The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 14, 1937, Page 1

Telephone THE BIS 2200 North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ' ESTABLISHED 1878 BISMARCK, N. D., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1937 MARCK TRIBUNE PRICE FIVE CENTS Panay Bombing Death Toll Now Two; Japan Forms New Regime in China ANNOUNCEMENT MADE: Support Irrigation GIMACATES WILL At Painted Woods)# [SUED AGAINST Still Has Right lanes of Area Favor Pro- UNCOLLECTED TAXES to His Opinions siete etic doligoe | Will Be Used to Retire Previcus- 22-7 Vot cain, ND. Dee, 14—Amer- $3 ly-Issued Certificates, Aid General Fund ‘Autonomous’ Provincial Gov- ernments Dissolve, Join New Regime CITY REPORTED IN FLAMES Troops Push Past Fallen Capi- tal Deeper into China on Punitive Mission Lacks Ca Tragic Story of Abandoned Fam- ily Proves Need for Prompt Assistance sonal opinions about their form of government and get away with it, Art Anderson of Minot has learned. Approval of an irrigation district in the Painted Woods district of South- ern McLean and -Northern Burleigh jury dug up a lot CITE SLOW TAX PAYMENTS “The grand of stuff that didn’t amcunt to much,” said Anderson to a friend as they stood chatting in the Ward ty courthouse. The remark Will Go on Sale Sometime After dan. 11; Other Certifi- cates Mature Jan. 15 Dixectors were elected as follows: First district—Bob Bickert. Second district—Frank Josephson. Third district—Oscar Oberg. William Melick was elected assessor and George Wicklander as treasurer. The vote for the irrigation enter- prise in the first district was 7 to 4, the abandoned capital of the Chinese| ° government was in Great fires blazed as the Japanese army, relentlessly pursuing its puni- tive mission deep into China, rolled on past the conquered capital. Fragmentary reports, filtering in who ordered Anderson called fore the body. Under , Anderson stuck to his constitutional rights and repeated his statement which he insisted still held true. CONSIDERING NEW MARKETING SETUP FOR U. §. FARMERS Farmers Union Group Planning to Replace Farmers National Grain Corporation Cash Contributions Slow; Total Is $246 Eight cash contributions to- Plans to issue $900,000 in certificates of indebtedness against uncollecte in the walls of Nanking and the Jap- anese troops without slackening their offensive campaign, were their operations father afield. Actual information as to the situ- ation within the captured city was unavailable because regular communi- cations were out of commission ‘and Japanese had the only contact. Ne Formed shrouded the fallen city, @ new pro- visional government for China—iunder i i hasas5 ++» $246.00 Make checks payable to Open You Heart and mail to Open Your Heart headquarters, 220 Main avenue, Bismarck. ts & i the general fund for 1932 to 1937, in- clusive, and rust materially red luced, “Ot certificates to be re- IEMOGRATS. OFFER SUBSTITUTES FOR WAGE-HOUR BILL Northern Bloc Would Eliminate North-South Wage and Hour Differentials E E EEE a Tt all began when « pinch urehin « before his:desk at Open disclosed the following i E ‘Union Terminal association steckkold. ers Tuesday prepared to consider plans for a new nat co-operative grain gs i Wr Re] . Five children were living alone in a tar-papered shack with the oldest child, a girl of 12, “mothering” the flock. The boy was 10 and the others ranged down to a year and a half. 2. The mother was in a local hospital wtih a new-born babe, bringing the total number of chil- dren to six. 3. The father had “disappeared after the relief office had decided to give his wife the small allot- ment awarded the family rather & 5 jational corporation. Under development by a stockhold- er’s committee of the farmers national, B é & street fighting. Chinese Are Officials Among the officials of the provi- sional regime were two former presi- struction of the project with WPA help is expected to be made in the near ful Funds for the water board's par- ticipation will be provided by the North Dakota Rural Rehabilitation ating’ their own elevators and other Properties, Activities of regional groups will be co-ordinated by @ national board which will determine general ‘policies. Under such a program, the Termi- nal asociation would own and operate [te big grain elevator on the upper levee in St. Paul, and also its Min- Spread wim e|POUCY GROUP IS BRING SELECTED sted from Chicago. Republican Leader Hamilton ‘With Nbiped disaoh ney of the expected jut Takes Time Out to Snap at Critics DEAD; PAROLE IS REPORTED SLAY Rothsay, Minn., Widower Strangled With Own Belt; St. Paul Man Held fotindie Minn., Dec. 14—(#)—|N. D., president, of. After R, Lee, Moorhead, state| sociation, said Tuesday that the St. parole agent, said he had confessed | Paul elevator, located as it is on the the murder of Ed C. Stordock of Roth-|bank of the Mississippi river, will be say, Minn., Herold A. Creagan of St. of the utmost value to the co-operative Paul, paroled convict, led authorities |grain movement by permitting use of toa varanl house seven miles north-| nine-foot channel facilities for south: eastern ts. Washington, Dec, 14—(7)—A small ‘Parmers National, the entire of the properties would return to the China: “Although Nanking has fallen, so long as anti-Japanese sentiments exist in China the sentiments of the ‘apanese people are that hostilities ‘ we just begun.” (The Japanese have invaded or conquered five North China provinces. Peiping, seat of the new Japanese- moulded provisional government for China, is the capital of one of these five, Hopeh. Outer Mongolia; lying between Soviet Russia and northern China, is under strong Soviet in- , fluence). Chinese sources reported that Hangchow, @ seaport about 100 miles south of Shanghai, would be the ob- Ject of the next major Japanese cam- paign. WOMAN FACES CHARGES Minot, N. D., Dec. 14.—Misappro- priation of rents as manager of the Ehr block here is charged to Mrs. &t. Louis, Dec. 14—()—By meet- @ mile away from|country that the farmers. national R. », Min-jplan of centralised operations is not Creagan| satisfactory. Erickson to Head its Criminal Bureau erican Legiod Approval of the appointment of Melvin Erickson, Minnewaukan, former Benson county sheriff, f bureau . to whom $1,680,170,447 Debt tary-treasurer of the state hospital for Dec, 14.—(P—Italy Pi tered. the insane at Jamestown. nem, details Gov. Langer said Erickson’s appoint- ment was made by Warden A. J. Loudenbeck of the state penitentiary. Will Arraign Man on Murder Count Crosby, N. D., Dec. 14.—(#)—State’s R. H. Points planned Tues- Mike Len, bachelor in Divide coun-| the J. P. Reeve, closed banks. CHRISTMAS SUPERSTITIONS ‘Washington, and Yugoslavia ‘Tuesday on their semi-annual war debt installments to the United States. In polite diplomatic notes they pro- feased their inability to pay. fednesda: will owe As of We $1,913,515 ts, ‘We Draw Lines, Dare Them, to Cross,, Says Retired Marine Officer y, Italy $84,119,757 and Yugoslavia in current and past due installment of $1,680,170,447 falls due debtors this month. Only continued to make pay- promptly. The others have been fault since shortly before, or im- tely after, the Hoover morator- tum of 1932. Farmer Injured in i as & ze § H Fall from Hay-load Heras he Beatty, 65, Sterling farmer, pees fe Drawn Into Saw, Escapes With Life Business Houses to Stay Open to 9 P. M. for prosperit difficulties are political, not economic. ‘We need co-opera’ ment and business. tained, we can have a resumption of recovery. than we are consuming. from that low point is bound to be much slower than the descent to it IPAROLEES RETURN 2 of 4 Sentenced for Grain year Kroplin received a suspended sen- tence, Frank Perius was sentenced to two to three years and his brother three to five years. North Dakota to Issue $900,000 in C. D.’s Open Heart Drive sh Money'e« May Boost WPA Rolls to 15,000 /rerar of WPA employment lists to approxi- mately 15,000 workers in North Dakota to conform with WPA’s midwestern job addition program in 13 states is expected soon, State Administrator Thomas H. Moodie sald Tuesday. The present em- ployment load is about 4,333 per- sons, There are “plenty of projects” to keep WPA workers busy, he de- clared. The new program will con- sist mainly of street and road im- provement jobs, building con- struction where project sponsors share costs and other civic im- provement jobs. Water conservation dams or other dirt moving jobs for water projects will not be attempted this winter because as winter projects they have not been feasible, he AYRES SHES LOWER PRODUCTION, STOCK PRICES NEXT YEAR faced | Noted Economist Says Business Conditions Depend on Wash- ington Decisions Cleveland, Dec. 14.—()—Economist Leonard Porter Ayres looked ahead toward 1938 Tuesday. Both indus- trial production and stock prices, he predicted, probably will average lower than in 1936 and 1937. The Weather Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday; little change in temp. EIGHT SERIOUSLY WOUNDED; SEVERAL UNACCOUNTED FOR ifornian, Italian. Newspaper- man Victims; U. S. Sends Formal Note ATIONS ANTICIPATED Japanese Agree to U. S. De- mand Even Before Formal Protest Is Made Shanghal, Dec, 15- (Wednesday) -()-The known death toll from the bombing of the United States gunboat Panay and three other American steamers increased to four Wednesday when the badly burned body of an unidentified seaman was found. Three of the dead were Ameri- cans and one an Italian news- paper man, who had taken refuge on the Panay. The seaman's body was found by the United States gunboat Oahu, waiting in the Yangtze river to rescue Panay refugees. (By the Associated Press) Fifty-two survivors of the bombed United States gunboat Panay Tues- day made their way from an inland refuge back toward the Yangtse river, their two dead and eight They will be nearer the figures of Wholesale 1934 and 1935, he said. prices, he forecast, also be lower next year than they have been this year,” and automobile pro- duction likely “will be smaller by from 25 to 35 per cent.” “will probably He said it was impossible to make many definite forecasts “for the out- ‘comes depend upon decisions that will be made in Ws ” fashington. “We have all the economic requisites ity,” he declared. “Our tion between govern: If that can be at- “It seems probable that the bottom of the present slump in industrial pro- duction will be reached in the first half of next year, for operations have been curtailed so rapidly that in many lines we are already producing less . The recovery TO STATE'S CARE Stealing Recently Had Terms Here Shortened Cavalier, N. D., Dec. 14.—(P)—Sen: tencing of four men by Judge W. J. Kneeshaw brought an end to the cases of seven Pembina county men arrested on grain stealing charges. Andrew Gjevre was sentenced to a in the penitentiary, Henry The Perius brothers -had been con- victed less than a year ago on grand larceny charges and sentenced to two and one-half years. They were ‘grist of grain theft cases were Theo- dore Albert Rickbeil, one and Lewreni DHeilly, 19, sentenced to the training school. Raedel, two and one-half years; A clash between Japanese and l= nese troops around Hohsten, hindered rescue efforts, The two known dead in the Japan- ese bombardment Sunday of the Panay and three other American vessels were Charles L, Ensminger of Ocean Beach, Calif. Panay storekeeper, and Sandro Sandri, Italian newspaperman who had sought refuge on board the vessel. Available information of the attack which endangered 79 foreigners, most- ly Americans, was that two were dead, eight seriously wounded, two slightly ‘wounded, 11 foreigners and 81 Chinese snlssing, spd provanly “* tal ae saved. There was no word of the 68 missing ard Oil company boats destroyed in the bombing attacks for which the Japanese navy has accepted full re- sponsibility. It was believed, however, that most of them had been saved. sented, however, the Japanese governe ment had agreed to its major stipula- to American