The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 20, 1937, Page 2

BACK BY CHINESE FIGHTERS IN NORTH Native Flier by Clever Ruse Destroys Four Ships in Squadron He Joined (By the Associated Press) Shanghai received Wednesday the first independent reports that Japan- ese not only are slowed down but are being pushed back on one section of the North China front. Foreign reports from Tsinan, Shan- tung capital province, were that pro- vincial troops under Gen. Han Fu-Chu are making steady advances north- ward toward Tehchow near the north- ern provincial border. The Japanese about-face was as- cribed jointly to intense activity of Chinese guerrilla units and assertions that overtures are in progress for a compromise between Japanese and General Han. Invaders Push Forward In Shanghai a Japanese spokesman declared Japanese troops were digging their way forward against Chinese on the Shanghai front. U. 8. Ambassador Nelson T. John- son made written representations to the Chinese government asking that Chinese warplanes quit flying over the Shanghai International settlement and ee . JAPANESE PUSHED | Snite Starts dropping bombs in foreign areas. Authoritative foreign military ob- servers told of one instance in which a clever Chinese flier destroyed seven Japanese bombers at the Yangtzepoo airdrome. Joined by Fifth Plane They said four Japanese bombers returning from a raid inland were joined by a fifth plane just as night fell. The fifth plane swung into for- mation with the others and switched on navigation lights when they did. ‘The four planes landed, but the fifth turned out to be a Chinese raider. The Chinese pilot soared overhead at less than 500 feet elevation and dropped two heavy bombs which destroyed the four planes and three others. ‘The Japanese cabinet in Tokyo ap- proved reductions in government ex- penses of $59,000,000 for the remainder of the year in an economy move to help meet the cost of fighting in ASN HONORS AWARDED 10519 Three North Dakota Men Win 33rd Degree; 7 Names Knights Commander Washington, Oct. 20.—(#)—The su- preme council of the thirty-third de- gree, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonary of the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, now an biennial session here, announced ‘Tuesaday selection of 181 Masons to re- ceive the 33rd degree, 336 to receive the rank of Knights of Commander of the Court of Honor and two the Grand Cross of the Court of Honor, James M, Clift, grand secretary of the grand lodge of Virginia, Rich- mond, and Col. Theodore W. McCul- Jough, associate editor of the Omaha Bee-News, were given the Grand Cross of the Court of Honor—a decoration ‘awarded only 33rd degree Masons and now held by only nine other living men. ‘Those selected to receive the thirty- third degree included: North Dakota—Percival L. Godwin, Fargo; Charles M. Pollock, Fargo; Louis F. Smith, Mandan. ‘Those given the rank of Knights Soe ler of the Court of Honor in- North Dakota—L. R. Baird, Bis- marck; Leander B. Hiler (East Grand | Forks, Minn.); William J. Hutche- son; Fargo; Carther Jackson, Grand Forks; Harold B, Parsons, Mandan; Frank R. Scott, Fargo; Samuel O. Tollefsen, Milton. Frederick H. Wilder Dies of Heart Attack Fargo, N. D., Oct. 20.—(#)—Funeral services will be held here Thursday for Frederick H. Wilder, Fargo in- surance man for 35 years, who died in his home Monday of a heart at- tack. Burial will be in the family lot ind Forks. had resigned in 1936 as secre- of the Merchants National Mu- Fire Insurance company but had retained as an executive com- eeman, Wilder was born Dec. 4, 1864, at Sterling, Mass. Following his gradu- ation from college he moved West, 5 2 pleas going first to Devils Lake and then | {2 to Grand Forks in 1892. He leaves Mrs. Wilder and one Gaughter, Elizabeth teaching at Al-|\ pens, Mich. George Wilder of Grand | 4 Forks is a nephew. MINOT TEACHER DIES Fargo, N. D., Oct. 20.—(#)—Thelma Mestad, 23, Minot school teacher, died Tuesday in a Fargo hospital of pneu- monia and septicemia, following an @puendectomy Oct. 9. Miss Mestad was, N.D. Season tickets for civic con- cert series at Woodmansee’s. | Weather Report | tled tonight and Thursday, born Sept, 25, 1914, at Norma, | §. Miami Beach, Fia., Oct. 20.—() — Smiling and cheerful, Fred Snite, (above), who lives seconds from death, returned Wednesday in a mechanical respirator to the scene of his carefree days as & college freshman. Hundreds greeted Snite, son of ® Chicago banker, as attendants transferred him from a specially- equipped car to a truck for the trip to his father’s winter home. In 1929, Snite attended the Uni- versity of Miami. In the past 18% months, an attack of infan- tile paralysia has filled his life with strange happenings, Such as: Having traveled 10,800 miles without touching foot to ground, from Peiping to Miam! Beach via Chicago by train, truck and ship in a thousand-pound life-sustain- ing respirator of steel and glass. Of being able to concentrate on reading matter (the type appears upside down to him), play a pass- ing chess game and eat, although WEATHER FOREAST! For Bismarck and vicinity: Unset- slightly warmer tonight. For North Dakota: Unsettled to- night and Thursday; slightly warm- er tonight and east Thursday. For South Dakota: Unsettled to- night and Thursda: lightly warmer central and east portions tonight and extreme east Thursday, For Montani Unsettled tonight; showers east, colder west and central Portions; Thursday peel. cloudy. y For Minnes lostly unsettled tonight and Thursday; slightly warm- er west and south portions Thursday. GENERAL WEATHER CONDITIONS The barometric pressure is low over the Great Lakes region, Chicago 29.48 inches, and over Alberta and easte: Montana, Edmonton 29.72 inch while a high pressure area exten: from Oregon southeastward to New Mexico, Boise 30.20 inches. Moderate to heavy precipitation has occurred in the Great Lakes region and light, scattered showers were reported from. the middle Mississippi Valley nort! westward to the north Pacific coa Generally fair weather prevails from the central Plains States westward to ‘alifornia. Temperature changes have been slight, readings being moderate in all sections. Bismarck station barometer, inches: 28.01, Reduced to sea level, 29.81, Missouri river stage at 7a. m. 4.4 ft, 24 hour change, 2 ft. 8 7108 is Total, January Ist to date Normal, January ist to date .. Accumulated excess to date .... NORTH DAKOTA POINTS Low- High- BISMARCK, cld sa P00 Devils Lake, cd} Minot, cldy. 28 52.00 Williston, cld. 30 54) 00 Fargo, cldy. 38 48 100 Carson, cld 23° 57 100 Jamestown, cld: 54.00 assaf Grand Forks, cldy. .. 37 WEATHER AT CrHEe POINTS est est Pct. Aberdeen, 8. D., pcldy. 30 58 .00 loise, Idaho, cldy. .... 40 62 00 Calgary, Alta, peld ‘clay. Chicago, Til. 44 162 Denver, Col 38:00 Des Moines, 50 00 lodge City, Kan: 60 00 Havre, Mon Helena, Mont. Huron, 8. D. 38 100 Kamloops, 52 100 Kansas C 38116 56 104 84 100 36 100 “4 No, Platt . Okla, City, Okla., Phoenix, Ariz, clear . 52 Plerre, S. D., cld: Pr, Albert, Sas! Qu’Appelle, S.,_cld: Rapid City, 8. D., cld: Roseburg, Ore., ‘cld: St. Louis, r Sloux City, 5 Spokane, Wash. Swift Current, 81, pc! The Pas, Man. clay, Winnipeg, N. Y. BOY DISAPPEARS Jamestown, N. Y¥., Oct. 20.—(P)— Sheriff Roy L. Chadwick said Wed- Desday that department of justice agents had arrived in suburban Lake- Wood to investigate the disappearance of 3-year-old Timothy Michael Heer Tuesday from his father’s home. Saker Lenn 1 BOY SHOT DEAD Pierpont, 8. D., Oct. 20.—()—Dar- rell, 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wickre, farmers living northeast of here, was shot and instantly killed Tuesday night when a rifle with which he and companions were playing dis- charged. *jmonies, ‘00 |Currie Goodwin, Bismarck Capital; Florida Trip HOLDUP CONFRONT MONTAGUE IN N.Y. Prosecutor Bars Women From Jury Because of Lack of - Facilities Elizabethtown, N. Y., Oct. 20.