The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 10, 1936, Page 1

ne s North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather Generally fair, rising temperature to- night; Wednesday cloudy and colder. ESTABLISHED 1878 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1936 PRICE FIVE CENTS OLITICS. by PERTINAX With charity fer all aué malice toward cone THE NEW ADVISERS— It takes no political seer to fore- cast who the influetial men will be in the state administratio which takes office next January. Whether there will be a scurrying to get close to the governor this time, as there was in 1932 when Langer took’ office before, is doubtful. The legitimate list of scurriers was much larger then than now. In 1932 Langer was the candidate of an undivided Nonpartisan League, @ political organization with many local leaders and wide ramitications. In 1936 the number of persons sur- rounding him was mucH smaller, A good many of them were in other camps, hence he is beholden to fewer people now than then. Where the key appointments will go is not revealed, but in the nature of things Frank Vogel, highway com- missioner in the previous Langer ad- ministration, can have about any- HONOLULU CONFLICT DISTRIBUTED BEFORE) War Dead Wednesday; | ARISES 10 PLAGUE WINDUP IS REACHED! Services Slated Here STRIKE MEDIATORS Total of 6,000,000 Farm Own-|| Postoffice Profits ers, Operators Expected to Share in Benefits thing he wants. He went through) MAP PROGRAM ALTERATION all sorts of trouble with his friend, stuck by him through thick and thin and played a leading behind-the- scenes part in the recent campaign. Pick him for manager of the Bank of North Dakota or of the State Mill and Elevator and you will not be far wrong. But in any event place him in the inner circle of advisers to the new governor, He always oe been there. * *% THESE HOLD ELECTIVE JOBS Provi: n for State Setups Ex- pected to Be Scrapped By Next Congress Washington, Nov. 10.—() —Pay- ments to farmers under this year’s soil conservation program passed the first. $1,000,000 mark Tuesday while Most of the others who will com-|New Deal officials laid plans for prise this close circle of friends al-| Changes in future agricultural pro: ‘ams. ready have elective jobs and hence will not be eligible for appointment. ‘The first $1,000,000 going to farm- Leading the list are John Gray, re-jerg for shifting lands from major elected state treasurer; John N. Ha-|crops to grasses and soil-butiding gan, elected commissioner of agri-| growths is only a small start in the culture and labor, and Oscar Erick-|flow of $470,000,000 payments under son, elected insurance commusioner. | this year’s program. A total of 6,- Gray, still virile and active despite | 000,000 farm owners and operators are the fact that he carries more years|expécted to receive checks before the than: the observer would suspect, /1936 payments are concluded. probably is outstanding among this trio in several-respects, New Deal leaders, an authoritative source said, have already decided on Though over the age limit, he vol-)one change they will ssk congress: to unteered for service in the World|make in the present farm act. “‘he war and served in France as a top|existing. law contemplates that by sergeant. He was a rough and tough| 1938 the states will have set up “48 one, too, but the kind that was well|little AAA's” to take over adurinis- liked by his men. tration of the program, now handled Politically he’ has always been aj>¥ the federal government. radical, but people who know him credit him ‘with being honest about it. Few States Active But New Dealers hope to have this He hates hypocrisy and sham end has] provision scrapped, it was said by in- been a consistent champion of the! formed persons. Officials pointed to under dog. tl he fact that few states have made Active in the Nonpartisan League|any move to set up their own state from the beginning, he has had more fights and fought with more people than anyone can remember. But he fights without bitterness and most of those, wii are his BIT OF INSIDE HISTORY Gray did not and does not like Gov- |! mmhe has Jousted. sti old invalid AAA, SS aie nepal Secretary Wallace ald not’ plan~te 