The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 31, 1936, Page 1

Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 LITICS | ey PERTINAX TAKE YOUR CHOICE “ Bismarck Democtats are resentful of the publicity given to the Literary Digest poll, which predicts victory for Landon, while other polls, many of which predict victory. for Roosevelt, are ignored. For illustration they cite the Cross- Jey poll, published in the Hearst and @ lot of other mi tan newspa- pers, which puts the division in the electoral college at 125 for Landon and 406 for Roosevelt and makes the unqualified prediction that Roose- velt will be re-elected. - The Democrats much prefer to be- Neve this than to accept the Literary Digest figures. Which is perfectly natural. Meanwhile, it is only fair to state why the Digest poll gets the most publicity. In the first place it is the biggest. No other poll es it in volume ‘with its 10,000,000 ballots sent out and more than 2,000,000 returnea. Since it is the biggest it is assumed to be the most representative, In the second place, the Crossley poll is rather expensive and publica- tion of its returns is limited to news- papers which pay for it. Others are barred by the copyright laws from publishing the Crossley and similar polls, whereas the Digest poil is free to anyone who wants to take notice of it. So far as Pertinax is concerned it is a case of take your choice. Straw ballots don’t decide the issue any- way. xe % ALL GOOD FRIENDS . When this column observed recently that the trend in this area scemed to be toward Welford, severa: Demo- ctats begged leave to disagree. They were surprised that so astute an ob- server as they credited Pertinax: with being could be led so far astray. If they are right the answer is easy. It wouldn't be the first time and prob- ably will not be the last—and this column lays no ciaims to infallibility. | labor. It can be as wrong as an umpire in a baseball game, the only difference being that you cannot, second-guess Roosevelt and Moses far in the lead. ‘They were not mentioned by this col-: ered representative of the whole pop- ulation and there was no safeguard against duplicate voting. But here are some polls. which bolster the Democratic hopes’ and in which they ; Moses ford Langer Six polls in Foster county 244 ‘Twelve in Ramsey.. 419 Marion, LaMoure .. 146 Churchs Ferry, Benson county .. A cafe in Minot.... 15, Devils Lake business district ......... 143 . 125 What these figures mean cannot be fudged. The circumstances under which they were taken are not dis- closed. Neither is there any index af to how representative they are. But there they are, just to show that the Democrats know how. to take Polls, too. i * is * * THE GREAT WHO IS IT? ; tg epee ie ma can namie, off- hand, the man who is running against John Burke, seeking re-election to the state supreme court. But there is such a man and friends of Judge Burke are giving him some attention. Just to make sure that the lightning don’t strike they are urging their acquaintances not to forget to cast a ballot for this grand old man of public service in North Dakota. They aren't worried. Their activity 1s on the same basis and. for the same reason that people take out insurance policies, ek {T GROWS A LITTLE WARM In North Dakota the national cam- paign has been conducted on a fairly Gignified scale bit in the industrial aistricts of the east and middle west it has resolved itself into a cat-and- dog tight with the fur apparently get- ‘ing into everyone's eyes. Chief bone of contention has been the so-called payroll tax in social se- curity bill, effective January 1. Many employers are putting notices in pay envelopes referring to it as 3 21 The Democrats have countered with, the explanation it really is ojd- age insurance, di to make the workers independent of charity and other recitations of its alleged bene- fits, This is easily the dominant is- sue in the closing days 6f the election drive. x This isn’t an industrial state and only industry ts concerned about the law, since it does not apply to farm- ers, but literature regarding it is be- ing sent into North Dakota just the same. ‘Those who object that the e1 shouldn't try fo tell his‘employes ow (Continued on Page Thiee) Minnesota’s Husking © _THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE (224 Record National Vote Seen’ FORECAST PLACES CARGO MOVEMENTS PARALYZED AS 150 SHIPS ARE TIED UP Walkout Threatens to Effect 20,000 More Laborers of Associated Industries ATTEMPTS AT ACCORD FAIL San Francisco Officials Take Steps to Prevent Repetition of 1934 Trouble San Francisco, Oct. 31.—()—A spreading maritime strike held nearly 150 vessels in coast ports Saturday, paralyzed cargo movements at a peak jseason and threatened to add more than 20,000 new workers to the idle list headed by 37,000 marine em- ployes. Ships heading for ports from San Diego to Seattle faced tieup on ar- tival. Atlantic and gulf marine com- merce faced a spread of the walkout to those’ areas. San. Francisco officials, mindful of the bloody 83-day strike in 1934, took “emergency” steps to meet the situa- tion, precipitated Thursday midnight by @ general walkout of marine union Federal officials here ‘and in Wash- ington strove to bring accord with no immediate indication of success. P sengers and caused, revision of mail movements. ie bound here. Another 57 were held in north Pacific ports, including Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., and Portland, ‘Ore. Twenty-two were tied up at San Pedro and San Diego and six in Ha- 'a strike of 1,000 warehousemen in gro- cery storage plants, demanding higher wages and a new working agreement. In, Seattle, the. west coast lumber- men’s association estimated 20,000 lumber workers would be forced ou: of work if the marine strike lasted a Await Official Action Marine labor officials here; claim- ing the support of Atlantic and guild unions, watched closely for develop- ments there, but made no comment when New York seamen de- cided to await action by the Inter- national Seamen's Union. “Bit down’ strikes of seamen in New owners in anticipation of similar trouble, A. J. McCarthy, chairman of the New York Shipping association, said would not join any sympathy walkout because of agree- ments recently concluded between the LL. A. and the mene Pickets armed with sticks patroled sections of the New Orleans water- front. ; Movement Spreads Baltimore, Md., Mobile, Als., and Houston, Tex., were enmeshed in the _|strike movement Friday night. Union officials in Baltimore said seamen of ships docks there had voted to strike for demands which included control of hiring halls. A focal issue on the west coast. Officials of both sides, declining to be quoted, expressed belief the situa- tion would remain status quo until Monday. Then the United States Maritime Commission is due to reopen F. R. Hails Security; Landon at St. Louis President to Make Climactic Bid for New York's Support at Brooklyn New York, Oct. 31.—()—President Roosevelt checked up anew on his home state's election agg Pape day after warming up for campaign speech here tonight with &@ Brooklyn appeal to support what he called the New Deal's “program of unity.” A forenoon call at Democratic na- tional headquarters for conferences with party. chiefs and a brief talk to women leaders in the Bronx were charted for him before he returned te his town house on East 65th street to rest for his major address in Madi- son Square Garden. That his speech tonight would be another sharply worded blast at the Republican leadership and an outline of New Deal “achievements” was the consensus of presidential intimates. Such was the tone of his 1,300-word| address Friday night in the jammed Academy of Music in Brooklyn. He again struck at the Republicans and a “few employers” for their attitude toward the social security act, enu- merated New Deal acts which he said bout a “better, happier “that our policy for the future is their policy for the future.” Gets Large Applause Between assertions that the admin- istration had brought about a “more groups together, and tint part qd- ther, past ed- Slsteations had “fostered” differ- entiation between classes, he inter- polated a remark about the 1936 Re- publican emblem that brought the loudest applause of the evening. read a telegram he said he had re- ceived on his special train coming up from Washington, as follows: “In the morning the sunflower turns. to the east.. In the afternoon the sunflower turns to the west—and goes to seed b November.” y ‘Und-vwere 81 the gayly decorated hall, whose: 400 seats were filled and every aisle ‘was| packed before the president stepped to the platform. About mid-way in his speech, Mr. Roosevelt raised his hand as if to hush a booing of Alfred E. Smith,| whose name was shouted by a gal- leryite. Flays Opposition The president had just concluded a statement that the “Republican lead- ership, driven to desperation and urged on by the same sinister forces which generation after generation have opposed all social legislation, now repudiate thelr own representa- tives and senators in-the halls of congress and leave them looking posi- tively silly.” The president had mentioned the social security law after referring to the NRA as having brought business- men together to “encourage them to} increase wages, to shorten hours, to abolish child labor.” He gave no inkling of how he felt about an NRA for the future, as had been demand- ed by, his Republican opponent, Gov. Landon. He said the social security law, ceived the support of 77 Republicans in the house and 15.in the senate and only 18 of that party voted against’ it in the house, with five in the sen- ate. Minnesota Hay Lands Blackened by Flames Felton, Minn., Oct. 31.