The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 16, 1937, Page 1

ER IN 2200 Americans Flee War-Torn Shan T dlebhone THE BIS ESTABLISHED 1873 Oldest Newspaper BISMARCK, N. D., MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1937 MARCK TRIBUNE North Dakota’s PRICE FIVE CENTS Mattern Joins Air-Hunt For Flier Who Once Saved Him AAA ADVISES THAT “|HOUSING PROGRAM Fun Turn: ARRIVES IN ALASKA FOLLOWING RECORD TRIP FROM OAKLAND Soviet Representative Speeds to Fairbanks to Direct Search for Airmen MOSCOW SENDS OUT PLANES FARMERS CUT DOWN Winter Wheat Growers Are Urg- ed to Seed Smaller Plots This Fall LARGER REDUCTION ASKED Levaneffsky, One of Six Who Disappeared Saturday, Res- cued Mattern in 1933 Fairbanks, Alaska, Aug. 16—()— Entrusted with the direction of the search for the lost Russian trans- polar plane, A. Vartanian, Soviet rep- resentative, sped toward Fairbanks by plane Monday. He took off from Juneau on the second leg of his flight from Seattle at 9 8. m. (noon CST) while scores at the airport waved and shouted their hope that Pilot Sigismund Le- vaneffsky and his five comrades would be found, In Washington the Soviet embassy announced that the government ra- dio station at Irkutsk, Siberia, had picked up signals “of a weak and ir- regularly working transmitter” be- lieved to be Levaneffsky’s emergency radio set. Jimmy Mattern, American flier, arrived Sunday night after a rec- ord-breaking non-stop flight from Oakland, Calif, to search for Sigismund Levaneffsky, Soviet ace pilot, and his five com- panions, The American flier said he would traverse the 148th meridian in quest of a clue to the fate of the Russians, who disappeared Friday on a 4,000 mile flight from Moscow to Fair- banks. The first day's flight will take Mate CHORGE J BAKERS. NAMED EXTENSION DRECTOR ATNDAG Department of Agriculture Chief Approves Appointment of Animal Husbandman Fargo, N. D., Aug. 16.—George: J. Baker, extension animal husbandman at the NDAC, Saturday was named acting director of extension by the state board of administration. His appointment was with the ap- Proval of C. W. Warburton, chief of the extension division, USDA, who ‘West for the last several days. tern over the ice floes of the Arctic, where the four-motored Russian plane may have. been. forced down. He said he would return to Fairbanks tonight without attempting to: land en route and will be ready to con- tinue his search as long as hope re- mains. “Hank” Jones, Mattern’s mechanic, will accompany him in his rescue mission, Meantime, attempts will be made to co-ordinate the search by making contact with Russian rescue planes leaving Moscow. Leaving Oakland, Calif., Sunday, Mattern dashed here non-stop in 13 hours and 35 minutes at an average speed better than 190 miles per hour. In 1938, Levaneffeky flew into the wastes of Siberia to rescue Mattern, who crashed,on an attempted world flight and nearly died before aid reached him. - Mattern, who hopes next year to fly from America to Moscow, went into immediate conference with Joe Crosson, Alaska’s most noted aviator, to map out search plans. Crosson, veteran of many an Alas- ka rescue flight, and Sam Robbins, and Murray Stewart, Alaska airways pilots, soared northward from here Saturday in a fanwise hunt which netted nothing. MAY NOT INCREASE TAX OFFICE FORCE Step May Not Be’ Taken With Money Collected Under Income Tax, Is Ruling An Attorney General ruled Monday against any attempt to increase the number of state income tax auditors or clerks and pay the new employes from monies collected under the state income tax law. Attorney General P. O. Sathre, who was aked for the opinion by V. L. Gil- breath, income tax deputy, ruled the law provides for only four field audi- tors whose salary and expenses are deducted from monies collected under the act. Answering GijJbreath’s query wheth- er additional clerical help may be em- ployed by the department and salaries paid from monies collected, Sathre said the law is “clear and specific” limiting the number of field auditors to four ané their salaries to $150 per ae and actual expenses away from iome, He explained there is an item of $3,600 for special clerks in addition truing priation for the tax office and section 8 of the tax bill, 1 have concluded that the only items that can be charged against the col- lections under the act would be sal- aries and actual expenses of field au- oe when away from home,” Sathre ba) “No expenses or salaries can be charged for extra help such as ste- nographers or clerk hire.” CARNEGIE CRETARY DIES