The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 6, 1937, Page 1

Telephone 2200 Federal Government Holds up Aid For N. D. Highways THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1878 North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper BISMARCK, N. D., FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1987 PENTENTIARY GUIS. Doctors Deliver Baby One. Minute After Mother Dies ELEVEN EMPLOYES FROM ITS PAYROLL Governor Told Road Bureau Has No Confidence in Efficiency of Department MISSIVE IN CIRCULATION Another U. S. Official Waits Explanation of Dismissals _ From A. C. Staff (By The Associated Press) Still declining to make his letter public, Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the bureau of public roads of the United States, Thursday sent to heads of the department of agricul- ture copies of his missive to Gov. ‘William Langer concerning the bu- reau’s views of the state’s highway situation. i LANGER PREPARING ANSWER TO M’DONALD Gov. William Langer said Fri- day he was preparing an ansewr to Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the bureau of public roads, rel- ative to a letter received which contained MacDonald’s views on the state highway. department. The chief executive refused to comment on the contents of Mac- Ponald’s letter. ‘MacDonald’s action, governor, a letter which neither Mac- Donald or Governor Langer have made public, is reported to. have told the that the bureau feels ting | en route from the port Temperature of Tiny Girl, Placed in Incubator, Is Chief Concern Now GOVERNMENT ARMY ‘SURROUNDS FRANCO HUESCA FORTRESS British, Italian Steamers Bomb- ed by Unidentified Planes . Off Algerian Philadel; shortly in the Philadelphia general hospital. Five minutes before the mother’s death, a nurse, stationed at the door Gibraltar Friday that an Itelian and of her room, summoned’ two doctors 8 British steamer had been bombarded. by warplanes at almost the same spot off the coast of Algerie, near war- torn Spain. L : The-British tanker British Corporal orb iow mniniias Chey sid st. bedside w! nurses brought e flashed an SOS that she was being) com instruments that had been ster- bombed, “Inter cancelled it, and/ijsed in advance for the operation. east. Her crew of 43 was safe and|had been: pronounced dead the baby her wireless receiver, which she had/ was delivered. barded from the air. The ship, of|room. Speed was imperative. Doc- 6,118 tons, was bound from Genoa to| tors said the baby would have lived : only a few minutes. i girl was placed at once of Abbadan in the Persian gulf of Land’s End, Eng- land, said “we are being bombard The in an which They indicated the baby’s tempera- ture was their primary complete . effi’ ciency and that federal aid for road contracts in the state will not be ap- proved until the department meets the bureau's sande) ds of efficiency. Langer ‘Remedy’ Informants ‘also said the letter pointed out to the governor that he hhad the power to “remedy” this con- college developments were being con- sideged as a joint problem by agri- cultural heads in Washington. G. W. Warburton, chief of the ag- explanation of the staff members’ jismissal. i Funds Not Withheld Paul H. Appleby, assistant to the secretary of agriculture, said the question of withholding federal aid from the college has not been con- sidered. Extension funds, paid se! annually, last were allotted July 1, Sane Appleby said, could not be re- c Federal aid for agricultural experi- ment station work, however, is paid quarterly and, if officials decreed it. could be held up when the next quarterly payment comes due. Ap- pleby emphasized, however, no dis- this phase of the question yet, the government de- ciding to await developments. and county committees.” Appleby said that under the law government sibilities and only limited powers,” in referring to what officials here might do about the highway depart- ment and the agricultural college. Declines were discovered in the prisoners’ cells. He would give no reasons for the dismissals. were blasting it from the skies. « Insurgent artillery again pumped explosives into Madrid, killing several persons and wounding others. Communiques from both sides re- ported demoralization in the other.