—UP)}— John Montague, Hollywood's mystery man of golf, was confronted Wednes- Moore, native of Syracuse, N. Y., in- dicted for the robbery, but. denies his throat is clenched in a rubber grip 21,600 times « day. The 27-year-old Notre Dame graduate left Chicago, where he had been since return from China last summer, because it was believed the sunshine and sea air here might heighten chances for recovery, ‘ From the newly added three- room “sun-suite” atop the Snite home, young Fred may be able to gee the Atlantic ocean after two caconut palms now in his re- atricted field of vision are re- moved, He also may be able to look down (by aid of mirrors) on the lawn tennis court where once he played. A length of electrical cord is his life line, Failure for longer ¢han five minutes of current to the small motor which actuates the respira- tor possibly would extinguish the spark of life his father has spent an estimated $250,000 to preserve. AUXILIARY LEADER HEADS COMMITTEE Mrs. J. C. Spare Will Direct Ob- servance of Navy Day in Bismarck TRIAL WILL BECIN ON THURSDAY Faces Embezzlement Count But Trial for False Entry Is Postponed Napoleon, N. D., Oct. 20.—(#)—The district court trial of A. H. Thme, suspended Loan county auditor charged with embezsiement, is ex- pected to get under way here Thurs- day with Judge W. H. Hutchinson of LaMoure presiding. A previously filed charge of false entry in public records will not be tried during the present term of dis- trict court, State’s Attorney August Doerr said. Ihme is accused of embezsiement in ‘connection with an item of $76.25 paid to him for taxes. State wit- nesses during the trial will include O. Mrs. J. C. Spare, president of the American Legion Auxiliary, heads the Bismarck Navy Day observance com- mittee, Mrs, Bernard 8. Nickerson, Mandan, state chairman, announced Wednesday. Definite plans for the Navy Day program, to be held the evening of Navy Day, Oct. 27, in the city audi- torium, also were made public Wed: ne: feutenant Paull of the U. 8. navy air corps, who is flying a navy plane here from St, Paul especially for the one-day celebration, will be principal Speaker. The rest of the program, as atranged by the Legion Auxiliary, will include an invocation by Rev. BE L. Jackson, a talk on Theodore Roosevelt by Supreme Court Justice James Mor- tis, and a talk Thme is at liberty on $1,000 bond. Coxtine® Di County Agent Poll tion of Ralph Soule and the Elks band, under direction of Curtis Dir- lam, will play several navy selections. ‘The Legion Auxiliary will present ap- propriate opening and closing cere- A » Killdeer, county—Practically no wheat has raised while corn has helped to The public is invited. Other members of the local commit- tee, both active and honorary, include Mayor Obert A. Olson; W. E. Nuessle, ‘supreme court justice; A. M. Christiane son, supreme court justice; Marie Hu: ber, county superintendent of schools: . O, Saxvik, city superintendent of | Po Father Robert A. Feehan, St. Frank Fitzsimmons, KFYR. L. V. Miller, commander, Lloyd Spetz post, American Legion; Mrs. J. Rue, president, American War Moth: ers; Harry Bernstein, commander, Gi bert N. Nelson post, V.F.W.; Mrs, ©. Olson, president, V.F. ze 395 ESEE E & .A.R. Louis F. Bechtold, Thomas J. Burke, John Degg, William Schantz, Robert ‘Dohn, Lawrence Nelson, Philip Neél- json, H. Carson, U. 8. navy, W. J. Mc- Donald, Dr. W. B. Pierce and Robert 00 | Ritterbush, DEMOCRATS TO CELEBRATE Devils Lake, N. D., Oct, 20—(P}— 00 |The fifth anniversary dinner in cele- bration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first term election as president of the United States will be held in North Dakote, as