Aberfeldy, Scotland, Aug. 16—(P)— ehi| G. Baillie of ulere, Sone, Veteran newspaperman ‘once retary to Andrew Carnegie, died here Saturday night while visiting his native Scotland. He was 72. His widow and his son, Hugh Baillie, President of the United Press asso-| gun ciation, were at the bedside. % The tment follows by a day ae Herbert C. Hanson ss acting direc! Previously held ty Dr who combined them with the office of dean of agriculture, @ task to which he will now devote all his time. Nine Considered Dr. West said Baker was named from a list of nine college staff men considered. He added that the federal offi- cials were given the absolute prom- ise of the state board of administra- tion that .both Baker and Hanson would be free to recommend their assistants and appointees without “political consideration,” and that there would be no interference per- mitted for political purposes in either department. Warburton and Trullinger left for Washington, leaving H. W. Gilbert- son, field man for the extension di- vision, to assist in checking the new appointees inka: thelr posts. Dr. West said both appointments were on an “acting” basis, and the places held by the appointees prior tw their appointments will not be immediately filled pending their achievement of full status. The board, in its conferences here, did not touch on the matter of re- placements of the seven staff mem- bers dismissed in the wholesale house- cleaning of ranking men and women a fortnight ago. Baker was born Apr. 9, 1880, at Alma Center, Wis., on a general live- stock farm. He attended country school and was graduated from Alms Center high school, then a three-year institution, He completed high school work at Black River Falls, Wis., then (Continued on Page Two) INSURGENT TROOPS PUSH NEAR REINOSA Conquest of Nearby Santander Would Complete Subjuga- tion of North Spain . 16.—()—Gen. Francisco Fran- co’s revived offensive in Northern Spain carried to within three miles of the manufacturing city of Reinosa Monday in what Franco's headquar- ters called a “victorious advance.” ‘The insurgents reported capture of en “entire hettalion ana en other . nome 40 miles north-northwest Hes. Santander, the government's last great stronghold on the north coast toward which Franco’s men are head- ed. Its conquest would bring all of Northern Spain’s important cities in Franco's grip except Oviedo, to the west. In and out of Oviedo, in the heart of the Asturian mining coun- try, the struggle has raged for months. Franco's soldiers occupied dozens of small villages along the road from de Campo as Pratt of the heights close to Reinoss. ney nia more than 1,000 risoners were i ran insurgent broadcast at Sala- manca said government troops re- treated in confusion before the new offensive, started Saturday. Artillery and airplanes dumped explosives on the government forces to pave the way for the advance, and machine fire took a heavy toll in the gov- ernment retreat. New Crop Control Program to Be Passed During Next Session of Congress STILL 10 COME UP ONWHEAT AGREAGE) BEFORE CONGRESS) One of Three Key Measures Which Will Be Jammed Through Before Close DEFICIENCY BILL IN LINE Third Act Would Seal Tax Loop- holes; Wage-Hour Bill Lost in Committee Washington, Aug. 16—(?)—Admin- istration leaders, reluctantly junking wage-hour legislation until next ive at South Dakota Picnic Die in Attempt to Rescue One of ‘Party Webster, 8. D., Aug. 16—()}—With six members of a 4-H picnic party drowned at least a dozen others saved only by heroic rescue efforts, gloom Monday shrouded this Northeastern South Dakota area, Seeking relief in bathing from the state's most intense heat wave of the summer, which skyrocketed tempera- tures close to the 110 degree mark throughout this region Sunday, five of the six Sunday ers drowned when they stepped in water in nearby Amsden lake over their heads while trying to rescue Mrs. Mathew Simon- son, one of the party who had gone s to Tragedy As Six _ Drown at 4-H Club Outing Golden Wedding Day next year by asking winter wheat year, buckled down Monday to jam beyond her depth and could not swim. to seed a smaller acreage three key measures through congress before adjournment. They conceded they could not pry loose the controversial labor standards bill from the. house rules committee and that even if they could, mem- bers were in no mood to remain for a long floor fight, This decision left these measures on the program, which probably can be completed Saturday night or early next week: 1. A bill to seal tax’ loopholes, against which little opposition has been recorded. The house agreed to debate it Monday, and the senate will tion | take it up Wednesday. being developed in Washington but is not completed” and in drafting “consideration is being to commendations from the field.” Planted 81,000,000 Acres Despite the 15 per cent reduct that conditioned payments under the 1937 program, @ record of 81,000,000 acres were planted to wheat. The AAA said this could have produced 950,000,000 bushels of wheat, with normal yields, APPROVES BLACK’S COURT NOMINATION Solons May Be Asked to Con- firm Liberal Alabaman’s Appointment Tuesday Washington, Aug. 16.—(#)—The senate judiciary committee approved Monday the supreme court nomina- tion of Senator Black (D.-Als.) Voting down all proposals for de- lay, the overwhelming Democratic majority on the committee agreed to report the Uberal Alabaman’s nomi- Tuesday for confirmation. Repub- licans already, however, had served notice they would seek its recommit- tal for hearings.- The committee voted 13 to 4 to ap- prove Black's: nomination. Senator Neely (D.-W. Va.), chair- man of the sub-committee which first considered the nomination, said the argument was chiefly over “consti- tutional questions.” Seek Jamestown Girl Gone Since Thursday Bureau of Criminal Identification disappeared last Thursday morning and has been unheard of since. Police said she was last seen when leaving home to report for work. The girl was wearing a brown dress trimmed with fur. Vv. C. WOMAN DIES Valley City, N. D., Aug. 16.—Fu- will be held 2. A low-cost housing program, ep- proved by the administration and al- ready passed by the senate. A house committee has revised it drastically in Preparation for debate. Wednesday. 3. A deficiency appropriation. bill, end-of-season routine, In addition, the senate must vote on nomina‘ of } pproved resolution to make farm price legisia- tion the first order of business at the stp on the calender. to cluttar up the ad- journment rush, but Democratic chieftains were ready to discard any which might give any material hin- The tax measure is aimed at elimi- nating defects in present laws which the ‘treasury contends have let wealthy individuals avoid their share of taxes. 11 Slain as Brazilian Fascists Fight Police Campos, Brasil, Aug. 16—(P}— Eleven persons, including two women, were killed and 10 were injured Sun- | good. day in a clash between police and Fascist “greenshirts.” The outbreak started after authori- tues dissolved a Fascist meeting which charged that the two major candi- dates for the presidency—Jose Amer- ico de Almeida and Armando de Salles Oliveira—were “receiving salaries from Moscow.” Integralists entrenched in their party headquarters opened fire on Police, who returned the fire. Heroes of the day were Leo Schoen- beck, 36, Andover, one of the dead, and his son, Junior. The elder Schoenbeck brought Mrs. Simonson to safety, fought frantically to rescue others and then sank in the water from complete exhaustion. Mean- while, the son pulled six children, floundering in the water, to safety, witnesses said. Of those included Mildred Simonson, 13, daughter of the woman he rescued. ‘The other dead are: Herman Wenck, 42, Mrs, Clarence Miller, 42, Ruby Miller, 13, all of Andover, and Wahl, 18, of Verdon. SCREEN GIVES WAY, BABY RALLS THREE ue ushedto- tal Critically Hurt Satur- day Night - Bruised and broken when's screen against which he was leaning gave way Sal night and,he fell three stories to pavement Helow,-2- old Harry Shields, son of Mr. and Mrs, W. H. Shields, 222% Main Ave., was given a good chance of recovery by attending physicians Monday. The baby was rushed to a local hospital by Patrolman Nick Klee in the police car immediately after the accident. Doctors held out little hope of saving him at first, but Monday described his condition as “pretty ” ‘The three-story fall to the cement sidewalk fractured the baby’s right thigh, his jaw in two places, his nose, cut his left eye, and left him badly bruised from his head to his stomach, APPENDICITIS FATAL Columbus, N. D., Aug. 16—A rup- tured appendix proved fatal here for Julian McNabb, 17. Funeral services were held here Sunday. Lively New Serial Poses Old Query ‘Love Gets a Lift, Starting Today in The Tribune, Is New Version of World’s Oldest, Most Interesting Story CHAPTER I Kathleen O’Shan, head tossed back to face a sudden sum- mer breeze, ran up the flight of rough stone steps to her studio, and butted smack into the janitor, who was sweeping. “Oh, Pat, I’m sorry!” she you?” exclaimed. “Did—did I hurt “Ye didn’t