0 8 8 _ [that fer, 7 control system. Though a number of farm leaders recently informed a presidential com- mittee that they want a revival of the officials...said, Agricultural adjustment administra- ion leaders concentrated first atten- tion Tuesday on the plans for the ernor Walter Welford politically. He 1937 program under the soil cunserva- has never made any secret of this, contending that he could see from the treasurer’s office that Welford was being led around by the nose. He has always contended that he likes Welford personally. Nominated as a Republican along with Welford, he listened after the primary election to talk of peace in the ranks and gave serious consider- ation to the idea. Then, one day, it was reported to) 1 him that a meeting would be held to talk things over. Gray went to the meeting place but neither Welford nor any of his co- horts showed up—and Gray got/t: peeved. From that day forward he/ 53 was opposed to Welford’s re-election. tion law. About 50 farmer comnui:- teemen from the corn belt were here conferring on this. Eastern States Benefit New England and states along the Atlantic seaboard have received the bulk of the first flow of payments, Payments in the east central re- gion were listed at $245,484 to 3,325 persons, including 506 checks for $31,- 91 sent to Kentucky. Payments in the corn belt region were reported at $37,460 to 3,039 per- sons, Iowa topped the list with 1,551 checks for $220,202. Other state to- als included Wisconsin 459 for $30,- innesota 534 for $70,008, Eventually he joined the Langer cam-| were: North Dakota 131 checks for paign forces, made many speeches} $21,924; Utah 45 for $2,251; Kansas with Langer and contributed ma-| 1’ terially to the result of the recent 75 for $46,586, First payment under the 1936 agri- election. It might fairly be said that.! cultural conservation program, which had Gray been actively opposed to} win flood $18,109,000°from the federal Langer rather than for him, the) treasury into North Dakota in the election would have ended differently. ** * LONG INTERLUDE One of the most noteworthy results of the election was the return of John N. Hagan to the office of commissioner of agriculture and labor after a 15 year interlude, Hagan was recalled from that office in 1922 at the same time that Lynn J. Frazier was recalled from the gover- norship and William Lemke was re- called as attorney general. All three now hold high public of- fices, Frazier is the senior senator. Lemke is the senior congressman. ‘Thus all three now are back in public offices, two of them in better jobs than «Continued ¢ Page Two) RED CROSS SUPPORT URGED BY WELFORD Dr. J. T. E. Dinwoodie, mittee secretary. part of the applications cleared payments may be made before Christ- next two months, was handed to Francis De Vore, county farmer, by County Agent M. C. Altenburg. : Dawson, Kidder The first check issued by the dis- bursing office for this area, located in Minneapolis, also went to a North Da- kotan—Emily Randall of Robinson. Announced by Dinwoodie The payments werejannounced by te soil com- The first batch of payments went to Kidder and Towner counties In Kid- ' & der county the inttial payments were| Keep ‘em up. to 68 farmer cooperators who received $14,176.11. operators received $7,748.50. Other payments will go to these and other North Dakota counties as raj applications can be cleared the North Dakota central Fargo and the disbursing Minneapolis. In Towner county 63 co- office in office at Dr. Dinwoodie hopes to have a large 50 Dedicates Period From Nov. 11- partial clearances have been made | 8 Cents in Holdup Hazard, Pa. Nov. 10.