The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 2, 1937, Page 1

Telephone 2200 RA Replaced b THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE North Dakota’s ESTABLISHED 1873 ‘Oldest Newspaper BISMARCK, N. D., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1937 PRICE FIVE CENTS New Federal Agency Thousands Feared Dead in Hongkong Hurricane ” SHPS LADEN WITH Bombs Fall Near | Foreign Section WAR ZONE REFUGEES * FOUNDER IN HARBOR 125-Mile-An-Hour Gale Wrecks Havoe in British Crown Colony Port DEATH TOLL ALREADY 500 Downtown Hongkong Demolish- ed by Fire Which Fol- lows Typhoon she fire caused by the gale. It was not known how many .others were trapped in the flames and ruins of caved-in buildings. BISMARCK WATER NOT ADULTERATED Capital City’s Supply Is Both Pure and Sweet in Con- trast to Mandan’s Mandan may be having trouble with its. water, but Bismarck is not, said . Hartley, filtration plant en- Capital City difficulty as its sister city across the Big Muddy. Mandan’s water is pure, but it’s not ant odor drinking agreeable. It’s all due to the fact that algae, minute organisms, are props- | c, gating over-fast in the Mandan reser- voir. Ravnos was quoted as saying Bis- marck was overcoming the difficulty by the heavy use of alum which has left a distinct alum taste in Bismarck’s ter. algae could devop and in the place carbon is used as one filters, no alum being addéd after water hes entered the plant here. Ravnos declared Mandan’s water is being tested regularly, carefully chlorinated, that it is not harmft.'be- cause it carries no disease germs. He hopes the new Mandan plant will Temedy the situation. ‘Make War Debt Due ‘Days Holidays’—Clark|: Rue, N. Y., Sept. 2—(7)—U. 8. Senator Bennett Champ Clark: pro- poses that June 15 and Dec, 15—the due dates for war debt payments—be made national holidays. “I would a them ‘Keep out, Missouri legislator said in a speech before the national encampment of the Veterans of For- j Japanese Just Miss U. S. M ines in Raid; Nippon Ad- vance Checked Shanghai, Sept. 2—(#)—Japanese air squadrons dumped bombs on the northern borders of the International settlement in a sunset air raid this evening, just missing the sandbagged sectors defended by American ma- ines. ‘The bombs played havoc with life, Property but, apparently, military objective. Baby Has Shiner; | Fell Two Stories Des Moines, Iowa, Sept. 2.—(7) EUROPE IS TENSE ES Bl and eventually drive them out Positions in Shanghai proper. N.D. Officials Speak at | Toll Bridge Program| traniy East Fairview, N. D., Sept. 2—(P)— Improvement of old state highway No, 23 from Fairview to U. 8. tween Alexander and Williston will be included in the new highway pro- | further gram, it was indicated Wednesday Attorney General P. O. Sathre. ‘AS & representative of the highway department, he spoke by estimated 2,000 persons who attended | latter 8 celebration marking the removal of motor vehicle tolls from the railroad bridge crossing the Yellowstone river J. J. Murphy, State HOLC Counsel, Dies po eS Toads Cover Roads In Washburn Area ‘There's a reason for the hun- o dreds of toads that vU. 8. highway No. 83 north of Wash- burn and between Washburn i i z : E | He i He ile | é i a8 i Hl ie fl i | E : Es i | 5 i i i E ERE? é i AS BRITISH SHIP IS SUNK BY TORPEDO Italian Submarine Is Blamed for Attack on Freighter and one on Destroyer (By the Associated Press) ‘| Theater-Divorcement Act Will Be Tested Fargo, N. D., Sept. 2—()—The fed- eral court has under consideration a pecnert by, ne American Arpaoes Paramount Pictures, Inc., and Minnesota Amusement com- the constitutionality statute Reduced in Two States Washington, Sept, 2.