready at Any Time to Touch Off Dynamite Charges NEW OFFENSIVE UNDER WAY U. S. Ambassador Attempts to Gain Release for American Correspondents (By the Associated Press) Fascist forces with an estimated Potential strength of a million men launched a three-pointed drive on Madrid Thursday and locked with desperate government militiamen in one of the fiercest battles of the nine weeks civil war on the Toledo front. Meanwhile, in Toledo's Alcazar, 1,- 700 men, women and children hud- died over the momentary threat of massed death. Refusing to surrender, they were told by government com- manders the ancient fortress would be blown to bits at any moment from underground mines. Two months of shell fire has failed to drive them from the crumbling citadel. A last-minute delay in the explo- sion was ordered Thursday morning to give the Fascists a final chance to surrender and to put the finishing touches on the mines, but the mayor of Toledo said the building might be blown up “soon.” Personally led by Gen. Francisco Franco, the rebel commander-in- chief, the Fascist forces advancing on Toledo and Madrid engaged in a bloody battle with government mili- tiamen only a few miles from Toledo itself. 1,000 Reported Killed A Fascist broadcast from Jerez de la Frontera, a propaganda source, said 1,000 militiamen had been killed be- fore Toledo and that the city was about to fall to the insurgents. Gov- ernment advices did not bear this out. but thousands of men were rushed to Toledo to reinforce the defend- ere. From the northeast, the north and the northwest, other Fascist drives were pointed toward Madrid, where the government announced foreign “dare devil” pilots were being re- cruited to start @ great serial offen- sive with a “huge fleet of new bonib- ing and fighting planes.” The Fascists, from Burgos, claimed victories in bayonet fighting near the northern city of Oviedo, and an in- surgent air squadron was reported to have bombed a gun factory in the same province, Ignore French Demands French demands for apologies and indemnities from Spanish Fascists for the execution of a Frenchman in Spanish Morocco went unanswered, but at Saint Jean de Luz, France, the United States ambassador, Claude G. Bowers, said he was attempting to obtain the release of three American newspaper correspondents reported to be held by insurgents at Carceres. Insurgent leaders in the north in- dicated they favored @ veteran mili- tary leader, General Martinez Anido, for dictator of Spain, SAD QUEEN VICTORIA ARRIVES IN AMERICA Here to Visit Son, Alfonso, Resting From His 11th Blood Transfusion New York, Sept. 17.—(7)—Into the troubled world of her ailing son, Al- fonso, count of Covadonga, sailed the queen of trouble, Victoria Eugenie of Spain, Thursday. With her from their exile in France came her eldest daughter, Infanta Beatriz, aboard the Conti de Savoia. In the medical center here Alfonso, 29 years old, was resting comfortably, recovering from his 11th blood trans- fusion in the three weeks he has been. under treatment there for haemo- philia, an illness that results in con- stant bleeding from the slightest kind of cuts. The present condition started from the lancing of a boil. And in the law courts his attorneys opposed the latest development in Alfonso’s tangled marital affairs, de- mand of his wife, Edelmira de Bour- taling $371,601 have been certified to | start 23,899 stricken farm families, he said,