—()— The postoffice department has a three-cent profit from an at- tempted holdup. Two men walked into the post- office, laid three pennies on the counter and asked for a stamp. As Postmaster Arthur Cattaway reached for the stamp, the cus- tomers drew pistols and demand- ed money. Cattaway’s answer was a right to the jaw of the nearest man. Both fled, leaving beind the pennies and the stamp. N.D. HIGHWAY SNOW FIGHTING EQUIPMENT GIRDED FOR WINTER’ 64,000 Feet of Snow Fences Added in State; 30 Plow Units Are Ready Assurance that “every effort will be made” to keep the main United States highways open in North Dakota this winter was given Tuesday by officials of the state highway department. Dinner at Noon to Fete World War Veterans North Dakota joins the nation Wed- resday in Armistice Day observance, marking the 18th anniversary of the close of the great war in which more than seven million men died before the “cease fire” order echoed along the front November 11, 1918, Virtually every community in the state regardless of size will pause on the 11th hour Wednesday for citizens to offer a universal prayer for peace, In Bismarck, roll call will be sound- ed from the steps of the state capitol building, followed by two mintues of silence and taps. will be no school and statehouse offices will be closed. Parade Opens Here A parade, which will include vet- erans’ organizations and their auxili- aries, soldiers of the regular army stationed at Fort Lincoln, members of lodges and services clubs and other organizations, will open the city of Bismarck’s Armistice Day observ- ances, The parade is scheduled to begin promptly at 10:15 a. m., and will move through the downtown section of the city to the city auditorium, where a commemorative program is planned, A call to members of the Gilbert N. Nelson Post No. 1326 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States was issued Tuesday by Wesley Sher- win, post commander. Sherwin asked that all V. F. W. members meet at the World War Memorial building at 9:45 a, m, and march in a body to the New snow fighting equipment and additional snow fencing will be util- ized, W. J. Flannigan, state highway commissioner, declared. Approximately ‘64,000 feet: of snow fence have been added this winter to Sotinterethtsprowetion. 1 Flannigan explained that expert- mental work in other types of protec- tion against snow is being carried on, pointing to “living snow fence” de- veloped along U. 8. highway No. 10 in Cass, Barnes and Stutsman coun- ties. Along this stretch of road, rows of} trees with hedges on sides have been planted to withhold drifting snow from the highway. Thirty snow plow units, besides eight motor patrols with V-type plows, are scattered at strategic pouts over the state to commence the annual fight with snow. For the deep snow work the 30 plow units will be used. These include seven rotaries, the rest being big trucks with V-type pusher plows and a wing for widening purposes. ’ These will be utilized on the ap- proximately 6,700 miles of state high- ways, plows being used 24 hours a day with men working in three shifts site chosen for the formation of the parade, A one-act play, “They Jest Won't Talk,” directed by Miss Pearl Bryant of the high school faculty and Miss Edith Ramstad, and a song by the Elks quartette will be the features of the in: the: -munipipal- a torium, on which William A. Sessions, Jr., chaplain at Fort Lincoln, will give the principal address, Rev. E. L. Jackson, chaplain of the Lloyd Spetz Post of the American Legion here, will’ give the invocation. To Serve Luncheon Reminiscent of war days will be the luncheon which the Auxiliary to the Lloyd Spetz Post will serve from 12 o'clock noon to 2 p. m. in the World War Memorial building dining room following the program in the auditorium. The committee, which is headed by Mrs, C. B. Nupen, has planned to carry out a Salvation Army lassie theme. There will be community singing led by Mrs. Iver A. Acker. Invited to attend are all World War veterans, their mothers and fathers and members of the auxiliary, ac- cording to Mrs. R. R. Nelson, presi- cent. Mrs. Nupen’s committee aides are Mmes. L. P. Parsons, J. W. Knecht, when severe conditions make it nec- essary, highway officials stated. | One Man Killed, Two Wounded in Gunfight Jackson, Ohio, Nov. 10.—(?