—(?)—A 30- an investigation of the coast’s long| miles troubled waterfronts. FIRE RAZES ANCHOR WORKS $500,000. Millar’s Ghost Comes [3 Back to Haunt Toronto Toronto, Oct. 31—(AP)—Charles always coming back to plague us!” Champion Dethroned “S Morristown, Minn., Oct. 31.—(7)— By # margin of six-hundredths of a Six women appeared to be in a tie as the curfew hour neared. All claim- terest Republican Nominee Casts His Eyes on 15 Electoral Votes in Missouri St. Louis, Oct. 31.—()}—Gov. Alf M. Landon arrived here from the east on his “Sunflower Special” Saturday for an all-day visit that will culminate tonight in the last major address of his presidential campaign tour. The first to greet Landon were his wife and daughter, Peggy Anne, who had arrived on a regular train from Topeka. He drafted the final summation against the New Deal Saturday for Halloween delivery in St. Louis, his eyes cast on Missouri's 16 electoral votes. Smilingly reiterating confidence of election, the Republican nominee ap- pealed for support of “real Demo- crats” as he campaigned through ‘West Virginia. The Kansas governor reserved the morning hours fot visiting with Mrs. Landon, leaving the afternoon for conferences with party leaders be- fore delivering his address in the mu- nicipal auditorium. The speech will be broadcast nationally, 9:30 to 10 p. m., (C8T). Talks at Huntington Landon capped his West Virginia thrust with a station platform speech at Huntington before a cheering throng estimated at 15,000 by Police Lieut. M. M. Johnson, after a broad- cast at Charleston's Middleburg audi- torium, in which he asserted “house- hold budgets” must pay for New Deal “waste and extravagance.” He called the constitution “the charter of our liberties—the charter He} that keeps our homes,” and told his hearers New Deal “misuse of public funds” threatened inflation through disregard of “the old fashioned prin- ciple .of making both ends meet.” In some foreign countries, he said, “homes are no longer protected by the law against invasion by the agents of powerrur government." wept tai all “We must never forget that the loss of liberty in these countries followed depressions; that the trends in gov- ernment which preceded this loss of liberty were similar in many respects to the trends in government which we see in America today.” Crowd Roars Applause As he began “when I am president,” the crowd roared applause. When he asked “did it (the present administra- tion) tell you frankly in advance what were getting?” the crowd re- sponded “no.” “And do you feel you got your mon- ey’s worth?” “No” shouted the audi- ence. : A crowd that awaited the govern- or's train at Maysville, Ky., an oper- ating stop, was rewarded when Lan- don appeared on the rear platform shortly before 11 p. m., and shook hands with as many persons as he could reach. After his speech in St. Louis to- night, Governor and Mrs. Landon planned to go directly to the Sun- flower special for the overnight jour- ney to Topeka, where he will rest his case with the voters in a brief elec- tion-eve broadcast Monday night. GOVERNOR WELFORD VERIFIES LION TALE Chief Executive, J. H. Starbuck “Report Seeing Predator Near Tuttle was “official” that a big cat animal this territ was none other than Walter Welford who re- verification is 3 7,000 Longshoremen Idle in Maritime Strike SHORE BATTERIES |Hlalloween. Patrols DRIVE INSURGENT SHIP OUT T0 SEA Fascists Were Attempting to Land Men at Barcelona for Seaport Attack MAKE AIR RAID ON MADRID 59 Killed and 159 Others Wounded as Bombing ‘Planes Terrorize City (By the Associated Press) Spanish shore batteries on the Bay of Rosas drove an insurgent destroyer out to sea Saturday after the war- ship, in an apparent attempt to land troops, had -shelled fishing villages, killing several persons, Thousands of troops poured north- ward from Balcelona, where President Manuel of Spain has established of- fices, to repulse the landing attempt while Spanish frontier authorities stripped the border of guards to re- enforce the Rosas defenses. The bay is 80 miles north of Bar- celona, which may become the capital of Leftist Spain if Madrid falls. In bomb-blasted Madrid, mean- while, authorities moved to quiet re- ports