The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 29, 1937, Page 1

a =x DIVISIONS WLLL ‘If They Can Do IN Bi! ' Telephone 2200 ——__—_ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1878 BISMARCK, N. D., THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1937 The Weather Probably showers to- night; Friday fair; little change. PRICE FIVE CENTS Bismarck School, Government, Park Budgets Increased snesrats USE $34,000 MORE NEXT FISCAL YEAR school Estimate Shows Great- est Rise, Largely’ for Teachers Salaries CITY Bismarck Has Borrowed No Money for General Oper, ating Expenses marck 1s going to spend ly 634.000 more on its schools, parks and did last. poard budgets have been passed by he board of budget review and given final approval by the city commis- sion, school board, and park board, re- pectively. te The city commission gave its stamp lof approval to the city budget at a ‘Thurada: y morning. City expenditures for the next fiscal lyear, which began July 1, will be 1$123,774.00, or $9,119.39 over last year’s igure of $114,654.61. School: Increase Greatest Greatest increase comes in the school board budget, which jumps §15,546.25—from pity to dee 314.80. Principal item of increase jin teachers’ salaries. Recently-assumed control of the swimming pool and municipal golf course, which bring in considerable revenue ae Filet which ene oes nevertheless be appropriated, exp! tc a large degrea'the increase in the park board budget—from $11,927.54 to $20,980.00, or $9,052.46. . Both the elty and school board fig- jures are. exclusive spent for interest and bond retire- ment. The park board had no indebt- edness, The tax levy for general city pur- poses will be $89,600, compared with $75,600 last year. The difference be- tween the amount received by general | ¢, tax levy and the amount to be spent ts made up by miscellaneous collec- tions, such as police magistrate fines, scales collections, Hquor and beer li- censes, and other city charges. Reduce Indebtedness ‘The city’s gross indebtedness has been reduced approximately $113,000 during the last year. The indebtedness on June 30, 1037, was $1,096,644.46, compared to $1,200,778.95 a year ago. The present indebtedness consists of waterworks bonds and special as- sessment warrants. The city has bor- towed no money for operating ex- penses, Exclusive of the waterworks depart- ment, add waterworks bond sinking fund, there was on hand in the city ieee bday ie cored ot tt was gener: funds reel the balance in bond funds and special assessment funds. and estimated ments is ag follows: First figure is for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, second figure for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938. General government, 17,312.46—21,- 530, police department, 14,062.20— ire Sener saens | mater ding jon, orc ting 249.15— 500.00; dog catcher, 352.34—325.00; health department, 3,387.54—6,190.00; sanitation and highways, including: street lighting, garbage collection, street cleaning, sewer maintenance, etc., 26,196.69—30,500.00. Public brary, —8,398.88—9,500.00; Swi Pool, 2,315.95—none; audi- torium, 2,884.13—3,750.00; world war Memorial, 3,000.00—3,000.00; munici- pal scales, 1,439.59—1,450.00; airport, 13,314.78—6,000.00; miscellaneous, pug penitentiary sewer, 8,017.76— The s1 pool has been trans- ferred to the park board. The city Was reimbursed by the state for ma- terials expended on the penitentiary eewer, We ‘Take Most By objects these expenditures and ‘stimated . expenditures are broken down as follows: salaries and wages, $55,230.30 — $70,234.50; maintenance and operation, $39,350.02—$36,240.75; Major repairs and betterments, $20,- 14.29—$17,298.75, The general tax levy for school Purposes will be $101,256.00, the dif- INDEBTEDNESS CUT It We Can Do It’ So Say 275 Missouri River Valley Residents Who Visited Yellowstone Irrigation Project During Tour Wednesday (Editor's Note: This is the first of a series of stories on the visit of 275 North Dakotans to the Lower Yellowstone reclamation project.) By “If they can do it, GORDON MacGREGOR we can do it.” “They” are the irrigation pioneers of the Yellowstone river valley in eastern Montana and western North Dakota who con- verted a desert into a never-failing source of crops. “We” are the drouth-stricken people of western North Da- ’ kota, some 275 of them who toured the Yellowstone