The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 26, 1937, Page 1

xk kk Ohio Pours Torrents Into M [BCISLATORS SEEK HIGHWAY AND HAL BUREAU ACCOUNTS|é House Passes Three Bills to En- courage Gas-Oil Industry Development NEW INFIRMARY APPROVED Full Accounting of Expenses of Welfare Board Is Made by Willson The ‘North Dakota legislature Tucs- day looked to the state highways and hail insurance departments for an ac- counting of expenditures: and activi- ies. At the same time the house had re- ceived a full accounting of relief showing administration costs totaled 13.93 per cent of the expenditure for state, district and county offices. On motion of Senator William Watt of Cass, the upper chamber requested the highway commissioner to submit @ list of employes and salaries with data on buildings constructed, rented or leased, and the cost during the past. two years. ‘The senate also approved # proposal by Senator Tom Whelan of Pembina, directing the attorney general to fur- nish a copy of a special audit and re- port of the hail department by James Shirek, state accountant. Pass Gas-Oil Bills ~ The house passed three bills “en- couraging” development of North Dakota gas and oil resources, per- ke & Death of Shapely- - Actress Is Probed | (ee A Ee Se: , Hollywood, Jan. 26.—()—The death of blue-eyed Marie Pre of the shapeliest order Monday for analysis after a surgeon teported indica- tions of acute al- coholism. She was found dead in her apartment Satur- Marie day a month after she had attempted @ comeback which won her praise. CITY BOARD GIVES . HIDE-FUR COMPANY LAW FIRST READING Liquor Law Amendment Giving City Magistrate New Pow- er Is Approved An ordinance, carrying out of the recommendations made by Dr. A. M. Fisher, city health officer, to regulate hide and fur company operations, was introduced and read for the first time by the board of city commissioners Monday night. Dr. H. T. Perry introduced the or- dinance which sets out practices to be followed in the skinning and prepar- ing of all furs and hides of wild or domestic animals in an effort to miti- gate unsanitary and unhealthful con- ditions within the city limits, An amendment to the city hard mitting their use’ in public school | a! buildings and allowing county com- missioners to lease tands and to credit | 6) adopted a bill appropriating $96,149 for maintenance and equipment for the new infirmary at San Haven Tu- berculosis sanatorium. Twichell termed it. “an extra bill for money not ap- proved by the budget board.” The legislature convened in joint session at 10 a. m., Tuesday, to hear Cal A. Ward of Lincoln, Neb., regional resettlement administration head, and U. 8. Assistant Attorney General Reetz of Washington, D. C., resettle- ment counsel, discuss relief problems. Whelan Gets Audit After requesting the special hail department audit, which covers @ two year period up to Dec. 31, 1935, a copy was furnished Senator Whelan by Attorney General P. O. Sathre. The eudit report was made public last spring, and includes charges of sev- eral illegal hail claim payments. Whelan did not reveal whether any further investigation of the insurance department is contemplated. In line with recommendations by Gov. William Langer in his inaugural address, W. J. Godwin of Morton, majority floor leader introduced ‘a measure to abolish the fire marshal’s office and turn the duties over to the state insurance commissioner. Godwin also was co-author with Reps. Calvin Schimke of Wells and Oscar Hagen, McKenzie, in a resolu- tion authorizing the state securities commission to investigate livestock credit: corporations. Argument developed in the house over the senate bill which would make it unlawful for the governor or other state officers to appoint a mem~- ber of the legislature to any civil of- fice, and for legislators to accept such an appointment. Kapaun Motion Prevails A motion to re-refer the proposal to the ways and means committee made by A. J. Kapaun of Cass, & Democrat, was successful by a 53 to 51 vote. Listing total expenditures of the welfare boards at $3,544,034 for 1936, E. A. Willson, executive director of public welfare board, said adminis- trative costs were 1.63 per cent for state office; 