The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 9, 1937, Page 1

Telephone | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE _ North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper BISMARCK, N. D., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1937 2200 ESTABLISHED 1873 PRICE FIVE CENTS The Weather Fair and continued cold tonight and Friday. Manufacturers Hit Restrictive La Chinese Guns in Hills Check Jap Drive on Nankin ULTIMATUM SUED Toys Will Admit To Charity Show THREATENING CITY WITH WAR HORRORS Defenders Still Hold Positions Outside Capital After Day of Fighting TANKS SAID INSIDE GATE 17 Americans in Nanking; Reply to Ultimatum Due by 10 P. M. Thursday, CST Nanking capital of China all day long, but tonight Chinese still held positions around the city. Chinese defense artillery hammered steadily at the Japanese closing in. from the south and southeast. Thus far the Japanese have been able to bring only their lightest ar- tillery into play against the capital defenses. ‘The Japanese command issued an ultimatum demanding the surrender of Nanking by noon Friday (10 p. m. Thursday, CST) and threatening that otherwise the city “will become the scene of the horrors of war.” A Japanese warplane dropped a further communication to Nanking. “Abandonment of resistance will spare the city, its historic relics and spots of beauty,” it promised, Domei (Japanese) news agency said observers in entering the southeast city gate. Domei also said Japanese had entered ‘Wuhu. Yangtze river port 60 miles upstream from Nanking. Chinese artillery firing from strongly fortified Purple mountain, which overlooks Nanking, kept Jap- anese from a frontal attack on the eastern wall of the city where latest reports were that 17 Americans re- Tala Chlang’s Residence Army -fiters- -were.safd to. havs. ‘rmided Nanchang, where Genéeralis- simo Chiang Kal-Shek was reported in residence. Japanese told of the capture of the Chinese government's infantry school in the hills outside the city and de- clared that once Japanese guns were seeing ® Japanese warship steam past Kiangyin for an assault on Chinkiang on the way to Nanking itself. Speculation over @ possible blood- Jess coup in China’s government that might bring about @ peace received a setback. from Hankow were that the government foreign office spokesman asserted Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, who has been the mainspring of Chinese resistance, did not intend to resign “now or later.”, Three women were among the Americans remaining at Nanking. It was understood the embassy had given Japanese author- ities names and addresses of Ameri- cans remaining within Nanking and filso requested that in case of need, appropriate protection be given them. RECESS PROBE OF LABOR TERRORISM Hennepin County Grand Jury Indicts Organizers, Ad- journs to Dec. 20 Minneapolis, Dec. 9.—(?)—Myles Dunne, secretary and treasurer of the Teamsters’ joint council, suc- cessor to the slain Patrick J. Cor- coran, said Thursday three men had to ambush him Tuesday night near his garage the rear ef his home. $ Minneapolis, Dec. 9—(P)—The grand jury investigation into reported “gangster” methods in the labor movement here was in recess Thurs- day, scheduled to resume its deliber- ations Dec. 20. In its two-day investigation, the jury: , Indicted Eddie and Al Firotto, Chi- charges in connection with alleged attacks on Patrick J. Corcoran, labor leader whose slaying Nov. 17 precipi- tated the inquiry, and Detisf Wieck, carpenters’ union worker. Indicted Frank Huber, Minneapolis, to Minneapolis to become a labor or- ganizer, was released from jail Thurs- day on # writ of. habeas corpus but | dound Captain of Detectives James Mullen waiting for him with another | warrant charging him with disorderly conduct. airplanes saw tanks; yall iation, said that “it is all news to me.” ANS FOR LOCAL - SOIL CONSERVATION GATHERING MADE County Committeemen, Exten- sion Agents End Two Day Meeting Here Today Procedure for conducting local meetings on the 1938 Agricultural conservation program and study of the provisions of the plan as out- Mined in the federal docket occupied attention Thursday of committee- Children Can See Movie Free Response Splendid about solved” the problem of collect- ing goods offered to the Christmas charity by the big-hearted people of Bismarck. As @ result of the splendid response atid aon) for this particular kind of the kind of film which children like. Open Heart Fund Now Totals $133.50 Cash donations received ire the ifur. The position of the fund Thurs- day follows: Pres- . | ee ee In addition there will be a two-reel mustcal picture in colors, featuring men and extension agents from 10) sai Missouri Slope counties gathered here for @ regional conference on the new farm set-up. With Matt Crowley of Hebron, member of the state committee, pre- siding, the group spent the day in a , detailed survey of the plan under the | cen direction of J, T. E. Dinwoodie, execu- tive-secretary of the state committee. The meeting, which opened Wednes- day morning, was to be concluded late ‘Thursday afternoon, A series of local meetings for elec- tion of community committeemen and for discussion of current farm prob- lems and objectives will be held dur- ing the next two weeks, it was de- Committee members elected “Tthen ‘will serve during the coming To Help Co-operators Farmers interested in securing in- formation. of the 1938 program will have an opportunity at the local meetings when all essential details of the plan will be explained by com- mitteemen and extension agents. Ac- Gravel Slide Fatal To Cooperstown Man 8 E i ge ny feed a figehe aeett ue rf i 2 a i Ag ge ee sts 5.5 cae gui &g8e iH if ine 5 2: a3 i EEE 2 bE He i i E g 3 : 5 E : : i ! F g | E 3 é zg E 5 gen ft 2 RE i gage g CHARRED BODY OF |FRED W. CATHRO, OMAN FOUND IN W HOTEL IN ST. PAUL} OF STATE, DIES Saturday; Open Your Heart | Sjain, Say Police; Once-Famous| First Manager of Bank of North Building Unsuccessfully Fired to Erace Traces INVESTIGATION LAUNCHED|LEFT BISMARCK 8-Story Structure Vacant Last) First Deputy in Department of 11 Years; Victim's Skull Split Open found early Thursday in 2 vacant hotel had been identified as that of what may have preceded the crime. The crime was committed in sur- it the past eleven years. Its empty halls and hollow rooms echo) every footfall, but its thick walls and dusty tgenrsh effectively hide what AUTO KILLS ONE, INJURES SIXTEEN = Plows Into Crowd Waiting for Street-car; Driver Drink- ing, Say Officials factory foreman, the auto arrested. PIONEER RESIDENT Dakota Succumbs Wednes- day in Los Angeles Public Instruction; Wrote First School Laws Fred W. Cathro, about 75, pioneer North Dakota resident and first man- ager of the Bank of North Dakota, died Wednesday in Los Angeles, Calif., according to word received Thursday by Judge A. G. Burr. Mandamus to Reduce Levy Is Proper Remedy arty Lines Split As Garner Venison Fries » Dec, 9.—(}—Vice venison recipe, which is, in his IN 1935 | | Conspiracy Trial May End Today Government Argument Complet- ed at Noon; Murray Fur- nishes Fireworks Federal Judge J. A. Donhoe began his instructions to the Jury at 2:23 p. m. Thursday. extraordinary circum- stances the sensational opera star ex- tortion case was scheduled to reach federal court jury here Thursday aft- ernoon. At noon the government and coun- sel for three of the four defendants had completed their arguments to the jury. At 1:30 p. m. sessions were to Tesume with counsel for the fourth defendant to analyze his client’s posi- tion after which rebuttal ~rguments and the charge of Judge J. A. Don- hoe of Omaha were to be heard. Verbal fireworks at Thursday Mmorning’s sessions were furnished by -|J. K. Murray, counsel for George J. Schultz, 72-year-old former North Dakota prison guard, who is alleged to have conspired with Frank 8. Fowler, former prison inmate end now an Illinois prisoner, Theodore Larson, N. D. lifer, and Peter Koteros of Buffalo, N. Y., to extort money from four opera stars. Murray, contending that “this old dispat without censoring, lashed at govern- ment witnesses and declared “the personal ambitions of a prison warden and a postoffice inspector are the sole grounds for this case.” ‘Idiotic Foolishness’ his arms and clenching his fists, waving his half-spectacles, Mur- Tay'’s voice rose and fell as he called the testimony of government wit- the prosecttion, prosect At one point describing his client “old Von Hindenburg the second, Murray. penitentiary with this “fantastic rigmarole.” Terming the former prison warden, Girdel! Patterson, a “personal friend” alleged discovery of a gun plot and escape attempt, as an “embellishment, of the truth. “Patterson ‘didn’t mention that gun plot on the stand yesterday, did he?” planning to escape with the aid of Fowler and Schultz. Tells of Plot The longtime Nonpartisan League leader asserted thats scheme had gle it into Larson piece by piece. When Larson had a complete gun, he would secure to go to town to Faces Slow Death She hasn’t long to live, but June Rogers, above, 20, San Francisco stenographer, is going to enjoy every minute of existence that is left to her. Doctors say there is Virtually no hope of her recov- ery from multiple sclerosis, which causes a creeping paralysis to spread throughout the body. MINNEAPOLIS TRUCK DRIVERS STRIKE FOR 12’ Wholesale Grocery Mouses and Warehouses Closed; Over 800 Out of Work wholesale houses and ware- houses of food store groups in Minne- apolis were closed Thursday as a re- sult of a strike called by General Drivers Union 544 in support of demands for wage increases. ‘The houses involved are those which were closed several weeks in August- grocery stocks in many retail stores. The strike was called after several weeks of wage negotiations had failed to produce an argeement. In @ renewal of its con- of 15 to 25 cents an hour for the workers it represents. The managements contend the pro- posed increases would add $100,000 a year to their payrolls, about the same increase as was granted in the agree- ment ending the 1936 strike. Negotiations between the employ- ers’ committee and general drivers of- ficlals were expected to be resumed Friday. = S\INJURIES FATAL 70 will.’ Frank E. Wright, the postal in- spector who took statements from Larson, Schults and Koterces, was vali- | called “this high-powered detective who has ambitions to be a J. Edgar Hoover the second.” Murray con- tended Wright had not dictated a true repetition of the statements of the men questioned but “that they are eau, conclusions of Wright him- a ae on Lewis J. » te onenees ae Paine tate: the nt a state- ment from Koteros and who testified he obtained the photographs of the Ponselle sisters introduced in evi- dence Wednesday, Murray roared, “Why Brennan ly saw some torch singers when he made his al- (Continued on Page Two) CONFESSES MURDER OF MINNESOTA MAN; Eagle Bend Resident Admits Beating Elderly Man to Death for $3 S25 ik r I 3 5 WAHPETON STUDENT Dies of Hurts Received in Crash Oct. 31 That Took Life of Sister Fergus Falls, Minn., Dec. 9.—(P)— Miss Genevieve Kulla, 22, one of seven persons injured October 31 in an automobile accident at Foxholme, 14 miles west of here, died at the Wright Memorial hospital Wednesday. Miss Kulla suffered a broken neck and broken back in the accident. Her sister, Miss Mary Kulla, 19, died two days after the accident. Both were students at the Wahpeton science ‘school. 5 Five of those injured in the acci- dent were teachers at Wahpeton. All have been released from the hospital except Miss Camilla Scramstad of ‘Wyndmere, who is recovering. Fargo Will Limit part ° Civil Service Plan Fargo, N. D., Dec. 9.—(?)—Fargo's City commissioners apparently have definitely determined on civil service for police and firemen and but not for other municipal employes. With City Attorney C. C. Wattam instructed to draft an ordinance in- ate in the employment of installation experts and a permanent state direc- tor of civil service. Fargo, however, may ‘employ the services of an expert to review its or- dinance, prepare necessary civil serv- ice records, classifications, etc. It ts anticipated they can obtain such serv- ice from a Chicago foundation for not a aa LIST BARRIERS T0 PRODUCTION DURING NATIONAL MEETING Modification of Wagner Act Vigorously Opposed by Board’s Counsel COLLECTIVE BARGAINING HIT Weir Asks ‘Collective Coopera- tion,’ Working Principles Set Forth New York, Dec. 9.—()—With ita annual “platform” completed, calling upon all citizens to co-operate in pre- venting laws and tendencies in gov: ernment from reversing “a century trend of improved living standards,” the annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers Thurs- day plunged into the problems of la- bor relationships. Modification of the National Labor Relations act in favor of employers was vigorouly opposed by Charles Fahy, general counsel of the National Labor Relations board, in an out- spoken “labor clinic” session with three thousand industrial leaders. The labor clinic, high point of the convention, followed by two industrialists whose names have fig- ured in labor disputes. SAYS STRIKES COST EACH FAMILY $175 ‘New York, Dec. 9.—(P)—Strikes cost this country around five bil- lion dollars, or between $160 to $175 per family, in 1937 “the worst and most costly period of labor tur- moil in our history,” Ernest T. Weir, chairman of National Steel Corp., told American business leaders ‘Thursday. Ernest T. Weir, chairman of Na- tional Steel Corp., asked an abandon- ment of “collective bargaining” in favor of “collective co-operation” be- the session late Wednesday, the man- ufacturers asserted that among “road, closed” signs which they found on the way to greater production and eme ployment was: “Legislation which stimulates labow con’ WILLISTON REPLA VALLEY CITY INN. D, CAGE TOURNEY SETUP Records Show 503 Students to 363 for Valley City; Other A Schools Named Williston will replace Valley City as the eighth high school team in the North Dakota Class A basketball tour- nament setup, on the basis of North ‘Central Association records available in the department of public instruc- tion Thursday. Conceded places among the first eight after the high school athletic board of control reverted to the 1935 cage setup were Fargo, Grand Forks, Minot, Bismarck, Jamestown, Mandan and Devils Lake. Enrollment figures in the four sen- ior high school classes, basis for selec- tion of the eight largest schools, show Williston with 503 students and Valley Oe with 363. Inder the 1935 plan, all except the first eight were included in the Class B group. Valley City was a member of the first eight that year. Final arrangements for the cage classic will be made Dec. 20-31 at a meeting of the board of control and a committe of coaches. CHRISTMAS SUPERSTITIONS: