The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 29, 1937, Page 1

t- | Teeptone | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [mv | i 22 O O North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper Se ae : | / ESTABLISHED 1878 BISMARCK, N. D., FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1937 PRICE FIVE CENTS . Ohio’s Flood Fury Lessening i, Erickson Defies Senate to Obtain Hopton’s Pamphlet\100,000 Working J + ‘TVSRIMNATIN' IN || *sRGies.g.y|] CARO FIGHTS FRANTICALLY TO STAVE OFF FLOOD WATERS | On Levees Along day generally fair and somewhat colder. me Fae ieee RAPPED AT HEARING Question of Raising Salaries at University Causes House Dissension LANGER FACTION SPLITS UP Accounting of Refunded AAA Taxes at State Mill Is Requested car E. Erickson defied the senate Fri- day to obtain copies of pamphlets is- sued by former Commissioner Harold Hopton unless it furnished a receipt showing the printer has been paid for publishing the booklet dealing with alleged irregularities in the hail in- surance division. Commissioner Erickson also re- vealed that he and C. J. Myers of ical “steel detectors” in prisons after a test in which a guard pre- tended he was trying to smuggle @ gun past the device. A bell rang and a light flashed. Attendants “frisked” him and found the gun—but the bell kept on ringing. That puzzled everybody—until they found the “suspect” was wearing steel arch-supports in his shoes. CIVIL SERVICE BILL POR POSTMASTERS PASSED BY HOUSE Republicans Soundly Trounced in Effort to Forestall Measure Washington, Jan. 29.—(7)—A deci- Menaced Valley 330 Known Dead and 1,035,000 Homeless With Loss at $400,000,000; Rehabilitation Labors Begin as Water Recedes (By the Associated Press) The Ohio river valley, assured that the worst is past, began reclaiming its flood-swept cities and towns Friday while the south found cheer in predictions it would be saved from the full fury of the Mississippi. Stricken communities in middlewestern states pushed plans for rehabilitation, aided by state and federal governments, and the care of the homeless. These victims of the disaster numbered 1,035,000, latest estimates said, with 380 dead. Prop- erty loss estimates were $400,000,000. As the crest of the nation’s most devastating flood passed slowly down the Ohio, a pick and shovel army of 100,000 men fortified a fertile, cotton-growing valley in the south against the impact of flood waters which will pour down the Mississippi next week. Danger points along the 1,000-mile front between Cairo, Ill., where the Ohio spills into the Mississippi, and the Gulf of Mexico were at New Madrid, Mo., Paducah, Ky., and Mellwood, Ark., 38 miles below Helena. Like a fort in military siege, 4,000 men battled behind a 60-foot seawall to save Cairo, southern Illinois shipping center, from the oncoming flood crest. Most of the city’s 15,000 popue lation had fled to safety. Bismarck, who was returned as man- sion on placing all postmasters under cs Se EnE bane nur me civil service rested Friday with the mal ousted by Hop- = ton, would request the senate to make |*enste after the house ins Logie’ aa & complete investigation of the de-|0US overtime session approve partment under Hopton’s sdministra- |®4ministration proposal. tion. master general to ffll the positions oat Pee te. ot ae ay |permanently, without senate ratifica- . the ‘senate instructed its secretary, |tion, elther by reappointing incums Thomes McDonald, to demand from ben's who passed non-competitive ex- Erickson a sufficient number of copies |#™inations or by promoting, postal % employes, of Hopton’s report to the legislatures” About 14.000 first, second and third Several days ago engineers “pulled the stopper” in the great 131,000-acre == WATERS SLAGKEN |Sestivceweenene GTRANGLEHOLD ON {=== = Thousands of refugees who lived in DIXIE METROPOLIS sS=see-"earnsasis and Southeast On the left is the Missle. The river [Censorship Clamped Down 0M /i10 tevee near Mellwood, Ark, evactise . « | tion of 100,000 threatened acres of Reports of Number of Fatal. taultian war een Replies es In answer to this letter was a nota- tion in handwriting by Erickson re-|2%000 fourth class postmasters in Some Favor ‘Spoils’ iThe precarious location, during high water, of Cairo, III. a elty of 18,000 at the confluence of the Ohi In this aerial photograph. On the right Is the Ohio, now nearly to the top of a 60-foot seawall which protects bippl. ith women and children evacuated, the men of the city worked frantically to build up all with Uropped slightly at Cairo after Jevees were purposely dynamited below the ty, peresins flood waters to en at ocratic postmasters in office for life. ited Prese In his us letter to the senate, Some Democrats called for return : — ities in Louisville crew was at work repairing the leves et tee ents eae oe Fund for Flood BUZZARD: |} Bucket of Pemies | |f; Toute, yy Jan, 28—ce—|,, the elt of the goverment nis statement ras mane on Relief Stolen | Is Given Red Cross Wreckage and germ-laden flood wat-| sing the Mlssissippl will not come ers slackened their stranglehold Fri-| until next week. While the engineers day on this “gateway to the south,”|were prepared for any eventuality, where the Ohio river’s greatest over-/ Maj. Gen, Malin Craig, U, 8. army, chief PARALYZES FRANCE, taken an undetermined number of lives in the past week, tion the levees will hold at Cairo and piper on ae Evange of flow in white man’s memory has de- f of thority to have such a report printed ‘ of staff, said qualifiedly he exe het : Wanted tot nak eerie AND BRITISH ISLES HAVE BEEN FIRED’ ta a undet Ser of He be wanted to submit a candidate . for the “meanest thief” title. From an all-time crest of 87.1, headed by Senator George V. Coffey; At 7 p. m., two hours before the Bhe said someone had stolen A the! er | nO Sbnormal floods develop in tribu- ot Walsh county, posipaned action |members were due at s White House] 9x5 ‘contributed in pennies and |At Least 74 Lives Lost at Sea;| nies in a bucket, to the Red Cross injunction Asked Prohibitin g| seat aveaneec ase junta toot | 7 VETS on consideration of the hail insurance reception, the bill was passed with-| 141 change by puplis and teach- ae Office here. 45 The dlacednliont, Cairo Expects 68 Feet division situation when it was in-jout a record vote. ers at the school for the relief of Scores of Communities “Use ’em,” he instructed, “to ‘Sit-Downers’ From Oc- ros irae Aah As paid eos ms While some predictions were made formed that Commissioner Erickson Confer on Labor Laws flood refugees. Are Isolated help the flood sufferers.” LEAT OGe vate five! Ge ae Be that the flood crest on the Mississippl sna verse sponsor @ resolution Boutrontsd Friday by, only co re Isolate ‘Hines took his bucket with him cupying Plants Tenteclee of alps Urs. bkteort errr! under first exe or jonstrous pectat Lieut. Col. Bugene Rey- business, senators and representatives when he departed. still held thousands rs in 2 «inn sae renreontatives crged| conferred intormaty on wor es-|DART() GONVIGI ED) | tensor ee, eterna] "aim wong fo start, ing st | pete, san, a — om — Petiton| Sel, ld, owen, Brammer f5] old alscting persion Wt Mom “+ tp tax chaing operating two or more ation, which came to the foreground winds left England and France help-| up with pennies again,” he sald. | 41), court order for eviction of| lowlands. Fugitives who fled panic-|tect'the levees against ® flood of es stores, when -they appeared before gain through Secretary Perkins’ re- less Friday against a paralyzing bliz- stricken before the creeping waters] ter f 63 feet on the ittee | quest, for a minimum wage and maxi- mum hour law. a ‘a Ace ‘the floods “sit-down” strikers from two Fisher she’ enulvabenk OF MANSLAUGHTER Forename mates weet ERIN Body plants at Flint, Mich, revealed| were scattered as fer as 200 miles| Cairo gauve. Friday that General Motors corpor-| {*m the Kentucky metropolis, bons Flooded roads along the border Cairo the only possible ‘While not objecting to the amount| The labor and Justice departments, lual return to normalcy ¢ of the tax, the chain store represen-|9% Well as the senate civil liberties ip: bal ts seatnee wal committee, sent investigators to An- derson, Ind., to study charges of