damage a thing, Miss Kathy, but me smoke.” A smile wreathed the little man’s ruddy, dried-apple face. He retrieved his stubby pipe from the grass beside the walk. “A washin’ won't be hurtin’ it now, I’m thinking’. rhymes to write today? Ye seem ina great hurry.” His shrewd squinting eyes noted her strained frown. “Yes. I’ve got to write a lot whether I have them or not. That rent’s almost due again you know, but it’s awfully hard to think about love this kind of weather.” She pulled off her beret and let the wind whip her bring her an idea. “Bure now, Miss Kathy, it’s the good saints thimselves will be havin’ and move abide it where it is! My nerves are all ajangie Yookingiay Hist Bore) wal: now, Miss, Janitor sober! Got a lot o’ black curls as though it might leaned from a window. ‘ “Patrick, I want you to come up couch. I just can’t urry!” i “Sure, and I'll be tearin’ me shirt to git there,” answered the STORES TO GROUND axratchome.around. the fireside ition today. It’s a gay party will-do for a golden wedding: for thesé “young as you feel” ™oderns, Mr. and Mra. Charles Kaufman, of Brooklyn, N. Y., shown above as they give today's youth a lesson in up-to-date rhythm. Cares and troubles of past years forgotten, Mrs. Kauf- man gaily lifts the train of her evening gown and lightly whirls; to the tempo of swing music of today. ‘Mrs. Hahn On Murder 7-MINUTE STORM CAUSES DAMAGE "ROUND BISMARCK -43 Inches of Rain Falls Late Saturday to Punctuate Two Torrid Week-End Days Not content with broiling Bismarck and the vicinity in 100-degree tem- peratures Saturday and Sunday, Mother Nature added the lash of raging wind late Saturday night that caused considerable damage to veg- etation, Heralded by a brilliant display of lightning and « tornado of dust that penetrated bulldings in the twinkling of an eye, the storm struck at 10:40 nes Indicted Charges Deaths of 11 Persons Investi- d; Others May Be Prob- ed as Scope Widens Cincinnati, Aug. 16.—(#)—After re- ceiving evidence in what Prosecutor Dudley Miller Outcalt termed “the biggest mass murder in this coun- ,” the Hamilton county grand jury Monday indicted Mrs. Anna Hahn,| 9, 31-year-old mother, on two charges of murder. The jurors charged her with the “malicious and premeditated” slaying of George Gsellman, 67, who died suddenly July 6, and Jacob Wagner, 78, a teamster, who died June 3. The two short form indictments were reported to Judge Charles 8. Bell by Grand Jury Foreman John Bauerle within 15 minutes after the jury was called to consider the case. Police have nine other unexplained deaths under scrutiny, four of which were of elderly German men with whom Mrs. Hahn admitted having Pp. m. and lasted seven minutes. There | been was @ sprinkling of pea-sized hail. Highest wind velocity during that period was 50 miles per hour from the southwest. Precipitation totaled 43 of an inch. Trees suffered the greatest damage. Many old-timers had their tops cracked off where the bole begins branching. Other trees lost their biggest branches. Some flowers and vegetables were pounded down by the hail or stripped of their leaves by the wind. School Windows Broken Eight windows were broken in the Bismarck junior high school. The storm interrupted telephone communication in Bismarck and to towns on the Northern Pacific's south branch out of Mandan. Falling trees took out all wires to Mott, Elgin, Carson, and other cities on that line at a point just south of Mandan. The towns were without direct service 12 hours, though they could be reached by alternate circuits. In Bismarck nearly 75 subscribers were either without service or had their service impaired by the storm. Aerial cables at various points became wet, falling trees and tree limbs broke nearly 25 “drop wires’ from terminals to individual houses, and a falling tree in the south part of the city took down an open wire and with it a tele- phone pole, Five men worked all day Sunday to tepair the damage. 114 At Pierre Highest temperature recorded in the Northwest area over Saturday and Sunday was at Pierre, 8. D., where the mercury zoomed up to 114. One- hundred degree temperatures were common in most of North and South Dakota. Precipitation was scanty, Bismarck recording the biggest fall. Generally fair Monday night and ‘Tuesday was the forecast. Slightly cooler: was the prospect. ~ friendly. Police have inquired into the deaths of 11 persons and the mysterious ill- resses of three more, mostly elderly persons of German descent, since they took Mrs. Hahn into custody last Tuesday. Detective Lieut. George Schattle said Mrs. Hahn had been linked directly or indirectly” with fatalities which date from the death in 1933 of Ernst Kohler, elderly teamster, to George Obendoerfer, moderately wealthy cobbler, who died Aug. 1. in 'a Colorado Springs hospital. Kohler bequeathed her his $12,000 home. Besides the deaths of Gsellman, found dead in bed, July 6, Kohler and Obendoerfer, the list under investi- gation includes Albert Palmer, 72, and Jacob Wagner, 78, who died in March respectively, and 75. Others under scrutiny have not been disclosed. Death Faces Girl as ‘° Bones Slowly Dissolve Minneapolis, Aug. 16—(?)