The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 15, 1937, Page 1

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1878 North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper BISMARCK, N. D.. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1937 The Weather Fair tonight, Thurs- day; cool with frost to- night; warmer Thurs. PRICE FIVE CENTS Roosevelt Orders Arms Embargo Britain, France Speed Piracy Patrol PlansChina-Bound Ship NNE-POWER ACCORD IN EFFECT DESPITE ITALIAN OBJECTIONS Leaders in Move to Stamp Out Attacks in Mediterranean Mobilize 200 Warships ITALIAN PARITY OPPOSED Pioneer Printer, S.A. Young, Dies Mandan Newspaper Publisher ts Killed in Fall Down Stairs at His Home Smith Abraham Y > 68, pioneer paperman and father of Russell Young, $15 First S8t., died instantly IRRIGATORS WARNED |Corn Show To Be THEY MUST REPAY GOVERNMENT DEBT _ Oct. 26-28 Frost Reclamation Commissioner Op- Exhibition Here to Be poses Moratoria, Says Farm- Sent Out Soon ers Well Able to Pay pa ee Bismarck will sponsor the North WOULD THREATEN PROGRAM | Dato! State Corn show again this Decision to hold the state-wide con- i, his’ Mandan home Wednesday morning as.the result of » fall Russia Determined to. Block lis reine ik tie Proposal for Equality in International Patrol lorcement Heavy additional naval units were orders to speed to the Medi- for’ parity nations in the Mediterranean,” Emergency Appropriation Will Now Provide Livestock Feed to Oct. 31 beeps Weed ves Ee emergency appropriation for ald for livestock feed to farmers drouth-stricken counties until Oct: ‘A. A. Robinson, Minot Bank Director, Dies 15.—(P)—Albert, of the 8. A, Young DELINQUENT TAX PUBLICATION NOW "SET FOR OCTOBER County Fathers to Make Known Names of Those Who Have Failed to Pay ‘who lives el Ronald Rust Ran Into Path of Car Driven by Max Etkin, be on or about Oct. 7, he said. TRANSFER $450,000 OF SALES TAX FUND $300,000 Goes to Schools, Re- mainder to Public Wel- fare Board N. D. Traffic Toll Today 4. ee 14 Most of Western America Cla- moring for Water Pro- jects, Says Page Caldwell, Idaho, Sept. 15.—Pointing out that the Bureau of Reclama.on has created “homes in what once was the desert for 840,200 people” Re- Page bluntly told representatives 0! tion farmers here Wednesday test and exhibition, for many years that they must pay their bills or else | yy, seriously handicap further reclama- tion efforts. Addressiig the annual conventin:t| ing, tion Congress, of the Fecera: Page said ‘nat farming under irriga- tion has, ‘n general, been p:erperous “aithough agriculture under irrige- tion is su>jer: to the same depressive influences which cperated in rural — and in urssn—aress everywhere & few years 7¢C.” As proof of the prosperity of irri- gated agriculture he said crop re- turns from federal projects totalled $136,502,480 or an average of $47.10 per acre lest year. This average Was two and one-half times that for the farms of the country as a whole. git) “ye ee of thi Asserting 99 per ie become due and payable under repayment contracts has been received by the bureau, Page warnea that efforts to establish 4 moratorium on such payments wou'd be-a serious handicap to further de- velopment. His reference was to ef- forts, led largely by politicians of area, to farmers to pay, Page said the best evidence is that they have paid. fiscal analysis of irrigation projects as a whole showed that of $48,268,- 782.16 due and payable for construc- tion of works, $47,562,012 has been paid. Of $31,581,702 due in payments for operation $31,352,023 has been paid. Water rental charges have to- talled $9,953,628 and $9,877,528 has been paid. _ Must Uphold Principle “All the promise that a continua- tion of the federal reclamation po- Iicy holds for the future of these arid and semi-arid states is no more se- cure than Meeting ted ahha ane payment p , said. “Any- thing which tends to cut away this indiscriminate and Since it was established, vealed, the Reclamation bureau has spent $281,460,504, the two principal sources of revenue being the sale of (Continued on Page Two) tion fund. Pointing to the ability of : George H. Will of Bismarck is gen- eral chairman of the corn show beard and other members of the executive committee are J. P. Jackson, Bis- marck, treasurer, and H. P. Goddard, Bismarck, secretary. Application forms and instruction sheets, together with the g é FL g g i son, Bismarck; Yates; Otto Mund, DeLamere and George fle /Ram’s Horn to So Day of Atonement End INSURGENTS LAUNCH ASSAULT ON MADRD ==: year from to French Franc Drops To Low for Decade ‘No Substantial Gains’, Say Defenders; Rebels Ad- _ vance Near Gijon ag pet Ba uy ? 