0.55 per cent for district Offices and 11.75 per cent for county offices. Introduced by Rep. H. R. Freitag of McLean, the relief resolution charged that administrative officers and “favored employees” of the board were reported to be “drawing exces- ‘Bive salaries and expenses and that the “cost of relief administration 1s| feported to be excessively high and out of relation to the work done.” “In order that there may be a com- plete understanding relative to the cost of relief and welfare administra- tion in this state, Willson declared. “g review of the duties and activities of state and county welfare boards thas been necessary.” 45 In State Office On Jan. 15, 1937, 69 persons were in the employ of the public welfare board of which nine were employed in FERA liquidation and pele from fed- ral funds; seven employed in child @elfare services division and paid from federal funds; eight employed in istrict offices, leaving a balance of 45 employed in the state office and paid ly from federal and partly state , Willson said. “|The list of welfare board salaries Presented the house showed only four employes were paid $200 a month or more. These were director Willson, @416 monthly; L. A, Baker, supervisor (Continued on Page Two) was granted to Arthur C. Kelly at 119 Third St., subject to certain con- ditions, and # liquor license was given to Edward G. Patterson for the Pat- terson hotel. Taxi drivers licenses were approved for Kermit. F. Glitschka, Ira W. Harroun, Michael Doorley, superintendent of the city waterworks, to install hydrants at the corners of Twelfth and Nineteenth Sts. on Main Ave. Bids for changing the it control system at the Bismarck mu- nicipal airport were opened and re- ferred to the Ritterbush Bros., archi- tects, for consideration. Bids sub- mitted included: Service Electric, $120; B. K. Skeels, $197, and Lyman W. Morley, $190. Accept Offer en Taxes N, I. Roop of the First National bank and E. B. Cox, chairman of the citizens’ tax committee, appeared be- fore the board asking for a com- promise on the taxes on the south 105 feet of lots 7 and 8, block 52, or- iginal plat. Roop offered $5,000 in payment of the delinquent taxes from. 1925 to 1935, inclusive, which totaled, with special~ assessments, $7,376.05. The board recommended acceptance to the county commissioners, pro- Wwided that the city board would not be forced to make any compromise in @ reduction of special assessments. An offer by W. A. Hughes to pay 50 pér cent of the unpaid taxes on lots 1 and 2, block 42, Northern Pa- cific second addition, for the taxes from 1982 to 1935, inclusive, was re- Jected because of legal difficulties. arerand December reports of milk and dairy inspector were re- ceived and ordered filed. Relief Client Admits Having Bank Account Fargo, N. D., Jan. 26—(®)—Admit- ting he obtained a Cass county re- Mef order when he had a large ac- ,count in @ Moorhead bank, Joseph | Malacek, Fargo, walwed examination’ in county court Monday and said he intended to plead guilty. He was; ' bound over to district court and com- ‘mitted to jail in default of $1,002 ! bond. ° Malacek was arrested Monday as the relief office continued to crack down on alleged relief “chiselers.” He 1s charged with obtaining money by | false pretenses in getting a relief order for $12.70. * Malacek had $884.45 in the bank, Pope Pius Refreshed As Pain Diminishes Vatican City, Jan. 26.—(#)—Pope Pius XI was to have entered an. apparently less painfu: cycle of his illness, refreshed by a night of reasonably good rest. Dur- ing the morning. his holiness received Cardinal Paceili, papal secretary ot state, Archbishop Uycic of Belgrade jand Bernardino Nogara, administra- tor of Vatican accounts. HUNSAKER RITES HELD Fargo, N. D., Jan, 26.