well as nationally, Nov. Dr. 8. Burdette Hocking, state presi- dent of the Young Democrats an- pounced Wednesday. Now in progress—Ends Oct. Afterncens ly—1:30 te 5:38 Opening Bismarck’s 1937-38 Little Theatre Season THE COMMUNITY PLAYERS | “Charley's Aunt” From Brasil — Where the Nuts Come From Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 20 - 21 . City Auditorium - - - Curtain 8:15 P. M. Main Floor 50c Balcony 35¢ _THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1937 PUTTING ON THE SQUEEZE Here Is One of the Most Gratifying Plays in Bridge, But You Have to Know Just When to Try It By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY » American Bridge League SOLUTION TO PREVIOUS North, with two aces, overbid in CONTRACT PROBLEM going to seven, and South sew that) i ase oe aguetn i the mos ascinating| OY chan of the cone willing opponent to give up an other-| spades, and the king and queen of wise safe stopper in a suit 1s one of ae seemed possible in view the things which to most bridge} ie drew two rounds of trumps, players make the game wel! worth-| then followed with four clubs, dis- while. carding a heart on the fourth club. Next he led four more rounds of trumps, and on the last lead of trumps West was squeezed. He had to retain the spade queen, and thus dropped the heart queen. Whereupon the spade 10 was dis- carded in dummy, and the last two tricks were won with the ace and jack of hearts, Today's pointer: In order to de- velop an ordinary, simple squeeze, the declarer must be able to take all but Duplicate—None vulnerable. each of two sults, South West North East 14 INT Se Contract Problem eo ee a Moree (Solution. in next Sesue) South’s contract is three no trump. East has won the first trick with the heart 10. What Opening lead—@ K. 20 he! holder of the declaring hand must 1.|in other ways. Average yield 20-25 “|$400,000 Peculation In order to make this play, the! | return now gives the defense the. beSt chance to defeat the not only have the cards in his own contract? hand or dummy, but he must be fa- milir with the mechanics of the Sac play. The first essential is that de- sys clarer be able to count all but one of 2 the tricks needed. $xKQ Today's hand was played by Lieu- tenant Commander W. A. Corley, chairman of the tournament commit- tee of the forthcoming national championships of the American Bridge League, to be held in Wash- ington, D. C., the week of Nov. 29. When he saw his dummy and counted his tricks, he could only see 12, and realized that the chance of making the other trick was slim in- (Blind) (Blind) _ All vulnerable. Opening lead—¥ 3, . (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, Inc.) contest a draw and their comments were: ‘W. J. Lawrence, Mott, Hettinger county—Taking it from all angles, I believe corn at least equalled wheat in comparative value during the per- fod given. Average yield 10 to 12 bushels. ©. M. Pace, Fort Yates, Sioux county —Average (corn) from 1928 to 1983 in- clusive was 17 bushels per acre. H, A. McNutt, Napoleon, Logan county—About the same. Corn was & yery poor crop in region this year. Average yield 19 bushels. R, L, Nelson, Hillsboro, Traill county —Corn ranks well with wheat from the standpoint of value per acre, when taking into consideration the value from the standpoint of feed, as well as he failed to furnish $35,000 bond. The bank, organised in 1933 and having deposits in exceas of $3,000,000, did not open for business Wednesday morning and is temporarily in charge of R. N. Mackey, federal conservator. Bank officials said federal charges were being prepared against Kurrle. MINOT COURT TERM SET Fargo, N. D., Oct. 20.