The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 28, 1937, Page 1

Telephone 2200 Ma THE BIS ESTABLISHED 1878 North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper BISMARCK, N. D., WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1937 MARCK TRIBUNE The Weather Unsettled, warmer to- night; Thursday prob- PRICE FIVE CENTS Two Killed As Plane Crashes in Field Near Fargo WRS. DONALD PEET AND BROTHER ARE KILLED; TWO HURT Plane Banks for Landing Before Nosing Into Spin and Div- ing to Earth HAPPENED LATE TUESDAY Two Children Injured, One Ser- iously, Mother Was Wife of Clay County Agent Mrs, Fargo, N. D, July 283—()—1 Donald Peet of Moorhead, died at 1:10 a, m. Wednesday in a Fargo hospital without regaining consciousness after the airplane crash Tuesday in which her brother, Perry Newton of Denver, Colo. was killed. Her son, Jimmy, remained in a seri- ous condition, Another son, Robert, is believed to be-only suffering from shock, Mi, Peet is extension agent for Clay county. Newton flew here Tuesday morning and had taken his sister, and the two children, Jimmy 9, and Robert, 16 months, for a ride, witnesses said when the plane banked for a landing, nosed into a spin and crashed. Jimmy suffered a skull fracture and compound fracture of the right leg at the ankle. Robert was not seriously hurt, suffering only from shock. Hunt for Family Meanwhile relatives combed eastern Montana by telephone and telegraph to find Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Newton, parents of Newton and Mrs. Peet, still unaware of the tragedy. They are returning from s vacation trip to the west coast. Newton, superintendent.of a Sears- visit. marking his qualification for a private pilot’s license, won June 28 after examinations before a Den- ver examiner, He was flying a three- passenger cabin ship owned by the Ray Wilson flying school, Denver, where he had received his training. Lester G. Orcutt, department of commerce inspector stationed at Far- g0, reported he believed Newton had about 70 hours of flying experience. Without advancing any theory as to the cause of the crash, Orcutt ord- ered the plane taken to a warehouse for investigation. It was revealed that the ship had been repaired only Tuesday morning after nosing over at as » 8. D. Flames kept rescuers from Teaching the plane. Most of the victims ap- | beth, Police blamed the outbreak on Irish Republicans. While the King coronation visit, were driving to the Belfast city hall through crowded streets, a gas main explosion a half mile away. boomed through a wide Parently were blown to Plosion, the only body be identiifed being that of lands stewardess, a Miss Van Deveen. One of the victims, a Nathaus, was secretary TWO AMERICANS KILLED WHEN DUTCH PLANE CRASHES Amsterdam, July 28.—(?)—Fifteen Persons, three of them identified by airline attaches as Americans, died Wednesday in the flaming plunge of a Netherlands airliner at Hal, Belgium. The airline said the last names of the Americans were “Munn, Canton cther information about them. A Mexican named Trillo was listed among the dead, r A oa investigation, ae the plane was struck by light- The transport, a Douglas (United States make), crashed in flames after an explosion in mid-air. Its 10 pes- The ship left Amsterdam at 9:20 2 m. and crashed on a flight to Paris after having landed at the Evere sir- Port in Brussels, Hold Services for Auto Crash Victim «Williston, N. D,, July 28—Funeral ea ces were held Sunday for Mar- cellius M, “Biessener, 29, Williston automobile salesman, who was killed nstanth when his automobile vashed into ditch of Highway 25, about four miles west of Beulah. pussener apparently lost control of i ae while going at high Sister Boniface Is Somewhat Improved’ Sister M. Boniface, ill in s local hospital heart disease, was somewhat improved” Wi Sccording to her ee sister poalent of St. Alexius hospital, has seriously € about two weeks, flew to| ...1tis,on the contrary, a heartless and: ering. ARSON AND GUNFIRE GREET SOVEREIGNS |e, m, 2 2-1 ON BELFAST VISIT Explosion Rocks Area as King Resettlement’s Retreat s (An Editorial Cal Ward was a good deal less than frank in his inter- view with The Tribune Tuesday. - The regional chief of the Resettlement administration ducked and dodged when asked such pertinent questions as: ‘How are people who have nothing going to get by during the winter? How are they going to get food—and fuel— and clothes for their children? How are those folks in Northwestern North Dakota, where conditions now are worse than ever before, going to keep any livestock at all?” These questions, curiously enough, do not seem to greatly perturb the head of the agency established by the government to assist the farmer back to normalcy. BUT THEY MUST BE ANSWERED. ,_,The answer may be written by the Resettlement ad- ministration fairly and justly and to its. eternal credit. Or it may be answered in another way which will be distasteful to everybody. Mr. Ward’s explanation as to the reasons for his drastic action is the lack of funds. He has been directed to cut and cut he will, willy nilly. : , _ From that, of course, there is no escape. If the money is not available it cannot be spent. But one wonders just what representations have been made to the government as to conditions in Western North Dakota, whether Mr. Ward has adequately championed the cause of the farmers whom he is supposed to assist; whether he has fought for them in the way they have a right to expect. This is not a personal matter. It is not the intention of this editorial to castigate Mr. Ward personally, but someone should take up the cudgels for the hard-pressed people of Western North Dakota, many of whom are this year faced with the fourth successive crop failure. Surveys by government agencies, including the Reset- tlement administration, show what the condition is and what it is likely to be. Yet the high officialdom of the Resettlement administration now proposes to ignore a sit- uation which its own reports prove to be serious everywhere in the western part of the state and critical in the north- western counties. It is only a few months ago that President Roosevelt pene much of the plight of the “ill-fed, ill-clothed and ill- joused,” - Every farmer in Western North Dakota who needs help falls into that classification—and many are on about the lowest rung of the economic ladder. If the president meant what he said—and it is assumed that he did—the “retreat from North Dakota” by the Re- settlement administration is not in line with national policy. bureaucratic blund 3 Held Up by Strike He Called Himself D. Harold Guist, » called out on strike 278 automo- bile mechanics in the Allegheny valley. 4 Touring the strike-beset cities, he cracked the cylinder head in his car and the machine stalled. Guist could not get the auto- mobile repaired—because all un- fon shops in the district were O78 BOARD SDNEY - IRRIGATION SPECIAL Excursionists Left Bismarck at 5 A. M. Wednesday for Yellowstone Valley and Queen Parade Through City Streets and Queen, on & SUBSTITUTE COURT MEASURE REACHES FLOOR OF SENATE Democratic Chiefs Fight for Passage of Major Bills Before Closing OPPOSE ADJOURNMENT IDEA Controversial Farm and. Gov- ernment Measures May Be Dropped for Session Washington July 28.—(#)—Demo- cratic leaders, fighting increased de- mands for early adjournment of con- gtess, were endeavoring Wednesday to hold it in session long enough: to enact the major parts of the admin- istration program. They received support from a group of first-year Democratic senators, who teld majority leader Barkley at & dinner Tuesday night they opposed delaying important bills until next year. : Completion of a substitute court bill, however, added to the pressure from many members for a quick wind- up of the session at least by Aug. 14. In an effort to compromise the de- mands for further legislation on the one hand and for early adjournment. on the other, Barkley threatened to lengthen the daily senate sessions. He hinted that if the wage and hour bill was not passed Wednesday, he would call. the senate into session at 11 a, m., Thursday, instead of the customary noon, Make No Commitments Administration efforts for the pres- area of Belfast. It tame as a climax to a. night of terror in which the customs houses were burned and a railroad bridge was dynamited. After the British sovereigns were received at the city hall, attended a state luncheon and a garden party, and saw es parade of youth organiza- tions, investigators decided the. .gas| ‘Two hundred and seventy eight persons were aboard the special ex- cursion train which left Bismarck at 5 a. m., Wednesday en route to Sid- ney, Mont., where farmers and busi- neasmen will view the irrigated farms in the ‘Lower Yellowstone valley. explosion probably was accidental. Other explosions and disorders, in- and Goldbloom,” and said it it,” had no) Pier ars of authorities last, week, The train will be met by Sidney of 28 customs rumors of which had they were inclined to be- | injured Hee 3 .