3 a€ t I | 1H : i 3 3 % F ? £ fl i & 3 | t g & 3 ¢ i } Forecast FR ACKNOWLEDGES CONTROVERSY OVER May Be Stopped In San Pedro Huge Japanese Army Launches Major Offen- sive in North China; Chinese Hold Fast in Renewed Shanghai Assault Peiping, Sept. 15.—()—A Japanese] Washington, Sept. 15 —()— Mari- army of 125,000 men struck at Chinese|t!me commission officials worked positions along the entire North|swiftly Wednesday to carry out @ China front Wednesday, from the|partial embargo ordered by Presi: hills 40 miles west of here to the|/cent Roosevelt on arms shipments to Tientsin-Nanking railroad, 60 miles to the east. The bitterest battle of the nine- weeks’ old undeclared war was be- Neved to be developing. The Jap- anese reported almost instantaneous victories on both flanks and at the center of the 100-miles battle line. The Chinese northern army, esti- mated at nearly a half million men, was believed slowly withdrawing to their prepared first line positions, stretching like a solid wall of con- crete, steel and flesh from Tsang- chow, 60 miles south of Tientsin, through Paotingfu, 60 miles southwest of Peiping, into the hills it of this conquered capital of China's dragon emperors, Since the outbreak of the war hun- dreds of thousands of Chinese have quarters. Cavalry A force of 20,000 Attacks Japanese cavalry toons over He ate i gE it BLAGK KLAN LINK|S Says He Knew of No Alleged Membership Before Naming Alabaman Justice forward while Chinese, in the face of wave after wave of Japanese attack- concrete nests of China’s new defense Ine northwest of the city mowed of privacy.” The revival holds Jews of Bismarck Mark 2,400th Year of Yo Kippur, One of Oldest Religious Rites At twilight Wedvesday, just as the | black-and-white yarmika, evening star comes out, » ram's horn | authority, will sound in Bismarck, marking the end of the Jewish Yom Kippur or Day of Atonement—one of the oldest reli- gious services in existence. down Japanese attacking in an effort to crack the front. Marines along the Chinese right flank rests. American marines sprang to the settlement barricades to guard the thousands gun death in front of their positions. The newly -straightened Chinese line was holding firm in the face of the Japanese guns and men massed for a surprise assault. Behind the waves of intantry that, broke against the withering Chinese machine gun fire, the Japanese massed companies of tanks in attack formation. speci whether it will intercept the Amer- can freighter Wichita, en route from Baltimore to China with a cargo of 19 airplanes, as the first application of the new rule. The vessel, which sailed from Bal- timore on Aug. 27, was expected to reach San Pedro, Calif, during the ‘day for refueling. Mr. Roosevelt issued the arms ban ated privately to transport munitions to the Far Eastern war zone. All other American merchant ves- sels were cautioned that if they at- tempt to take such cargoes to the Orient, they do so at their own risk. ‘The edict marked the most drastic step taken by the government in the undeclared Sino-Japanese war. CHINESE PESSIMISTIC OVER EMBARGO (By the Associated Press) Here is the unofficial, but au- thoritative, Chinese and Japanese reaction to President Roosevelt's partial embargo on arms ship- ments to the Far East. cause president's statement empha- sized that the neutrality act was not being invoked at this time, but that conference his ini thing possible to States out of any Highway Department Will Con- duct Essay Competition in N. D. Schools missioner P. H. McGurren. Subject of the contest essays will “How Can North Dakota Be Third Quarter Income | Tax Installments Due Warning North Dakota income tax- payers that the third quarter dead- line would be reached tonight, State delinquent at mid- become {night tonight and that fourth quarter f i rial ii vl felt § fi i : i i Mn is cl ti Eege rl ic i? deputy sheriff, and escaped with the weekly payroll reported to amount to $15,000 or $16,000,