The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 8, 1937, Page 1

Tdehm | THE BISMARCK 2200 Sino- Navy ESTABLISHED 1873 North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper BISMARCK, N.-D. THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1937 TRIBUNE The Weather Local thundershowers | tonight; warmer to- night; Friday fair, PRICE FIVE CENTS (OLORADO CRUISES. ‘Moormon Cricket Found in County SOUTH AND BAST OF TINY PACIFIC ISLET Three Planes From Battleship Scan Waters Without Find- ing Trace of Plane NEW MESSAGE IS STUDIED Aircraft Carrier Speeding to) Evidence Tallies With Story of |hoppers with tails, ad the Honolulu En Route to Join Biggest Search Honolulu, July 8—()}—The might- jest peacetime search of the United States navy was launched Thursday for Amelia Earhart, missing round- the-world-filer, who officials hope is awaiting rescue on a coral reef or sandpit somewhere southeast of tiny "the ‘battleship Colorado, The » cruising south and east of Howland, cata- pulted its three fighting planes Wed- nesday night to open the serial phase of the hunt undertaken by boat when Miss Earhart failed to arrive at How- land last Friday on @ 2,700 mile flight from New Guinea. FLIERS COULD LIVE FOR MONTH San Francisco, July 8.— (4 — Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan apparently could live for a month or more if’ landed on an equatorial islet as searchers be- lived today. The plane. carried chocolate bars, tomato juice, concentrated foods, considerable water, fishing tackle, and most important, a machine to ‘water from With any luck at fishing and continued: operation of the -vapo ‘Miss Earhart and her navigator, Fred’ Noonan. their The planes planned to resume search at dawn, (11:30 a, m., CST), cruising over Winslow reef, 175 miles from Howland ialand, on the fringe of the Phoenix island group. What coast: Officials in Ban Francisco described as one of the most promising developments in the way of amateur radio messages was teported Wednesday night from Con- tad, Mont. 2 : Ray Havens, Conrad’ creamery worker, phoned the Great Falls Tri- bune that a and saying “all’s wel A few minutes later, he ‘said, he picked up-@ aecond message, which he gave as ft heli COURT TESTIMONY REVEALS FACTS IN ~ WELDER WOUNDING dones, Accused in Case, in Most Details Except for a few rather im; details there isn’t going to sebiais Gisagreement as to what: happeni front of the Northern Hide and Fur Jesse J. Jones, hide house employe. Their - testimony, in most pertinent respects, bore out the statement which Jones gave to The'Tribune while being in jail immediately after the shooting. . The two stories, one as told after the affair and the other as offered in evidence before Judge H, R. Bon- that of two excited and impetu young ‘men, each well known to the See eas St soci over en eecepente e. Welder, admittedly, was involyed in an affair with which he had no im- mediate concern, armed with a gun. Was Volunteer Picket } Welder, 27 years old, isa bull-necked young man with rust-coloréd heir. A resident of Burleigh county 10 years, “Position 173 west longitude and §| hit the south latitude.” Luke Wright of the Tribune edi- torial staff: immediately tuned in: his set on 8108 Kkilocycles, and reported he heard @ voice, presumably a man’s, ‘but could ase) distinguish the words. Climax Monday Rear Admiral 0..G. Murfin, 14th naval commandant and -di-| tector of the mass hunt, predicted fuccess or failure. of the widespread operations should: be determined. mid-afternoon Fi r tely toward Howland, han 1,500 miles southwest. Clipper Completes _ First Ocean Flight New ye Aviation tion city” Got under cent Be BEGIN ARTATION city’ Lnton, N. D,, July 8—County Agen tee Barrett is credited With one of the best mosquito and grasshopper stories of the Season, As tos aa he tells it pad oer farm agreed to “soldier's car” parked at the curb. Welder :said-he merely. asked talk to Jones but that the latter said “get out of the way or I'll shoot you down,” and that he later told Mahnkey, “You'd better move or I'll shoot your guts out.” It was all very exciting, at the time and the:two wi were none too clear in some portions of their testi- mony. Before the court session | ore it was'a muddle of questions, and Jones was; New Menace to Crops Makes First Known Appearance in Doppler Corn Field In a glass jar on the desk of County Agent H. O. Putnam are a couple of brown bugs about an inch long. They look like overstuffed