| Study Conservation To Hold Conference Bozeman, Mont., July 28.—(#)—The Great Plains conference of entomolo- gists will hold its 17th annual meet- ing at Montana State college Thurs- . ‘The ven-|went up in flames a dozen men kept who is superin-|up a continuous fire for about 15 minutes. Terror-stricken farmers’ ‘SContinued an Page Two), ent were directed toward passing the court bill and. the. wage-hour legis- Hation, Leaders-were making no com- ‘The new court bill reached the sen- ate after unanimous approval by the same judiciary committee which con- demned the original Roosevelt bill. Confined to non-controversial pro- cedural changes in the lower courts, leaders expected it to go quickly the senate. At least one man was killed and more than 100 persons were in- jured in two clashes between po- lice and strikers at the Republic Steel corporation’s Corrigan-Mc- Kinney plant in Cleveland. John Orceny, a striker, was dead when an ambulance delivered him at a hospital. Police said he had been run down by the motor car of a worker entering the plans Police are shown here restrain- ing pickets. Jury Finds Cusick Guilty Of Second Degree Murder MEN WILL DISCUSS “With Washington Officials Friday at Capital Three members of the North Dakota, Scoenpenies by It would speed appeals in constitu- | w; f congress, judges within lleve congestion. White House insistence, many senators were counting on drop- ping the controversial farm and gov- ernment reorganization bills. gram to irrigat STATE AND FEDERAL 25-Year Penitentiary Sentence Is Pronounced on Con- victed Slayer ‘Cusick, Bottineau drygoods mer- chant, convicted of the murder of a POLICE ESTABLISH STRIKE ZONE NEAR ~ CLEVELAND MILLS .| Move Pickets 500 Yards From) Grimson at 9 a. m. Wednesday. After deliberating six hours, a jury of eleven men and one woman re- turned a verdict late Tuesday night of second degree murder and recom- mended Cusick be sentenced to 25 Cusick, who fired the shot which killed Dr. Frank A. Remde June 17, lay. He will be brought to Bismarck in custody of Sheriff Clifford Johnson of Bottineau county. . Fifteen ballots were taken before Foreman H. G. Renfrew informed the . |court a verdict had been reached. ation of the ever-normal granary bill | Beakey, before adjournment. gov- Despite house approval Tuesday of |ernment would authorize s $4,000, one part of the president’s govern- ment reorganization program—provi- sion for six assistants for the chief executive—the senate may not take it up at this session. SEEK ENTITY OF ACCIDENT VICTIM Boy, 19, Supposedly of Bis- marck, Killed in Eureka, Calif. work program include: project in Williams county; Heart- Butte dam and irrigation project in for the state with $3,- to be furnished by federal Projects advocated for development Trenton-Buford irrigation ander and Milo Perkins of rural re- settlement; Eugene Leggett, NEC di- and Burleigh county juvenile author- ities We A; The boy was 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighed about 150 pounds, and had blue eyes and dark brown hair, ac- cording to a description wired to Bis- marck police We b boy “claimed Bismarck according to the wire. rector; Ickes and John Page of the bureau of reclamation. Action on Road Plans of Interior Harold Is Up to Washington Police asked anyone who knows a| = them immediately. boy answering fos description to call | 4 For Williams County Offered Four Alternatives Judge Grimson’s charge to the jury .