The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 22, 1937, Page 1

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper BISMARCK, N. D., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1937 The Weather Cloudy tonight; show- ers Thursday; rising temperature Thurs, PRICE FIVE CENTS ‘Cholera Spreads in Shanghai Area - Green Warns Legion Against Communism ASKS VETERANS FOR Local Hobb y Show) Slayers and Witness in Revenge Murder CLOSER COOPERATION WITH A. P. OF L. BODY Veterans’ Administrator Hines Tells of Progress in Fed- eral Ald DOHERTY LIKELY LEADER Stambaugh Apparently Out of Running; Los Angeles 1938 Convention City New York, Sept. 22.—(#)—Closer Planned by ‘Trailer Kids’ Can CITY DEBT REDUCED ers] §O1 100.29 IN YEAR fh LAE Fo E H 5 = Hl fl f Circus Folk to Open Week's Engagement Here EXAMINATION SHOWS Would Ha en Greater, Audit Discloses, If Banks Had Cashed Bonds on Time Bismarck’s year ending June 30, 1937, 6 to the annual audit report of the city’s books, to the board of tity pee rminrang ety night. (Continued on Page Two) ITALY AND FRANCE CONFER ON PATROL Mussolini Will Be Satisfied With Equality ‘in Principle’ in . Mediterranean V.F.W. Diverse Sparetime Occupations Will Be Revealed by Exhi- bition Here Oct. 8 FR’S SPECIAL TRAIN TOLEAVEHYDE PARK FOR NW WEDNESDAY President Tells Correspondents to Take Along ‘Heavies’ for Cold Nights iy g rad re iEE [ L ey Efe e ie Hyde Park, N. Y., Sept. 22—()— President Roosevelt ordered his heavy clothes packed Wednesday for & whirlwind two-weeks tour to Seattle and back to find out among other things what the country is thinking Roosevelt, a staff of White House secretarial aides, and a score of newspapermen were to accompany him on the trip, which will end either in Washington or Hyde Park Oct. 6 after appearances and informal talks in eight northwestern and middle western states. . ‘The journey also will include an in- BLACK CHARGED WIT DECEPM Walsh Says Alabaman ‘Grossly|a Imposed’ on President by His Silence ‘good Brit- ish Columbia by destroyer. Traveling the central route, the train Wednesday night will pass through Buffalo, Cleveland and lorthern and Thursday neighbor” excursion to Worcester, Mass., Sep’ spection of many federal projects and | naster Three brothers of Mrs. Verna Garr jsurrendering shortly after the shoot- Asks Businessmen To Aid Corn:Sho MORE THAN 400 AT Promotion of Crop Means Pros- perity to Area Says Chair- man in Appeal wien 6 Barn ‘hheip support North Dakote state corn show here De Agents and Represent- atives at Business Session; Wives Are Entertained Better merchandising methods and their relation to the company’s adver- Fue g Fj SEE. 2 lof the Standard Oil Co., with dealers, agents and their representatives from the Bismarck district. ‘While the men were discussing busi- ress matters their wives were enter- tained at cards and as guests of the ‘company at local motion picture thea- ters. The total attendance was more than 400. At the business conference empha- merchants, manager, | vas of the city at 9:30 a, m. On the finance committee with Robertson are J. C.' Taylor and J. C. Oberg. Solicitors, selected by the finance International Zone Alone Has 1,500 Victims Japanese Bombs Bring Misery to Nanking; Red Armies Join Central Government; Japan Apologizes to Great Britain War Comes to Civilians * What happens when defenseless civilian populations are attacked in war? The answer is contained in this brilliant bit of descrip- tive writing by C. Yates McDaniel, Associated Press corre- spondent, telling of the bombing attack on Nanking: Those killed or injured were mostly folk who had been too feeble or helpless to join the exodus into the meteor the surrounding countryside. zens of incendiary bombs and high explosives fell into their wretched straw huts in the Hsiakwan slum district. The huts burned like match boxes. Many were trapped and burned to death. Accustomed to the horrifying results of 12 previous air raids here, this correspondent, who has reported a dozen civil wars, famines and plagues in China, never- theless was sickened at the sight of women, children and old men, already burned to death or beyond aid. In many places heaps of dismembered legs, arms and heads were seen. The odor of burning bodies sickened the stomach and appalled the senses. = KRAUSE INSTALLED All of the dread horsemen of the Apocalypse were riding rough-shod over China Wednesday. Raging pestilence, the dread cholera, was added to death devastation and war as the conflict between Japan and China continued with no major military breaks on any front. In the North, where the war is expected to be decided, invading Japanese approached the strong defense line set up by the Chinese and observers felt that a major—perhaps a ag mg a Ten raged unchecked, there wi 2 were 1,500 cases in the International settlement and the French concession. In addition there were 979 suspected cases in the settlement and even ‘iore in the French concession. No dhe knew how many deaths from cholera had occurred in the crowded native quarters, SE ae Eg a out their announced in- air raiders AS PRESDENT OF |= CIVIC ASSOGIATION Success of Program Under Kobs Held Up as Model for Coming Year Praising the program of the past year as a model for the future, Dr. R. F. Krause, new president of the Bis- marck Junior Association of Com- merce, Tuesday night asked at the third annual meeting for the same, kind of successful co-operation that had been given Retiring President Ober A. Kobs, Approximately 50 association mem-| ne bers and 50 other guests heard Krause | ing of ni Projects for coming year = froduce new officers at a banquet at | Corman <mbasey OF aay a eich Charlee ©. Goodwin was toast- ayo by @ second and more Asserting that accomplishments of jtrom the United States government. the association justified its existence} Janan’s note of apology for shoot- S'/in Bismarck’s civic life, Kobs called a S83 ATE FEE TO VISIT BISMARCK Dr. Carl Sandstrom of Stock- hoim, Sweden, Will Be Guest of Clinic Here Tv tion .| duction of President George F. Sha- gprisee ieee ry z Pi i honors by sponsoring school patrolsireq t here; the sponsorshi Serene? of two trade|“believed in all sincerity to be two days; the general tion get-out-| military lorries containing Chinese the-vote campaign; the Halloween|army officers” and promised that such party for the city’s boys and girls; |incidents would not again occur. the Christmas lighting project; the Christmas th liam.8. Moeller, first vice president; Charles J. Whittey, second vice prest. wal to the aun, nee ee Washington western Minnesota Sept. 29. He will appear at the forenoon ses- participa! sion of the ninth district Farmer-| claimed to have , and speak| them. Thirty sections station KFJM at|bombed with an (Continued