}—Guns blazed in the crowded Spider Web, whiskey and beer cafe at the nearby coal mining town of Wellston, and brought death early Tuesday to one man and left three wounded, two crit- ically. Seven bullet wounds in his body, George Keesee, 30, died in a Gallipolis hospital, three hours after Sheriff W. P. Turner said he leaped upon & table in the Spider Web and shouted: “Everybody put up your hands and Ross Fisher, 56, Wellston police- man and former Jackson county sher- iff, tried to calm Keesee and was menaced with a gun. Fisher drew his own weapon and was critically wounded in # gun duel that followed. Caught in the line of fire, Albert Hawker, 58, WPA project foreman, was shot and badly hurt. Jess Whaley, 19, hid behind a table, but a stray bullet found a mark in his heel. for 13 counties—Billings, Bowman, Cavalier, Divide, Eddy, Grant, Kidder, Slope, Stark, Towner, Welis, Stuts- man and Foster. Checks will go to these counties at once. 28 for Promotion of ‘Hu- manitarian Work’ Governor Walter Welford urged Tuesday that all North Dakotans re- *. & spond to the roll call of the American Extensive Manhunt Is 5 Soulapetiie er: 1 ER Red Cross and dedicated the lucers wusical revue from Nov. 11 to 28 to the promotion Started Near Kenyon Faces” ,withdrew from the show “this humanitarian work.’ _—_ : i) ’ *tpointing to the Red Cross as one} Kenyon. Minn., Nov.’ 10.—(7)—Led i of the “greatest motivating forces to-|¥ Sheriff Lenus Olson of Goodhue ward world peace,” Governor Welford |county, an extensive manhunt was said tMe past year has been one ofjlaunched early Tuesday after an of- accomplishments “never before equal-| {cer emptied his pistol at three men ed in the peace-time history of the|Who abandoned an automobile con- Red Cross.” taining guns and burglar tools. “Now, as in the World days,| When the car failed to nalt at a thousands of: veterans and enlisted |Stop signal, Chief Karl Ofterness of men look to the Red Cross for the|Kenyon became suspicious. The chief ‘ solution of their problems and for the ;gave chase and soon the suspects’ car] agreed, but Leonard Sillman, the handling of their claims.” he asserted.|plunged into a ditch. As they fled| suthor, said: “Even greater tasks in connection|afoot, he fired at them several times “Tl employ all the legal talent 4 with relief, its service, and its work|but does not know whether he struck 1 ia that skit in.” on of promoting universal friendship,”|@ny. need to keep the governor declared, “are confront- Philadelphia audiences waited , ting the Red Cross.” FORX WOMAN DIES for the second local performance five|_ Grand Forks, N. D., Nov. 10, of the Broadway prod ° He said it is necessary that million members; the be launched by the Red Cross|resident of Grand Forks since 1878. “his third seat in throughout the United States from] Survivors include two daughters and| middle of the act Nov. 11 to 29, three sons, night and stalk up the alsie to de- ‘y Mayor Bans Play Skit Ridiculing Mrs. F. D. R. L. B, Brauer, W. E. Cole, C. F. Dir-| 3} lam and C. H. Cloid and Miss Judith Rue. The Auxiliary will further note Armistice Day with a broadcast at 6 Pp m,, Wednesday. There will be an address by Harry W. Rosenthel, com- mander of the Legion post, and patriotic selections by Ralph Warren Soule, tenor. Leading American Legion Armis- tice Day activities in the state, Frank J. Webb, Grand Forks, department commander, will speak on the observ- ance program Wednesday at Hebron, while at Richardton, F. L. Reardon (Continued on Page Two) Inquest Into. Walsh Deaths Will Be Held Park River, N. D., Nov. 10—(7)}—An uest will be held at 1 p. m., Tues- by Dr. G. L. Countrymar Walsh county coroner, into an automobiie- train crash near here that resulted in the death of Torger Hagness, 60, of Fordville and the serious injury of Emil Carlson, 55, also Ford’ Carl- son, who suffered loss of his left liver his ultimatum to the man- , Parade to Start at 10:15 A. M., 178 Vessels Tied Up on Pacific Ports; Sailings in Two Liners Cancelled ACTION PROLONGS TIEUP Threat of Food Shortages in Alaska Increases Need for Immediate Truce (By the Associated Press) Eggs were hatching Tuesday aboard @ strikebound vessel in San Francisco Bay, Los Angeles authorities were puzzled over what to wo with a $10,- 000 cargo of bananas and nearly 2,000 passengers and crewmen of ma- rooned ships were helping eat up Hawaiian food stores—all results of a widespread maritime strike. An estimated 178 vessels were tied up in Pacific Coast ports, sailings of two big liners were cancelled at New York and Joseph Curran, chairman of the seamen’s defense committee there claimed 239 vessels were halt- ed with 17,500 men on