project |sked Thursdsy fot an opinion on Wednesday and saw what transformations had been wrought by the magic of controlled waters and returned home determined city administration next year than it} to make irrigation successful here, too. A sash of brilliant green on the drab, brown prairie dress | the money of:Mother Earth, North Dakotans gaped as they beheld fields /of the bill of 8-foot corn, wheat that will run from 35 to 50 bushels per acre, certified seed potato fields from which 200 or more bushels per acre willbe dug. (GUARDSMEN GOING = TO CAMP BY AND TRUCK CONVOY mala} Mlitia: Will Leave Aug. 8 for of money..to. be}. men gathered at Intake in a cara- van of 80 automobiles, neglecting their duties that they might en- Fourth Army Maneuvers at Camp Ripley, Minn. tion | .eton contingent on « regular train. | field artillery units will travel Bismarck, Mandan and Jamestown by truck. They will leave Mandan 6:45 a. m. (MST), Bismarck at 8 a. m. (CST) and proceed to Fargo for an overnight stop there, They will grive at Camp Ripley at noon, Aug. “Other individual convoys will carry Grand tional | Peton and Edgeley. Sidney chamber, presiding at the (Continued on Page Two) BAD WORKMANSHIP CAUSED DISCHARGE ‘foreman Says Ford Employe Was ‘Fired’ Because of Loafing on Job Detrolt, July 29.—(7)}—An assistant general foreman of the Ford Motor company testified Thursday that un- satisfactory workmanship which he believed was deliberately poor led to discharge of Emil Tomkow, an Woman Killer Tells of Plotted Suicide Jump New York, July 29.—(#)—The story of a projected “lovers death leap” from the skies, as the way out of a hopeless UUcit romance, Thursday entered the case of Stanley A. Martin, Jr., 29, ac- said Martin talked excited- ly with the woman, during the flight, and three times opened the door of side, as though they contemplated leaping to their death. Forest Fires Blazing . In Montana : and Idaho Mont., July 20. — () — Missoula, Ford | Nearly 300. forest fires were raging the job for him that he was fired “for talking too much union.” Eimer Fischer, the foreman who said he ordered Tomkow , was ® witness Thursday. He denied he knew ference being’ made up by miscel-| port laneous collections such as tuitions and sales and other state aid. The school district shows an unin- Cumbered cash balance in general funds of $5,318.60 after deducting un- Paid accounts June 30. The general park levy will be $11,- , $400 more than the 1936 figure. ing pool and golf course col- between the levy and estimated ex- Penditures, Separate Nished by "4 J.B, French, Wi Willson Discuss Sito N. D. Families early Thursday in Western Montana ‘Wednesday night. The Lolo, Beaverhead and Bitter Montana Car Mishap ‘BROKE’ BECAUSE OF TECHNICAL SUP-UP IN MONEY MEASURE Legislative Clerk’s Oversight Blamed for Failure to Makes, Appropriation MAY NECESSITATE CLOSING Shut-Down of Activities Would Mean Suspension of Radio Police Broadcast ‘The attorney general's office was validity of a $12,500 appropriation for the state bureau of criminal identi- fication because of an “oversight” of @ legislative clerk in not including amendment in final draft. at the last session. for the opinion was made. by Auditor F. F, Skinner of : board of administration, who asserted’ was it vetoed. ©. A. Miller, chief of the bureau, declared the department was “broke” and if the appropriation is not ap- proved the bureau must be closed for two years. This will result in suspen- sion of all the pprehel at the enrolling clerk’s desk and the secretary of state’s office is not at fault and had no legal authority to make any correction in the law. “Apparently the bill delivered to the governor was as passed by the senate and Bowe before reconsideration,” BORLEIGH PONE CLAIMED BY DEATH John Harvey Speaks, 84, Dies at His Daughter’s Home East of City John Harvey Speaks, Burleigh , died at 1:30 a. m. county pioneer, ) Thursday. at the home of his daugh-/| mites ter, Mrs. William Luke, 6 miles east of Bismarck. He was 84 years old. Mr, Speaks was born Feb. 7, 1853, in Green Bay, Iowa. -There he mar- His other children besides Luke are Mrs. A. Streit, 512 Ninth &t., Earl Speaks, 114 Rosser Ave., west, letor of Speaks grocery; Mrs. A. C. Small, 214 Eleventh 8t.; Leonard Speaks, Fort Rice; and Mrs. Roffie Blank, Buffalo, Mo. grantenildre 2 id 10 Lacie m ani great-grand- children. Mr. Speaks was a member of the Pirst Evangelical church in Bismarck, where funeral services will be held. The date hag not been set, pending Rites for Two Killed In Crash | Postponed Death Toll Moves Up}"™° % %e mish. Helena, Mont., July 29.