The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 11, 1937, Page 1

The Weather Unsettled tonight and Sunday, possibly some snow; colder Sunday. - THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ’ BISMARCK, N. D., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1987 PRICE FIVE CENTS - Liner Aground; 380 Passengers Safe ee Farm Bill May Be Ke PASSAGE IN HOUSE MAY OPEN WAY FOR FURTHER MEASURES Predict Senate Vote on Crop Control Legislation Early Next Week HOUSING, WAGE-HOUR, NEXT Approved Measure Provides Elaborate System of Com- pulsory Controls - legislat tration forces Saturday their first effective lever for~ break- ing up the legislative jam which has blocked President Roosevelt's special session program. Senator Barkley, Democratic leader, predicted the senate would approve early next week a farm represent “unfavorable” votes on the pending “will not be forgotten next ments to states Jan. 1 for the 1938-30 period. A house leader said privately that iticized Spirit of Selflessness (An Editorial) Christmas is set apart from all other seasons by the resurgence of the spirit of brotherly love, by “peace on earth, good will to men.” ., It is this spirit upon which Bismarck’s annual Open Your Heart campaign depends to bring reliéf to those who otherwise will be unable to share in the cheer of this glori- ous holiday season. + It is this spirit which rises in\the breasts of men and women and proves that they truly were made in the image and likeness of God. It is this spirit which sets man apart from the other living things in this world, proves that he CAN rise above . the law of the jungle where tooth and claw reign supreme. In the combined effort which has marked this. move- ment to date much emphasis has been placed upon the joy of giving. The point is well taken, for sentiment is vital ‘to a. happy life and this world offers few satisfactions which can compare with the realization of kindly deeds performed. ; The history of this campaign shows that those who themselves see the need give most freely. Those who live ’ farthest apart.from human suffering are most indifferent. The ill-clad, ill-nourished, suffering child moves th heart at sight. .No one can resist this appeal. 2 But suffering unseen goes uncared for. It requires the “tongues. of men and of angels” to bring home to the hardened and indifferent the fact that acute suffering does eat in our midst and that it is their duty to help allevi- ate it. : Some salve their conscience and explain their failure to give with the remark that if those needing help were workers they wouldn’t.be in such bad aap One answer to this is contained in the report of last year’s Open Your Heart campaign, issued soon after the work was completed. . It said: “In our. campaign we visited many desolate homes. In one place there was a man with his wife and five children, all living in a shack without floors. He did not like to accept help without giving something in return and so was given a job repairing broken chairs which had been donated By, a local hotel'and repairing sleds, kiddie cars and high c! b In return for his labor the Open Your Heart bought the lumber to put a floor in his shack... “Many homes visited were without beds. Children were meeing on rugs piled on benches and chairs. “We visited another home where a woman nearly, 80 years old was living. She had no chairs in her home and the . only way for her to relax was for her to sit.on a grocery repaired by us, : box or.on her bed: . “Into this home went a rocking chair, other chairs....When. they. .were delivered she thankéd ‘the vélunteer workers with tears in her eyes, saying she had reached the conclusion ‘there was nobody -in the world who thought of me any more.’ ” . All of which goes back to the REASON for the Christ- mas. celebration and the fundamental change which it wrought in the thinking of mankind. > : : The Open Your Heart campaign makes a living reality of the quotation so aptly emphasized by John Gray in his speset Tuesday night: “Even as you do unto the least of these, My brethren, you do also unto Me.” Facing the people of Bismarck this Yuletide is the ques- tion: “What are they going to do for the ‘least of these’?” Facing every individual is the question: “What are YOU going to do for them?” mars i And hovering behind those questions is still another query ‘ , Is selfishness or selflessness the best way to hap- piness ?” : Nanking Still in (Continued on Page Three) - CHRISTMAS Chinese Han But Jap Guns Getting Range of NEW KFYR TOWER BUILDING STARTED Bismarck Station Expects to is; City Threatened With Encirclement Operate New Equipment Not Later Than Jan. 1 radiator 15 miles east of Bismarck. Construction of the new station was necessitated by proximity of the old station to the transcontinental airway Lo Tells of Accident in Legislative Jam Open Heart Needs DIVIDE COUNTY MAN WOUNDED IN CHEST; FARMER BING HELD ‘Mike Len Shot Me’ Widower Scrawis on Wall of Home; Condition Critical Orosby,.N. D., Dec. 11—(F}—Aman- urday with a bullet wound in his left breast. He names as his assailant Michael Len, @ bachelor farmer of the neighborhood who is held without charge in the Divide county jail. Len, believed about 50 years old, oe ken Ep ct Lad Sirotrs oti Croeey) found the wounded man lying in bed week from of 5 Snow Forecast for~ Sunday; : |, Coast Shipping Harassed, SCOTTISH TRAINS MEET: 25 KILLED 91 Injured in Snowstorm Colli- sion; Son Helps Mother from Wreckage iy Of the 91 injured 5 were under hospital treatment. Five of the recovered dead were women and one a child. i The strangest story out of the dis- aster was that of Dordon Dickson of Edinburgh, who was hurled from @ opach by the terrific impact but escaped 1 sary and took part in the Fescue : The first person he helped from the wreckage was his mother, who un- known to him had been # passenger on another coach. She, too, was un- ‘scathed. 24 still |’ GIRL KILLED BY TRUCK Minn., Dec. 11.—(P)— Two Extortionists _ Given Two Years in Opera Star Case, Gets $250 Fine dy” @ fine of $250 and be jailed until er toning orks Btand: , Young - Fry 7 ty it E i E : i § H & i ae ¢ s il : 2 ; E 3 i : g : i : I : : | ed E aj HW iki ae E i | I g E 4 : Hi ni i i | f E i : i i i 2 i Pil : ith ii Cash For Clothes Children's Needs Are Great; Capacity Show Crowd Bring Many Donations Clothes for kids and cash to buy them with now are the main needs of ‘ow Is Above $200 Cash donations to Bismarck’s Open Your Heart campaign went. above the $200 mark Saturday with American a The position of the fund now is as follows: WALTER €. RENDEN NAMED PRESIDENT OF BISMARCK A. C. LANDED ON PACIFIC ISLAND WHILE OTHER SHIPS RACE TO SPOT American Liner President Hoo- ver Pounded by Waves, Leaking Badly STRIKES REEF IN NIGHT Luxury Ship Traveling New Course to Manila; 2 South Dakotans Passengers Manila, Dec. 11—(4)—All passengers of the reef-bound trans-Pacific liner Board of Directors Selects Other Officers at Organ- ization Meeting Walter G. Renden was elected pres- ident of the Bismarck Association of Commerce board of directors at the organization meeting of the new board Friday night. Other offciers elected were Archie councilor; H. P. Goddard, secretary; Miss Ruth Wetmore, office secretary, and Mrs. D. E. Shipley, city hostess. Last action of the outgoing board at its final meeting immediately prior to the organization meeting of the new group was to instruct George F. Shafer, incumbent president, to a) point a committee to make arran; .,|ments for the annual meeting in Jan- uary. Members of the new board are Ren- den, Johnson, J. C. Oberg and C. R. Robertson, holdovers, and O. A. Kobs, A. R. Tavis, A. E. Brink, B. O. Refvem , | and O. V. Bowman, all elected in No- tinued early Saturday a painstaking Moorhead Teacher’s Condition Still Critical Vice-President to Eat N. D. Honey TRAIL SCANT CLUES INST, PAUL DEATH Strangely-Acting Man Bought Gasoline Near Hotel Where Waitress Was Slain &t. Paul, Dec. 11—()}—Police con- re-check of every known detail in the torch slaying Thursday in the vacant Aberdeen hotel of Ruth Mun- son, 30-year-old St. Paul waitress, formerly of Grantsburg, Wis. . Principal developments Friday were: Post mortem revelations that the murdered girl had not eaten food nor consumed any alcoholic beverage Wednesday night; Report of a strangely-acting middle- aged man, seeking gasoline Wednes- day night at a garage next to the Aberdeen hotel building; Identification of the person Miss Munson agreed to “visit” during a telephone conversation just before she left her rooming house Wednes- day night. Police began questioning members of an orchestra at a University ave- nue cafe Saturday after Gus Go- vanda, a bartender, told them Miss President Hoover were landed safely on Hoishoto island near Fermosa Sat- urday, several hours after the $8,000,- 000 luxury vessel went aground. Radio reports said the passengera numbered at least 380. Pounded by waves and reported leaking badly, the President Hoover eee feared to be in desperate condi- ion, Captain E. Stepbach, master of the German Freighter Preussen, first ship to reach the Hoover, messaged the Associated Press here that the Hoover was “bumping heavily” on the reef and “leaking badly forward.” Skeleton Crew Aboard Only a skeleton crew remained aboard the liner, approximately 500 miles from Manila. Two U. 8. destroyers meantime streaked northward from Manila, ap- proximately 500 miles from the help- less ship, and the liner Empress of Asia changed her course to reach the vessel. The German ship Preussen stood by the Hoover. Many hours after the 21,900-ton Uner struck in the darkness Satur- day morning, oe Midea! received @ message say: 6 numbering at least 380, be landed on the volcanic island, som« 50 miles northeast of Formosa’s south- ern tip, and 18 miles offshore, Cause Uncertain Dollar line officials said they had not received information concerning the cause of the grounding. The ship was making its first journey over a New course between Japan and Mae nila, where she was due Saturday. How: the passengers were moved t@ the island was not learned, but it was assumed the transfer was withous incident. Passengers lsted aboard the grounded Hoover liner include Mr, pick Mrs. W. P, Hanley, Deadwood, 8.D. JAPANESE CRUISER LANDS 200 PASSENGERS Shanghai, Dec. 11—(7)—The Japa= nese navy announced Saturday that @ Japanese cruiser had taken 200 ‘irst class passengers from the Dollar liner President Hoover, aground on shoals off the southern tip of the island of Formosa, to Hayake island BISMARCK FIRMS GIVEN CONTRACTS ON 2 ROAD JOBS Jamestown Company Success- ful Bidder on Highway 10 Job West of New Salem Three bids for highway jobs to cost $240,454 in federal funds were awarded Friday by Commissioner P. H. McGurren. They cover construc- tion of more than 60 miles of bitumi- nous and hard surfacing. McGurren said work will start in the spring and it is expected the proj- ects will be completed before July. W. H. Noel company, Jamestown, was awarded the contract for con- struction of 41.245 miles of bitumi- nous surfacing on U. 8. Highway 10 west of New Salem, largest contract of the three to be awarded, said Mc- ‘Gurren. The Jamestown firm's bid was $144,140.06. Suffessful bidders on two other contracts were: A. Graff and com- pany, Bismarck, $82,415.48, 18.178 miles bituminous surfacing, U. 8, Highway 2, east of Rugby, Pierce- Benson counties, and Bismarck Con- struction company, $13,890, .710-mile grading, graveling and bituminous surfacing, U. 8. Highway 2, west of Minot. Munson and two other girls were in the cafe from about 9:30 p. m. until near 11 p. m,, the- night she was killed. Govana said Miss Munson frequently came to the cafe Wednes- day nights because she knew one of the orchestra men. ICC Moves Up Date In Railroad Hearing; Washington, Dec. 11—()—The In- teratate Commerce Commission evi- denced Saturday an intention to hasten action on the petition of rail- roads for higher freight rates by mov- ing forward three weeks the date set for taking closing testimony. Closing arguments on the application will start January 17 instead of February 3 Killed in Kansas City Holdup Fight Kansas City, Dec. bandits and a customer were shot to death early Saturday when police in- terrupted a holdup st a liquor store where the bandits were holding 20 customers at bay. 11.—(?)—Two | Charles Former Bankers Are En Route to Prison In the custody of a U. 8. marshal, three former Bismarck bank eme pioyes were taken to the Cass county jail in Fargo Saturday from whence they will be transported eral penitentiary Kan., to commence imposed in federal court here Tues- da: y. Guilty of violating banking laws of the United States, Carl A. Heupel was sentenced to serve 18 months while Charles A. Voracheck and Arthur A. Boese were given terms of @ year and a day each. —————— Grand Forks Herald Solicitor Is Dead Grand Forks, N. D., Dec. 11.—()— A. Greenleaf, 75, solicitor for the Grand Forks Herald circulation department 20 years, died of s heart attack here Friday night. He is sur- vived only by his son, William H., of to the fede