vio- lence and importation of strike break- ers in a General Motors strike. An American Federation of Labor Teport put the nation’s unemployed at about 9,000,000, Almost the same number have found work in the last Z z Scotland froze solid, ation no longer considers the men to Officials Lips Sealed threat to IN HIGHWAY CRASH ioaung commie hon overland ‘ be employes, ‘ No official would say how many|#Ppeared travel. j Bi 1, Flint attorney for] Were dead from drowning, pneu- and snow forecast, SAI ob monia and other diseases the flood| expected to change the situa General Motors, filed the petition! would leave in its wake. Before a|Preciably, and Walter Moxom, i { c , i Circuit Judge Paul V. Gadola of vill nsorship seal-| Weather bureau’s flood forecasting Minnesota Youth Sentenced to| pounded the Scottish east coast and| President ‘Supposes’ He Will] with Cir be ep fpasaled ae a ae ice up meals | Sorarts pala Geis robe Ot a i = : Have to Sign Giant Seed ted | in the Ohio valley was past. Serve Nine Months in | tossiemouth, Scotland, mountainous ign day. It requested an injunction pro- | velle, city healln, drector, estimated!’ a herculean task was involved in Be e928 One chain of 50 grocery stores in hole harbor f four years, it said. waves endangered the whole Loan Bil hibiting the strikers from continuing : restoring the towns slong the Ohio the Bill, be redulred to’ pay. lloenge|, The administration began drafting See ae oe) to occupy the plants they have held | “00. avade President William| Waterfront from Pittsburgh to Cairo & permanent neutrality bill. Presi- Scores Mareoned ashington, . 29. — — since Dec. 30. “ -] and government agencies developed Grang Forks, N.D, Jan. 21—P—| Bitszards borne on the driving| prevent Fe ene penning tnne| ihe court directed the United Au- qe bl winoee aDpornienent ae PtP =| toad. rehabsiltesioc” 1 propo aith Matt Barto was convicted of man-| winds, piled huge drifts in the south! special messages to congress. tomobile Workers of America, which of officials in » position to estimate] Provision for placing about 200,000 slaughter in the second de by a| Of England, marooning scores “of/ One of them will deal with conser-|called the strikes that have crippled| 04 rataities said he was inves-| Persons on rellef rolls, pier of Pare. motorists all night in some areas. vation of water resources. Mr. Roose-|Operations of General. Motors, to tigatin a the situation. ‘Aftermath Feared district court jury that returned it8) “ Pain-swollen rivers in southern] yet declined at his press conference |show cause why an injunction should The Highlands residential district! The handmaidens of disaster verdict Friday after deliberating more} France inundated low-lying farms} Friday to disclose the subjects of the|not be granted at a hearing Monday connected with lower Louisville by a] hunger and disease—caused concern and Norman H. Davis, ambassador- at-large. ea Workers ‘Sit-Downing’ farmers’ organizat than 18 hours. and roads, particularly in the Rhone atl p.m. Operate gasoline stations In Murphy’s Offices| tne jurors tixed tne sentence at| valley. | : Discussing » wide variety of sub- Employes No Longer LE ae ere eae | marie. Ceaee: Jounriies 66 Sood iene Verbal barrages = — nine months in the Grand Forks| Heavy seas had inflicte: heavy| jects, the president said plans for The bill of complaint ies re or long ned Cisse fal ee promines rushed 4 sage of a number of bills and reso-| Lansing, Mich., Jan. 29—(#}—A dele-| county jail for the 22-year old Green-| damage to shipping off the coast fs permanent neutrality legislstion are saastien | peuton relered | peered ervenes tnoaanae OF the "290,000 BAtolaton! pipgpedny Brea pe aoe - lutions by both bodies, incl &/gation of 25 non-union 1 Mo-| bush, Minn., youth whose three-day | Portugal in a gale which reached 97-/| advancing. Sere icy ato no longer mips refugees from inundated west Louts- anal poles disease. trial ended when the jury received| miles an hour, although the worst) Mr. Roosevelt disclosed that he and tors workers voted iy to hold a ville and partly~ covered central) looting. right to an investigation of the handling of|three-hour “sit-down” strike in the| the case at 3:42 p. m. Thursday, | Seemed passed. Uh ee at ES oar eee ent 1 | oulaville, Louisville officialdom stood on the Be. Vhasires bg tax at the state mi Heed of ge Prank Murphy, after! Barto was tried on @ charge of aa reales ports pete aed wing Hae ality ser al per-| Evacuation of the strikers has been Burials estimate of 200 dead made four days A and elevator, but carrying an amend. jhe announced he would not use troops | riest degree manslaughter arising out| and Rabat were closed. Shipping in) improving, the quailty service by hold |demanded by General Motors before ae, ttooa| #89 85 the Kentucky metropolis strug ment requesting figures on the cost/to force union strikers to leave Flint, (r'tne seaths of Prof. W. C. Stock- ae at © ; Despite etticial. Sse n ee. gled with wartime fervor to care for more ‘examinations and|it would meet with the union to settle pep feld and three children of Dr. J. Sloop Drifts Ashore Le ae eaters Sorain number of|the widespread strikes, However, fatalities Would number “no mere | thousands of the 230000 persons Sayre, head of the university political) The 132-ton Dutch motor 8100D/ people, should ‘this be accomplished through was jittery from reports of mass driven from their homes. science department, in a collision be-| Wilja drifted ashore at Gravesend,|" In ‘answer to another question, Mr.|the asked-for court order, negotia- b ‘Bodies had been taken by| Across the river, Jeffersonville, tween cars driven by Barto and Dr./ England, after colliding Vacant ys Roosevelt said he supposed he would ies smataht be confronted by a new Here ty tour oemeterins in the bigh- Ind., its 12,000 inhabitants reduced to Sayre north of Man . captain, fe, authorizing $50,- . of el Dec, 13. boat. The Wilja’s + have to sign the bill $50, sue vA leaders have sald they| lands, including Cave Hill where] Out "ay Sig’ survived the flood of legal advice and advertising since |Mich., plants of the Fisher Body com- the mill was established, apes Bue ind a Compulsory mili training we the university arnt agicaleaeet col-|cover and make public the facts. “If lege would be eliminated under terms |¢ither General Motors or the union is of @ bill passed by the house. The|Tesponsible for activities designed to . Barto will be sentenced by Judge| eight-months old -baby and four! 90,000 for 1937 seed loans. buried. See Pane to apn a cae cons|, George Gilbert, spokesman for the| P. G. Swenson in district court here| members of the crew were rescued. | He vetoed « similar bill last year.|would protest alleged discrimination SY ee Ce soar tetegalaaa | in s barricaded factory on the river upper chamber “ait-downers,” said unless encouraging | Saturday. He was committed to Jail| ‘The 1,100-ton tanker Olifer sank!go many applications for loans were|against union members, and one of] oo Ee Meo wae aopointed| front / : : H E news is received, the group may de-| to await sentence after hearing the ete, armel lane oe Borkum in| made, however, that he later made|the eight points they seek to negotiate ‘marshal of his flood stricken Water Famine Serious An alarming reduction in Cincin- submitted by the governor. Also * " North captain and 16 with the corporation demands rein-| Provost by the upper house were ap- cieate reine the governor's office | jury’s verdict. es ods ae cia teste fie: great! approximately $30,000,000 available win mone ofall employes “unjustly| city by Gov. A. B, Chandler. nstt's water supply caused the dally propriations bills of $260,931 for the BY. dere eerie of wuilty Of secons lliner Ruropa stood by, able to rescue (7° dismissed.” ‘They indicated that this| |The first accident among the 12001 water ration to be cut in half as the normal and $62,883 for the . erce aged three i * ‘. : the discharge of the| federal soldiers and police brought| city, dissster council made to y Bottineau forestry school. Maritime Strike End _ | permitted by tsw to tix the sentence)only Sess Meh, prasilian tner|Lindbergh Memorial | yous sppiy ‘o ‘ne 6 inhee from far fang poms or od] S10 gees, coumel, ma plans to qeanen oeticee ei Expected by Monday) penitentiary or not more than one|Sentos, unheard from since reporting] Flight Value Rapped U, 8, Probe Dispute duty took two lives Thureday night.) cieanup, perhaps by Monday. WASHOE Kets nas oiseed por — year in the county jail or s fine of she Was disabled and drifting toward == Pe eel eeerntscat tesa tures hr Piet’ mechanised cavalry, Fort duty in the flood sicken towes of , )—Dr. James e feder: e uty houses, the second of the session to| San Francisco, Jan, 20.