strike. Peace negotiations at San Francis- co were hampered by the number of unions affected in the strike and by the complications of issues involved. Halt Peace Overtures Peace overtures seemed in abey- ance Tuesday until the question of eaikcboxng ships in Hawall is set- le In a mass meeting 1,000 maritime workers in Honolulu agreed early Tuesday to return seven strike-bound ships to the Pacific coast from Ha- wali if union longshoremen were used exclusively and if Hawatian water- front workers are included in future negotiations, Agents from the Matson line, which owns five of the ships, immediately teplied: “That ie outof the question. . “A majority of the dock workers here are not union men and ‘don't want to join. This is an attempt to force unionism down their throats.” _ Deadlock Delays Truce The deadlock threatened to in- definitely prolong the tieup, since the return of ships from Hewaii has been one of the key questions in re- suming negotiations here. Union action was taken after the Joint policy committee in San Fran- cisco, representing 37,000 strikers in seven unions, repeated cabled instruc- tions to return the ships. Assistant Secretary of Labor Ed- ward F, McGrady, advised of possible Unemployment Is Set at 9,000,000 Commerce Department Reports Number Steadily Decreas- ing Since January Washington, Nov.- 10.—()—Com- merce department experts reported Tuesday that unofficial checkups in- dicate there are now fewer than 9,000,- 000 unemployed. They said the number of those out of work has been falling off steadily this year and was “slightly less than 9,000,000 at the end of September.” This compared with their estimates of 11,000,000 for January and 9,550,-| 000 in August, The September figure is more than 6,000,000 below the estimate for March, 1933, when a high of 15,000,- 000 was reached, according to the commerce department experts’ esti- mates. The latest figures were considered highly important, coming as they do | Request Stores Be Closed Wednesday All stores and other business Places are requested to close Wed- nesday between 10 a. m., and 12:30 Pp. m., the time for the annual Ar- mistice Day parade and exercises. Request for the closing was made Tuesday by H. P, Goddard, secre- tary of the Association of Com- merce, who pointed out that this has been the annual custom in Bismarck, That its employes may enjoy at least a part of the holiday, The Tribune will issue only one edition, instead of the usual three, on Wed- nesday. It will go to press shortly after noon. at a time when the administration is engaged in an announced attempt to bring the budget closer to balance. Emphasizing that their periodic estimates are unofficial, the commerce department men disclosed they will seek an appropriation of $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 for a comprehensive census of the unemployed. The unofficial estimates, which were compiled largely for the depart- ment’s own information, indicated that a continued business upswing may bring total jobless to around 8,000,000 by the end of this year. About half of the total unemploy- ment, it was said, is in the manufac- teen construction and railroad in- NEW PAN-ANERICAN NEUTRALITY POLICY IS OBIBCT OF U.S, Secretary Hull Organizes Dele- gation Into Committees for Conferences 8. 8. American Legion, at Sea, Nov. 10.—(#)—Secretary of State Cordell Hull organized into committees Tues- day the United States delegation to the inter-American conference for the maintenance of peace. He said he would announce the as- signments at a meeting of the delega- FARMER CONFESSES SLAYING OF THREE CHILDREN IN IDAHO Shot Daughters, Son Because They Were ‘in Road’; Then Burned House American Falls, Idaho, Nov. 10.