—()—Funeral services for Dr. A. F. Hunsaker, North Dakota Agricultutal college profe:sor | | i burial in Riverside cemetery, Fargo.: x xk * MARCK TRIBUNE North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper BISMARCK, N. D., TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1937 kk *& xk * Memphis Taking Precautions FUNERAL SERVICES SET POR WASHBURN DROWNING VICTIM Adam Grosz, 50, Plunged Into Airhole While Watering “. $to’k Saturday ———— the | Woman Claimed That.Star Was: to which he was keeping ‘was found in seven feet of wa 20 feet from the hole where broken through. © The Washburn man escaped drown- ing several years ago when the truck he was driving dropped into an air- hole in the river. © Surviving are the wiiow, daughters, and three brothers. CONWAY ELECTED HEAD OF SHIPPERS; Possible Shortage in Freight Cars in Northwest Seen by Rahn four St. Paul, Jan. 26—(#)—C. H. Con- way, Jamestown, N. D., was elected general chairman of the Northwest Shippers Advisory board at its annual meeting here Tuesday. ‘The retiring chairman A. A. D. Rahn St. Paul, in a talk before the more than 200 railroad men and shippers representatives attending the meeting, forecast the possibility of a freight car shortage within the next few months if business continues to increase. He said that estimates for loadings ‘of all commodities except grain for the first quarter of this year are higher than for the corresponding period of 1986, The drouth was responsible for Other offivers named were P. c.] Sheunemann, Minnespolis, alternate general chairman; Martin F. Smith, Minneapolis, secretary; E. J: Fisher, ‘Minneapolis, assistant secretary; J. C. Connell; Minneapolis, J. A. Buchanan, Buchanan, N. D. was named vice-chairman for North Dakota; Elmer Sexauer, Brookings, ... for South Dakota; C. A. Rahn, lings, Mont., for Montana; and Stanley 'M. Low, 8t. Paul, for Minnesote. Emperor Attempting To Form New Cabinet Tokyo, Jan. 26.—(7)—Emperor Hir- ohito summoned former vice minister of war Lieut. Gen. Yoshikirt Umezu to an imperial conference Tuesday after army commanders blocked Gen. Ugaki’s efforts to form & new cabinet. Ugaki encountered strong opposition from army leaders, credited by the Japanese press with refusing to approve the nomination of an active officer to the war minis- ter's post. Executioner of Tsar _ Jailed as Trotskyist Moscow, Jan. 26.—(?)—M. Belobo- rodoff, president of the Ural Soviet re- public who was reputed to have ord- ered the execution of Tsar Nicholas who died Sunday at Roches‘er. were end’ his family in 1018, was arrested | cervices were pending for Mrs. Alex conducted Tuesday afternoon, with Tuerday at Rosic‘i-oa-the-Don -and| Cockburn, 86, who died from a hip) | tracture suffered held for trial as a "| “watch your U. 8. army engineers have warned thet a “super-flood” is converging upon cities in the lower Mississippi valley. Shown above is Memphis, Tenn., where the mighty “Father of Waters” already has surged 8 feet above flood stage and spread over 1,000,- 000 acres. ANADIANGHARGED WITH THREATENING) ACTOR CLARK GABLE «Father of Her Child 13 Years Ago Los Jan. 26.—(P)—Mrs. Violet Wells Norton, 47-year-old Ca- nadian, was under arrest here Tues- day, charged with attempting to ob- tain ‘money from Clark Gable, film actor, by claiming he is the father of her 13-year-old daughter. Federal officials said Mrs. Norton Geclared she engaged a man named Frank Billings as « tutor for her son in Long Shorewood, Billericky, Eng- land, in 1922, and that he became the Later, she asserted, Billings left for America. She married and moved to Winnipeg. She seid five years ago she saw Gable on the screen and rec- ognized him as Billings. Gable’s comment was: have never been in England and y not know the woman in question, have no knowledge whatever of circumstances involved. ‘I first learned of these claims al- most two years ago. At that time I not consider the matter worthy action. Now that the au- have, decided to prosecute, as @ citizen I can only offer by fullest co-operation.” | C-MEN ASK HELP IN HUNTING MURDERER FBI Without Clue to Identity of Man Who Kidnaped, Killed Mattson Boy department: of justice officer, work- . ing on the Charles Mattson kidnap- | slaying case, issued a plea Tuesday to ll Pacific Northwest residents to neighbor—he may be the kidnaper.”