that Fascist sympathizers inside the city had thrown bombs from roof- tops during a sudden unhearided air raid in which Fascist planes bombed populous neighborhoods killing 59 persons, mostly women and children, and injuring at least 189 others. . The Madrid battle-fronts were quiet as government troops rested be- fore renewing the assault on Torre- jon de Velasco in the Sesena area ‘gouth of the capital, a decisive battie- fleld for Madrid. French Action Demanded Spanish neutrality threatened to. government be lifted, and (2) trans- portation of arms to the insurgerits be obstructed. Huh aut The insurgent command at id commercial pilots planned to “create an interna- tional incident” in Spain and warned they would be fired on for any pro- voking incident. The insurgent radio broadcast a report that planes bombed Barcelona Friday, An- other Fascist broadcast charged French military airplanes were help- ing the Madrid government. WING YOUTH WINS HEROISM CITATION Boy ‘Scouts of America Award to Be Presented Theodore Kusler Soon Theodore” Kusler of Wing, saved a playmate from drowning & creek near that city early last apring, has been awarded a certificate for. heroism by the Boy Scouts of Mary's school, FIGURE 5,000,000 OVER 1932 TOTAL _ Ready for Activity Hurly Burly of Campaign Roars ’ Program Will Be High- lights of Party for Estimat- ed 400 Youths Four hundred Bismarck boys will have a share in the annual Boy Scout Halloween party here tonight, accord- ing to plans of the Junior Association of Commerce, which is sponsoring the big affair. This will be the third year that the Halloween party, part of the program of which is to systematically patrol all parts of the city to guard against damage by pranksters, has been car- tied out here on a city-wide basis. It was first organized in 1934 when Frank Waldo was in charge, and was continued last year with Waldo again at the helm. Both years it was so successful that it has been decided to make the event an annual affair, To Meet at 8 o'Clock All Bismarck Scouts, members of the nine troops of the city and 200 in Football Scores FIRST QUARTER Missouri 0; Nebraska 0. Towa 0; Indiana 6, Alabama 0; Kentucky Chicago 7; Wiscensin Duke Washington and Lee 0. Ohio H Tennessee 7; Georgia 0. SECOND QUARTER N. D. U. 7; N. D. A.C. 0, Bosten College 6. Princeton 7; Hartard 7. North Carolina State 6; North Carolina 0. Weniene State 13; Dartmouth 2; Yale @. THIRD QUARTER Minnesota 0; Northwestern 0. a 2 Holy Cress 0. number, will gather at various head-|- quarters at 8:00 p. m., Paul A. Net- land, Missouri Valley Area Scout ex- ecutive, said Saturday morning. With each of the Scouts will be another boy of scouting age but not a Scout himself, who will come as a guest of his Scout friend. Thus it is expected that the number taking part in the party will approach 400. Once gathered at the various meet- ing places, which in all but one in- stance will be in school buildings, Scouts will be dispatched in groups to patrol different sections of the city, working in shifts from 8. p. m. until whatever time they feel they have sufficiently discouraged the prank-playing ambitions of Bismarck folk. Lunch Is Planned Meanwhile, Scouts not on duty and their friends at the various headquar- ters wil enjoy food and programs. Members of the Junior Association of Commerce committees in charge of| dex. the affair will prepare a iunch of wieners and cheese sandwiches, cocoa and doughnuts, which will be deliv. ered to the headquarter points at about. 10 o'clock by other members of: the Junior Association who will dave their cars on hand for that purpose, Members of the Junior Association of Commerce committee in charge of the arrangements for the evening are Ober A. Kobs, president of the asso- clation; Paul A. Netland, Missour! Valley Area Scout executive, and Charles Goodwin. To -Deliver Lunches Those who will deliver the lunches to the troop headquarters are Har- ison Monk, Dick Penwarden, Dick Meadow, Helge Zethren, Fred Diehl and Frits Lunde. ‘Troops vale stationed as follows (Kiwanis)—William Moore school, Scoutmaster N. Lioyd Lille- strand. No, 3 (Rotary)—World War Me- mortal building, Scoutmaster, T. E. Simle. No. § (Lutheran Men’s,club)—Will echgol, Scoutmaster, Curtis Nelson. No. 6 (Presbyterian)—Junior high school, Scoutmaster, T. Johnson. No. 7 (Knights of Columbus)—8t. Mary's school, Scoutmaster, Charles Cauthe: (Knights of Columbus)—8t. Scoutmaster, Albert Harti. No, 9 (American Legion)—Wachter school, Scoutmaster, John Karas- fewics. No. 10 (Lions)—Richholt school, Scoutmaster, Charles Schatz. “No, 11 (Elks)—Roosevelt school, Scoutmaster Robert Byrnes. Veteran Is Captured After Hospital Flight Fargo, Oct. 31.—(?)—Lester Cole- Minn., No. Will Be Here Nov. 12): Another change in the date for the visit to Bismarck of Melvin Jones, founder and secretary of Lions Inter- |' Saturday by at sEbE a E & iH i CONFUSION AND NEW G. 0. P-DEMOCRATIC TILT MARK CAMPAIGN All Oratorical Guns Blasting Away; Republicans Attack Advertisement ind a new tilt between Republicans and Dem- ocrats marked the closing hours of the state political campaign Satur- ‘The conf ipmriueer that which has marked the campaign all along with little agreement as to the issues involved. The Republican-Democratic out- burst resulted from publication by the Democrats of advertisements sup- ‘porting the gubernatorial candidacy of John Moses, Hagen, and a Repub- lican counter that two men men- tioned in the advertisement had not made statements attributed to them. Meanwhile the hurly-burly neared its end with all the oratorical guns roaring full blast. Governor Walter Welford, Repub- lican_ nominee, will over @ KFYR-WDAY hookup at 11:15 to- night and with him will be Senator Lynn J. Frazier, T. H. H. Thoresen and Attorney General P. O. Sathre. He will close his campaign at 11:15 Monday night with another broad- cast in which Senator Gerald P. Nye and Highway Commissioner W. J. Flannigan also will participate. Moses will speak in Bismarck to- night at a Democratic rally and with him will be J. J. Lit paign with an address at Mandan Monday night, William Langer will speak at Fargo tonight and at Bismarck Monday night. The last-minute Republican-Demo- having sent or any knowledge of such messages. At the same time, L. L. Twichell Clayton H. Musser, 67, Shields Farmer, Dead to Conclusion in Burst of Speechmaking CLOSING TALKS TONIGHT / Fight of Social Security Act, Maritime Strike Develop- ments Watched The hurly burly of the 1936 cam- paign roared on Saturday toward a conclusion. As President Roosevelt, Governor Landon and hundreds of others pre- pared to speak their last major pieces tonight, all sides agreed that the emo- tions and cerebral processes stimulat- ed by the economic and political . events of the last few years and the clashing arguments of the past sev- eral months probably would lead next Tuesday to an outpouring of ballots shattering all records, Advance analyses of registration figures have indicated a possible vote of well over 45,000,000, exceed- ing by more than 5,000,000 the total cast in 1932, New Developments Watched This week produced two eleventh- hour developments being watched closely by campaign leaders. One was a fight over the social security 7 act. The other was the maritime strike, Previously the social security act had not been at the center of the hottest campaigning, though Gover- nor Landon had denounced it as “un- workable and stupidly drafted” and John G. Winant had quit his post on the social security board to assail Landon’s stand as a “call to retreat.” This week, however, there were cries of “fraud” from both sides of the argument. Col. Frank Knox assailed the act at Gary, Ind., as a “scheme for shar- ing povert; He also declared the pensions and insurance measure “puts half the working. people. of..America. under federal control.” Edison Urges Re-election Charles Edison, son of the late Thomas A. Edison, urged the re-elec- tion of Mr. Roosevelt. Only a few days ago the inventor's widow, now Mrs. Edward E. Hughes, spoke at a Landon rally. ‘The two major parties already haye reported a total expenditure of near- ly $10,000,000, with large sums be- organizations. national chairman, said there was “a nation-wide sweep for Governor Land ind against the “Roosevelt- Farley political machine.” Hugh 8. Johnson said “it’s doubtful whether Governor Landon will carry six states —it’s another landslide.” Lemke Flays Parties Amid the general excitement, can- didates of the Union party and others continued the stumping. Representa- tive William Lemke, Union party, de- clared neither major party nominee shows a sign “of any constructive plan” of drouth relief. . Commenting on the maritime strike, Norman Thomas accused employers of a “stubborn desire” to “break any effective union.” Earl Browder, Communist, said: “I am sorry to have to admit that Com- munism is not yet a serious menace to American capitalism.” CALL RATE HEARING HERE IN NOVEMBER 96 Special Operators Added te List of Respondents for Investigation ‘With the addition of 96 special op- erators to the list Saturday, his |200 motor freight carriers have been TO VOTE Polls open Tuesday, Nov. 3, from 9, m. to 7p. m. IT IS YOUR DUTY .__ candidates of your choice. “MENHAVEDIED for this privilege. Defend it by using Mt. y De