—(#) —The state speeded prosecution Tues- day of a father it claims confessed slaying and burning his three small children because they “seemed to be in the road. Prosecutor P. A. Anderson said he would seek early arraignment of Adolph Zetlitg on a first degree mur- Ger charge and intimated the 39-yei old southeastern Idaho farmer might plead guilty. “He has signed a confession that he killed his children and burned their bodies,” the attorney asserted. Zetlitz waited district court arraign- ment in a small jail cell, not far from the mortuary where lay the tiny char- red bodies of his children—Ruby, 5, Gertrude 4, and Don 2. Mrs. Zetlitz was ill in an American Falls hospital at the time fire razed the ranch home where her children died. Zetlitz, trailed through fresh snow, was arrested Monday at Rupert, 50 miles west of American Falls. He waived preliminary hearing. Sheriff L. E. Davis said Zetlitz spoke of his wife's illness and quoted him as saying: tion, the second of a projected series food shortages in Alaska and Hawail, said he hopes to bring employers and union leaders together for settlement Negotiations by tonight “at the lat- est.” Courts in Dispute Courts at Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Baltimore figured in the far- flung disputes. Judge Robert F. tanton in Baltimore issued an in- junction barring a seamen’s commit- of daily shipboard sessions. Convening the delegation for the first time Monday, Hull expounded the principal proposals to insure Pan- American neutrality as well as poli- cies of common economic benefit. Plan Neutrality Policy An American neutrality policy, re- inforced by the power of 21 western hemisphere republics, will be one pur- pose of the conference opening at tee from trying to induce marine workers to strike, United States Marshal Robert Clark announced at Los Angeles he will re- port to Federal District Judge Paul J. McCormick that execution of an order to unload bananas from the strike-bound liner California would invite violence, Federal District Judge George A. Welsh urged striking seamen Philadelphia “to keep cool” and prom. m full airing of all your bean M the result of an injunc- ion suit filed by five ship operators. At Ketchikan, Alaska, Ta- tioned eggs and vegetables from nearly exhausted supplies. AUTO-TRAIN CRASH TAKES 2ND VICTIM Fordville Man Succumbs to In- juries Received in Mishap; Inquest Held inj feres the loss of ee tae the ac- cident which Torger , also of Fordville, was Reeser tartanty N.D. Traffic Toll Toy 104 Buenos Aires Dec. 1. The proposed unified neutrality Policy is based on economic and fi- nancial embargo policies adopted by the United States in the Italo-Ethi- opian war and originated in the state department at Washington. It has been developed through ad- vance circulation among the 20 other American republics to be represented at the conference, each of which has contributed ideas toward making the accord an effective, agreement to pro- mote “good neighbor” spirit. Proposals Tentative United States officials have empha- sized the proposals are purely tenta- tive and are offered only as a basis for discussions in the Argentine cap- ital. Designed to smother any conflict in the Americas, the, proposed treaty would place an embargo on all muni-| progr; tions, loans or credits to any Amer- ican republic engaged in war with an- other American nation. Corresponding to existing United States policy, the pact would not ap- ply against an American nation at war with non-American nations. ‘Thus, it would leave the republics free to assist their neighbors to re- pulse a European or Asiatic enemy. Legion Commander nee|| in Goat Campaign SUB a as bade ale le Harry Rosenthal, commander of Lloyd Spetz Post No. 1, American Legion, and L. B. Brauer, post membership chairman, are out to get the goats of at least 130 war veterans between Tuesday morn- Ee i ; if 5 $ E 3 i pu SF i ! F § HE i i ps H ri ail it ig g flee! s gz i j BE 3 Fy a g #\the state office, “I was farming two farms and I couldn’t take care of the children. We couldn't get nobody. Pressure was ap- plied from all sides, one way and the other, and we had a few quarrels be- . |}tween each other and the children seemed to be in the road. “And last night (Sunday) I done the deed. I killed three babies and burned the house.” STATE DELEGATION TAKES ACTIVE PART Cart, Wiley, Hart! to Figure in Sessions of U. S. Railroad Commissioners Threé North Dakota members of the state board of railroad commis- sioners who are attending the national association of railroad and utilities commissioners convention at Atlantic City, N. J., which opened Tuesday, will take ‘an active part in the business ‘am. Commissioner Elmer