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THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ' The Weather Telephone 2200 Cloudy, with showers late tonight, Sunday; somewhat warmer. ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, N. D., SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1937 , PRICE FIVE CENTS FAMED FILM STARS WILL VOTE SUNDAY ON STRIKE DECISION Threat of Nationwide Boycott of Theaters Grows More Imminent PLAYERS FAVOR WALKOUT Producers’ Head Thinks That Trouble Will Be troned Out Quickly MAN WHO PILOTED CRAFT ON 10 HOPS DIES FROM BURNS Most Experts of Opinion That ~ Static Electric Spark Touched Off Gas HINDENBURY IS TOTAL Loss Germany Pushes Work on New Dirigible and Prays for growing Use of Helium Hollywood, May 8.—(?)—A threat of film land's high salaried stars to join with makeup artists and other studio craftsmen in a strike rocketed interest Saturday in labor troubles of the multi-million dollar (By the Associated Press) Lakehurst, N. J., May 8.—The death toll mounted to 35 Saturday in the disaster to Germany's pride of the hd favored Joining strike unless producers met guild de- mands. The guild, which embraces most of met with Frederic March night, with Chester Morris Wednes- =| FLOORS, THO LOSE LEGS Gets B IN ACIDE Overloaded Elevator in Hotel jeyond Control of Ty ae Ei wee, 1—One passenger barely made ing clothing. He is were trapped in the burning ship 2,—Death reached into the heavens Hindenburg on her first flight good seen, attired only ‘shaking off his burn- passengers; less fortunate, in Fescuers. which & lurid background for this scene. snatch down to earth presumptuous air voyagers aboard the Zeppelin Germany to the United States of the spring season. Picture shows & member of the Hindenburg’s crew who must have jumped in desperation to save himself from searing flames when the gigantic dirigible exploded over Lakehurst, N. J. Members of the ground crew of the U. 8. naval base watch 3.—Hurtled from the flaming bulk the ‘blazing bulk of the Hindenburg on the field. of the dirigible Hindenburg as it exploded and crashed to ground on land- ing, at Lakehurst, N. J., these two survivors were being rushed to a nearby hospital. Dazed, blood-streaked, they were numbered among the 63 survivors of the fatal trip. Of these 63, Soptorinaely 50 were injured or burned. Eye-witnesses told tragic stories of piteous figures who were trapped in wreckage flaming and of survivors who stumbled from the huge airship, their hair afire and their clothing entirely burned away. Acme Telephotes (Special to The Bismarck Tribune) via NEA, Dickey County School Boy Named Junior President of State. Young Citizens Donald Enger Is New League Head | Pocket Picker > Minneapolis, May 8.—(?)—A | Outsprints Rue | air—the giant dirigible Hindenburg— as its mysterious cause became the subject of official inquiries and wide- spread speculation by experts. William Speck, chief radio officer of the airship which plunged in flames upon the Lakehurst naval air station grounds here Thursday night at the end of its first crossing of the year, succumbed in a New York hos- pital. A German passenger, Erich Knocher, died at Asbury Park. The man who commanded the ship on 10 safe voyages to Lakehurst from Germany last year—Capt. Ernst Leh- mann—died Friday night. The public. investigation of the tragedy begins Monday, but officials strove meanwhile to correlate evidence that may ultimately establish the cause of the shattering explosions and billowing fire which sent the grace- ful ship to her doom in the early evening murk Thursday. Experts Blame Spark The theory that an electric spark, either from one of her engines or from her landing ropes, ignited the Hindenburg’s highly inflammable hy- drogen gas appeared to have the most expert support. In the background remained the widely circulated hints of sabotage which have yet to find an authentic sponsor. Death robbed the public investiga- tion of testimony from Captain He until forced to leap with his clothing afire. - Even he was baf- Z fled by the disas- all 3 | “Next time we Lehmann come over,” he whispered before he died under an oxygen tent in a near- |by hospital Friday night, “I hope we'll be using helium (a non-explo- | sive gas) in the bags.” | The cost of the disaster stood at |35 known dead, 12 of them passen- gers; 22 crew, and one a groundling trapped by the flaming debris. Of day night and James Cagney Thurs- Operator * _ —_—_—_——_ fleet-footed