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The Weather Fair tonight and Wed- nesday; little change in temperature, - BISMARCK, N. D., TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1937 PRICE FIVE CENTS i IN. aa As cs 5 Millions for Water Plan NO CHARGES EVER FILED. AGAINST 7 TOHIS KNOWLEDGE Public. Instruotion Chief Insists on Having Vote on Such Board Actions U. S. TAKES HAND IN CASE Washington Demands Explana- of Long- time College Teachers _ SOVIET: NEWSPAPE = DENOUNCE JAPS FOR just “As the duly elected head of the state’s public school system, I feel I have a most vital and direct interest in Girection of our higher institutions of iearning. “I insist on my right to have a of state institutions of higher learn- ing, as long as I am selected by the people. “Until I have opportunity to exam- ine the board’s record I must in fair- ness to all concerned reserve further comment.” expli college staff members. No federal funds have been with- added, “we couldn’t take it until Jan. 1, next. But this has not been con- sidered.” sian Government Moscow, Aug. 3—()—The newspa- fe day the application of the Rev. and Mrs, H. + Thompson Protests ‘Firing Father Held As Kidnaper g i & ° a F at E EE ab Eeb INSURGENTS ADVANCE Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier, Aug. 3—()—Two insurgent brigades were reported Tuesday to have driven Madrid-Valencia troops from their principal mountain fortification on the Teruel front near Bezas and to ved cut their main communications ry. THREE KILLED IN CRASH ‘Teesday in an DENY JUDD PARDON Phoenix, Arit—The Arizona board of pardons and paroles rejected Tues- . J. McKinnell for a pardon tor thele dguatter, ‘Winnie Ruth Judd, capicted eles irre meee teens in 5 burned | Presidents of Two in Miles s City Mon Miles City, Mont, Aug. 3—(P)—A Colleges Are Named St. Paul, Aug. 3—(P)—Election of Dr. Herbert Sorenson, formerly of St. Cloud and for the past 12 years associate professor of education at the University of Minnesots, as pres- ident of the state teachers college of Duluth for a ohe year term, ef- fective Jan. 1, next, was snnounced Tuesday Rellewioe em Tee 2c state teachers college board. ‘The board also elected C. R. Satt- gast of Sioux Falls, 8. D., as presi- dent of the state teachers college at today the North Dakota mill and elevator at Grand Forks of-| 1 fers to buy all lightweight wheat produced: by the farmers of North Dakota, Gov. William Langer, speak- ing for the indugixig] commission, announced Monday Declaring it is BAe stp of the a industrial commission “to checkmate the grain gamblers who dropped the price of 37-pound wheat 52 cents in 24 hours,” Governor Langer asserted Grand Forks sufficient to every bushel of lightweight wheat produced in North Dakota. “Through the Bank of North Da- kota we have arranged for millions */ of dollars of credit. We can buy every bushel of lightweight wheat in North Dakota and pay cash for it. We want the wheat unless the grain market will pay the farmers what it is worth.” Producers of other states were barred, the governor said. Seek ‘Honest Price’ The governor declared that the commission had no fight with any other elevator in North Dakota, but that it is determined to obtain “an Hef. That honest price will mean the difference as to whether or not the farmers will pay their debts to the pears During Flight From Lima, Peru, Monday HER SHIPS TAKE UP HUNT Believe Pilot. Landed in Cove Along Isthmus to Escape Possible Storm === (JAPANESE INFANTRY | AW a 3 Six Men in Sloop Off Nova Scotia Missing C.F pee Members Arriving in New York aboard the liner Bremen, Mrs, Bruno Haupt- mann, widow of the executed Lindbergh kidnaper, still protested her husband's innocence and declared she had uncovered “new evidence.” She was accompanied by her son, Manfried, 4. They are shown with Julius B. Braun, head of a private detective bureau, who met them at quarantine. Hunt for Slayer . Suspect Narrows NEARS POSITION OF BIG CHINESE FORCE Nipponese Column Pre Southward Into China; Bomb Nanking Troops (By the Associated Press) _ Japanese infantry, pressing south- ward from Tientsin, came close Tues- day to the line of northward moving Central Chinese government troops. At Tehchow, on the border of Hopeh and Shantung provinces to the South, Japanese warplanes bombed a van- the Japanese western flank, in province, where the Japanese claim a special sphere of influence. Man Thought to Have Killed Three in Minnesota Believed Hiding in Hills Hokah, Minn., Aug. 3—(?)