/ The agent said the federal bureau of investigation is without a clue as to the identity of the abductor and slayer. The appeal for widespread public cooperation in tracking down the man who stole the 10-year old Tacoma boy, then beat him to death without making « final contact with the father for the demanded $28,000 ransom, was made by the federal authority to newspapermen. “It is almost unbelievable,” he said, “put the FBI is faced with the task of hunting one of the world’s most brutal killers without a trace of his identity.” Dr. Walter Toepke Rapidly Recovering Dr. Walter Toepke, New Salem, who accidentally. shot ip the back was | Saturday by a companion while target | hooting, was reported to be rapidly re- jcovering The calibre Tuesday. small bullet, glancing from a rib, lodged in ‘Toepke's left elbow. $ HIP FRACTURE FATAL Fargo, N. D., Jan. 26.—(?)—Funeral | several days 9g0. uv Seattle, Jan. 26—7)—A federal) ©, RRA WILL CONTINUE AD INN.D, SOLONS TOLD BY OFFCALS Pattisan Politics Will Have No Part in Continuation, Ward Declares federal government has put £9300,/000,000 “ERLG" Worth Dakota assist in meeting relief needs in the: last five years, representatives of re- settlement administration told a joint session of the North Dakote legisla- ture Tuesday. C, E. Reetz, resettlement legal ad- visor, told legislators more than $308,- 000,000 was given in meeting relief needs, human and otherwise, and there is “‘no disposition to give up this effort to meet the crisis.” “I don’t want to paint a picture of pessimism,” declared Cal A. Ward, regional resettlement administrator, in reviewing the activities of the fed. eral government to meet problems of! the drouth area, Expects to Co-operate “Regardless of partisan _ politics,” Ward declared, “I expect to co-oper- ate with you and everyone to bring better conditions to the best class of our people—the farmers of this and Iam not speaking against other groups.” Ward expressed a hope that “we westerners are so determined that we never are going to quit until we have gained security and stability for the farmers and laboring people.” He reported that if the emergency: appropriation bill passes congress the government will be in a position to continue the program through June 30, and with sufficient additional appropriation will be able to go into the permanent phase of the re- settlement 5 Procedure Speeded Taking ice of the criticism leveled at resettlement for some late grant checks, he said 105,000 families had been shifted onto resettlement in this region simultaneously and the organization has now reached the stage where checks can be sent out four days after an application is re- ceived. The feed and seed situations also were dealt with by Ward who said plans are being made so either farm redtt administrations or resettle- ment will handle seed loans in time for spring planting. Representatives and senators ferred with resettlement officials lowing the joint session. Mrs. Fred Bollinger Of Linton Succumbs Mrs. Fred Bollinger, 38, of Linton died at 6:20 p. m. Monday in « local hospital where she-had been a patient since Dec. 14 of last year. She was con- fol- |born March 24, 1896, in Russia, The! body is at the Convert funeral par- lors awaiting completion of funeral arrangements when Mr. arrives here late Tuesday afternoon Pioneer Woman Is Taken to Hospital Mrs. Elizabeth Campagna, 85, one x kk OHIO CONTINUES ITS INGYORABLE RISE 0 ALL-TIME, RECORDS Water ‘Shortage’ Grows Hourly More Serious as Potable Supply Vanishes Cincinnati, Jan. 26.—()—Cincin- Natians trudged up and down the city’s seven hills Tuesday, carrying cans, jugs, bottles—anything in which @ little of the city’s vanishing supply of drinking water could be gotten to their homes. While the churning Ohio reached ‘and held to an apparent peak in its resistless charge down the valley, Dis- aster Dictator C. A. Dykstra reduced the water ration to one hour, and then, it was available only in the lower sections, MOTHER AND NEW BABE FREEZE TO DEATH Kennett, Mo., Jan. 26—(#)—Res. cuers working in flood-bound Dunklin county, reported Tuesday they found a woman and her new- born infant frozen to death on the roof of s water-surrounded farm- house. It appeared the baby was born during a sleet storm Friday night and that both mother and child had died of exposure. Half the city’s 65,000 homeless crowded with remarkable cheerful- ness into schools, churches and pub- Uc buildings, waiting for the muddy water to fall sufficiently to permit a return to the havoc of what was once their homes. Children Think