prowler emptied the | the 25 passengers and 40 crew known 8 Pp Gerald aap det CHURCHII | DOWNS Artillery bee ae Donald Enger, Dickey county school| pockets of A. V. Velline, Fargo, ane: several were so badly Winner i rensics Practice for Sunday | oy, was elected junior president of| N. D., and Milton Rue, Bismarck, | burned they may not recover. Baltimore, May 8—(7)—A rising ner st ‘ y the North Dakota Young Citizens; as they slept in the Dyckman Tragedy Spurs Germany portant its and felt certain the Diners can “be ironed out to the Stone Fights Ouster As Manager of Hotel Sarles Case Delayed By Recess of Court guments in the case Monday. Testi- were extract one Miss cott City, Catonsville. at the 13th warned the get off, - Hobeck was llth floor.” frien Saturday. of the globe, mony was completed Friday and court was adjourned. the rush, he said. “When I got up, the elevator was drifting upward beyond my reach,”| Letncenigrag’ cooenes. “I could not. thecontrol. Isawtwoladies} ‘There have been 299 cases of si 5 caught between the floor of the ele- spr vator and the top of the ceiling of the Firemen cut away a section of flooring, and loose with crowbars to reach the Feminine Fan Mail of Edward Dropping Off ‘The man, who as Prince of Wales in| set hearts aflutter in many married glevator trapped two young women between-floors in « hotel here Satur- day, mangling the legs of both vic- tims. Police and firemen worked more than ey hour before the women At the hospital where they were taken, Dr. Dgvid Weinberg amputated leg of each. The Mary Edith Meade, 21, of Elli- and Miss Grace Clas, 27, of were Leroy Hobeck, 19-year-old elevator operator at the hotel, asserted “about | Frida: 13” passengers jammed into his car floor.. Hobeck said he the car was passengers overloaded but none of them would He released the controls, he said, Jamestown, N. D. May 8.—(#)— won first place in the regional Ma- sonic oratorical contest Friday after- Noon, Rosen will represent this region at the Masonic grand lodge in Fargo. Miss Marjorie Thompson, Kensal, won second place. Howard Rasmussen, Dazey high School student, won the Gerald P. Nye peace oratorical contest medal ys Gayle Kelley, Bismarck, won sec- ond place. Smallpox Increased Due Scorning of Law Dr. Maysil Williams, state health Officer, said Saturday “failure to’ob- ban- | serve quarantine rules” has resulted knocked off the car in pried concrete walls of Wallis Simpson intimated quarters, will be to Mrs. adjust-| Simpson before iong and some sug- gested this fact may have dampened the ardor of his women admurers. While those perfumed letters have in “new outbreaks” of smallpox in several North Dakota counties. Quarantine and vaccination are the only means through which spread of stinallpox can be effectively checked, according’ to Dr. Williams. : pox reported to the state health de- partment since Jan, 1. A Negligence Cause of * A Pingree Train Wreck Washington, May 8&—-(#)—The in- terstate commerce commission de- termined Saturday failure to provide flag protection caused a rear-end col- lusion on Feb. 22 between a snowplow train and ‘a mixed train on the Northern Pacific railway near Pin- gree, N. D. The accident resulted in the death of one employe and the in- jury of one passenger and one em- PLoye. Burke Is Progressing ‘Very Satisfactorily’ Rochester, Minn., May 8. — (P) — John Burke, North Dakota supreme court justice is “progressing very sat- isfactory” at the Mayo clinic, physi- cians reported Saturday. He submit- ted to an intestinal operation Pni- day. Lehr Woman, Hurt in Car Crash, Recovering Mrs. Gottlieb Aman of Lehr, N. D., Call for members of ttie head- quarters battery of the third battal: don, 185th field artillery, to meet at 9:30 a, m., Sunday, at the national guard armory here was issued Satur- day ‘by Capt. L. V. Miller. Cars’ will be avilable to take the men to Man- dan ‘where they will engage in field Practice with Battety E, Mandan. P. } tors Are Enjoined m Use of Churches Ni n, N. D., May 8—(?)—Dis- trict: Judge George McKenna Satur- day signed two restraining orders en- joinihg Pastors E. E, Matteson and C. A. Balcom, Wilton, from preach- ing ih. 13 state Presbyterian churches. [S LIGHTNING FAST War Admiral’s Position as Fav- orite Enhanced by Fast Drying Track Churchill Downs, Louisvile, Ky., May 8.