—Posse- men engaged in one of Minnesota's greatest manhunts since the days of Jesse James surrounded a broad, hilly, rattlesnake infested area where officers believed their quarry, a slay- ing suspect, to be hiding. Object of the relentless hunt is a shoeless, bewhiskered man who iden- tified himself to a startled back country farm widow as Jens Thomp- ;|son, charged with the rifle slaying. of three Freeborn county brothers and the shooting of a 12-year-old boy. At the request of County Attorney Elmer R. Peterson, the Freeborn county board of commissioners meet- ing in Albert Lea offered s $300. re- ward for the capture of Thompson. Melvin Passolt, chief of the state crime bureau, who has been helping direct the search, said Tuesday up- brs of 100 men, including sheriffs, officers and ing that his mouth had become lacer- ated from the rough food. Further- more, he said, his foot prints indi- rocky 5 Searchers abandoned hopes of driving the man from the isolated region since the cover is so dense, said Passolt, that the possemen would have to directly encounter him. A difference of as little as ten feet and| would mean security for the quarry, They offered, however, to restore from stolen property if it is found and to post a courtesy guard around the Tientsin building. The Japanese war office reported casualties in North ure was considerably higher earlier reports had indicated. he added. The hunt for Thompson started while working in fields. Worker Slays Wife, Fails in Suicide Try AID OF THREE U.S, AGENCIES. SOUGHT BY STATE ENVOYS Million Dollar Bond Issue Would Supplement Federal Aid, Washington Told WILL GIVE WORK TO 7,000 Program Would Make Use of Relief Labor in Five Northe western Counties Washington, Aug. 3.—(?)—Members of North Dakota's state water con- servation commission asked the Rural Resettlement administration Tuesday for help in a long range program of water and soil conservation. Under the commission’s plan, mem- bers said, about 7,000 farmers could be taken from relief rolls and given employment on water conservation work in five Northwestern North De- kota counties: McKenzie, Burke, Die vide, Williams and Mountrail. Kenneth W. Simons, Bismarck, member of the commission, said North Dakota proposes to supply $1.- 000,000 through a bond issue if federal government will supplement this with $5,000,000 federal aid. He estimated the program, if approved by any governmentai agency, would pro- vide work for 7,000 farmers for about ® year or until next harvest. ‘The commission talked with M. L. Wilson, assistant secretary of agricul- ture, and with Work Progress admin- istration and reclamation officials, In addition to Simons, the group in- cluded Henry Holt, Grand Forks, vice chairman; Frank P. Whitney, Dickin- son, and George 8. Knapp, Bismarck, technical advisor. Both WPA and the reclamation by state ‘WPA officials, In the event federa] agencies refuse to co-operate, Simom wef Sig, Oe wale might go shead on s Reclamation bureau officials said it MRS. M. GARNER, 72, CLAIMED BY DEATH Native of France Came to Bure leigh County in 1886; Funeral Thursday One of Burleigh county’s pioneer mothers, Mrs. Mary Garnier, died at 9:05 Monday morning at the home of her niece, Mrs. Harry Tucker, four miles south of the city. She was 72 years old. Lindam of the arteries caused Mrs, Garnier was born in Marseil- les, France, July 15, 1865, and at- tended common schools in France, With her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph White, she came to the United States and Burleigh county in 1886. They homesteaded 16 miles north- east of Bismarck. Rushville, one Aug. 3.—(?)—Au- | Mary’ tornado injured one person, blew} Bemidji. many small buildings from their Ho tall 2p Hil rales the price! of pagactige and uprooted hundreds GAME DIRECTOR NAMED 37-pound wheat 35 cents a bushel; le 3.—(?}—Appointment|38-pound wheat 32 ts a bushel; Rotating seer an Oat Taurean lee tebe a ae Peds (Continued on Page Two) bi ean Demin ga | dante on ate rain of ee “a rimterceeies|City’s Cyclers Must i Now Carry Licenses to embezzling address on the Washington monument grounds Sept. 17 at a ceremony commemorat- ing the 150th anniversary of the signing of the constitution. Dewey Gets Another estranged ite Tuesday handkerchief, Victory in ¢ in Campaign ander New fig tieee ‘Avs. pate artes Alsop ay ” Se ee a Municipal ‘Kicker’ Is Publie Service quest Into Death of Grand Forks Boy Held rested its case. “This is the end of the key figure in the poultry racket,” he said. RAIDERS BEAT SERVANTS get one, They are not here yet, but when come, Bismarck’s lers 1» ace