|dropping gradually. Insurgents declared Gen. Jose Miaja,| The oxygen tent in which the baby mollaleie ee a government ‘troops Me ae pieced was improvised by Dr. Central Spain, was to be replaced be- 'e cause of the failure of ‘his offensive| If the baby continues to live, Dr. west of Madrid. Government. reports|Corbit said she would be fed « sugar said Franco had resorted to mass|#nd saline solution through a tube executions because of uprisings in his|!ater Friday. army, partic ‘among Moor: ‘No attempt was made to bathe or the EN teats . sf weigh her. Doctors estimated the weight. The father, Dominick Boccassini, 4, @ laborer at the Pennsylvania Sugar company, was not at the hos- pital at the time his wife died. The ital announced it had unable to reach him to inform national waters off Algiers in the western Mediterranean and plying between non-Spanish ports, reported she was bombed. Responsibility for|nesn the attack was not established. opposed = post mortem oper- (Continued on Page Two) ASSISTANT CHIE OF STATE HOSPITAL AT JAMESTOWN LEAVES Dr. Pearl Matthaei Resigns Her Post; Changes Are Being Recommended . Insurgent’s Spain's new ambassador to Germany, Rear Admiral the Mar- quis Antonio de Magaz, Franco's “immense gratitude” to Adolf Hitler when he presented his credentials at Berchtesgaden, Der Fuehrer’s summer home. Frontier dispatches continued to surgent army has driven from Bilbao. World-Wide Loan for China Said Agreed on London, Aug. 6.— (AP) — Chins, SPECIAL OCTOBER SESSION SEEN FOR FARM LEGISLATION Roosevelt May Call Congre: Together Then If New Program Is Ready of consider general farm legislation. President Roosevelt may call such a. session, said Democratic Leader Barkley, if-the senate agriculture committee is ready to present a de- tailed crop contro) and price stabil- ization program. Senators La Follette (Prog.-Wis.) Shipstead (F. L.-Minn.) and Lun: deen (F. L.-Minn.) joined 37 of the "5 senate Democrats in urging that course. Simultaneously it was learned that two weeks to discuss next year’s soil conservation program. They also may take up general farm legislation, including the “eyer-normal granary” which the president and Wallace con- tend must be tied in with crop loans. The senate and house agriculture uary because they could not agree on details. ‘A committee talked to Mr. Roose-| winter. would be too late. WETTER WEATHER EASES PUMP LOAD | 30,000,000 Gallons of Water Less Than Year Ago Con- sumed so Far in Bismarck Wetter’ weather has eased the task pumped during the first half of 1937 were 189,772,000, compared with 220,852,000 last year. Summer consumption of water in Bismarck is sometimes more than double winter consumption. Gallons pumped during the first six months of 1936: January, 23,924,- 000; February, 26,190,000; March, 30,- 735,000; April, 27,569,000; May, 47,- 880,000; June, 64,545,000. Gallons pumped uring the first six months of the current year: Jan- Uary, 25,700,000; February, 24,194,000; March, 26,667,000; April 27,737,000; May 44,645,000; June, 40,829,000. ent Billy Petrolle Escapes Injury in Car Wreck Duluth, Aug. 6.—() —Billy Pe- tion | tfolle, the fistic whirlwind of a few years back, escaped without injury Thursday when his truck collided with a street car. The former “Fargo Express” was hauling a load of metal scrap and brass to his foundry. , Sunday. THREAT OF ARMED CONFLICT SPREADS INTO HANKOW AREA Aboard Train Carrying _ Refugees From Peiping MORE JAP TROOPS ARRIVE Fighting Considered imminent Along Great Wall as Op- posing Armies Near janking, Aug. 6.—(?)—Americans were reported Friday to be fleeing across the Yellow river to safety in the south as the threat of armed con- flict between Chinese and to| troops sp: city of Hankow, capitel of Hopeh ‘vince. ae Hankow is the southern terminus of the strategic railroad from Peiping along which the main body of the Japanese army is advancing from the north. The city has been the prin- concent The Weather Unsettled tonight and Sat.; little change in PRICE FIVE CENTS temperature. tning Moodie Is Key to Work Relief Idea For Water Plans Sympathetic WPA Chief’s Recommendations To Be Controlling Factor in Launching of Diverse Irrigation Program By KENNETH W. SIMONS Thomas H. Moodie, state WPA administrator, will decide whether or not North Dakota is to have a work-relief program which will give employment to some of its farm families on water development projects which point toward irrigation. That was made plain to members of North Dakota’s state water commission who returned Thursday night from Wash- ington where they conferred with the heads of various govern- ment agencies. * Whether or not Moodie recommends action—and his rec- ommendation probably will be controlling—depends upon the feasibility of the projects and the contribution which can be made by the state water board or other local agencies, Moodie said Friday. He is in sympathy with the idea and believes the water board is on the right track. But the practical details of the program must be worked out on a basis which will insure success. The job of working out the details will begin as soon as George S. Knapp, technical adviser to the commission, returns from Washington. He accompanied the board members to ig Washington but remained there an extra day to look up some Clash Imminent To the north of Peiping a clash was considered imminent along the Great Wall. Esther Lee of Kenmare, N. D., re- penned a the Mission hospital at technical informatio. ter proposal, which already has Moodie's approval in principal, is that it will act as sponsor for WPA work on water de- velopment projects, raising its share of the money through a water rev- enue bond issue and getting its pros ve . One of its first steps will be to seek clarification of the law under which it operates. The board be- purchase orth eves it has authorit broken with the departure of the first train for Tientsin. Service on the} riga: Peiping-Tientsin line has been in- terrupted throughout the month-old undeclared war for possession of the area, One hundred Americans and other foreigners were aboard ‘the train. Most of the Americans were visitors who had been stranded in the his- toric Manchu capital by the crisis. The Japanese concession at Han- kow was said to have been turned into an armed camp with Japanese mar- ines hurriedly erecting sandbag and barbed wire barricades. ‘The marines were landed from the Ho after the 11th torpedo boat flotilla declared a state of emergency existed in the-area, hundreds of miles to the south of the North China war sone. Americans Warned The American consul at Hankow was said to have warned all Ameri- cans in his district north of the Yel- dow _Hiver “to omibndeaw tps places 20f ‘ety. Americans in the interior of Shan- were concen- eastern ment more troops were being rushed tu North China. He said the empire might be forced to abandon its policy of “non-aggravation” if Chinese at- tempt to recover the conquered Pei- ping and Tientsin ares. guarding against reported attempts to enlist American aviators for the Chinese army.” IMPRISONED IN BOX CAR Nampe, Idaho, Aug. 6.—(?)—Paul|by Whitaker, 20, Salt Lake City, was eating in a hospital Friday after being rescued from an empty ice compart- ment of a railroad re! car in, city took a leading part in frigerator which he had been imprisoned since would be sold to settlers on a long- time contract basis. Some question has been raised as to whether or not the board has such authority, and it is probable that a legal opinion will be asked from the attorney general on this point. view of the fact that money obtain from the sale of bonds would for this purpose it may even cessary to have the matter mined in court. the development of owned by individuals who attempt to sell it to prospective set- tlers at a high price. This policy by the board is based on the knowl that speculation and inflated values has been a curse to many irri- gation projects in the west. In Bismarck Friday was Wells A. Hutchins, attorney for the Bureau of agricultural engineering of the U. 8. department of agriculture, who drafting the North Dakota law. Hutchins said he feels sure the board hes authority to buy land and will cqnfer with the at- torney general's department regard- ing the matter. From the beginning the water conservation effort of the state has been guided largely by this branch of the government service. Plan Standard Appraisal If the board is found to have authority to buy land, appraisers will be employed to fix a fair value on land to be purchased. The appraisals will be made by experts recommended the Bank of North