—(P)—A burning sun, aided by ® southerly breeze, turned the Churchill Downs track into a light- ning fast racing strip Saturday as the vanguard of an expected crowd of 65,000 thronged the historic course for the 63rd Kentucky Derby. ¥ The fast track indicated that all of | The restraining orders were preparel the overnight entries of 20 three-| presbytery of the Presbyterian Church year-olds would face Starter Bill] of the U. 8. A. Hamilton about 4:45 p.m. (CST). A Teak ot ee tones ahowed. that] parSPTAT STAX CARUDADS, none had any intention of scratching.|ment-owned flaxseed, stored in Min- ‘The crowd began to arrive early.|Neapolls for sale for seed purposes, By 9 o'clock it was estimated 5,000/MAy be purchased in less than car ome elas ‘the track served pea ene of North vised to strengthen War Admirals position] agricusure! college had been ad as the favorite to win the $52,575. The diminutive son of Man o’ War, KEER LEAVES G. N. making his Philadelphia owner's first) St. Paul, May 8—-(#)—D. J. Kerr, bid for the turf classic, has turned in| former assistant to the operating vice his best races over fast racing/ president of the Great Northern rail- strips. He was expected to go to the| way, has been elected president of the post at odds of around 8/to 5. Lehigh Valley Railroad. AP Flashed Blast News Before Craft Hit Ground For Okin, as for Becker, it was one of the biggest stories in aviation’s his- tory. At the other end of that telegraph wire from the great hangar in Lake- hurst—in the Newark office of the AP—sat J. C. Stark, chief of the Newark bureau. He heard the telegraph key click. The operator muttered something. “What is it?” Stark wanted to know. “SBhe—she's blown up,” said the across the country by the Associated Press Thursday night one minute after an explosion tore asunder the dirigible’s stern and enveloped it in flames, To Lakehurst for the arrival of] the Hindenburg on its first transat- lantic flight of the season went Rob- ert Okin of the AP’s Trenton bureau. @ routine assignment. operator. Official time of the explosion was 6:23 p. m., eastern standard time. field, too, was Murray| The AP flash was timed.one minute staff photographer from| later. fice, “From the time of that first flash never stopped,” Stark said. “Okin the stuff moving smoothy. Good Good descriptive material. 33 Teague which concluded its 15th an- nual convention Saturday. He suc- ceeds Lioyd Frazier of Eddy county. Also named as junior officers were Lloyd Lerum of Griggs county, vice president, and Ruby Hathaway of Golden Valley county, secretary. The next convention will be held at Bis- marck, it was decided. Senior officers who holdover are Prof. W. M. Wemett, Valley City, president; Blanche Stevens, Dickey county superintendent of schools, vice president, and Mrs. Lorene York, Bismarck, executive secretary. Select Two Projects The Young Citizens selected two state-wide projects for the next year. ‘They. will study safety on the high- way the first semester and conserva- tion of wild life in North Dakota the second semester. Good’ citizenship was stressed by Prof. M. M. Guhin of Aberdeen, 8. D., president of the national organ- ization, in a closing address. Mrs. York declared it was the “largest convention ever held” with 70 official delegates and a group of 800 at the banquet. Group singing was led by Miss Emily Callan of Ellendale. A Young Citizens league song with words and melody by A. E.. Thompson, state su- perintendent of instruction, was sung for the first time. It was arranged by Clarion Larson, director of the Bismarck juvenile band. Nearly 1,000 Present nearly a thousand school children in the chamber of the state house of representatives Friday afternoon, A. E. Thompson, state st- perintendent of public instruction, told them that their “enthusiasm and outlook were a striking guarantee that the future of the state and nation is secure.” He declared that since our govern- ment is one of representation it will be no better than the average of its citizens and pointed to clyic duty and responsibility, good health and man- ners and “faith in God and fellow men” as necessary if one is to live a “well-rounded life.” Gov. William Langer and W. M. Wemett, the senior president, were the other Friday afternoon speakers. Baptisms Scheduled By Vater on Sunday Rev. Walter E. Vater, pastor of the McCabe Methodist Episcopal church, announced Saturday that the sacra- ment of baptism for infants and chil- dren will be administered Mother's day, Sunday, at 10:30 a. m. Rev. Vater said that all parents desiring to have their children baptized should do s0 at this service. They may noti- iE was no let-up, no stopping.” fy Rev. Vater of their intention. © BY ‘ hotel Friday night, outrunning them when they awakened and pursued him through the halls. The loot totaled $46. After they returned to their rooms to dress, the two were unable to find any trace of the burglar. DE MOLAYS ELECT Jamestown Awarded Conven- tion for 1937 at State Conclave in Minot Minot, N. D., May 8—(?)—Reor- ganizing along state rather than in- ternational lines, as in the past, North Dakota DeMolays, convened Saturday in Minot, decided that their annual gathering henceforward will be known as a state conclave rather than an international conclave. Arthur Gray of Jamestown was elected state master councilor for the coming year. Jamestown also was awarded the 1938 state conclave. Arthur Gunderson, Dickinson, was elected state senior councilor; Ben- jamin Feldt, Williston, state junior councilor, and Thomas Hart, James- town, state scribe. Plans were drawn for the publica- tion of state DeMolay newspaper, to be published monthly. Bismarck boys attending were Ted Quanrud, Rufus Lumry, Charles Corwin, Howard Nelson, Warren Kraft, Robert Bowman, Chester Lit- tle, John Peterson, Harry Rosenthal, James Shirek, Joe Nicola, Charles Conner, James Boutrous, Riley Brit- ten, Glen Enge, Walter Brophy, Rob- ert Humphreys, Robert Penner, Harold Spangler, Henry Koch, Christy Bantz, Herbert Asselstine and Wil- liam Mills. H. G. Groves, Dad of the chapter, accompanied the boys. Arman Is Winner in Insurance Contest' Having topped all other salesmen for his company in the Minneapolis district in the volume of life insurance sold during April, Steve W. Arman, Bismarck, has been designated as presidential delegate to the meeting of Equitable Life Assurance salesman j with Thomas J, Parkinson, company president, in Chicago May 10. He won a similar honor last year. Mr. and Mrs. Arman and their daughter, Arlena, have left for Chicago with Mr, Arman. They expect to return to Bismarck May 14, GRAY COUNCILOR Despite the blow to Germany's prestige in the dirigible world, the tragedy only seemed to spur that na- tion on in the construction of its new air-liner, the LZ-130, to be completed this year at Friedrichshafen. Nazi labor front groups began collecting money in the streets of German cities to finish the work. Eugene Schauble, assistant chief engineer of the Hindenburg, who was flung unhurt 25 feet to the ground when the ship exploded and burned at the naval air station here, reported \that he has already been assigned to the new LZ-130, “It goes into service this fall,” he said. He repeated the statement al- ready made by his chief, Dr, Hugo Eckener, president of the zeppelin company “but to win public confi- dence, we must use helium now.” Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, commandant at the Lakehurst sta- tion, incidentally, one of the few to \talk with Lehmann after the disaster, said the fire could not have occurred if helium instead of hydrogen had been used in the Hindenburg’s many gas compartments. Thinks Static Formed Rosendahl, mentioned the possi- bility that static might have formed around the huge envelope during its |flight in an electric storm before at- tempting to land. The explosion, he said, might have been caused when cable lines from the airship touched the wet ground, completing a circuit to the static. Although several witnesses said an engine of the dirigible seemed to backfire, Schauble, the engineer, said he was “sure that no sparks flew from the rear motors.” South Trimble, Jr., solicitor of the commerce department; Maj. R. W Schroeder, assistant director of the bureau of air commerce, and Dennis Mulligan, chief of the department's regulation and enforcement division, constitute the official board of in- quiry. There was talk of salvaging the mo- tors of the ship and perhaps some o! the tragic framework, but one navy airman gazed at the wreck and sug- gested “we might as well call the {junk man.” Called Total Loss Commander Rosendahl said she | was a total loss, Who had already been questioned, cfficials declined to say. Colonel Johnson said the inqujry board would call “anybody who can throw any light whatsoever” on the situation, “and that “no plausible angle will be overlooked.” Swathed head to foot in bandages, Capt. Max Pruss, who had just suc- ceeded Lehmann as commander of the Hindenburg after serving as his first officer, lay in a critical condition in a New York hospital, where he waz removed Friday night,