grass- name, ‘Mormon cricket,” may day be es unpleasant to North Dakota ears be a of their slenderer cousin is ‘The crickets on Putnam’s desk were brought to Bismarck Tuesday from a corn-field on the farm of Leo ‘and Laurence Doppler, about 3 miles south of Menoken. There they have serious damage to a stand - of ty. Jdaho, and: other mountain states, Mormon. crickets have. been as much of a menace as "hoppers have in North Dakota. But [heretofore, according to Putnam, they have not been found in dangerous quantities in the plains region. Where the horde that attacked the Doppler corn field came from Put- nam does not know. He thinks they hatched here—and fears an infesta- The pair of Mormon crickets on Putnam's desk are dead. They were fed poisoned grasshopper bait. Whether or not the crickets will eat the arsenic-coated mash if there is anything else to consume remains to seen. If the grasshopper bait doesn't work, Putnam said, then the poison formula. wired from Fargo Tuesday ento- ~ IN TENNESSEE RloT Quiet Reigns After Guardsmen Are Called to Quell Strife at Alcoa Plant Alcoa, Tenn., July 8.—()—Alcoa— Owned by and named for the Alumi- num Company of America—was tense but quiet: Thursdey under the guns of 300 soldiers called in after two men were ‘killed and 28 hurt in a pitched battle between strikers and company guards. : Henson Kick, 30-year-old striker, died of bullet wounds shortly after |] Wednesday's fight. A few hours later, ‘W. M. Hunt, 42, a special officer, of similar injuries. Hope for an early settlement of differences between the company and strikers: was expressed by Fred Wet- more, president of the local Aluminum’ ‘Workers union, an American Federa- Rue aii f ic E i 54 ital ‘ 3 gf BeGeee ni 3 Christianity. Tho Indian office will send a field agent to negotiate with the tend grani such reques! would mean the loss of some of the museum’s most important apecimens. i RENEW ARGUMENTS TOWARDS SETTLING | BISMARCK STRIKES City Commission Hears Both Sides But Takes No Action Pending Mediation LABOR BOARD MAN COMING Labor Meetings Asks Governor to Intervene; Liquor Li- censes Taken Up Charges and counter-charges of “intimidation” and “misrepresenta- tion” marked renewal of arguments before the Bismarck city commission Wednesday night as attempts were made to start the two-weeks old strike in two local hide and fur houses towards settlement. back - to - work - moverpent leaders, which took the form of three distinct pilgrimages to the city council's meeting room, came after the com- missioners had decided to withhold isuatces of liquor and beer selling l- censes pending payment of delinquent personal property taxes. All were temporarily held up though several proprietors are in good standing ‘on the city’s tax records. The commission voted not to issue & license to Tom Ashridge, proprietor of the West cafe whose old Hcense was suspended ‘by the commission on charges that he had Ge the law by selling liquor on ay. Hope for quick settlement of the strike, now apparently at a deadlock, was boosted with the announcement that Robert J. Weiner, acting regional director of the national labor rela- tions board, would.be here Thursday to conduct negotiations towards that end. ; Some Want te Work representing strikers from th who now wish to go back names are on the petition represe a majority of the 15 employes who originally voted to strike. All of the nine signers, he eaid, are union men, who have “had a change of heart and that these men might return to w a vote among employ: see whether or not a majority wish to return to work, he feared that if a vote were taken the petition would be into voting against their ment, that is, to continue on Northern Hide and Fur company were on’ petition asking for protection if (Continued on Page Two) ; Used in Miniature Earthquakes Created to Aid Geologists in Map- ping Earth's Depths Editor’s Note: This ts the fourth of a series of six stories relative to ofl exploration work im the Nesson valley of western North Dakota. By GORDON MacGREGOR ‘Williston, N. D., July 8—Rays of & scorching: that have seared a fer- come the bronzed young Geophysical Service, Inc., Texas, the company under Stripped to the waist and moving contipycally with machine-like preci- MANDAN'S MAYOR DECLARES WAR ON HIGHWAY TAVERNS Opens One-Man Campaign to Keep Them Closed on Sunday, to Obey Law), WOOS ‘PUBLIC SENTIMENT’ Three Operators Arrested as Byerly Takes First Steps Toward ‘Reform’ Mayor Clyde G. Byerly of Mandan came to Bismarck Thursday morning to “stir up a little public sentiment” to aid his campaign to close taverns on the Bismarck-Mandan highway Sundays and also to force them to Sloss, SemNy, at midnight Saturday ne og awa whicl When eo eats eae xe were on selling liquor ‘on Sunday in alleged violation of the state law. In the background is « resolution recently passed by the Morton county board of commissioners legalizin: Sunday sale from. noon to midnight. But Mayor Byerly and the county officials do not see eye to eye on this matter. In fact it ig the pocasion for ® dispute which has torn Mandan asunder for weeks. Walls Rend Heavens When he took office on a quasi- reform platform, Byerly forced the Mandan ~- establish. The appearance of the strike and | nig! He asked police protection in os ‘out Asked by the commission to conduct | Byerly’ res of the firm to} ® Names of 23 of 33 employes of thes Mechanical ‘Ears Oil Survey . ic AB, Welch 5 INCHES OF RAIN - DANPEN BSMARGK -NLOGAL SHOWERS Few Other Points Report Any Appreciable Amounts of Precipitation: of the state, the only other reporting moisture being Dickinson .21; Dunn Center .10; Jamestown .06; Beach .05; Grand Forks .03 and Devils Lake .01. Williston, in the heart of what continues to be a drouth- stricken area, failed to report. flying over Sterling, Ill, en route to Chi- cago called for steam heat Wed- day. Pilot Richard outside temperature at 9,000 feet was 55 degrees. Despite the official forecast of local thundershowers this afternoon or to- night, O. W. Roberts, in charge of the local weather station, said he doubted that any more rain fall here Thursday or Friday. He explained, however, that like money in that “the z Hag bide Ea 5 2 iy w g6 28 eESESEER ‘Wanner : W. B. Falconer Welch Sioceeds i Ernest Wanner William B. Falconer Named Purchasing Agent as Laura Sanderson Resigns Appointment of Major A. B. Welch of Mandan to succeed Ernest G. Wanner as secretary of the board of administration was announced at will remain in the office until Aug. 1. Wanner Is Veteran Wanner is one of North Dakote’s veteran statehouse employes. He has been secretary of the board of ad- ‘The Board of control and the board of regents was consolidated in 1919 to form the present board of ad- ministration, which now governs the state's educational, penal and char- itable institutions. head of the federal transient camp at Bottineau. He is imperial potentate of Hi Zagal temple, Fargo, ‘and an adopted @on of the Sioux Indian tribe. Mrs. Ulerud said that no action had placements or reappointment state penal, charitable or educational institutions. Dr. Alfred G. Dodds, assistant su- perintendent of the state tuberculosis sanitorium at San Haven, will confer with members of the board Friday, she said, but declined to comment on 20 RUSSIANS SLAIN Hainking, Manchukuo, July 8.-(#)- O’Connor Aware of Governorship ‘Bug’ Washington, July 8—(7)—J. F. T. O'Connor, currency comptroll Japanese ‘War’ Erupts Again Planes Soar Over South Seas Seeking Amelia ens ou In Statehouse Changes NIPPON'S SOLDIERS TURN ARTILLERY ON CITY NEAR PEIPING Heavy Fighting Concentrated in Area 10 Miles West of Ancient Capital MARCO POLO BRIDGE SEIZED Both Sides Blame Other for Battle That Commenced With Midnight Maneuvers Peiping, China, July 8. — (%) — Fighting raged in the western suburbs of this ancient dragon capital of China between Japanese forces and Chinese General Sung Cheh-Yuan’s 29th army Thursday after a mid-night clash between troops conducting secret night maneuvers, Japanese aoldiers seized a portion of the railroad from Peiping southward to Hankow and repeatedly attacked the city of Wanpinghsien. There was heavy fighting in the vicinity of the marble bridge of Marco Polo, 10 miles west of Peiping. The Chinese were reported to have established their main positions with- in Wanpinghsien in the face of a re- ported ultimatum from Japanese troops demanding their immediate surrender, BISMARCK WOMAN IN WAER-TORN PEIPING Mrs, 8S. H, Merritt, 221 Third 8t., who is a trip around the world with her sister, Mrs. Helen Burton’ of Peiping, China, wrote friends es their iti would 3 f ney jigs i Ley The outbreak of hostilities, signal- in Sino- News agency, as saying the Chinese troops would be “wiped out” unless they were immediately disarmed. BOTH JEWS, ARABS BUCK BRITISH PLAN Ancient Foes May Unite Against Palestine Partitioning Proposal jerusalem, July 8—()—Bitter op- ition among the rank and file of