Cart, member of one of the board that hears various interstate applications for motor car- riers, will represent this state in. the transportc/ion division regarding saf- ety regulations, insurance require- ments and functions of joint boards under the motor carrier act. James Wiley, chief engineer and Albert V. Hartl, chief accountant of are representing North Dakota in regulation of electric Defenders Hold Out at Madrid Benefits Under New AAA Pass $1,000,000 470,000,000 10 BE Nation Will Eulogize WITHSTAND BLASTS OF SHELLS, BOMBS IN FIERCE BATTLE Giant Planes Drop Bombs on City, Others Pepper De- fenders in Trenches OFFICIALS IN DESPAIR But Volunteers Continue Un- equal Warfare, Hold Strategic Positions Despite high-explosive artillery shells and repeated bombings, gov- ernment defenders still held Madrid Tuesday, Outside the city insurgent guns stood hub-to-hub pouring» rate of fire into the trenches of the defend- ers and the city proper. Overhead droned giant bombing Planes, escorted by small pursuit ships, to dump their cargoes into the battle-torn city. Dead lay in the streets and it was hours before ambulances got around to picking them up. But the workers who had volunteered to fight for the government still held their positions at the bridgeheads and eee keeping the Fascist attackers at y. The artillery pounded at the trench- es but the defenders streamed back Ra as soon as the cannonading stop- Hundreds Known Dead Hundreds were killed by which swooped low over the defenders ond riddled them with machine-gun ire. Government officials admittedly despaired of holding the city much longer but the fight still went on. An Associated Press correspondent, watching the battle from atop one of Madrid's highest buildings, said the Scene spread out like a giant stage. The government contended that a German pilot of a Junkers bombing Plane had landed near Madrid and. deserted to the government and that one bomber had been shot down. An insurgent drive at dawn ad- vanced to within 500 yards of the To- ledo bridge but the defenders drove them back. So far as.the A. P, ob- server could see, the defenders were holding their own. The backbone of the defense con- sisted of machine guns in concrete “pill boxes” but the insurgent field Pieces were picking these out and slowly blasting them to pleces. Insurgent Chief Confident At Seville, Gen. Gonzales Queipo de. Llano, one of the insurgent high com- mand, declared “the Fascist troops will enter Madrid when the command. 4s given.” “Our troops occupy the Manzanares bridges,” the officer asserted in a broadcast received in Paris, “The river front is ours. The resistance is inconsiderable—even less than antic- ipated.” The spearhead of the insurgent ad- vance pushed northeast along the Madrid-Toledo highway, through out- lying Carabanchel Bajo, and into the city Hmits territory around the To- ledo bridge. Clouds of bomb smoke “hung over the royal palace. Insurgent sent shells crashing into the city’s central district, driving terrified re- sidents to cover and disrupting busi- ness, The bombardment destroyed many light and telephone lines. In many sections the city was dark during the night. Aerial Attacks Ordered On the southeast, the Fascist high command ordered fresh aerial anc artillery bombardments to push their (Continued on Page Two) US. CROP PROSPECTS IMPROVE 2 PER CENT Crop Estimates for Corn, Pota- toes, Apples, Tobacco Slightly Higher We » Nov. 10.—(AP)—The agriculture department reported Tuesday that crop prospects for the country as a whole improved about two per cent during October. Crop estimates made public Tues- day were slightly higher than a » Sweet utilities, considering cooperation be- tween federal power commission and | sugar state commissions and fixing rates for electric service on cost basis. This division will also consider if changes | estima should be made in regional power dis-| ditions. A month ago, 1,500,362,000 tricts of the nation as tentatively pro-| bushels were indicated. Last year’s posed by the federal power commis- {crop was 2,201,629,000 bushels and the sion, Olson said. The convention which opened Tues- a morning will be in session until Mrs. Roosevelt Lauds — Community Interests