The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 18, 1937, Page 1

, { oa ; ‘ | Old-Timer Speaks. A Farmer who came to North Dakota in 1882 reviews the his- tory of the land. Read the Peo- ple’s Forum Column on Editor- The Weather Mostly cloudy tonight, Sunday; no decided change in temp. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ial Page. o ESTABLISHED 1878 ‘SURVIVORS TALEOR (Musicale, Ball — MACHINE-GUNNING IS DENIED BY JAPANESE Ambassador Grew Delivers Sec- ond American Note; Nature Not Made Known 4 ADMIRAL ASSUMES BLAME Japanese Commander's Offer to Resign Rumored; Army Starts Own Probe (By the Associated Press) An official United States naval court of inquiry rushed an investiga- tion Saturday of Sunday's Japanese airplane attack on American shipping fn the Yangtze river. Japanese announced they were un- dertaking another investigation of the disaster in which the United States gunboat Panay was sunk, Standard Oil company vessels were destroyed and four lives were lost. Both boards of inquiry ettempted ‘to settle a disputed question in which the United States took a serious view —did. Japanese deliberately machine- gun the Panay’s survivors? Survivors who reached Shanghai Friday contended “Machine-gunning Japanese planes flew so low they should have seen our flags” and that two Japanese army boats went to the Panay before she sank, colors flying. Deny Machine-Gunning (Japanese both in Shanghai and Tokyo have denied the sinking Panay was machine-gunned. Japanese also have declared they had no surface craft in the vicinity.) Panay. ‘ The nature of the new. representa- tions was not made known. Informed sources said Vice-Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa, commanding Ji panese naval forces in the war wil China, had assumed “full responsi. bility” for the Panay attack and had offered to resign. Army Investigates The Japanese army officially en- tered the investigation. Lieut.-Col. Yoshiaki Nishi was said to have left ‘Tokyo several days ago to conduct an independent of the __ Will Close Drive GOVERNOR'S ORDER Accepts Post Alvin C. Struts, Bismarck attor- ney, is North Dakota’s attorney general and Gov. William Langer’s newest appointee. He was named to succeed P. O. Sathre, elevated by the governor to the state su- THREE-CITY WRITE SLAVE RING DEALT BLOW INULS. COURT 11 Mors ‘Faes Sentencing in| Duluth;: Ring Extended to f Fargo, Superior Duluth, Minn., Dec. 18.—(P)—As a Tesult of the drive by the government to wipe out a commerce in women for immoral purposes between Fargo, N. D., Duluth, and Superior, Wis., 11 per- sons were facing penitentiary and county jail terms Saturday. Judges Gunnar Nordbye and M. M. Joyce of federal court Friday sen- tenced defendants who had either been found guilty or had so pleaded to Mann act violations, In all, Judge Nordbye sentenced 26 ne |Derengs. +0 pron Ue Jal snd) piared several days. Informed sources said s over Japan’s amends was going on between the fighting services and civilian members of the government. Naval officers cited the testimony of a Japanese army who treated Panay wounded in an effort to disprove the charge of the machine- gun attack. He said he treated eight foreigners and 13 Chinese wounded the attack and found all were injured by bomb fragments or splinters. of wood—not bullets. President Invited to Visit South Dakota Washington, Dec. 18 —(P)— Presi- dent Roosevelt Saturday had been in- vited to visit South Dakota next fall to participate in dedication of the Theodore Roosevelt head, fourth Hopkins Will Undergo Abdominal Operation L, Hopkins, nat - ministrator,. will undergo an abdom- inal operation at St. Mary’s hospital announced Saturday. trator’s condition was described as “excellent.” of conspiracy to violate the Mann act. Willie E.. (Little Willie) Foreman received the heaviest penalty. Flead- ing guilty to an indictment charging transportation of a woman from Dav- enport, Ia., to Duluth, he was given a 3% year Leavenworth term. James yan Patter and Walter A. (Smokie) Carlson, former taxicab drivers, who stood trial with the in |Stanley woman, each drew two-year Leavenworth sentences. — 10 SUB OPERATOR'S BONDING COMPANY LaMoure State's Attorney will Push ‘New Drive on Cigar- ette Law Violators Reister, Kulm pool ball operator, who See a ee ee, meas ing ty to possessing a quan- tity of unstamped cigarettes in bi containers, A. J. Gerlach, regulatory department chief, seid Saturday. ‘This previously untried method for ‘cracking down” on cigarette law vio- lators will be pushed by State's Attor- ney A. G. Porter of LaMoure county, Gerlach said. Reister was arrested Be inated eatir in 1933 and was| S withdra wn from exhibition at the re- St. Paul Tot Will Skate in New York BISMARCK, N. D.. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18° Wage-Hour Measure Shelved b [EVICTION ATTEMPT IS INTERRUPTED BY State Welfare Board Endorses Open Heart Campaign; to Deliver Boxes Friday Moving Van at Door as Removal of Kidder County Family Is Halted WIFE NOW IN HOSPITAL ext | Removal Order Had Been Grant- Cash Donations to Open Heart $521.10 campaign $521.10 Saturday with new dona- tions totaling $80.10. The position of the fund now is as follows: checks payable to paign, ei tet iH Fi <E 220 Open. Main make Your Heart ed by dansonius; 3-Day © Stay Granted Proceedings family, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Mack and their two children, shortly before noon Satur- day when Sheriff Fred Anstrom, car- rying out the order of the court, ap- county’s relief for the Macks have met with failure, si county officials was being awaited. Mrs. Mack was carried from her home Send 10-Point Plan to Farm ‘Bloc in Congress Nations! Grain federation of sll co-operative grain Hoel provisions of the program “Mere Sell Conservation Soil conservation on a larger ¢ of farm production to scale. serie oe" Terrific Crash Takes. |Former Beulah Family generation, whieh Lives of 6 Soldiers Was There a Bethlehem? Science Says By J. HUGH PRUETT Astronomer, University of Orgeon “We' have seen His Star in the East 2 And are come te worship Him.” ancient sky a star of rare beauty : had shone, filling with wonder As nothing to equal it was in the memory of any one, the wise men searched diligently the records of the past, but in vain. Surely somewhere an event of profound significance “was at hand. 5 The single biblical account of the star offers no explanation of its nature. Were it not for the work of artists of much later times, we would likely have no well defined mental picture of its existence. Others feel‘that none of its divine significance was lost and New. Mexico. , The lost pared abandonment of about 45,000,000 acres in the severe. drouth: years of 1934 and 1936. Weather bureau officials have said that a deficiency in mois- ture in much of the plains territory fall threatened: drouth condi- tlons next year. ©. William Allen White - Fine’ After Operation * playéd an important third group labels it simply « “Roosevelt.” - 3 3 z per ‘cent of this North and South Dakote, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas with even though natural phenomena part. A Any one “of several natural events might account for the ap- » Some suggest it might pearance. . have been Venus at greatest bril- Uancy; others, that it was Haley's comet which was near the earth about that, time; still others, that Herculis. which, appeared. shorly fe wi ap lortly before Christmas in 1934. Whatever the explanation, it is now known that a very unusual sight did appear in 6 B.C. This date is likely quite close to that of the birth of Jesus since the death of Herod, from whom Joseph fled into Egypt, occurred in4 B.C. This month the Zeiss plenetaria in Europe ‘and the United States are re-enacting the views of these ancient skies. On the inside of the dome sbove the auditorium, pictures are thrown which ap- Pear almost as natural as the actual heavens. The intricate Projector will reproduce the posi- tions of the planets thousands of from last year’s . The one touch of color “pies simply: from the President and Mrs. i department said was Colorado, that about 75 in Montana, BILL RECOMMENDED AS SENATE OKAYS CROP CONTROL PLAN Ever-Normal Granary Schemes Must Be Joined by Con- ference Committees NYE, FRAZIER VOTE ‘AYE’ 5 | Rebellious House Ignores Lead- years ago and with an accuracy almost equal to that of mathe- matical calculation. The sky-picture starts with the year 8 B.C. Nothing unusual ap- pears then. In 7 B. ©. Jupiter and Saturn come very close to- gether. au 6 B. ©. they are still Finally all draw so close to- gether as to form a small and almost perfect equilateral tri- angle. “They seem to shine as one star instead of three.” - In 1604 A. D. the astronomer Kepler viewed a somewhat simi- lar grouping of these planets and showed by mathematics that in 6 B. C. they were in the posi- tion now shown by the mechan- ical planetaria. « Was this the Star of Bethle- hem? Kepler suggested that it might have been. Says Dr. Fisher of the New York planet- arium, “In the face of this won- drous event, natural science sass offering possible solutions, ut dogmatically proclaiming to have plumbed the depths of the subject.” FIVE WOUNDED IN FORD STRIKE CLASH Dozen Beaten, Two Gassed in Rioting at Kansas City As- sembly Plant Kansas City, Dec. 18—(?)