—(#)—The firat fall term of federal court in North Dakota was set Wednesday by Judge Andrew Miller for Minot, Nov. 9. ‘Wings of the Morning! bray tend acre, This year's average ed W. Vancura, Fessenden, Wells obunty—Bqual, ‘Average 20 bushels. —Wheat has most value. age 20 bushels per acre. Ross Cook, Mohall, Renville county —Grain corn small compared to wheat. ‘Yield low, mostly fodder corn raised This year up to 20 bushels per acre. E. J. Taintor, Park River, Walsh county—Wheat more valuable. Very ttle corn harvested as grain. Discussing corn varieties most com- Ie’s the Flavor that mellows his morning mood and sets his heels s'clicking Schilling Coffee Gent, Northwestern semi-dent, and Rustler’s white dent. Some southern fodder corn also was raised in the state this year. Count Faces Banker We embezzling funds which police said may total $400,000. _He was held in jail when’ One for Percolator—another ———————_[Saa=a=a=ss_— one for Drip ot Glass Maker. dians, Bt. Casper, 50, Cleveland, Oct. 20.—()—President of all bridge plays. To compel an un-| West held the queen and jack of aiva Bradley of the Cleveland base- ball club announced Wednesday ap- pointment of Oscar Vitt, manager of the Newark club of the International League, as new manager of the In- Steve O'Neill. O'Neill becomes a tribe coach, Bradley announced. Replacement of O'Neill as the Cleveland pilot came after months of uncertainty over his status. replacing Vitt, 47, managed the Yankees’ Newark farm club for the last two years, finishing 25% games ahead ie Bevel r dropping the first He formerly played third base with Detroit’ and Boston in the American, one of the remaining tricks, and ene! League, winding up his major league defender must hold the stopper in| playing in the 1921 season. STABBED IN BRAWL = 20.—(?)—Joseph iucatly wounded "in fight early cri & fight earl Wednesday. Police arrested Charles Roberts, 62. The police report said both men were drunk. CAPITOL LAST TIMES TODAY 2 BIG HITS First Show at 6:45 FEATURE NO. 1 ROGER PRYOR and HEATHER ANGEL ‘Headline Woman’ FEATURE NO. 2 QIMAMITE & Ka Paul, Oct. > eWlT Thee DEVILS SADDLE LEGION Hurt Mother Most Titonka, Iowa, Oct. 20.—(#)—It really did “hurt mother most” when Mrs. Will Schutjer spanked her 4-year-old daughter, Patty. When Mrs. Schutjer turned Patty over her knee, the child held @ can opener behind her. Mrs. Schutjer’s hand was severely lac- erated on the jagged point. Ic ONTINUE D from page one: Wall Street Dive Leaves Investors : 25 Billion Poorer, liquidation of weakened margin ac- counts which might have been sold out earlier had federal margin ree quirements been lower. How the speculative kings and cap italistic captains of the money street fared the last two months was a mat ter of conjecture, S Rumors — unverified — in trading circles recently have revived names of some of the plungers in the 1929- 32 declines as sellers on the bear side, At the same time there have been vague stories of an “Amsterdam bear crowd,” selling American stocks abroad to escape the watchful eye of Uncle Sam's police force. The seventeen-year locust is not locust, but ‘icada. : Bismarc New York game Little THEATRE ENDS TODAY NINO MARTINI . JOAN FONTAINE in “MUSIC FOR MADAME” The voice the world adores, with Hollywood’s dream girl in a song and romance- filled drama! Also “March of Time” STARTS TOMORROW ae, We \ ve COMING SUNDAY “STAGE DOOR” Katherine Hepburn Ginger Rogers Adolphe Menjou — TEN HIGH HAS “NO ROUGH EDGES” — AGING WINTER AND SUMMER FOR 2 YEARS DOES IT! Try TEN HIGH...here’s why it will win your decision hands down: Formerly whiskey matured far more rapidly io summer than in _-Winter. But it's always summer in Hiram ‘Walker's modern weather-controlled rack- houses and TEN HIGH mellows every minute of every month for two long years! Get TEN HIGH and get a really ripe whiskey at @ really right price. STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY IVITT APPOINTED TO |e Doube Spanking ] | TAKE O'NEILL POST )° AS INDIANS’ PILOT Newark Club Manager Picked by Bradley; Steve Remains. as Tribe Coach ‘ RES os: