The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 27, 1937, Page 1

\ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper BISMARCK, N. D., THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1937 ESTABLISHED 1878 | 39 Plants Shut Down by Steel Strike , Prosecution May Follow Fight at Ford Plant Gates CHARGES AGAINST |Bismarck Benefits FIRM FILED WITH RELATIONS BOARD Union Organizers Set Upon and Beaten by Workmen at Dearborn Factory By Auto Former Dean Pleads Innocent to Assault Greenfield, Mass, May 27—(P)— White-haired Thomas E. Elder, one- time dean of Mount Hermon School for Boys, innocént Thursday pleaded + in district court to assault with in- 18 ARE AMONG CASUALTIES UAWA Men Claim Assailants Were Ford Police; Concern Calls Them, Workers Detroit, May 27.—()—United Auto- mobile Workers of America said Thuraday it intends to prosecute “in every possible way” those responsible for the beating of two union ers and 16 other persons at the gates of fied Ford Motor’ company’s Rouge plant. Within a short time after the fist. fights, which took place in suburban Dearborn Wednesday afternoon, the union’s attorney, Maurice Sugar, filed charges against the company with the National Labor Relations board. Reports on the skirmish were trans- mitted by the’ UAWA to Gov. Frank Murphy and to Senator Lafollette’s civil liberties committee, which had investigators on the pene, The Mich- F Hs work, but the unionists said ognized some as members of the cour Martin Detroit Beand Homer Martin, international preai- dent of the UAWA left El Paso, Texas, late Wednesday for Detroit after the disorder. were at the scene of the fi but did interfere. any ay M’Donald to Resign As Council | President River Racers to Pass Kansas City Thursday Bonzer Bond Started Grand Forks, N. D., May 27.—(P)}— tent to commit murder and being armed with a and night as Norton stepped from his garage. VELOGITY OF WIND PAST MONTH MAY CREATE NEW MARK Average for Month Thus Far Has Been 11.2 Miles Per , Hour, Figures. Show May, 1937, bids fair to become the windiest month of May on the rec- ords of the United States Weather Bureau station here, a checkup on comparative. wind: velocities revealed ‘Thursday. ‘Thus far this thonth Aeolus, king Bit boctba BEERS eet Hie SETEe i i ee ex- per hour pt =| FLEEING PRISONER IS NABBED QUICKLY Vagrant Makes Break for Free- dom But Sheriff and Jailer biel, ea Hey Tag Fight Minnesota Threatens Reprisal Unless Judge Stops Pen- alizing Salesmen Bismarck is benefiting, at least a Uttle, by the one-judge campaign to make out-of-state salesmen buy North Dakota auto licenses, a check of local hotels indicated Thursday. Judge John C. Lowe is requiring them te buy licenses, This developed as J. P. Bengston, Minnesota motor vehicle registrar, indicated that he would cancel Min- nesota’s half of the inter-state reci- procity agreement, negotiated in 1935, unless salesmen from that state re- ceive better treatment in Minot. At the same time he made it clear that he expects the state to refund to Minne- sotans the money paid for North Da- kota licenses. Future Not Clear Caught in a tight spot, Highway Commissioner P. H. McGurren and Registrar C. E. Van Horne said they hoped the situation would be clarified soon but weren't sure what to do about it, On one side was Lowe, busily en- reprisal, and obviously sweating a little over the dilema, Bengston said Judge Lowe had not only forced Minnesota salesmen to buy Ucenses' but had imposed 30-day jail sentences, ARCTIG EXPLORERS PLANES SEPARATED Only One of Three Supply Ships Reaches Russian Base Near North Pole Moscow, May 27.—(?)—Russia’s 42 Arctic explorers mapped positions by ;radio Thursday and laid careful 4 plans to unite their three camps near the North pole when ice conditions Twenty-two members of the aerial expedition were at the main base on & drifting ice floe 70 miles from the pole, separated by about 50 miles from two supply planes which brought food from Rudolf island Wednesday. A third ship, piloted by ae the main base. It was 19 above zero (Fahrenheit) at the North pole base at.1 p. m. Moscow time (5 a. m. CST) Thurs- U. 8. Works on Power Treaty With Canada Washington, May 27 —(#)— Presi- dent Roosevelt, it was disclosed Thursday, has aides at work on a ‘executive said in a let- CORN PRICES SOAR SHCOND DAY’ WITH - SUPPLIES WANING Little Prospect Grain Can Be Obtained to Fill Board of Trade Contracts TRADERS BUY FRANTICALLY July Ascends Four Cent Limit and Is Shortly Followed by September Futures Chicago, May. 27.—(#)—Corn prices soared four cents a bushel Fhursday, the limit allowed by trading rules, when reports were Circulated the 1936 crop was virtually exhausted with lit- tle prospect the grain could be ob- tained to fill board of trade contracts. Market reports indicated the sup- ply of 1936 corn available for delivery to fill contracts had been almost en- tirely used up and contained the warn- ing there would be practically none available for the September contracts. The frantic rush to buy future con- tracts shot July. corn to $1.26 a bushel with September up to $1.13%.. The December delivery was up the least, reaching 82% cents. All these prices were reached at approximately 10 o'clock, central standard time. The maximum gains were held by the July delivery of corn and the close was at the top limit permitted. Shortly before the finish, the Septem- ber option joined the July in reach- ing the four cents advance. The advances brought July corn to $1.25% a bushel and September to 1.22%. December corn, a contract which may be ‘filled with corn as yet ungrown, climbed 2% cents a bushel and closed at 83% to % cents a bushel. All deliveries were sharply under the $1.40 price reached Wednesday by the May delivery. LOYALISTS’ LINES OUTSIDE OF BILBAO Rebel Forces Strike in New Sec- tor With Heavy Loss of Life Reported (By the Associated Press) Paving the way with a dawn atraf- "|ing of Basque lines by field guns and airplanes, insurgent forces on the southern Bilbao front renewed fierce attacks Thursday to close the Basque capital’s “backdoor” to Central and Western Spain. Hard fighting was reported along the Nervion river and in the hills around Ordune—scene of a Carlist defeat in 1836—where insurgent Gen. Emilo Mola’s present day Carlists struggled with allied units of his mechanized forces to choke beleag- vered Bilbao. The Orduna drive demonstrated Mola’s strategy of swinging his opera- tions from sector to sector on the Bilbao front, striking now in the south after a series of stinging attacks from the north and east, Mola’s infantrymen charged repeat- edly at the Basque defenders of the Orduna-Bilbao road, which parallels the Nervion river. Defending forces inflicted heavy losses on Mola’s men. Thursday's combat over the oak- covered terrain was a re-opening of fighting that had raged far into the previous night. Insurgent reports ermed the operations a “cleanup” ve, In Bilbao, crowded with refugees, the Basque government announced Wednesday night postponement of execution of death sentences against three German aviators captured while serving with Mola’s air forces. Dust Bowl Elated as. Rains Drench Big Area Amarillo, Texas, May 27.—(7)—The “dust bowl’s” biggest rain in five years elated farmers Thursday in s 5,000 square mile area. Downpours, attaining cloudbursts proportions in some parts, dropped rain in amounts up to 2.64 inches Wednesday night. A strip 50 miles |wide east and west extended from Southern Kanses through Oklahoma’s panhandle and into the Texas plains. Crop prospects soared in a region out of which great dust storms have risen in recent years because of a lack of moisture, Rains of an inch and a (Rep.-N.Y.), | Etter, held Impersonator Found Murdered in Gotham .New York, May 27—()—Edward F. » ST-year-old. dancer and fe- apart- ment in the “House of All Nations.” Thursday. The “House of All Nations” got its name years ago because its residents in the main represented s0 many nationalities. 4 PRICE FIVE CENTS ATTEMPT 10 DENY WORKERS RIGHT 70 STRIKE STIRS IRE Proposal for Amendment to Re- lief Bill Howled Down by - Angry Solons MAVERICK FLAYS PROPOSAL | ‘We've Earmarked and Ear- marked Until Bill Hasn't Got Ears Left,’ He Cries Washington, May 27.—(?)—A storm of controversy broke on the house floor Thursday over an attempt to write into the $1,500,000,000 relief bill an amendment denying relief work- ers the right to strike. Although the proposal, by Rep. Ful- ler (Dem., Ark.) was shouted down, it precipitated a flood of criticism. “This is the most ridiculous thing Lever heard of,” declared Rep. Maver- ick (Dem., Texas). “What are we? Are we the house of lords back in 1518? Why, we must be crazy even to listen to things like that.” The stocky Texan vehemently de- mounced previous amendments ear- marking the bill for flood control, pub- lic works and other specific projects. “We've earmarked and earmarked,” be shouted, “until the bill hasn’t got any ears left. We've earmarked un- til it’s no longer a relief bill. “It’s a pork-barrel bill and a dis- grace to congress and the Democratic party if we pass it.” Administration leaders, seeking to reverse tentative allocation of one- third of the $1,500,000,000 fund for special purposes, said they would de- mand roll calls putting each con- greasman on record for or against each proposed diversion. “These changes would practically destroy the bill as a relief measure,” said. Majority Leader Rayburn (Dem., He eaid they would force dropping 1,200,000 persons from work relief rolls, whereas the administration reducing the lists by only 500,000. AFL OPPOSITION TO been paying $7.50 for a four-yard load and the truck to pay minimum wages of 50 cents an to drivers. The new demand, hour he said, is six cents per mile per yard and 60 cents an hour for the drivers, LABOR BILL LOOMS Feel Men's Wages Should Be Fixed by Bargaining Rath- er Than U. S. Law Cincinnati, May 27.—(7)—American Federation of Labor opposition to the administration's wage and hour bill appeared likely Thursday in the light of sentiment expressed privately by federation chieftains. ‘William Green, AFL president, ex- pects the federation’s executive coun- You Can’t Win, Kids Learn School children in Riverside, Ill., were being taught that they couldn't win playing slot machines when this picture was taken. With the consent of the P.-T. A., the slot machine was installed in a school room. Pupils played it, kept tally, saw the odds against them. Notice the string of ciphers on the “scoreboard.” Work Is Halted on the resulted THursday in stoppage of Texts) after a strategy meeting of | work on oll-mix, pavement ecto the Fort’ Lincoln’ road the main ‘street_of wiater. Ww. E. made to Bismarck. TRADE PRACTICES CHURCH CRITICIZED FOR HARSHNESS TO Two Oil-Mix Jobs Disagreement between truckers and Haggatt Construction company work on ‘one on gecretary of the Bismarck Trades and Labor assembly, said it was a strike of the truckers and that 75 men were involved since some la- borers had quit work in sympathy with the truckers. Powerful Beaverbrook Press Claims Clergy Punishing Berwman said the contractors had Loyalty of Friends London, May 27.—(#)—The power- ful Beaverbrook press sharply criticiz- ed the Church of England Thursday for what it termed a too harsh treat- ment of the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Warfield. Rallying to the defense of Britain's abdicated monarch, the Daily Express flatly blamed leaders of the church for inspiring virtual governmental ostracism of his wedding to the wom- an for whom he gave up the throne. The published list of those invited to attend the ceremony June 3 at the Chateau de Cande was considered re- markable for its many omissions— reportedly under government pres- sure—and the Express summed up & full column editorial with the ques- tion: “Isn't it possible that the duke 1s owners were supposed Saying “The dispute is between the truck drivers in ACT BEING DRAWN “DUKE OF WINDSOR cs cil to declare its stand on the measure before the end of its current meeting. Hotel lobby talk plainly indicated most of the council members felt men’s wages should be fixed by collective bargaining rather than by federal law. A rigid minimum, they said, would tend to peg wages and would make every effort to raise pay doubly hard. Sentiment on the hours and child labor provisions was divided. Meantime, the council pushed for- L, Lewis’ rebel Committee for Indus- trial Organization on many fronts. Traditional AFL craft lines were for- gotten for the time being in the Arthur Wharton, president of the machinists’ union and staunch defender of organization by craft, announced he would issue an international union charter to the} tice eee Body workers in In- signaled new AFL invasion of the automobile Inquest Into Death of John Olson Conducted Inquest into the death of John Ol- son, farm laborer killed while walk- ing along highway No. 10 east of Bis- marck Tuesday night, was still under way at 3 p.m. Friday. Justice of the Peace A. E. Shipp was conducting the hearing in the absence of Dr. L. W. Burleigh county Members of the coroners jury are C. Administration Expects to Of- fer Labor Law Supplement in 1938 Session Washington, May 27. — (#) — In- formed officials said Thureday the administration intends to supplement pending wage and hour legislation with a broad fair trade practices pro- gram at the 1938 session of congress. Administration advisers virtually have completed the draft of a feir act, authorities said, but it) will not be offered this year. Most officials studying the prob- Jem were described as believing the wage and hour program should be enacted first and its operation ob- served before tacking on a trade prac- law. In additon, it was sald, the trade practice program would be erected on the same constitutional foundations as the pending labor legislation, cov- ering only industries operating in in- terstate commerce. The trade practice program calls for an expansion of the federal trade commission’s system of voluntary agreements among manufacturers and business men. The commerce department would meet with industrial representatives: in drafting standards for each in- dustry. Quick Disposition of Court Bill Predicted Washington, May 27.—(?)—Talk of adjourning congréss in about two months indicated Thursday that ad- m‘nistration leatiers were counting on ‘disposing of the Roosevelt court bill without # prolonged battle. The Democratic high command discussed possibility of winding up the session by late July or Aug. 1. snd/ Report 500 Killed In Dam’s Collapse Mexico City, May 27.—()—Resi- .|dents of El Oro, in the state of Mexico, in telephone messages said about 500 persons were believed to have been killed when the collapse of a dam buried the nearby town of Tilpujahua, Michocan state, in mpd and sand. ¥ being treated with rather too much of & rough edge?” 3 The Dally Express is the chief or- gan of the press controlled by Lord Beaverbook and publishes simultane= ous, editions in London, Manchester and Glasgow with a circulation of more than 2,000,000. DUKE AND WALLY REHEARSE WEDDING AGAIN Monts, France, May 27.—()—The Duke of Windsor will say “Oui” (yes) first, come 8 week from Thursday. Mayor Charles Mercier, the head man of Monts, told him so Thursday noon during another rehearsal of the 15-minute ceremony which will unite the Duke and Mrs. Wallis Warfield on June 3. The mayor spent an hour going over the service with Edward and Mrs. Warfield in the music room of the Chateau de Cande. Herman L, Rogers, the duke's spokesman, said Sir Walter T. Monck- ton, attorney general of the Duchy of Cornwall, would arrive soon by plane for a “business visit” with the duke. (This might deal with financial ar- rangements—the duke gets no gov- ernment pension from Britain). Walter also is to be a wedding guest. There have been rumors that the | itors. Duke of Kent, whose presence was frowned upon by the British govern- ment, might come to the wedding after all, incognito. Lindbergh Expected To Visit Copenhagen Copenhagen, May 27. — (#) — Col. Charles A. Lindbergh was expected Thursday to visit here in August to continue his research on the “artifi- cial heart.” Two signs pointed to the visit. Dr. Alexis Carrel, the American flier’s Nobel prize-winning collaborator. was due here early in August. Dr. Richard Bing, caretaker of the psychological institute, where the apparatus is kept, was known to be in England conferring with Lindbergh. OH! MR. RIPLEY! Golconda, Ill, May 27.—(7)—Titles are not bestowed upon citizens of the United States, but Sir Walter Scott, who lives here, is a citizen, and Lady Ruth Marks is a member of the El- dorado Township high school gradu- ating class. The Weather Generally fair and warmer tonight and Friday. BGGEST WALKOUT IN 49 YEARS STOPS WORK IN 5 STATES Picket Lines Thrown Aroun( Majority of Mills of Three Independents 80,000 WORKERS AFFECTED Little Violence Reported as CIC Affiliate Starts Strike Wednesday (By the Associated Press) The Steel Workers Organizing com- mittee threw its huge strike machin- ery into high gear Thursday against 27 plants of three leading independent steel producers who employ one seventh of the major industry’s work- ers. Husky steel workers immediately formed picket lines around the sprawl- ing properities of the Republic Steel Corp., Inland Steel Corp., and the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and New York as the strike became effective at 11 Pp. m. Wednesday night. Plants in Pennsylvania also were affected by the order, but those in the Pittsburgh district, Beaver Falls, Pa., and Cumberland, Md., continued to operate. Blast furnaces were banked as Re- public and Sheet é Tube plants halt- ed production in the important Youngstown producing center, the Ma- honing valley district, and threw 32,- 000 workers into idleness. Police Disperse Pickeis Work was halted at three of Repub- c's four Cleveland units—each em- ploying several thousand workers— and picket lines quickly mobilized around the three concerns’ plants ir the Chicago district where they em- ploy 23,000 men. Police broke up a picket line around Republic’s South Chicago plant. Executives at two Pittsburgh dis- trict plants of Republic, the nation’s second largest producer independent of the U. 8. Steel Corp., said they ex- workers to continue at their jobs amid the $5,000,000,000 in- dustry’s worst strike difficulty in 19 years. ‘The strike order against the three concerns which employ # total of 80,000 workers in great steel mills from coast to coast, was read by 51-year-old Philip Murray, head of the young Com- mittee for Industrial Organization affiliate. The Birmingham, Ala. area, was exempt from the original strike order ; but Murray said SWOC leaders would meet there Thursday to consider ac- tion in the locality where Republic’s southern activity is centered. 3 Some of the picketed plants still’ were operating. “Where picketing is of such nature that it does not inter- fere with entrance of those who want te work, those plants will remain open,” a Republic spokesman said at Cleveland. “The shutdown is complete in al} plants in the Mahoning valley area, facluding over 30,000 men,” Don Mayo, sub-regional SWOC director, at Youngstown. Strike leaders claimed “all but a few” of the 6,000 workers at Republic's. Warren, O., mill emerged at the “sero: hour.” In Canton, O,, where the strike first started with some 8,000 workers idle, pot by tempted to enter company premises. A number of the large independents’ _ mill remained in operation. 100,000 Persons Walk Over Golden Gate Span San Francisco, May 27.—(P)—A hundred thousand persons started out Thursday to walk across the Golden Gate as San Francisco’s new $35,000,- 000 bridge, world’s longest suspension span, was turned over to the public after nearly five years of work. Their pathway lay across 4,200 feet of shining concrete and red steel. The occasion was “pedestrian day.” Fri- day the bridge will be opened to auto- mobile traffic. An anti-Nasi boycott threat by the maritime federation of the Pacific hung over San Francisco’s week-long fiesta, and the city’s largest hotels still were tied up by a strike that was in SirJits 27th day. Neither appeared to af- poe the galety of thousands of vis- Grasshopper Poison Causes Stock Deaths Arsenic, believed to have been pei siderable livestock in North Dakota this spring, State Chemist Culver 8. Ladd said Thursday. Chemists found arsenic in sufficient