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

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper Fair tonight, Wed; cooler tonight, rising WORKERS RUSH OUT OF MILL 10 POUNCE ON PICKET GROUP Fighting at Cleveland Republic Plant Continues Until Late in Night POLICE CANCEL VACATIONS Clubs, Steel Pipes, Axes Used in Bloody Fighting Out- side Plant Gates Cleveland, July 27.—(?)—Republic Steel Corp. workers and striking pickets clashed Monday night in a bloody battle in the Corrigan-Mc- Kinney steel mill valley, cracking heads with clubs, pickaxes, iron pipes, and any handy weapons that could be swung to advantage in.a free for all melee. The after dark rioting, lasting into the morning, sent more than 60 per- sons to hospitals and doctors with head wounds and other injuries, and climaxed a day of outbreaks between workers and strikers inthe mill area. Casualties for the day included one death and well over 100 injured. Police reported early Tuesday that the riot had been brought under con- trol, as city officials moved to pre- vent @ recurrence of the open war- fare, Four hundred people, including 200 on special duty, were ordered to the mill area for the changing of the morning shift at the Corrigan-Mc- Kinney plant Tuesday. ‘Will Not Request Assistant Safety Director Robert | eq W. Chamberlin asked Republic offi- . ESTABLISHED 1878 The Best Propaganda (An Editorial) « More than 150 residents of Bismarck and vicinity will leave here earl; Wednesday on an excursion to Sidney, Mont., to view the irrigation project there. Interest in what farmers of that area are doing has been stirred by the pos- sibility of developing irrigation here and farmers and busi- nessmen—quite rightly—want to see what it is that is be- ing proposed. : it is heped and expected that those making the trip will look with understanding eye upon the irrigated valley of the Lower Yellowstone; that they will note the handi- caps and hardships as well as the benefits and blessings of irrigation; that Hey will seek out all the pertinent facts. Only upon this basis can the people decide whether or not they want to attempt irrigation here. Much has been written on the subject. During the last few years The Tribune has quite frankly propagandized for the establishment of irrigation in Western North Da- kota. But no amount of propaganda can change a single fact. And it still is true that “seeing is believing.” ,__, This trip will do much to support or defeat the cause of irrigation in this state. If the people on the train feel they have seen nothing of benefit to them the agitation for irri- gation will receive a near-fatal blow. If they are con- vinced that it would be a boon to this area valuable im- cals to. abandon the night shift change, placing the plant on a two- shift day, while Police cations, § petus will have been given the movement to put water on the land in the valleys of the Missouri river and tribu- tary streams. va -_ The Tribune has tried not to get itself oversold on the idea but it feels that it is better to eat an apple—and pos- sibly encounter a worm at the core—than to have no apple STATE TO PURCHASE $65,000 EQUIPMENT Move Will Be First Step to Comply With Requests of U. S. Road Bureau Chief George | Dakota high and Sheriff Martin L. O'Donnell said they | sta would not .ask that national guard troops be sent back here. é Sporadic fighting between worker and striker groups through the day | being Monday, punctuated by more serious toting with the changing of shifts, veached a climax Monday night with 2 five hour pitched battle in the val- ley fronting the main entrance of the plant. Starting shortly after dark, the fighting raged until after 1 a. m., with more than 60 persons injured, 100 or more automobiles damaged, shots fired, tear gas bombs thrown, and clubs wielded so indiscriminately that often, police said, members of the ire groups were fighting their own Wreck Headquarters Headquarters of the Steel Workers | partic Organizing committee near the plant was wrecked by a band of workers. A newspaper reporter who saw the fight inside the SWOC building, said he saw Miss Rosina Artino, 19, who had been preparing food for pickets, struck on the arm with a club, and window. broken, windows smashed, and glass and debris were thrown into the food intended for the Pickets, the reporter said, Rioting reached its peak about 11 p.m. At 10:30 strikers began evad- ing police who had been keeping back crowds of sympathizers, and made their way into the valley where they could stop cars at will. At 11 about 500 workers identifying themselves with white arm bands, Breet of Cn aagenencenee road ate of plant attacking a group of about 100 witnesses said. The pickets fled before the workers. 