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st wo v3 i a a ! 2200 . ESTABLISHED 1878 BISMARCK, N. D., SATURDAY, APRIL-24, 1937 es Eastern PRICE FIVE CENTS The Weather_ Fair tonight and Sun- © day; frost or freezing temperature tonight. N. D. 000,000 from President Roosevelt's Although some committee menibers described = fized horisontel cut as i 2 FS aE, pitty LY H | Be a ne : ; 3 Z & Park Improvement in North Dakota Studied| All Bids on One Project Reject- ed; Three Others Held Up for Study contracts, All bids were rejected on one ‘proj- three Withheld Withheld pending further study of bids -by the bureau of-public roads Cass count miles gravel- ing, Fargo north, Interstate = tion Co., Minneapol 5 whose right hip was broken was in s wheel chair Saturday. Chocolate Workers Score Union in Vote in the union employes of the Hershey rejected it as their agency for collective bar- “} "$6 to Aecopt Higher Wages, % Halting passersby, Newfarmer After risking death to haul had them hold a hope while he Snarky from the surf, Newfarmer lowered himself 30 feet to where Snarky was in distress. HEPBURN DECLARES WAR ON ClO ARTER Oshawa Workers Vote 2,205 to Shorter Hours * ~“ Friday, added: “But I do not believe the people of Ontario will subject themselves to the domination of this would-be dic- tatorship under the direction of Lewis.” ‘The premier became an outspoken CIO foe-at-the outset of the Oshawa called CIO organizers “for- eign agitators.” Vote Is 2,205 to 36 ‘The strike settlement, accepted by @ workers’ vote of 2,205 to 36, ordered wage raises and shortened hours, but did not accord outright recognition of the United Automobile Workers’ union which the strikers had de- mando. The union ts a CIO affil- ‘The agreement was signed, however, by C. H. Millard, president of the union's ‘local: unit, and J. L. Cohen, union counsel, neither of whom are The agreement is to run concur- rently with the agreement that ended the General Motors strike in. the United States—an agreement which fel te neal (tm) erect se. denes Uo DAKOTAS TOO POOR POR RATE INCREASE Railroad Commissions Oppose _ Any Upward Revision in Freight Charges eieety, at a level higher than war- rani . The commission ordered a series of hearings for shippers who object to rate boosts sought by carriers to re- started the ascent, rope in one hand, dog in the other. Trick Impose ‘ “For tricks that are dark and the attention of «Gents te.the transients, with the robin increasing num- bets. Z All such individuals are being properly vared for at the Salva- tion Army which represents public manner, Smith the out into the city and preying up- on. Ae kind-hearted citizens. and use the “labor” to buy “mickeys.” the information of those who do not know, a “mickey” is a drink of cheap liquor with high alco- holic content. Others, less ingenious, solicit work on gardens or lawns but all too frequently walk off with the tools given them as implements PEACE CONFERENCE. | IS QUICKLY CALLED 10 SETTLE DISPUTE Stockton Workers Demands of] 5, ‘Wage Hikes, Union Reo- ognition Near Stockton, Calif., Apr. 24.—(7)—The bloody Stockton cannery strike moved Baturday froma field of rioting, where 50 persons were shot, clubbed and gassed, to peace meetings at Sacramento. - There a conference of canners and labor representatives with.Gov. Frank jon recognition. ‘A joint statement said canners ‘and workers believed they were “not far from a satisfactory solution” but Rescuer and rescued were nearly exhausted when they reached the brink. There, another foot ahead, lay com- plete safety. A foot behind, disaster still threatened. But by this time many hands were ready to pull the two over the edge to level ground. y [ransients on Public of labor, Contract Is Renewed With State Mill Union Grand Forks,’N. D., Apr. 24.—(7)— The state industrial commission Sat- tered into a new con- cereal workers union and elevator here on said to be the same ‘tract. The. session ROOSEVELT Bod HUST CONPROME TO WIN COURT AIM Half of Judiciary Committee's Membership Will Vote Against Measure Washington, Apr. 24—(P)—A new survey of the closely divided senate judiciary committee disclosed Satur- day that administration supporters must compromise in order to win pre- and . | ergies to fighting Franco's “It was worth it, FOOD IS RUSHED 10 BILBAO DEFENDERS FIGHTING OFF MOLA Loyalists Now Have Hopes of Staving Off Viglous Drive of Rebels Bilbao, Spain, Apr. 24.—(?)