The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 13, 1936, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1878 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1936 The Weather Mostly cloudy it; Saturday eoerally fair tad colder : PRICE FIVE CENTS Red, Fascist Planes Clash Over Madrid Brig. Gen. Denhardt Accus {4 ROAD, IRRIGATION Labor Gains Farm S CHARGE CLIMAXES STORMY POLITICAL, MILITARY CAREER Former Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky Is Set Free on $25,000 Bond REMA IN S IN SECLUSION Arrest Ends Dramatically In- quest Into Fatal Shooting of Fiancee, 40 New Castle, Ky., Nov. 13.—()—Brig. Gen. Henry H. Denhardt, faced Fri- day the greatest fight in his turbulent political and military career, which in- cludes service in three wars—a fight w free himself from a charge of slaying his comely 40-year-old fiancee, Mrs. Verna Garr Taylor, La Grange, Ky., widow. The former officer, bald, portly and sixty, remained in seclusion at his 80- acre farm near La Grange, about 20 miles northeast of Louisville, at liber- ty on $25,000 bond for his appearance at an examining trial here Nov. 20. His arrest Thursday came unexpect- edly and ended dramatically, before it hardly had gotten underway, an in- quest into the fatal shooting of dark- eyed Mrs. Taylor a week ago tonight Her crumpled form, a bullet wouna through the heart, was found in @ roadside ditch. Denhardt's .45 calibre revolver lay nearby. Denhardt, the first witness called by Coroner D. L, Ricketts, declined on “advice from my counsel” to testify. Wanted to Testify “I would Hke to testify very much,” he said nervously, “but my counsel in- sists that I should not. I have argued with them for hours about it.” The body of Mrs. Taylor was found by four men, including Denhardt, who began ser "ching for her «fter two shots were heard. er Saas Detiharat’ tola the coroner, Re and Mrs. Taylor were motoring in the country, attempting to relieve ter headache. The car stalled and while they waited for help Mrs. Taylor left him to seek a “lost glove.” The coroner quoted the general as saying he believed Mrs. ‘Taylor took the gun from his car and killed herselt because her two ‘teen age daughters opposed her marriage to him. Denhardt served as lieutenant gor- ernor of Kentucky from 1923 to 1927 In 1931 he was seriously wounded by ‘@ pistol shot as @ result of a political controversy. LIQUOR SELLERS 10 MEET IN BISMARCK Will Assemble Here Sunday to . Consider Rules for Newly - Legalized Trade | Call for a meeting of all persons who intend to enter the liquor busi- ness in North Dakota, to be held here next Sunday, was sent out Friday by Scott Cameron, legal counsel, and Einar Berge, secretary, of the Retail and Wholesale Beverage association of North Dakota. Purpose of the gathering ts to con- sider what, in the opinion of those who intend to enter the business, w! constitute “legal and proper restric- tion” of liquor sales under the terms of the law approved at the recent election. Upon decisions reached at the con- ference will be based recommenda- tions which will be made to the rep- resehtatives of city and county g ernments who will meet here Nov. 19 to consider standard ordinances for cities and counties applicable to the Uquor business. ‘The view of the association's lead- ers is that “we should, in order to pro- tect the progress we have made, safe- guard the law against hostile attacks That should be done by recommend- ing ourselves the class of restrictions and regulations that will satisty, 1f not! 1871, he was a graduate of the Cur:-| , disarm, the militant opponents. .. We can do much for ourselves. for the law and for the state by getting to- gether at this time and sponsoring intelligent, conservative rules.” ‘The session, to be held in the World War Memorial building, will begin at imadge Gets i untess every country ——— | ACCUSED ae ee l Brig. Gen. Henry H. Denhardt, former lieutenant governor of Kentucky, is under arrest, charged with the slaying of Mrs. Verna Garr Taylor, LaGrange, Ky., widow and fiancee of the colorful politician. BALDWIN, CHURCHILL (CLASH ON BRITAIN'S REARMAMENT POLICY Expected to Speed Up Program in,Order to Match Strides With Europe 6 '.13,—()—Out of a bit- Nov. Ney Baldwin and Winston Churchill,’ assurance a] Friday that Great Britain would speed up its rearma- ment in order to match strides with rapidly rearming Europe. Baldwin and Churchill, wartime minister of munitions and first lord of the admiralty, crossed oratorica) swords in the house of commons ‘Thursday night, Churchill deriding and Baldwin defending the govern- ment’s policy. Observers, however, noted their ac- cord on the urgency of British re- armament and believed the duel had cleared the air of bitter inter-party strife. Churchill charged Britain never had ‘been more imperiled “since the U-boat campaign was crushed.” He told the house of commons it showld demand a parliamentary inguity into what he described as neglect of ithe national defense. Baldwin retorted in a sensational speech in which he told the house he. nad withheld advocacy of rearming because rampant pacifism would have defeated such a policy in the national government general elections last year. Prefacing his speech with the warn- ing he would talk with “appalling frankness,” Baldwin rebuked the com- mons and the nation for opposition which, he sald, prevented Britain from getting an early start in the Buropean Tearmament race. But now, he declared, though democ- racies are two years behind dictator- ships, they have a unity of purpose nothing can break. “There can be no peace in Europe knows we are prepared for war,” the prime minister contended. Dean Weeks of NDAC Is Dead of Pneumonia Fargo, N. D,; Nov. 13.