—Believed stricken with an uncommon malig- nant disease, which is causing the bone structure to dissolve into the blood stream, eight-year-old Mabel March of Slayton was in the Univer- sity of Minnesota hospital with no apparent hope for recovery. Tentative diagnosis made of the girl's case had led to the belief she 4s suffering from “lymphatic leu- kemia” although this is “not com- pletely established as yet.” this be true, a physician said, tl no hope of saving the girl’s life. The disease causes the bone struc- ture to dissolve, the calcium so pro- ‘duced going into the blood stream. The dissolution of the bone occurs various sections of the eventually results in death. It often found in children than The Weather Generally fair tonight and Tuesday; cooler tonight. ghai U8, LINERS STAND BY AS EVACUATION OF CITY 1S RUSHED More Than 500 Expected to Find Safety on President Lin- ers in Harbor WARPLANES RAIN BOMBS Aerial Warfare Rages as Fight- ing at Shanghai Spreads to 15-Mile Front Shanghai, Aug. 17.—(}—Chi- claimed to have captured their objective. Japanese officials branded the Chinese claims as “ridiculous.” Large Chinese forces hammered with infantry and artillery against Japanese naval units facing both ways from the river. (By The Associated Press) ‘The first American fugitives from incessant. aerial bombardment of Shanghai fled Monday through a gauntlet of bursting shrapnel. Beginning a mass flight from the undeclared war between China and Japan, the group of 200—mostly wom- en and children—boarded the 8. 8. President Taft after a perilous two- hour trip by tender. United States sailors kept the frightened passengers, some with in- fants in their ‘arms, huddled below while shell fragments splintered deck floors and railings above. In a matter of hours, it was ex- Taft and President McKinley, British and French made similar Rain Chinese warplanes, flying in battle formation, rained bombs on Japanese sections front in an att suls throughout Chins were to leave immediately. “— Fight on Long Front The fighting engulfed the whole 15-mile front around Shanghai, Be- sides aerial combat, guns spoke from Chinese waterfront emplacements and from Japanese river patrol vessels, Both sides were swiftly reinforcing their infantry and artillery strength. A crack Chinese division was reported pproaching from the rear with one of China's best artillery units. An pave aaa pres Creapondesit, be- n Japan Ihanghai aboard the President McKinley, reported see- ing long lines of troop-laden Japa- nese transports approaching the China sea. On the northern waterfront, Chi- nese soldiers clung to their positions behind rocks and hastily dug en- trenchments guarding the Nankow Pass, the only route over which Japan feed, muons eae armaments im west Hopeh province to Chahar and Inner Mongolia. Resist Attack The Japanese attack was stalled by the dogged Chinese resistance, bad weather that kept aircraft grounded and rugged terrain that prevented use of heavy artillery. Chinese re- Ports said 500 Chinese and 1,000 Jap- anese troops had been killed in the fight for the pass. At Hongkong, British crown colony, preparations were made to house and feed 2,700 British refugees from Shanghai—mostly women and chil- dren—in an exodus expected to be completed by 5 The French government protested Nanking against Saturday’s serial bombardment of the French conces- sion in Shanghai, tion of French, Belgian, Swiss and Czechoslovakian nationals but evac- uation orders were left to the discre- tion of French officials in Shanghat. Child Shoots Itself With Loaded Revolver from a revolver. the shooting an accident and said there will be no inquest. The child was wounded while playing at the home of his grandfather, Chris Haga, constable at Thompson, N. D., the child picked up a loaded gun. SANBORN GIRL PASSES Valley City, N. D., Aug. 16—(P)— Gertrude Viole Tvedt, 19, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ole Tvedt of Sanborn,