—The Basque government rushed food to its hungry defenders Saturday with mounting hope that the supplies brought by British blockade runners Durango front, about 20 miles southeast of the capital, echoed machine gun, rifle and artillery firé, 400,000 inhabitants of Bilbao were jubilant, feeling the starvation hold of the insurgents by land and sea had been broken. The first supplies brought to the refugee-swollen capital Friday by the steamers Hamsterley, Stanbrook and MacGregor past Gen. Francisco Franco's warships, went to hospitals and to troops fighting desperately to hold the El Orrio line, leas than six miles from Durango. Improves Rapidly The minister of provisions an- nounced the food situation was im- proving rapidly and soon would be relatively normal, indicating confid- ence that other food carriers would defy the insurgent naval cordon. The blockade runners came just in hastily carted to mills from the Stan- brook. The Hamsterley brought pota- toes, meat, eggs, coffee and sugar; the MacGregor wines and liquors. ‘Mola’s legionnaires strove to bring their: encircling lines closer to Duran- go, key point of his drive through tumbled terrain toward Bilbao. The city stands on an im; high: down which his mechanized columns ae to sweep 16 miles into the Miaja Loses Powers Civil rule came back to Madrid Saturday. Gen. Jose Miaja, the military dic- tator, was deprived of his civil pow- ers over the city of half year siege instructed to devote all his en- insurgents. A anti-Fascist city council took over.command of the city’s civil affairs, : Hartley Leads Rifle Club in Weekly Shoot} witun Grant Hartley, scored 300 hits out was all Newfarmer could say after making sure Snarky had suffered no ill effects from the experience. As for Snarky, he merely let his expression tell how grateful he was to his master for deliverance from almost certain drowning. way | order to support the weight of freight Indianapolis to Killdeer Farmer Dies As Result of Runaway Dickinson, N. D., Apr. 24. — (%) — Peter Odland, 71, bein 12 miles SNOW, SLEBT FALL OVER WDE AREA IN RETURN OF WINTER Northwest Gale Kicks Up Dust Sprinkled With Snow in Western N. D. COMMUNICATION DISRUPTED More Than Inch of Beneficial Moisture Soaks Part of 1936's Drouth Area western plains would have an oppor- tunity to drink the heavy moisture falling eastward. lashed snow and sleet into drifts, dis- tupted communications and tons of precipitation on that part of last year's drouth area. Opossum Proves inshi ‘The storm apperently ranged from | Kangaroo Kinship ‘Winnipeg southeast to Chicago with Richmond, Va., Apr .24.—(7)— bige, the “Associated es conte % argument is finish- | Rein and snow which commenced ed at the medical college of Vir- |wriday morning continued unabated 3 in most sections. More than an inch When « pair of ‘possums was | was recorded at Fargo. , the nurses started argu- | ‘Telephone and telegraph com- ing ss to whether the female, | munication was reported disrupted in . yrungaln epochs thie are |tn Seine Peery B.D in titte bay Freesing in Miniieseta “ aise 6 Hee VAs Doe lect and heavy snow was falling at Fergus Falls, Minn., with the tem- perature 30 above and «@ north wind | over two inches of rain. An inch bm half of rain had fallen at Wa- INGRASH OF TRUCK |? espe, me in : where farmers and canning company Rain at Marshall totaled 1.03 inch. ‘The spring storm, the third to hit = = South Dakota in a month, was be- George McCleary, Prominent Eedigy of tte ae ie oe Prone ii check was available because of wire Coal and Auto Man of Lewis- | Conditions, Sioux Falls was isolated town, Fatally Injured from the rest of the state and tele- phone and telegraph wires snapped —— in the storm. George McCleary, 52, prominent Lewistown, Mont., business man. was almost instantly killed, and Don Vories of Indianapolis, Ind., slightly injured when the truck in which they were riding overturned two miles east of McKenzie about 5:30 p. m, Fri- day when a tire blew out. BOYS ADMIT THEFT OF MANY BICYCLES Bismarck Lads, 15 and 12, Are Bound Over; Vandals Not Yet Caught N. D. Traffic Toll 38 i g RE Sheriff Fred Anstrom ‘of Burleigh county said the truck was overloaded | q, with stokers and motor parts and that the light tires were over-inflated in| 9 i i gh pee tf gee hand ditch. Vories, who was driving, suffered a strained back. McCleary was catapulted truck cab to the shoulder of ditch where the rolling truck pinned him down. The truck came to right side up with the running crushing McCleary the ace f eehel THER nu hi i ae traveling more than 35 to 40 miles an hour when the accident occurred, Vories declared. McCleary leaves his widow, = son and a daughter and two sisters at Great Falls, Mont. Mrs, McCleary who arrived at Tampa, Fis., with her 19-year-old son on April 21, is flying to Bismarck to take charge of the McCleary was a member of the Knights of Columbus, Eagles, the Elks and the Loyal Order of Moose. No inquest was planned by Dr. L. W. Larson, Bureigh county coroner. The body was taken to the Convert Puneral home. YOUNG CITIZENS MEET Ellendale, N. D., Apr. 24. — () — Dickey county members of the Young Citizens’ League held their eu convention Saturday.