—Police- picket hostilities reached a truce at the Ford assembly plant here Satur- day after five men were wounded by gunfire, a dozen beaten and two gassed in clashes Friday. Two of the wounded were con- stables. A Ford maintenance employe ‘was overcome by tear gas and a po- ceman, blinded by the gas, was hos- pitalized. Fifteen union members and four non-union Ford workers were held. The United Automobile Worekrs union, alleging discrimination in re- hiring after a seasonal layoff, called @ srike at the plant eight days ago but the branch continued normal operations with more than 1,000 em- ployes at work. Light Snow Falling Over North Dakota Light snow began falling over a large section of North Dekota Satur- day morning as temperatures con- tinued moderate. Snow was falling in Bismarck, Minot, Williston, and Jamestown, Devils Lake was the state's cold spot with a mini- mum reading of 16 above. It was 24 above in Bismarck at 8 a. m. O. W. Roberts, veteran Bismarck weather observer, said Bismarck would have a clear week-end. Snow was forecast for the southeastern corner of the state. Slippery. roads were blamed for the accident in which Mr. and Mrs, John Schatz of Glen Ullin were injured. Both were taken to a Mandan hos- pital Friday night for treatment of minor injuries after their automobile collided with another on a curve 10 miles east of New Salem. Holt.Says Nominee Threatened Father advocated execution of Holt’s father because he America’s en- Not Poison Victims) ves He’d Better Not Believe in Signs ers in Sidetracking Labor Bill, 216-198 By REG INGRAHAM Washington, Dec. 18—()—A clim- actic house rebellion which shelved the wage-hour bill checkmated ad- ministration leaders Saturday in their efforts to push through much of the Roosevelt program before adjourn- ment next week. In a tense overtime session the house sent the battered measure back to the labor committee Friday night despite an appeal from Majority Leader Rayburn (Dem.-Tex.) that such a step would mean “the death of wage-hour legislation.” The 216-to-198 vote was offset some- what by senate approval of the “ever normal granary” farm bill, 59 to 29. The house passed a much different farm bill last week, and both measures now must go to @ conference commit- tee. Indications were a settlement would not be worked out until early ia January. 5 Administration chieftains called the house into session Saturday to debate. legislation designed to stimulate home construction. The senate recessed for the week-end. Future Uncertain Defeat of the house leadership's at- tempt to get the wage-hour bill proved left the future of this legisla- tion uncertain and leaders visibly dis- turbed. They had contended right to the end they had enough votes to beat the move. One hundred _ thirty-three Demo- crats and 83 Republicans voted to sidetrack the bill. They were opposed by 179 Democrats, 6 Republicans, 8 Erosreedvee. and 5 Farmer-Laborites. ey lt Republicans, voted the bill back to committee. Some proponents said that minute pressure by the American Fed- eration of Labor had influenced many members to vote in favor of sending the measure back to the committee. The AFL had endorsed a rigid 40- hour week and 40-cent minimum hourly wage. The CIO, on the other hand, advocated the administration's more flexible program “despite ite many limitations.” One Administrator As it stood just before it was sent back to the committee, the measure would have empowered a single ad- ministrator in the labor department to fix minimum wages of not more than 40 cents an hour for firms in in- terstate commerce and to establish a work week of not less than 40 hours. The bill approved by the senate pro- vides for similar standards, admini- stered by an independent five- member board. ‘The housing bill, up for considera- tion Saturday, had so little advance opposition—except as to details—that Majority Leader Rayburn forecast vote by nightfall. ‘The senate committee has not com- pleted its study of the housing bill, but Democratic Leader Barkley was hopeful it would pass before adjourn- ment, tentatively set for next Wed- nesday. E Three Republicans — Capper of Kansas, Lynn J. Frazier and Gerald P. Nye of North Dskota—joined 54 Democrats and Senators LaFollette (Prog.-Wis.) and Norris (Ind.-Neb.) in passing the senate farm bill. Is Nearly Defeated “ The measure narrowly escaped the ash heap when proponents of the McAdoo price-fixing farm program came within six votes of substituting their bill for the “ever-normal gran- ary” proposal. The vote was 40 to 46. Although the house and senate measures are similar in broad gener- alities, they differ in many important provisions. The senate bill provides stricter controls over the farmer than does the house measure, and levies more _ (Continued on Page Three) CHRISTMAS SUPERSTITIONS