—(®)—One of North Dakota's foremost educators, Dean Arland D. Weeks of the school of education at the North Dakota Ag- ricultural college, passed away at 2:27 p. m. Friday in a Fargo Born at McLean, N. ¥., Dec, 13, land (N.Y. state normal school 1896. He received his . nell in 1901 and his University of Wisconsin. Rhame Man, Believed Bowman, N. D., Nov. 13.—()—Frank Dekleinhans, 65, well-to-do Rhame sheepman, missing since he left nis n, 8. D., hotel nearly three weeks ago, turned up Friday at Clear Lake, 8. Bowman county author- toad | ities learned. The aged rancher is traveling in South Dakota attempting to lease out about 3,000 empress which face Mont., fell from a automobile jand was killed on the Missoula-Spu- |eane highway, near here. : FOUNDER OF LIONS APPRAISES SERVICE CLUB ACHIEVEMENT 250 Organization Members, Wives and Guests Hear Melvin Jones’ Address ENDORSE W. MURRAY ALLAN Grand Forks’ Pastor to Be Boosted for Vice President of International Belief that America’s service clubs have done much to build their com- munities and can do still more was expressed Thursday night by Melvin Jones, secretary general and founder of Lions International, in an address to 250 Lions club members, their wives and friends attending the an- nual sub-district meeting of the or- ganization here Thursday night. Large delegations from cities and towns in all parts of the state attend- ed the dinner meeting, enjoyed the entertainment which accompanied it and the dance which followed. Pointing out that the Lions Inter- national now is the largest service or- ganization in the world with 2,737 clubs and 87,000 members, Jones re- counted the struggles which attended its formation and asserted that its growth is due to the principles, ethics and good-fellowship which it sponsors and to the principle of service to the community. Lauds Unselfish Service Asserting that life vanishes when activity ceases, he urged his hearers to rededicate themselves to unselfish service in the realization that this is the surest road to succeess and hap- Lionism, he asserted, makes better members for the church, better busi- nessmen for the aire commerce and better eltizens for the community abd nation “wy espousing. the highest Adeals in the community. Recounting the services of Lions clubs to their communities, he said they are as varied as the needs uf America’s towns and cities. Among it achievements he listed 2,834 civic improvements, such as aviation fields, parks, better police and fire protection, recreation centers, swimming pools, tourists camps and similar enterprises, Activities Recvunted Lions clubs also have participated in more than 1786 safety movements, 4,355 health and welfare activities; 1,090 educational enterprises; have ‘aided 53,000 blind children through 1,680 clubs and have helped bling adults in numerous ways and have en- gaged in 4,045 enterprises involving boys and girls, such as the formation of scout troops, support of 4-H club work, sponsorship of camps, aid to crippled children, providing milk and hot lunches and a host of other activ- itles which, taken together, spell un- selfish citizenship. Through such work, he said, men and women are led into the churches (Continued c- Page Two) Good Diction Medal Is Won by Ina Claire Chicago, Nov. 13.—(?)—Ina Claire's short upper lip curled into a smile at its own expense Friday. That was because the blonde actreas, after 24 years in the theatre, possessed the annual gold medal for good dic- tion on the stage, awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Let- ters Thursday. And to win it, Miss Claire averred. she'd. had to overcome the un-ora- torical conformation of that upper lip which, she said, once “tripped over four-syllable words in theatre guild comedies.” Action of the academy's committee PROVECTS APPROVED BY PLANNING BOARD Commissioners, State Approval Necessary Before Plans Take Effect HIGHWAY WORK MAPPED Burleigh County Program for Winter Months Outlined at Meeting Here Fourteen projects, seven of them concerning the building of dams and irrigation setups and seven of them relating to the building or improve- ment of roads, were approved by the Burleigh county planning board at its meeting in the courthouse here Thursday. Projects approved by the county planning board must receive the proval of the board of county com- missioners and of the state planning board before being put into opera- tion, George 8. Register, secretary