Its Fun Children welcomed the novelty of the situation and ran gaily about the refugees. > Red Cross workers of that organi- sanitary authorities in the adminis- trations of serums to prevent typhoid, small pox and diphtheria. What little drinking water that re- mained was polluted, the health de- partment declared, advising that it be boiled. First the supply was reduced to four hours daily—then two. Tuesday, the ration was cut to but one hour. City Manager:C. A. Dykstra, before leaving city hall for his first sleep in 36 hours, said it might be neces- sary to reduce the supply to 15 min- utes @ day. Waters Edge Upward The yellow flood waters gorged to the unprecedented height of 80 feet at 1 8. m,, slowly rose three-hund- redths of @ foot in the last hour, and two hours later remained virtually stationary. This was 28 above flood stage and nearly 10 feet above the previous record. There had been no rainfall for over a day. Meteorologist W. C. Devereaux said when the yellow flood waters rose to the unprecedented height of 80 feet at 1 a. m. This was 28 feet above flood stage and nearly 10 feet above the previous record. ‘The river at 7 a. m. still stood at 80 feet after several dips to 79.7 feet. “The fall will be so slow, Devereaux said as he observed no rain in sight, “that we will need a magnifying glass to see it for'a day or 0.” Will Drop Slowly “It will take 12 days to get to 60 feet, 20 feet below the crest, and we | da: cannot expect resumption of anything like normal activity in Cincinnati un- ae rive’ reaches that point,” he Adding to curtailment of freedom in the flood-ruled city was an order Tuesday from Safety Director John J. Ames that all passenger vehicles except those on official relief business would be ruled off downtown streets effective Wednesday. At least eight were dead here. The Red Cross estimated that 103,000 Ohioans were homeless. Of the Greater Cincinnati's 750,000 inhab- itants, 60,000 were desolate. Ever-present was the fire hazard. The city received only one-seventh of its power needs, but hoped to ob- tain more from outside cities. Metepr- ologist W. C. Devereaux raised his damage estimate to between 10 and 15 million dollars here. Argue Martial-Law Amid this perilous situation, con- Gov. Martin L. Davey of Ohio, Gen. Ludwig 8. Connelly and city officials over whether martial law should be proclaimed. ; “Don't wait too long” before pro- The Weather Cloudy tonight, light snow Wednesday; lit- PRICE FIVE CENTS He change: Knee x * k xk & & ississippi Basin Panic, Pestilence, | Fire and Famines Menace 11 States Predict General Stages Along Mississippi Will Be 10 Feet Beyond Records Set When Disasters of ’13 and ’27 Hit Mass Exodus Under Way From Water-Ravaged Area Between Pittsburgh and Memphis; 550,000 Now Homeless (By the Associated Press) The yellow tide of the Ohio river swelled to record-breaking heights Tuesday on its turbulent rush to the Mississippi as the death toll rose hourly and a “super flood” was predicted. Hag- gard, fear-stricken refugees by the thousands fled from the devastated flood zone, embracing 11 midwest states from Pitts- burgh down the debris-littered river valley to Memphis, Tenn. Eddying in muddy, slow-rising torrents, the waters spread along an 1,800-mile front. The death list was unofficially placed at 132, with 550,000 driven from their homes and thousands of others marooned in precarious straits. Whole towns and villages showed only roof-tops, property damage was estimated at more than $300,000,000. At Cairo, IIL, the “key” point in the great onsweep of death and destruction, an army of volunteers toiled feverishly to com- bat the approaching crest of the Ohio’s tidal deluge. Farther north, at Louisville, the flood stage—normally at 28 feet—reached 56.9 feet with a crest of 57.5 expected by Tuesday night or early Wednesday. The previous all-time high was 46.7 in 1884, At Paducah, Ky., gasoline-filmed waters added: a new threat of fire to the fury of the flood. A 20,000-gallon tank of gasoline, undermined by the swift current, toppled from its moorings and spread a coating of the inflammable fluid over tne it vanavill vansville, Ind., the water pumping station went out at noon, threateni ‘shortage