—(7)—A re- port of Supervisor Lou Boedecker of Campfire Girls Unit Formed at Washburn .» July 29.—Under of Mrs. Lewis J. totaled guardianship same |Mann, a Camp Fire Girls unit is be- organized here. Assisting Mrs. Allagene Jerreris and Helen Handy. Charter members are it, July: 29.—()—Henry Ford|LaVerne and Gladys Hill, Audrey 74 years old Friday but he|Krebsbach, Betty Persinger, Betty Jo no. observance of the special Mann, garet Hanson Mar- Betty Hoffman, Mary and Marion Kately, BOMB PEIPING 10 HALT SINO DRIVE Chinese Attack Threatens to Drive Nipponese From North China Foothold CITY BURSTS INTO FLAME Chinese Entrench Along 95- Mile Front as Japan Con- tinues Bombardment YUNGTING RIVER, Nanking, July 29.—(?)—Gener- alissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, head of China’s central government, de- it circulated of Tientsin Thursday night. after planes bearing the red insignia of the rising sun took a toll declared by Chi- nese to be thousands of non-com- rth China, making a widespread war front of a batant men, women and children army abandoned pretense of settling the issue in any way except with martial vigor. Conflicting reports obscured results of the first series of battles. This Associated Press map shows the Peiping area. INURCENTS POLE | ; FORDRIVE ACANST || Best:Dressed Woman ly Thing, Wife Finds Severance of Highway Link Be- tween Valencia and Ma- drid Might End War Outside a storm was raging. Even in the velvet recesses Franco's eastern army was te-| of her ee at the most exclusive couturier’s in New Thursday to have driven across} York, Judith ing felt the tremendous rhythm, the daring, Teruel-Cuenca provincial border,/the grandeur of it. Now the slim white buildings that barri- like a scalpel over the Span-|caded the Kprizon were slashed with rain, and the tip of the government's Madrid-Valencia} Empire State building caught lightning and flung it like a slim lifeline, green banner of fire. While the battle for Madrid on the Green fire . . . Judith looked down at the dinner jacket she inland city's western front lapsed into} wore, a jacket whose vivid green was a bright light against 8 deadlocked lull, the insurgent chief-/ the storm-black of the heavy crepe dress. There was a sim- tain’s legions, some 100 miles east of|ilarity .;. triking cheval mirrors in thi ‘Madrid, were reported thrusting slow- From the si cheval mirrors in the dressing room, she Jy south trom the rocky Albarrecia | watched her striking, slender, black-haired selves walk back and Cuenca, forth. Tomorrow the newspapers, would announce that she, The drive was aimed at the vital Mrs. Philip Godfrey Irving, had paid $800 for that jacket, that highway link between Madrid and/she had purchased five other jackets as costly—one in silver, Valencia, eter tea port and! one in Coronation pink, one in royal gold, a blue that was slip- gape ‘Republican! jery and a white that was dull and powdery. Best-dressed Severance of this route over which| woman in America! Best-dressed woman in the world, some and communications . supplies, Soon oe coer artists and stylists said ap HH z miles southwest of Peiping. It became apparent that Chinese leaders to whom the Japanese ob- Jected were getting out of local af- fairs and that leaders approved by the Japanese were stepping into their fr aude end of fighting of tt Cuence, whieh is only about 30|Russians to Take Off for Un- Peet etann Oxlade Kal-Abek or northeast of the nearest point poets on the important highway. announced American Des- tination Thursday methods to achieve this aim. “It is obvious that the Peiping- Tientsin warfare marks the begin- ning of a war of invasion, not its end.” The embassy quarter viewed the high point of the crisis as having passed. The United States embassy EnE en Through the Trib- une Plant oe ze “gEEe if a4 in The battle which centered on Tientsin was fought from pour ee First Threshing Rig First threshing of the year bordering his route southeast of Z i [ Wednesday *k was reported peed ter, Tribune Hg E F F E FE E i [ z i z i E E Hil i despite earlier assurances it not expose the city’s foreign resi- geet aE utile