of the board, sald Friday. Suggestions acted upon were received from throughout the county. Okay Completion of River Road Road projects approved by the board included the completion of the river road from the present north end of the grade to the northern border of Buleigh county, and the comple- tion of the oiling of highway No. 83 from its present end to the north line of the county. Other road projects approved were: The rebuilding and graveling of three Baldwin; the building of two and one half miles of highway in the south: ern part of Lincoln township; the re- pairing of six miles of mail route road in Grass Lake township; the improver. ment of six miles of road running di- ed of Slaying Comely Widow upport; | Seek Hiring, Strike Solution Cooperation of Million Farmers to Buy Only Union-Made Goods Reported Tampa, Fis., Nov. 13.—(#)—The American Federation of Labor's metal trades department instruct~ ed its president, John P. Frey, Friday #6 introduce a resolution in the federation’s convention next week calling for expulsion of John L. Lewis’ 10 rebel unions. I. M. Ornburn, secretary of the American Federation of Labor union label department, reported Friday the cooperation of one million farmers ina movement to buy only union-made goods. While informal discussion of & Farmer-Labor party in 1940 was cur- rent among delegates, Ornburn his department's annual meeting “we now estimate over @ million farmers have become labor conscious and buy only goods upon which the union la- bel is displayed.” Meantime, interest among the del- egates assembling for the federation’s general convention centered upon the scrap between John L, Lewis, presl- dent of the United Mine Workers and leader of the unions favoring organis- ation of all the workers in each big industry into one big union, and unions favoring organization by craft, Raps Lewis Stand Reporting to the building trades department convention Thursday, the department’s executive council urged! 8 “concerted” drive by all craft unions to combat the Lewis movement, Lewis and his ten rebel unions were suspended from the federation Sept. 5, after they had been found guilty of ‘insurrection,” J. W. Williams, building trades de- partment president, in his report pre- dicted such a revival in buildng dur- rectly across Ghylin township; -the| job. repair and improvement of six miles of road running east and west on the township line between Canfield and Rockhill townships. Okay Apple Creek Dam Dam building projects approved by the board included the building of an earth dam 100 feet long across Apple creek to serve as an irrigation reser- voir and to hold back the backwaters of the Missouri river. The dam will also serve as a roadway across the creek, George Will, president of the county planning board, pointed out, and thus would cut about four miles from the present driving distance from the transient camp and the southeast part of the county to the Sibley Island park. It is located about one-half mile south of the line be- tween Lincoln and Fort Rice town- ships. Dam projects were also approved in Thelma township, south of Driscoll; in Clear Lake township, uorth of Driscoll; Harriet township in Glenview township, west nd in Ghylin township, south of Regan. All dam projects combine water conservation, irriga- tion and recreation as their pur- Pick Most Desirable The main purpose of the county planning board, Register said, is to arrange for the most desirable and worthwhile projects and through them provide work that can be car- ried out during the winter months. Members of the planning board, in addition to Will and Register, are: Lester Larson, Willis Gill, George An- derson, Jason Hoover and I. R. At- kinson. County commissioners also! attended the meeting. H 1 KILLED, 22 INJURED Providence, R. I., Nov. 18.—)—One person was killed and 22 were in- jured when a gasoline train of the Warren-Bristol branch of the New George | Haven railroad crashed into a truck- | New England, N. D., Nov. 13—Evart a Smith-Hughes instructor in agriculture and athletic coach at the local high Lost, Located in S, D. |x Hurt in Taxi Mishap Fargo, N. D., Nov. 13.—(P)—H. D. load of brick at Berrington Friday morning. miles of road leading north out Green Forecas Willlam Green, president, forecast complete failure of John L. Lewis’ Grive to bring all the workers in each big industry into one big union. Addressing the federation’s building aces department convention, Green sald: “We're going to organize the unor- ganized of America and we're going to organize them into the American Federation of Labor. “When experiments motivated by vaporous idealism are completed by some who have invaded the field in- dependently—when they admit they're through—the A. F. of L. will step in and do the job.” One New Official Elected in Grant Carson, N. D., Nov. 13.—The face of A. J. Huber, Carson elevator man, will be the only new one in Grant county offices as a result of the re- cent election. He was elected aud- itor in a contest with Paul M. Bell of Elgin. All other county officials were re-elected. The new list follows: Senator, Wil- liam Kamrath; representatives, James Caddell and Fred Sell uperintend- ent of schools, Edna Kono; sheriff. Sam Nagel; treasurer, J. B. Loeffler; register of deeds, E. G. Laub; state's attorney, Emil A, Giese; county judge, M. F. ; commissioner, third district, Fred Kurle; official newspa- per, The Carson Press. Mercer Amateurs to Make Test Broadcast Zap, N. D., Nov, 13—Members of the ‘Mercer county amateur group have been invited to make a test at Saturday, Bismarck time. The group soe Sere Woman Claims Baby ‘Moses’ As Her Own see Rriver, Le., Nov. 13.—(?)— Crawford, backwoods WPA » stood by his wife Priday in of her acknowledgment of The baby—Mrs. Crawford had said she wanted to adopt it and = i i E88? 2 rE of fe sebee N. D. First Polar | Expedition Ended | Grand Forks, Nov. 13.—(?)— ‘What was perhaps this state's first “expedition to the north pole” had ended Friday. The principals of the trip were the five year old twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Daws, Roy and Russell, and Donnie Knutson, 4, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Knutson. Leaving home at 10 a. m., they had walked several miles before they were picked up northwest of here by a farm resident who noti- * fied police. FIGHTING BREAKS UP RIOTOUS DEPUTIES’ SESSION IN FRANCE Mad Melee Results When Blum Mounts Tribune, Invec- tives Screamed Paris, Nov. 13.—(7)—Swinging fists of Leftist and Rightist deputies stopped a stormy session of the chamber of deputies Friday. The trouble began during a debste over the World war record of Minis- ter of the Interior Roger Salengro. Opposing deputies screamed invec- tives at each other and when Premier Leon Blum mounted the tribune, the Leftists rushed from their benches and swarmed over the Rightists in a mad melee. ‘The chamber sessions were tem- porarily suspended. Books sailed through the alr. as the deputies slugged one another. Foes Blows One Leftist, dashing across the Toom in front of the government. benches, struck the Rightist Jean Louis Tixier-Vignancour with a right to the chin. Tixier -Vignancour had shouted, when the premier rose to speak: “Blum means war.” Edouard Herriot, president of the chamber, called a halt to the sitting and ordered ushers to clear out the spectators. popular front government warned Friday they would bolt if Socialist Premier Leon Blum yields to a Com- munist demand for last-minute in- tervention in Spain to save Madrid. Threatens Resignation The it encountered an- other tempest in the threatened resig- nation of Defense Minister Edouard Daladier in protest against withheld approval of his rearmament program. The Communist drive to bolster the Madrid defenses was opened by Jacques Duclos, secretary of the party in France, at a meeting of popular front deputies. Duclos reminded the legislators of Bjum’s assertion last Monday that his government would scrap the international non-interven- tion agreement ff Great Britain would do ikewise. * most moderate : ular front, speed- fly answered they would with- draw if the. ‘premier abandoned France's neutrality either independ- ently or by agreement with London. Militant Minority Is Advocated by Landon Topeka, Kas. Nov. 13.—(?)—Gov. Alf M. Landon contended Friday “the | 500 Men Expected to Walkout on Shipbuilding Plants on Coast Saturday (By the Associated Press) New strike threats were heard on both sides of the continent Friday while federal officials worked at the task of settling ‘the issues of a mari- time tleup that has closed ports to shipping on the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf Coasts. Five hundred men, their ultimatum for higher wages and union recogni- tion rejected, expected to walk out of two shipbuilding plants an San Pedro, Calif., at noon Saturday. At Phili delphia, longshoremen called a mee! ing Friday to vote on ending a week- old truce and joining striking water- front workers there, In addition to threatened strikes in the maritime industries, there were ten other walkouts in progress along the Pacific coast. These were in in- dustries few of which had any rela- tion to the widespread shipping tieup. Seeks New Parley At San Francisco an attack on the key hiring hall issue was planned Fri- day by Edward F. McGrady, assistant secretary of labor. McGrady sought @ new conference between employers and maritime workers who walked out 15 days ago. As the ssistant labor secretary sought to bring these factions to- gether, the maritime workers, on an- other front, declared the employers used labor spies and “agents provoca- teur” and tapped telephone lines in efforts to discredit unions. Negotiations at New York for set- tlement of a sympathy strike there were at @ standstill while newly ar- rived vessels added more strikers to the number already ashore. The scheduled departure of the liner, Pennsylvania, was cancelled by the Panama Pacific line. « Lamber Drops Seattle lumbermen égaid lumber pro- duction in that area. dropped 42.1 per cent as a result of the strike. The Houston, Tex., ship channel, where a strike has been in progress two weeks, was tense Friday after two seamen reported they were beaten when they attempted to cross picket lines and @ woman said she had been kidnaped and threatened. She had been hauling pickets to and from their posts in her automobile VERENDRYE COUPLE KILLED IN’ MISHAP Mr. and Mrs. Albert O. Peterson Die When Auto, Train — Crash at Crossing Sawyer, N. D., Nov. 13.—(7)—Mr. and Mrs, Albert O. Peterson of Veren- drye were killed shortly before noon Friday when their automobile was struck at the Main street crossing in Sawyer by a Soo Line passenger train. Both died instantly. Peterson's body was found on the east side of the track near the crossing, and that of his wife lay on the pilot of the engine when the train came to a stop. Their automobile was demolished. N.D. Traffic Toll nav 08 ‘= 984 e Mr. and Mrs. Peterson were believed to be on their way to the home of one of their two daughters living north of Sawyer when the tragedy occurred. Their kin identified the bodies, Dr. E. C. Stone, Ward county cor- oner, was called to the scene from ‘the | Minot. It was indicated here an in- quest might be held at 5 p.m. Friday. The bodies were still at Sawyer at 2 p. m., Friday afternoon, but they were to be taken to a mortuary at Granville. The engineer on the train was Mort Roberts, and the conductor Was #. A. Smith, both of Enderlin. They re- ported the accident to Soo Line offic- jals when the train arrived in Minot. of Victim Still Critical |f,. H.C. Martin, 58,-of Center, early Thursday in ‘an automobile ac: cident there, remained in critical con- dition in a Mandan hospital Friday. A companion, J. Cullen, 60, Hensler, hurt at game time, re- covered rapidly MONTANA BARRACKS BOMBED IN AIR RAID, 6 SHIPS SHOT DOWN 14 Huge Projectiles Spilled on Fortifications in Insuv- gent Attack ONE SHIP CRASHES IN CITY Battle Started When Squadron Began Dropping Leaflets Urging Surrender Madrid, Nov! 13,—()—Madrid’s Montana barracks and the whole line of fortifications in the vicinity of Se- govia bridge were bombed in a dar: ing Insurgent air raid late Friday— several hours after Government planes had won a spectacular victory in a battle over the capital. Three Fascist tri-motors, guarded by six pursuit planes, roared out of a dense cloudbank in the western sky. at 3:20 p. m., and spilled 14 huge bombs. Five of the projectiles hit Montans barracks, where several thousand Government troops are quartered. Houses Wrecked Other screaming missiles, dumped, by the air raiders, fell on the line of fortifications. Two of them exploded in a built-up sector, wrecking three 2- story houses. Black billowing columns of debris and smoke shot into the air as tha raiders, having completed their mis- sion of death and destruction, fled to the west. Ten Socialist pursuit planes immes diately roared into the skies and en- gaged the six Fascist fighting escort planes in a spectacular aerial battle— the second dog fight over Madrid of the day. The enemy planes, however, taking advantage of the dense clouds which shielded their approach, made their escape. Attacks Follow Closely The raid came on the heels of ans other mass aerial ‘battle in which the government announced it had downed. six. planes. y Ys Two of the planes fell within sight of thousands of Madrilenos in the streets of the capital. Four others crashed behind the Ine surgent lines at the edge of the city, It was the second aerial battle die tectly over the capital in a fort= night. Twenty-one planes, 12 of them raid= ers from the Fascist lines, partici<- pated. One of the victims, an Insurgent. two-seater, crashed in flames in the courtyard of the government bar- tacks in Rosales street. Pilots Use Parachutes Three parachutes were seen billow- ing in the sky as the planes fell, but the wind carried them into the wooded Casa Del Campo section west of the city. The battle began when three In- surgent trimotors, escorted by nine pursuit planes, appeared over the city and began dropping leaflets urging surrender. Nine Government fighters dropped suddenly down from the clouds and opened an attack. The tri-motors sped westward while their escorts doubled back on the at- tackers, Maneuvering for position, the Planes exhausted virtually every move of aerial strategy. Plunge Down in Flames Suddenly one plane shot toward the earth in flames, Another went into a spin and crashed west of the city, A third wobbled, dipped and limped away to the east, and the whole bat- tle shifted away from the city’s roof= tops. Later a government communique said: “Six planes, all belonging to the enemy, were brought down in the morning fight, two within'sight; four behind their own lines.” General dose Miaja, chief of tha defense council, jubilantly hailed “an- other demonstration of our victory in the air” and said Madrid was pre- pared to withstand fears of siege. The victory came a few hours after 15 government fighting planes, man- ning 60 machine guns, had scattered (Continued on Page Two) Railroad Switchman - Critically Injured Grand Forks, N. D., Nov. 13.—(>}— Robert Merrill, Grand Forks, switchman for the Great Northern