—(?)—Ten-| 2% 7 jail Paria ian! coast of Portugal, was towed ito satel pecan a Bee a ‘who| tigating phases of the prolonged labor Boeri and Patrolman Lawrence W.| Southern Indians to prevent looting ere a ei Om | ae em Ry tn mel| Sea | ee A bil! directing the Bank of Nort Flood Relief Fund eqreezs that the death toll would far) Derahe Tie ue of they operatives of te federal Bureau of in-) | An army combat eat in nic tteg| Aft survering the damage wrought Dakota loreclosed lands + present figure “ ” vestiga' ascerta: flood, Gov. Martin former owner upon payment of 10 tl with word that au the crew of the|“Lindbergh memorial flight” across| "MUGS On, ote sent across state were eee Bom ecabankeoect eee by asetD Ta pov tch jonge Jacdbus had|the Atlantic next summer. It is in~ |i Tre:Orenecke NET Oo rice at the| into the flood waters. said Henry| Confidence that Burleigh county wore sown) oft, Hie: cons of Poreuent conceivable, he said in a speech, that corporations’s guide lamp plant at i g 2 : 5 E agreement to clear up remainder in ——————— aah matroy em ige pee kgs Bat Cotes foeh telict find wae. ex: |Cotermined, pales ee ales = eileen on Lindbergh's “per. |Anderson, Ind. Louis Is 24 Pounds Jong range food control programs _ _ The fight among the previously pressed Priday by Miss Mary Cashel, —________ fect” fight in anything exoept ume. | ron aition of Pope's Heavier Than Pastor] 22 it!3 {22 site could Bot, pose harmonious poute malority forces of executive aia te to in) Health Situation 2 DEADLINES EXTENDED Legs Satisfact RY | ee! vor. Shee i ee needs for rehabilitation. fer, broke out as the lower chamber submitted to 2tns wne.do not even cive thelr names, Here Is Improving Pipes ep ts epee ae Detroit Negro heavyweight balanced! 4. sruntinetoe, W. Ven the police April leadline for| Vatican City, Jan. 29—()—Al-|the scales at 203% pounds for his 10- eae 1 ong Muneeaplivment| though wearied by long iliness, Pope [round bout Friday night in Madison Se aT eee taxes under the social security act|Pius XI was described Friday by re-|Square Garden against Bob ga ment efter one man was killed 3 s é i i 5 f} i g p> r i & : a ‘Tribune newsboy, who gave money director, said Friday. The only con- lable as showing “more of|Pastor weighed 189 pounds. which he had earned himself. Red also extends to that date the period sources thieves seeking valuables $18,000 for salary adjustment. 3 tagious diseases now under quaran- the characteristics of convalescence | fight will be broadcast over WMCA, ‘Skitts leunct ss Pa icnaneaeg oral ds J cine oneal were Se ee toe tine are six eames of sari fever and fos, Sing isms than of active illness.” Despite leas | starting around 6p. m. (OST). wot by patrolman, Jumping to his feet at the end ven by persons of substantial uenza situation showing COMMITS SUICIDE than the previous because Sa ERS In the south, Memphis and other » Rep. Stray, Moun- improvement, he said. There has) snensburg, Wash., Jan. 29.—(%)—|of twinges of pain caused by the damp FARM WORKER DEAD i Gal ne laces cer ene fe lack of the 0f-| coroner Phil Devidecn pronounced the|weather, the holy father's doctors| Wheatland, N. D., Jan. 20—(P)—| “cities of mercy” perched sbowe the where, he said, severe weather has made the situation “increasingly | critical” Sam Murphy, \vingston, |considered local condition in his|Eric Buschold, 32, farm worker, died| reach of flood waters, opened . = Snecuti fete aitistactocy, an official 3e- Thursday at the home of his brother,| arms to legs Red Cross, Bismarck, N.D. ‘Dr. Fisher said. cide by “drinking poison.” port said. Fred, near here. (Continued on Page Two),