Dakota and the Federal Land bank, a list of such experts having already been ob- tained. Members of the state water board made it clear to government officials he entered it at Butte, Mont., last|= Irrigated Beans to Gross M en. $6,000 i : FE # 8 & i Ba i [ ar EB 4 f Sad i FE s | Z gated tracts after they are completed. Not all farmers can be employed because it is improbable that the water commission will be able to make ects. improbability that the govern- ment will want to put enough money into the state to build all of the avail- STRUCK DOWN AT BALDWIN, MENOKEN FRIDAY MORNING Storm Takes Lives of Henry C. Ebeling and Ralph Fal- - kenstein DISTURBANCE NOT SEVERE Falkenstein Was Harvesting Wheat With Father, Ebel- Ing Pulling Weeds ‘Two Burleigh county farmers were instantly killed by lightning at two widely separated points in the coun- ty Friday morning. ‘They were struck down almost simultaneously. The freak electrical storm toook the ives of Ralph Falkenstein, 38, Bald- win, and Henry C. Ebeling, Meno- ken, brother of Bismarck’s police chief, William R. Ebeling. “One more round” of his wheat fleld shortly before noon brought death to Falkenstein. was struck shortly after his father, Ira, had suggested they make one more circuit of the field before they stop- ped for lunch, His heart-broken father, who was driving the tractor pulling the header, was stunned, but uninjured. Ebeling, co-proprietor of the Ebel- ing Brothers ranch, Menoken, was killed as he was pulling weeds in the yard of the Menoken school. Flashes Gi rounding The storm which brought instant death at two points separated by more than 20 miles, was not of un- usual severity, but weather bureau officials said they noticed more ° of father, his widow, the former Ethel Anderson of Regan; two children, at the | Keator, tournament terlachen golf course Saturday. PASS HOUSING BILL Washington, NORBECK OWED $58,585 Sioux Falls, 8. D.—U. 8. Senator Peter Norbeck, who died last Dec. 27, owed $58,585 to “various closed banks” in South Dakota, circuit court records disclosed Friday. BILL KOSTELECKY EVEN Minn, — Maurice gree murder, was returned to the state penitentiary Friday from the state hospital for insane at James- town where he has been confined since 1933 on order of Gov. William Langer. Salem, Tll.—Sheriff Bryan Pitts said Friday at least four persons had been killed in @ collision of an automobile and a coal truck. . Board Issues 2 Motor Freight Certificates ‘Two special certificates to furnish motor freight service and one to fur- nish motor service have been approved by the board of rail- Pres. Ben C. Larkin said Friday. Authority to furnish motor pas- senger service in the vicinity of Man- dan was granted to T. J. Gustin and George Schantz, of Mandan. Special certificates for motor freighting were Waldo Yeater, New father, William H, Bismarck. FOUR FOUND SHOT 10 DEATH: SUIGDE 1S HINTED IN NOTE Son Finds Bullet-Riddled Bodies of Mother, Two Sisters and Brother Pittsburgh, Aug. 6—(P)—A young unemployed bookkeeper fatally shot his widow mother and two sisters and killed himself Friday with bullets from a new rifle. Police Inspector Gus Ellen and Lieut. Edward Kirby said 20-year-old Bernard Gregor murdered the three in the bedrooms of their west end home. Three notes written by Bernard indicated he was driven to the act by worry over the family. Frank Gregor found the bullet- pierced bodies of his mother, two sis- ters and a brother in a bedroom of their home. Homicide detectives, Fred Good and Edward Scanlon, said they found a note signed by Bernard Gregor, 20, the brother, saying: “Oh, if there were some way other approved for the Rhame Transfer|1.5 company at Rhame and Emil Wiste at Fordville. ‘The board also spproved contract | Hnued permits for N. F. Denis of Wild Rose, Leon Richard of Fargo and H. J. Sund of Horace, N. D. Gives Up Fortune to Marry Man She Loves London, Aug. 6—()—Esther: Sebag- Montefiore, a 26-year-old widow, gave up more than a million dollars for love Friday. She wed , 22, 8 which left here $1,900,000 on the con- dition she did not remarry. However, the bill provided an an- nuity of $15,000 a year if she did marry again. | Chevrolet Announces and truck models would be increased| Power Co., leaving by $90 effective Aug. & | eaece ices