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

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper 2200 ESTABLISHED 1873 ‘FDR Asks Removal of Tax Inj justices 15 Men Cheat Waves, Sharks in Battle With Sea [ peeats TT 'Jobless May Get NEAR-STANPEDE T0 REVISE TAXES ADDS TOEARLY CONFUSION Administration Ranks in Conflict Over President’s Legisia- tive Proposals FOREIGN POLICY IS HIT Only Government Reorganiza- tion Ready for Action; Early Farm Bill Unlikely By NATHAN ROBERTSON Washington, Nov. 15.—(?)—A near- stampede to revise taxes on business developed Monday at the start of the “DENNIS MWOREAN' = DEATH CLAIMS OLD ND.NDIAN FIGHTER, DENN MOREAN, $8 BISMARCK, N. D., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1937 The Weather Mostly cloudy tonight; PRICE FIVE CENTS TOF CREW OF 8 (Lila E. Heer Wins Census Card Aid| DROWNIN ATLANTIC WPA Will Aid Unemp! Unemployed in Filling Out Cards at Four Points in City Fro dp abemapioved. pespons 09 fill luring the points. Persons who feel that they.need as- sistance in filling out their cards can to the Richholt, Wachter and 8t. schools and the U. 8. post office to 10 p. m, TieEe TELE Last Survivor of Minnesota |ployed Civil War Division Dies in Minneapolis distributed profits steps to stimulat Conflicts, even within administra- tion ranks, on the president’s legisia- | o}, tive proposals added to the uncertain- Meine aa Nov. 15—(?)—Dennis Indian fighter and Civil ‘war See, and last survivor ot the id Minnesota Fifth Infantry, died sunday at ‘the - Minnesots: was sent. south where lined five major objectives for the {mportan: % session—wage-hour standards, stop eas coniea, ; lation, None was reedy in eltiver house except government reorganization. Some observers contended the entire, eourse.of the president's second term depended on the developments in the two almost continuous sessions of con- gress before the 1938 off-year elections. to Truneral services will be held at 8 &, m. Tuesday. MRS, BERTSCH, 85, PIONEER RESDENT OF BISMARCK, DIES Funeral Services for Mother of Postmaster Will Be Held much of its customary drama. A revolt still undetermined and of his hints of co-operative ac-| tion against Japan. Senator Nye (R., N. D.) said the president’s course emphasized the need for & more mandatory neutrality nay? He suggested the possibility of direct congressional action to declare a state of war exists between China and Japan in order to invoke the neu- trality law. tary early enactment of a farm bill. Some congressmen, because of’ Wal-|old Jace’s stand and the Sirereen ame of legislators on compulsory and untary control of farm crops, ee pressed. Lf dee Boh Nlioe airy pea child, Katherine, 3, pliable proerany could be adopted |fancy, and her husband, Christian, atthe special pession. died in 1924. In view of the situation in senate! Funeral services will be conducted congressional leaders abandoned all| Baptist church “with Rev. Benjamin hope of taking up the farm problem |Schlipf, pastor, officiating. Inter- tor several days at least. 2? BAKERS Fargoans Aid in Picket Line;| “hr Truck Stopped, Proceeds With Sheriff's Help sean ieatis te beeen doe Bertsch leaves two brothers, John of Elgin, Andrew Schatz of Grand Forks, N. D., Nov. 15. ‘Twenty-two union strike here Sunday some of i iFisdis E Persons lorder that a long range program for the alleviation of this economic evil may be devised. Anderson requests that all Bismarck loyers. emphasize to their em- pees ise cecesal ty ot aving sopra 20, [#6 © copy of the declaration to the|! HG cr ORDER MORE DATA IN ND. TAX LEVY CONTEST = Taxpayers’ Suit Taken Under Advisement; Decision Ex- pected This Week additional informa- ‘Daddy’ Too Easy On Representatives Washington, Nov. 15—(#)—Tal- lulah Bankhead, stage star, found fault Monday with her father’s discipline as speaker of the house. “They were all talking at once and it was confusing,” Miss Bank- head said, following her first visit to a session of congress, “I didn’t think daddy was severe enough with them. es the acoustics are terri- le.” ITALY VOTES ‘NO, AS 9-POWER PARLEY CRITICIZES JAPAN)”: Brussels Conference Adjourns to Nov. 22; Chinese Troops Fall Back (By ‘the Associated Press) A declaration s' the Far Eastern conflict and criticizing Japan was adopted Monday by the Brussels conference, with Italy voting “no,” and three abstaining. The Italian delegate, Count Luigi Aldrovandi-Marescott!, said that he must vote against the summary be- cause Italy believed it presages a course which can lead only to compli- cations, The conference voted against send- On the Shanghai battlefront Chi- Hiese defensea appeared to be failing under the weight of superior Japanese armaments, although Chinese man- power outnumbered Japan’s 200,000 troops about two to one. In North Chiria, another Chinese capital, Tsinan, seat of Shantung Vbslapad appeared in imminent dan- Say meager reports came from. the world’s other major war—the Span- ish civil conflict. Advices received on the Franco-Spanish frontier said General Jose Miaja, commander of Government troops in central Spain, had requested reinforecments for an eee Insurgent assualt on An early report from Insurgent of- ficers said Insurgent Generalissimo Francisco Franco might decide on a general offensive on all fronts to crush the Government before winter’ HEALTH DEPARTMENT LAUNCHES DRIVE FOR SAFER MILK IN N. D. Only 50 Per Cent of S Cent of Supply Is Pasteurized in State’s 10 Major Cities Advocating “safe milk” for North Dakotans and their children, Dr. -|Maysil Williams, state health office Young, Fargo attorney for seven pe- titioners who are directors of the ‘North Dakota Taxpayers association, te file @ specific statement on his claims for the maximum amount of said Monday the department ‘s launching a campaign for reasonably safe milk in every community. In the state’s ten major communi- ties where approximately 31,000 gal- lons of milk are consumed daily only 50 per cent is pasteruized as a safety i On the opening of national milk week, the health officer advocated tuberculosis and Bang’s disease test- ing twice annually for all daily cat- tle, pasteurization of milk and milk products and cleanliness in milk pro- duction. She explained heat processing of milk at a temperature of 143 de- grees for 30 minutes will kill tubec- culosis, scarlet fever and typhoid penta bacteria commonly carried in ary ‘pasteurization plants do not hea’ milk over 143% degrees there will be no “ ” and the product wiil not taste differently from unprocessed raw milk, she said. Need for safer milk is becoming more imperative because of the grow- ig demand for milk in the diet, she declared, adding the nation’s mik consumption can still be increased four times so every man, woman and child will have sufficient milk as Yonkers, N. Y., Scandinavian countries | Fis AFTER SHIP SINKS 6 Found in Lifeboat; Rest Drift 32 Hours on Raft, Bits of Wreckage ARE FOUND BY CUTTER Swollen-Tongued Survivors Tell Harrowing Tales of Ocean Tragedy Norfolk, Va., Nov. 15.—(P)—Fifteen disheveled survivors of the sinking Saturday of the Greek freighter Tzenny Chandris arrived here Mon- day aboard the coast guard cutter Mendota and, through interpreters, told. their graphic story of men against e eR, The captain of the crew of 28, sev- en of whom lost their lives, bore a bright red gash across the bridge cf his nose to witness his story of how ene seaman on the raft with him went mad in the harrowin~ hours before the rescue, and bit his captain in the fece before he died. An English seaman said he felt the heavily-laden freighter give two lurches, and “walked off the deck into the water.” He couldn't swim, but grabbed a piece of timber and kept pioet TepEDe off sharks that nipped “I was the last to leave the ship Mendota said the rescue was “extreme- ly difficult,” as a heavy swell made most impossible to see the. sea- Coyle said he was told the radio operator and another member of the crew jumped from .the stricken ship without life preservers and drowne’. A third was pulled through a life belt by a shark. A fourth, the one who went mad and bit the captain, died on the raft and his body washed into the sea. Corrie, the Englishman, said: “I went over with a life belt and then picked up a life buoy as it floated by. The ship took me down with her and I heard her gurgle going down, [ couldn’t swim but grabbed a piece of timber and held on. Sharks cut at me ankle and I grabbed a stick and tried to scare them away. “A seaplane finally spotted me and dropped a smoke bomb. It was some time before I was picked up. I am pretty sore but feel pretty strong.” Drift 32 Hours Corrie said the vessel was heavily laden with serap iron when she put out from Morehead City, N. C., and ran into heavy seas soon after leaving port. When she shipped water, then suddenly listed, he waited until she teok two lurches and “stepped off into the water.” The captain said he drifted on the raft with several others for 32 hours before rescued. Commander Coyle said “every man was accounted for” of the 28 aboard the vessel when she foundered. The boatswain, Frangolas Kiladitis, died aboard the Mendota after ae rescued. The Mendota brought in three other bodies, and three still were missing. Six of the crew were saved from a waterlogged lifeboat by the Mallory tanker Swiftsure five hours after the freighter sank before dawn Saturday. The survivors were carried off the cutter on stretchers and hurried to s marine hospital by ambulance. Their faces and tongues were swollen and their eyes bloodshot. Burleigh County Has 61 Students at UND Burleigh county sené sends more students » the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks than any of the state’s 52 other counties except Ward and when the City of Grand Forks is ex- cluded from the Grand Forks county tal R. O. Wilson, university registrar, reports there are 61 students from Burleigh. There are 71 from Ward and only 49 from Grand Forks county outside the city. Eugene Bumann, Small New Salem Child, Dies Private funeral services were con- ducted in New Salem at 2 p. m., Mon- day for Eugene Baumann, 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bau: mann of New Salem, who died in = hos- K m., floating on small oleces of wreck: Football Contest Shoots at Loose | Lion, Kills Cow Mobile, Ala. Nov. 15.—(P)— Three lions died and a cow, which was just an interested bystander, perished in a three-hour hunt that started Sunday when an overturned circus trailer liberated the lions. Circus employes and a group of citizens joined in the hunt. The lions several times threatened to attack their stalkers before be- ing slain. The cow met death when an anxious huntsman missed @ shot intended for one of the jungle beasts. VICTIM OF $50,000 KIDNAP SCHEME I$ DEAD OF EXPOSURE State to Ask Death Penalty for |. © 3 Men Accusd of Holding - Aged Dry Leader Huntington, W. Noy, 15.—(P)— Dr. James I. Seder, 79-year-old kid- nep victim held 10 days in an aban- doned coal mine in what federal agents SEDER’S WIDOW LIES, INJURED IN MINNEAPOLIS Minneapolis, Nov.’ 15.—(?)—Mrs. Minnie Seder, elderly wife of 79- year-old Dr. James I. Seder, kid- Gr, pomoale at Huntington, 08 at Hunt ; Va. was informed of his death ‘as she lay in @ hospital here rec- overing from an injury suffered in Dr. Seder :was:a former. declared was a futile $50,000 extortion plot, died early Monday of Adore Dr. A. K. Kessler who had attended undoubtedly ing the 10 days his aged patient had been held captive. Prosecutor E. E. Winters, Jr., an- nounced immediately he would confer later Monday with Judge H. Clay Warth on the impaneling of a spec grand jury and that he would ask murder indictments against three suspects arrested by agents of the federal bureau of investigation. Winters said he would ask the death penalty. : Lieutenant of Detectives Leslie J. Swann disclosed that 46-year-old Arnett A. Booth, one of the suspects, had been under suspicion from the day Dr. Seder disappeared. MORAL INSTRUCTION SHEN AS CURE FOR ILLS OF AMERICA Lack of Religious Training Fills Prisons, Rev. Vater Tells America’s grea’ surest cure for its ae ee ua E. of ch told members of th> Binge ions club at their luncheon Monday noon in the Grand Pacifie hotel. He who has not understanding or tion of moral values is grossly ignorant, Rev. Vater asserted, and he who attempts to put morality on and off like a cloak, discarding it from nts daily life, is worse than ignorant. » he said, needs to put its morality on the plane of the Apostle Paul who dared write to Christians in Corinth, seat of Greek culture: Four Pacsene Pick 16) Pick 16 Winners But Tie Games Prove to Be Stumbling Block Three persons, stumped by four tie games only and a fourth who even Picked one of the tie games but missed on another, led a record entry list in last week's football guessing cash prize contest sponsored by a score of Bismarck’s leading merchants through the Bismarck Tribune. Though all four picked 16 winners out of the 20 games listed, first prize money of $10 goes to Lila E. Heer of 808% First St., Bismarck, because of her perfect score in the first two col- umns of the official ballot. The victor scored 56 points out of a possible 60 compared to 55 for Arthur Bauer, Sr., 715 Sixth 8t., Bismarck; 53 for Ted Lampman, 213 South Sixth 8t., Bis- marck; and 50 for R. 8. Latta, 712 Fifth 8t, SW, Mandan. between Wisconsin and Purdue but missed the other three ties which de- veloped and in addition made another error by picking Carnegie Tech over Michigan State. The other three missed the four tle games. Second prize money of $5 goes to 30 Picked 15 Winners ‘Though 30 other contestants picked 15 winners, 74 picked 14 winners and '88 picked 13 winners, the average score for all contestants last week-end was lonly 11.88, which neverthleas repre- sents a sharp comeback from the prev- ious week-end when contestants were humiliated by a schedule which in- cluded 10 upsets. Ballots last week came from Bis- marck, Mandan, Ashley, Chicago, Fort Lincoln, Baldwin, Sibley Island, Brad- Gock, Wilton, Underwood, Jamestown, Pickardville, Grand Forks, Wing, Un- pret Pt ners included Alton Newton 15; John A. Zuger, J. J. Thomas and Rolland Stimson Lampman correctly called for a tie tax Tuesday generally fair; cold. BUT CONGRESS IS WARNED AGAINST UNEQUAL BURDENS Clerks Read President’s Open- ing Message as Special Session Convenes ASKS ACTION ON PROGRAM But Does Not Seek Revision During Special Term; Men- tions Business Recession Washington, Nov. 15 -()— Presi- dent Roosevelt recommended removal of tax injustices “to encourage pro- ductive enterprise” Monday in sub- mitting a four-point legislative pro- gram to congress. In a message opening the special session, read to the senate and house by clerks, the president asked “early action” on legislation on farm crop control, labor wages and hours, re- organization of the executive branch and planning of natural resources. But of at least equal importance to members were these remarks on e8 : “Unjust provisions should be re- moved provided such removal does not create new injustices. Nor can we at this time accept a revision of our tax laws which involves a reduction in the aggregate revenues or an in- crease in the aggregate tex burdens of those least able to bear them, ‘Aid Small Business Man’ “We should give special considere- tion to lightening inequitable burdens on the enterprise of the small busi- sultant monopolistic practices which persist today in spite of Martha Miller John Berg, | tees. Jr., and Matt Hummel, 13; M. H. An- derson, Carrie BE, McGuiness and I. W. ‘Huss, 12; William M. Cohen and this edition of the Bismarck Also on another page will be found '@ printed ballot for the convenience | said. of out-of-Bismarck contestants. These ballots clipped from the newspaper ‘will be for the exclusive use of out-of- city residents, since Bismarck persons must continue to securg their ballots from merchants pai ting in the contest feature. Outside of the four tie last Saturday, Michigan State’s win over Carnegie Tech and North Carolina's victory over previously undefeated ‘Duke were the two greatest upsets as far as the majority of contestants was concerned. Saturday's games which formed the basis of the contest were as follows: Rice 6; Texas A. é& M. 6. Dartmouth 6; Cornell 6. Oregon State 12; Southem Cali- fornia 12. Wisconsin 7; Purdue 7. Vanderbilt 13; Tennessee 7. Detroit 40; Univ. of N. Dak. 0. Yale 26; Illinols 0. Cr bama 7; Georgia Tech. 0, Weather to Continue Cold Next 24 Hours Continued cold weather was fore- cast for Bismarck and North Dakota during Monday night and Tuesday as lowering clouds held a threat of snow over many sections of the north- remained in a dangerous condition with an ice sheathing in many areas. State highway snow fighting equip- ment went into action Monday as crews battled drifts in the Grand Forks division where all roads were reported blocked. , Bismarck JACs Will Entertain Tuesday NELSON PIONEER DIES Lakota, N. D., Nov. 15.—()—Fun- usinessmen, (Continued on Page Four) TWO MORE DIE ON STATE HIGHWAYS LaMoure Farmer Hit-Run Vic- tim; Heart Attack Fatal to Man Pushing Car (By the Associated Press) Automobiles—one driven by an un: . | identified hit-run driver and the other a vehicle which stalled in the snow—were contributory factors in two more deaths on North Dakota highways over the week-end. Herman Witt, 68, retired LaMoure farmer, was found dead on Highway 18 on the south edge of LeMoure N. D. Traffic Toll ters, Mrs. R. O. Hunt and Cora Thomp- polis; @ son, a of