5,000 Watch Melee Hundreds of women, children and curiosity seekers were included among @ crowd of nearly 5,000 who watched the riots from the top of the valley, where 150 policemen were on duty. Eventually came the attack on the SWOC headquarters and fighting be- came general in the steel plant valley. Nearly 100 pickets who had slipped through the police lines and ap- Proached the Independence Road gate ae peta by tear = bombs. 4 Orecny, 45, an SWOC picket, and a Republic crane operator for 16 Years, was killed Monday afternoon When he was struck by a car driven by a Republic worker, and which, Police said, careened out of control When the driver ducked to avoid a barrage of bricks, Police gave the Griver’s name as William Johnson. Police Sergeant Cornelius Sullivan, in charge of the area, said no charges Would be filed against Johnson. Gilbert Blais Denies Knowledge of Murder Minneapolis, July 27.—()—Gilbert Blais, 30, linked to the murder mystery case of Pearl Osten, killed ten years 280, continued to maintain he had nothing to do with the crime. cppttectives Tuesday continued to ‘earch for witnesses who were on the Street car with the girl the night before her body was found'in an aban- Soned shed. Blais was returned here *fter release from the Bismarck, N. D, | Penitentiary, YOUNG MOTHER BURIED ytastings, ND, duly 27.—Mrs. » Howard Heasley, young mother who 4 he - Rochester, Minn., was dpceered ' ete Saturday following funeral serv- cts in Jamestown Saturday. Rev. Joseph , pastor of James- Higshs Trinity Lutheran church, was charge, tenance, However, only six motor patrols are purchased due tothe financial conieltion of. the department, he as- Pa ai Bids on the new equipmient will be opened Aug. 4 and the work of seal- coating approximately 125 miles of bituminous-surfaced highways will be completed this year, Gurvin stated. “He explained the sealcoating work is necessary to preserve the oll mat, filling the cracks and thereby pre- venting water from softening the sub- grade, The process “restores life to the mat” and prevents “chipping out” of the aggregates. = past three years little ularly on U. 8. Highway 10,” centage of the oil mat must be taken up, ré-treated and re-layed due to improper care in the past. Due to the character of the work it has been found more satisfactory to do it with state highway forces rather than letting it out on contracts, Gur- vin stated. : Besides the six motor patrols, other major items in the letting are two 2,000-gallon road oil distributors and two, five to eight ton road rollers. EARTHQUAKE DEATH TOLL COUNT RISES At Least 30 Bodies Recovered in Ruins Left After Mex- ican Tremor Mexico City, July 27.—(?)—Work- men Tuesday picked through piles of debris that once were homes and public buildings in Vera Crus and Puebla states to reckon the cost of Sunday night’s earthquake. At least 30 bodies had been reccovered. and telegraph 1d a complete : Fire Truck Stops | . for Traffic Light oo Rising Star, Tex., July 27—(7) —Rising Star has only one traffic light, but it gets full use out of it, The city fire truck came dash- ing up to the light. The light turned red. The to a halt, truck screeched dashed on when the signal changed, MRS. D. M. SLATTERY Came to Bismarck as a Girl of Four in 1883; Leaves Seven Children With six of her seven children and all three of her grandchildren at her bedside, Mrs, Daniel M. Slattery died at her home at 608 West Broadway at 8:35 p.m. Monday. She was 58 years old. Mrs. Slattery had been suffering from a lingering illness for approxi- mately a year. Her death ends the career of one of Bismarck’s outstanding pioneer wom- en and Catholic leaders. born Mary R. Her mother died when Mrs. Slattery was @ baby. Came Here in 1883 With her father, Martin Johnson, she came to Bismarck in 1683 when she was four years.old. BISMARCK, N. D., TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1987 CLASH COMES WHEN TROOPS REFUSE 10 LAY DOWN WEAPONS Unoontirmed Reports State China Has Rejected Jap- } anese Ultimatum i NEW ATTACK ANNOUNCED Peiping Prepares for War; For- eign Populations Ready + for Emergency ‘ advices from isolated Peiping. said Japanese troops apparently’ had launched a major-scale ats tack aimed at expelling the en-~ tire 29th Chinese army from 4 tla that ane and fore: quarter defense gai were manning the walls or thet: quarter. iH (By the Associated Press) Virtual “annihilation” of 800 nese soldiers east of Pelping was ported by Japanese sources after Japan’s