—(P)—The in- Sevison Accepts Highway Job Zina _E. Sevisen, of Cheyenne, MASONS OUTLINE EDUCATION PLANS Grand Officers of North Dakota Confer With District Dep- uties Here Wednesday Mapping an educational program for the coming year, deputies of dis- tricts 14 and 25 of the A.F. & A.M. conferred in the Bismarck Masonic temple Wednesday with officers of the grand lodge. More than 40 per- sons were present. Grand Officers present were Char- ies M. Pollock, Fargo, grand master; R. E. Trousdale, Mott, deputy grand master; John Moses, Hazen, grand senior deacon; Verne Wells, Robinson, grand tyler; L. K. Thompson, Bis- marck, past grand master. District deputies attending were B. G. Gustafson, Linton; R. R. Buech- grand lodge director of Masonic serv- ice and education, outlined the pro- gram. tepresented were Bismarck, Mandan, Steele, Linton, Hazen, Mott, Flasher and Beach. From Bismarck, Pollock and Hut- cheson left for Dickinson where a similar meeting was scheduled Thurs- day. They are on a tour of the state. Deaf School Position Will Be Filled Soon Picnic was the word when more than 500 Elks and friends gathered at last Sunday {7 a day's frolic. But thougl & picnic, was the big event, there were ot! E. B. Klein, Bismarck police commissioner, is sh officiating at the bingo game, from which B. Glass daughter, Shirley Anne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. of Mandan, are seen carrying away spoils of the game groceries in each hand. The rush of business which kept’the re- freshments stand busy all afternoon is shown in the photo, top center, with part of the crowd which lined the field for the Elks- Klein's kittenball game shown at top right. Second from left be- low, Curtis Dirlam takes time off from directing the Little German band. Next is part of the group which surrounded the bingo stand, Three Die i N. D. Traffic Suit Saved From Fire, Burns Later Belden, Neb. Sept. 2—(P)— Twice Sylvester Edwards, 26, ran into his flaming farm home here to save his radio and a suit of badly. the battery radio. They were de- atroyed, , Concrete Poured for Fort Peck Spillway Fort Peck, Mont., Sept. 2—(P)— Construction of the Fort Peck dam ‘was marked this week by the pouring of 2,100 cubic yards of concrete the cut-off structure of the spillway. A hole 138 feet deep and eight feet wide was filled Monday and Tuesday. About 1,450 cubic yards were poured continuously, then an eight-hour wait after which the remainder of the hole was filled. Work on the dam has progressed to the point that the main river ‘channel crossing including four gal- vanized steel towers and hardware, is being taken down and is offered for Fog Blankets Valley; Rain Falls Over N. D. Bismarck residents awoke in @ fog Thursday morning. A heavy blanket of moisture covered a wide area of the Missouri valley and other low- After temperatures rose to 90 ‘Wednesday, the mercury sank to 63 during the tt bringing some from the humid Mrs. Jennie Ulsrud, chairman of the state board of administration, said Thursday appointment of a new head to the State School for Deaf at Devils Lake would be made soon. Her announcement was made after } Hankinson, ipal | Wishek and Fargo. measure of relief heat. Thirteen North Dakota points recorded precipitation during the % hours ending at 7:30 a. m. Lisbon was high with 1.03 inches, Other wet spots were Carrington, Crosby, Minot, Williston, Devils Lake, Grand Forks, Oakes, Pembina, Western Engineers Convene in Helena Max, |) Accidents Two Winnipef Residents, North- wood Farm Boy Are Lat- est Victims (By the Associated Press) North Dakote’s highway death toll continued its grim rise Thursday with # North Dakota farm lad and two Winnipeg residents the latest vic- The second and third victims of a car crash near Hoople Sunday died The first victim was Gilbert Tvedt, 45, Hoople farmer, killed at the time of the crash. Arthur Johnson, 11-year-old son of Mr, and Mrs. L. N. Johnson, farm- ers near Northwood, was crushed to death by his father's car three miles west of Northwood Wednesday night. N. D. Traffic Toll | tot 76 The lights suddenly blinked out. Mr. Johnson, who was driving brought the car nearly to a stop when Arthur jumped out to fix the lights, Just after he jumped, the car tolled over the edge of the road, tip- ped down the steep grade crushed him beneath it, Sheriff Oscar Redwing said. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were cut and bruised but not seriously injured. Their two other children were unin- ured. Near Mott four Zap coal miners and an oil man were injured in an auto-truck collision Thursday. They were taken to a Dickinson hospital. The collision occurred at a cross- road two miles north of Mott when the automobile and an oil truck of ;| sacred. The Weather Partly cloudy tonight and Friday; cooler Friday. FARM SECURITY 1S NAME. AND AIM OF GOVERNMENT BODY Subsistence and Tenant Loans Will Be Major Part of Program W. W. ALEXANDER IS HEAD Tugwell’s ‘Model Community’ Projects Have No Place in New Setup Washington, Sept. 2—(P)—A new federal agency with different aims— the Farm Security administration— ‘Thursday replaced the Resettlement “Administration, stormy New Deal unit founded by Rexford G. Tugwell. ‘The new agency will direct the longtime and admittedly difficult job of trying to convert 3,000,000 tenants, sharecroppers and farm laborers into ‘| owner-operators. Bulletins (By The Associated Prees SOVIET PLANES LAND Tientsin—The Japanese consulate general reported Thursday a fleet of 72 Russian airplanes had arrived at the North Central China province of Shensi, 500 air miles from Tientsin, ROBBERS TAKE $230 Grand Fy ——, Robbers broke into two tors at Orr and Inkster in Grand Ferks county ‘Wednesday night or early Thurs- day, taking $230 in cash from the People’s Grain Co. at Orr. They found no money in the Inkster Elevator Co. BOMB JAPAN TOWN Shanghai—An unconfirmed report early Thursday said Chinese military. airplanes had flown to Japan and bombed Kagoshima, southernmost Port of importance in Japan proper. NYE WIRES PROTEST ON TENANCY PROGRAM = Sends Wallace Message Criti- cizing Unfair Allotment of U. S. Funds Vigorously protesting any unfair distribution of federal dollars in the federal farm tenancy program, Sena- tor Gerald P. Nye Thursday wired Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace to remember the government commitments in Western North Da- kota’s submarginal lands. Nye was aroused to action by press reports from Washington Wednesday that only a comparatively few dol- lars will be spent in the Middle West in ratio to the amount of funds exe pended in the South in the rehabili- tation of tenant farmers there. “I have repeatedly protested any plan which ignored the government's obligation in those districts where lands have been optioned but con- tracts not closed,” Nye stated in his message to Wallace. “In Western and/ North Dakota are many such cases. “I must insist that these obligations be first considered in the expenditure of the sul eae Don't disappoint these whose pa- tience has been so long tried by the delay in completing contracts,” Nye concluded. ‘War Is a Racket,’ Butler Tells VFW’s Buffalo, N. ¥., Sept. 2.—(7)—Gen. Smedley D. Butler asked America’s Veterans of Foreign Wars Wednesday to seek a law prohibiting the use of American troops abroad. “In 1917 they sent you fellows over to Germany to defend your homes,” the fiery little retired marine off! told uniformed veterans at their tional convention. “It’s all —the racket that lets American ital invested abroad do so under emblem and gets us inf bi trouble. NDAC CUSTODIAN DIES Fargo, N. D., Sept. 2—()—Orms A died here W A Hall, custodian of eee wae Agricultural college, survit his widow and two sons, and a sister and a brother. MILWAUKEE WOMAN HURT Secretary Wallace officially ended the Resettlement Administration's life Wednesday and transferred to ‘the new agency the task of continuing seh of its projects as will be com- pleted. Wallace never liked the word “re- settlement” for describing the federal job of rural relief. He christened the new agency “security” and warned appointees publicly they must live up to its name. No Model Communities The cabinet member said building of model suburban and rural com- munities—pet projects when Tugwell was at the helm—will have no place come owners; loans to enable ers to subsist, improve and ahead; and development of a agriculture, and Dr. A. G. Black, chief of the bureau of agri- cultural economics. ment was an independent agency, but when he resigned last year President ne rele transferred it to the agri- culture department. Officials said the setup. Spokesmen for the new agency said the resettlement administration had authorized 95 varied construction Projects involving an outlay of about ‘$70,000,000, Of these, 36 have been completed. Tugwell’s construction plans were curtailed sharply when drouth greatly increased the need of the agency's funds for rural relief. Although Wallace sheared the land purchase and development activities from the new he a if E i t He but from oth that the n