|held four alternatives: First or sec- ond degree murder, first degree man- ner in which the whole case was tried.” Speaking to Cusick, Judge Grim- son said, “you have been very ably de- fended and everything possible hes been presented in your behalf. “You have had a fair and have been convicted by a you knew what you were dong when you fired the shot at Dr. Remde and that it was maliciously done.” MILO'S APPLICATION FOR PARDON DENIED Pardon Board Reconvenes Wednesday to Hear Score of Cases Striving to clear the balance of ap- plications for clemency on its July calendar, the North Dakota pardon board reconvened Wednesday after- noon to consider more than a score of cases, The board recessed until Wednes- the!day after working late Tuesday in G. M. Geissler, Fargo, representing | projects the state soil conservation commit tee, 1s holding a series of meetings in Williams county this week to deter- mine where there is greatest interest among farmers for a soil conservation four pending projects would be given. Two Men Kidnap Girl While Family Watches|«: Steel Plants as New Court Battle Opens Cleveland, July 28.—(7)—1 city police patrolled a newly estab- jished strike zone in the mill-dotted Cuyahoga river valley Wednesday as counsel for striking steel workers and Republic Steel Corp., opened the lat- est court battle in the CIO's steel in- et campaign for bargaining con- Enforcing a proclamation issued by Eliot Ness, city safety director, the officers moved pickets 500 yards from Republic’s Corrigan-McKinney works, Ness issued the mandate following Monday's riotous clash between strik- ers and non-striking Republic em- ployes, in which one man was struck and killed by an automobile and at least 80 were injured in hand to hand hi ting. Republic turned to common pleas court after the furious outbreak and plant injunction be issued against interfer- erce with workers. B, J. Damich, regional CIO director, named as a defendant in Republic's ares, but generally, police said, cars rent sto sand fromthe, plans: unme~ jested. UAWA Office Girls Make Union Demands Detroit, July 28.—(#)—Unionization of 35 girl clerks and stenographers employed at interantional headquar- ters of the United Automobile Work- ers of America put George F. Addes on the other side of the conference table Tuesday. Addes is secretary-treasurer of the UA.W.W. The girls served notice on him Monday that they, too, had join- ed the Committee for Industrial Or- ganization. Their union is the United Office and Professional Workers of America. Along with notice that collective was imminent right in the bargaining UA.W.A. office, the girls, with Miss Muriel Jenkins as spokesman, sub- mitted a lengthy list of demands and ably showers. CHINESE WITHSTAND SAVAGE ONSLAUGHT ON PEIPING WALLS Report Rallying After Japanese Aerial Attack Shatters First Defense DECLARE OPEN HOSTILITIES Formal ‘Declaration of War’ Said to Be Impossible Un= der Kellogg Pact (By The Associated Press The Chinese 28th army reported Wednesday it had smashed a Japan- ese offensive against Peiping, “city of northern peace,” in the first major battle of the informal war in North The Japanese attacked Peiping’s environs at dawn, after expiration of their final ultimatum demanding withdrawal of Chinese divisions from the Peiping area. A withering Japanese serial attack shattered the Chinese lines. Chinese commanders declared their troops recovered, however, and captured Fengtai, Japanese field headquarters west of Peiping, and Langfang, im- portant railroad center midway be- forced four Japanese munitions to turn back from the mouth of the Hai Ho river after ta reach Tangku, port of the Japanese military headquarters in the unde- ciared war between China and Japan. Westward, fighting, with conflicting claims of success, made an all-day battlefront of the Peiping the opposite bank of the river from Tangku. The two places are about 25 miles east of Tientsin. The Japanese army abandoned all pretense of settling the North China issue in any way except by force, China struck back with martial vigor. Conflicting reports of smashing vic- tories by both sides obscured the true military situation at the close of the first day of what is recognized here an undisguised, sin and the battle area. The Japanese high command at reports and asserted that Peiping’s defenders had been hurled back on the city’s walls. Chinese tral government at Nanking declared ® formal declaration of war “is im- questions they regarded as ripe for | Possible discussic jon. Addes, after brief reflection, an- nounced that “we'll meet their de- with a broad smile ‘when the em- ployes first made known their in- tentions, Farm Leaders Urge Eight-Point Program St. Paul, July 28.—(#)—Continua- | isolated program, tion of the soll conservation