ultimatum di Chinese troop withdrawal from tense zone west of the ancient cs expired at noon without any ileatoe of Shing peg Bombing planes e troops hurled their force ues Chinese regiment 12 miles east (of Peiping when the Chinese: soldiery refused to disarm, the dispatches gnid. The Japanese reports abt be confirmed, however, in Ni or other Chinese quarters. « troops. The American embassy there has 675 United States citizens regis- tered, including 223 men, 267 wom- en, and 185 children. The embassy guard of marines under the command of Col. John Marston of Germantown, Pa., con- sists of 22 officers and 489 men. In addition, 93 are listed as the de- pendents of the military person- hel, living in the marine barracks. ‘The Domei (Japanese) news agency tenewed Chinese attacks on Japanese forces at Nanyuan, import- lant Chinese military airbase and head- quarters of the Chinese 37th division south of Peiping. The dispatch said Japanese troops, aided by airplanes, quickly subdued the Chinese. Nanyuan previously had been the scene of fighting in the in- termittent clashes between Chinese and gopeneee in North China since Shangha! dispatches said the Nan- king government was massing big troop concentrations to face Japan’s helped demands in the Hopeh-Chahar re- high |not territory but co-operati Son Expected Tuesday Mrs. Barneck and Dorothy are now in Bismarck. Daniel was expected to ‘one a minister in Norway and the : other a western resident. still missing. Half the buildings of that town of 8,000 were reported leveled, including an ancient colonial church. Scores— perhaps hundreds—of residents in the area most severely affected by the tremor were in hospitals or has- tily im) first aid stations. ‘The shocks began at 9:48 p, m., and lasted as long as two and a half min- utes in some places. Committeewomen to Meet in Wi ashington Washington, July 27.—(7)—An un- usual conference of Republican women leaders here on Aug. 11 will provide the first opportunity for general dis- cussion of the party’s 1938 election campaign. Chairman John Hamilton sent tele- grams Monday to all national com- mitteewomen, inviting them to dis- cuss the work of the women’s division. He has just returned from a Buro- pean vacation to take active charge ‘of campaign arrangements. He an- rounced the women’s meeting after a conference at Scranton, Pa., with Mrs. Worthington Scranton, national vice chairman. 4 Mrs. Slattery, a tireless worker in the Catholic church, was a member of the Catholic Daughters of America, Immaculate Conception court, and served a8 a trustee two years. For several years she was @ coun- sellor for the Junior Catholic Daugh- ters. Under her leadership, the local troop won the state chapter's cup for charity work and other activities three years in succession. Mrs. Slattery was a member of the auxiliary to the Spanish-American ‘War Veterans association and served at one time as department treasurer. Led Veterans’ Ai auxiliary She belonged to the auxiliary to the Veterans’ of Foreign Wars, and was & member of the Wometi’s Benefit ass0- ciation, which she once served as president. Puneral services, a requiem high mass, will be held at St. Mary's pro- cathedral at 9 a. m. Wedneday, with Father Robert Feehan, pastor, offi- clating. Interment will be in St. Mary's cemetery. Mrs, Slattery’s three sons, Daniel, James, and Jack, will be pallbearers. Other pallbearers will be her sons-in- law, Kenneth McDonald, William , and Frank J. Johnson. Members of the Catholic Daughters will recite a Rosary at the Slattery home at 8 p. m. Tuesday. gion where Japanese and Chinese. economic interests clash. ‘Want Co-Operation Japan’s premier, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, in Tokyo disclaimed any ter- said that if China failed to fulfill her promises “decisive measures” would be taken by Japan. “What Japan wants from icnuate ” he told a tense session of the Japanese parliament. In Peiping thousands of Japan- ese and Koreans flocked into the legation quarter for protection and the United States embassy took ex- traordinary precautions to protect Americans in the event hostilities break out. The Japanese embassy was reinforced by 300 troops who fought (Continued on Page Two) Came to North Dakota in 1891 be seal t EArms. ‘ Last Three Years ‘Mrs. Martha Morris died Monday evening at the home of her son, James Morris, justice of the North Dakota supreme court, at 930 Sev- enth street. She was 78 years old. Martha Henderson was born March 28, 1859 at Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1801 she married David Morris and came was born. Her husband died in 1903. Mrs. Morris operated the farm for a time, then moved to Cincinnati to provide for her son’s education. forth During the last three years she had made her home in Bismarck wil Judge Morris, his wife and daughter, Former North Dakota Man Killed by Shock Spokane, Wash, July 27.—(P)— Shocked unconscious when he came in contact with # 13,000 volt line, Gilbert Groseth, 23-year-old lineman, was pronounced dead at a hospital here late Monday after an inhalator squad attempted for several hours to revive him. He came a year ago from Aneta, N. D. yeu” explains Barbecue Treats Not For Home-Town Folks Nature could be no mort cruel than to provide a breeze from the south cn Wednesday, Aug. 4. For Bismarck nostrils then would be breathing the savory odor of barbe- cued beef which would be wafted through the city from the southern extremity of the business district and digestive glands undoubtedly would start work early and hunger pains/that would start trickling through Bismarck ebdomens with unusual ramifications. Old-timers (Bismarck has not had |i @ public barbecue for many a moon) are vociferous in their claim that there is nothing more tempting than the fragrance of, nor nothing more tasty than, barbecued beef. The barbecue luncheon will be served from 11 a. m. to 1 p. m. Aug. 4 as a headline attraction of the Bis- marck Barbecue Bargain Day pro- planned by the Junior Associa- of Commerce. It will be prepared eral chairman, “our program for the day is arranged for the benefit of Bismarck’s visitors and not Bismarck residents. We trust that Bismarck will evince its customary hospitality bered \. It is going to be a big job to serve all of our visitors and naturally we hope Bismarck persons will not inter- our work. We realize that @ cruel request, but sometime iture it is possible that # bar- for the benefit and served on the parking lot at the) a intersection of Main avenue and Fourth Street, diagonally across the street from the Patterson hotel. = +See Come First ‘ jut marck persons are request- ed to refrain from pai of the barbecue luncheon by the Junior As- sociation committee in charge. “After i.tles Whittey, gen- Williston Man Drowns in Deep Lake Waters Williston, N. D., July 21—(P)—Life- » Spectators saw Hanson go down in 15 feet of water but thought he was STRIKE PREVENTION HELD BASIER THRU USE OF CONFERENGE City Attorney Foster Discusses Labor Controversy Be- fore Kiwanis A suggestion that businessmen con- fer with their employes to make cer- tain that they have no grievances as Tuesday noon by C. L. Foster, city attorney, who discussed aspects of the strikes at the city’s two hide and fur companies recently. Foster said that the hide and fur strikes have “simmered down,” not, because differences have been ironed out, but rather because of the finan- cial inability of the strikers to carry on. The city attorney pointed to the possibility of other strikes which may be costly to everyone involved, Recognizing that the strikers, those who wished to work, those who wished to do business with the hide and fur companies and the employers all had definite constitutional rights, the city commission endeavored to follow the middle of the road in the affair, Foster said. To Protect Rights All involved had the right to do just as they pleased. the attorney said, just so they violated no laws and did not interfere with the rights of others. He said that city policemen and officers of the sheriffs staff were sent to the scene only for the purpose of seeing that everyone's rights were protected. Giving s brief resume of confer- ences which were held in efforts to iron out the difficulties, Foster con- demned outside agitators with past criminal records who induce peace- able persons to strike, often to the detriment of their own interests. He also called attention to the fact that employers also have many obliga- tions, especially in regard to reason able working hours and maintenance of sanitary working conditions. Foe ie ep nercoeed by City Comm! r H. jpohn, program chairman. Guests at the luncheon included H. W. Byerly, immigration agent of the Northern Pacific Railway Co., Excursion Train Will PRICE FIVE CENTS fy ADJOURNMENT IDEA GRIPS CONGRESS A SESSION END NEARS Exponents of Anti-Lynching noes Legislation to Submit Rider to Train Limit Measure temperature Wed, IN CASES HELPED IS SEEN BY WARD Regional Chief to Practically Close Down Bismarck Of- fice In Near Future TO LEAVE ONLY SIX HERE Forsees Limit of 15,000 on Rolla Next Winter; Cagy About Grants. Drastic reductions in personnel of the North Dakota offices of the Rural Resettlement administration were an- nounced here Tuesday by Cal Ward, Lincoln, Neb., regional director. Eighty-six agency employes in North Dakota’s 53 county offices have been notified that they are being lopped from the payrolls on or about Aug. 5 as a result of budgetary re- ductions for operative expense in the region. The Resettlement staff in Bismarck, would be cut to six persons, the state edministrator, debt adjustment super- visor, home economics advisor and three clerks. Wholesale reductions in the admin- istration caseloads in North Dakota also were forecast as district crops very, ‘With 32,000 families dependent on RRA grants and loans recently, Ward said he estimated this load would be reduced to 15,000 families or less with the amount of ‘western North Dakota, Ward could not defi- nS bee turns le" to in te thoroughly,” he said, “and grants will be based on real*need. We intend to let anyone e July 27.—()—Ad- | braska, Washington, jJournment-bent senators hastened a new court bill toward the senate floor Tuesday, hopeful that its enactment would end the congressional session- The senate judiciary committee was called together to approve the mea- sure, drafted by a subcommittee to re- place the Roosevelt judiciary bill. It would speed up lower federal courts. Members forecast quick passage, be- cause all controversial features have been stricken from it. Senators fav- oring an early adjournment expressed | inet the president’ will the belief that thereafter nothing could hold congress long in ee program. jority Leader Barkley (Dem., would not discuss it beyond the wage- hour bill, which he called up Tuesday for debate. Delay Party Caucus Democratic chieftains in the house said they wanted to talk to President Roosevelt before fixing their program. They persuaded Rep. McFarlane (Dem., Texas) to delay filing a peti- tion for a party caucus to decide on the calendar. ‘The house was ready to debate the first phase of Mr. Roosevelt’s govern- ment reorganization program—e bill to grant the president six administra- tive assistants. Other bills on which action still is > uncertain are the low-cost housing | oO. pill, tax loophole legislation and & general farm program, including the sugar quota bill, © The principal support for holding congress in session to vote on those proposals came from younger mem- bers of the senate and house. Some senators were talking of a fall session to enact farm and other legis- lation if congress could not be held here now. House Democratic leaders opposed this scheme. ‘The adjournment spirit was dis- played Monday night when the sen- ate stayed in session past the dinner hour to approve the McCarran bill to limit freight trains to 70 cars. Senate Vote Forecast Administration leaders forecast & senate vote on the wage and hour bill by Thursday despite new attempts to amend it. Exponents of anti-lynching legisla- tion said they again would submit the ‘Wagner-Van Nuys bill to the senate, this time as a rider to the labor standards measure. Senator Copeland (Dem., N. Y.), submitted the anti-lynching meas- the train bill was passed. The anti-lynching bill would im- Leave Here at 5 A. M. ¢ The senate took up the wage-hour ficiency of the regional agency. “We now have a competent, well-trained staff of workers who should be able to handle the duties a larger force has been doing.” Ward said that the number of dis- program. He declared that hereafter, the state administrative force probably would be in the field much of the time to supervise, Division Chiefs Fired It is the assumption that Iver Acker, acting state director, Leonard . Orvedahl, chief of the debt ad- justment division, and Miss Pauline ving Wednesday to the readjustment of the tive force is Walton Dodge of Lincoln, chief of the regional loan section. He will superintendent the shake-up but is not expected to remain as state agency chief. Ward also said Tuesday that W. W. Alexander, national director of the Rural Resettlement administra- tion, successor to Rexford G. Tugwell, had driven through North Dakota Monday from Grand Forks to Willis- ton en route to Montana, Ward said that Alexander had condi (Continued on Page Two) Hold Would-be Judge Was Not Duly Elected Minneapolis, July 27—(?}—An order seers ook place ia the seventh trict seven Judicial district last Nov. 3, and that . Dosland, Moorhead stor, entitled to = certificate of election from the state canvassing board was down Tuesday by District Minot, N. D. July trouble caused the death here Satur- day of Mrs. Swen Anderson, 36. A native of Sweden, she lived for many years near Glenburn where funeral services are being held.