of dunking ater 6 Throughout Virginia, “shoreline” communities sent entcalle for help. Forty thousand were homeless in that state’ e. : The warning that a “super flood is on its way” came from Lieut. Col. Eugene Reybold, district chief of U. 8. army engi- avy at mcrae ate ue predicted general stages e Mississippi some ee! ond records isastrous 1913 ae 1927 floods. “i eebeeea. e companions of disaster—panic, famine, pestilen: fire—constantly menaced cities and towns in tie nee flood area which holds more than a third of the nation’s popu- lation. Added to these were the threat of water and power shortages. * * * FLOOD-DEVASTATED LOUISVILLE PLACED UNDER MARTIAL LAW Army Builds Pontoon Bridges to Evacuate More Than 330,000 Refugees “The -worst is yet to come.” Wholesale evacuations of flood- sieged towns in Tennessee, Western Kentucky, Southeastern Missouri, Ar= kansas and pl signaled the Greatest mass flood exodus in his River Highest at Aurora Aurora, Ind. however, “boasted” the highest water mark slong the Ohio river. The gauge read 80.7 feet. ‘The town showed only rooftops. Silent and lifeless beneath the muddy, gurgling flood waters, scores of villages and farms hid tragedies which may not be known for weeks. iouees eta soe down the stream, cri pping and gyrating Louisville, Ky., Jan. 26—(?)—The Deo jolene i) like derelict houseboats. pestilence and shortage of water to plague flood-stricken Louisville Tues- ported, - les A. Wilson, assistant Indiana WPA administrator, after a plane inspec- tion of the Hoosier flood scene. “It appeared doubtful if these . While the city waited for United States regulars to arrive and assume the task of bringing order out of dis- aster chaos, a blaze Tuesday morn- ing burned the big plant of the Louis- ville Varnish company. Boatmen reported two Negroes had drowned in trying to escape the fire that followed a dozen explosions. The damage was estimated by city authorities at several hundred thou- sand dollars. ‘There already were scattered cases of typhoid, scarlet fever and measles. Relief agencies said the number of sick was undoubtedly much greater than officially reported. Report Homes Looted All during the night there were frantic reports to police stations of looting in flooded residential sections. The first task confronting regular larmy engineers upon their arrival from Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind. was construction of pontoon bridges on flooded thoroughfares to complete the evacuation of more than two thirds of this city’s 330,000 citizens. Nearly 20,000 refugees from the low lying western and central residential districts remained to be moved to the highlands and suburbs to the east, where citizens threw open their homes and established relief centers in pub- Me buildings. A battalion of 850 men was ordered here from Fort Benjamin Harrison and 250 mien from Fort Thomas, Ky., after Governor Chandler informed the federal government state and local could be aided except by dropping food, medicine and other supplies from. airplanes, Relief trains ventured cautiously over flood-endangered roadbeds to countless points in the vast flood area, (Continued on Page Two) needs a every day in the year. It is a matter of regret that millions of shoddy and unreliable almanacs are given away as advertisements every year. Many others of a claptrap na- ture are sold at a cheap price, Uncle Sam’s Almanac, compiled by Frederic J. Haskin, is a private pub- lication assembled from gove ernmental sources. It is conceded to be the best publication of its kind, for s dime, ever issued in this coun- Every family in the United States authorities could not combat pes-° tilence, panic and hunger in the wake of Louisville's most disastrous flood. 2,000 Guardsmen Called Martial law applied only to Louis- Ville. Two thousand Kentucky na- tional en, however, were on flood duty in the state. The mighty Ohio river widened ominously early Tuesday over Louis- ville and its Indiana suburbs, Jeffer- sonville and New Albany. The weather bureau recorded a stage of 56.8 feet early Tuesday, with a crest of 58 feet (Continued on Page Two) (carefully copy of UNCLE SAM'S ALMANAC. 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