The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 27, 1937, Page 1

Telephone 2200 Jap Reply Ends Panay Incident [aller Gets Most Pledge of Respect U. S. Rights Made; New Laws Apply to Foreigners it the international situation arising from the bombing of the gun- boat Panay, although the indemnity remains to be fixed. Officials made it plain that the United States would watch closely to see Japan carries out its assurances that there would be no unlawful inter- ference with American nationals and interests in China. Secretary Hull, replying Saturday to Japan’s promises of respect for American rights in China, said the United States considered them “re- sponsive” to its protests and demands, State department officials said the INSURGENT TROOPS STILL HOLDING OUT ~—INLAMING TERUEL Hold Seminary, Bank, in Fallen City; Victory Strengthens Loyalists’ Chances Express In Tokyo Japanese government of- ficials expressed general satisfaction over termination of the Panay inci- dent despite disagreement of Japan and the United States on motives of the Japanese aviators who sank the @ foreign office spokes- Japan must adhere to the its own investigators. japan forever will insist it (the bomb- are! received his education at Japan's steady spread across China, Eaeritiney centered at three focal IN CRASH DEATH ESTABLISHED 1873 1 Bismarck Girl “Charles F. Amid [PROMINENT JURIST CALLED AUTHOR OF STATE CIVIL CODE Dies Sunday in Arizona; Former Fargo Lawyer on Code Commission in 1893 NAMED JUDGE IN 1896 Was Close friend of Theodore Roosevelt; Saw Reforms Made Into Law Fargo, N. D., Dec. 27.—(?)—Charles Fremont Amidon, long-time federal judge for North Dakota but inactive in recent years, died at midnight Sunday at Tucson, Ariz., according to mes- sages received here. He was 81 The foundation of the civil code and the civil procedure code used at the present time in North Dakota is the work of Amidon, who in 1893 served as a member of the commission who re- vised the entire statute code. ©. F. Amidon Born at Clymer, Chautauqua county, by New York, on Aug. 17, 1856, Amidon Corry, Pa. He was the son of John Smith Ami- don and Charlotte Curtis Amidon. Entering Hamilton college in 1879, with @ degree of in 1882, He went to lew years later and en- Alfred Thomas. John D. Valley Citian Charged With Negligence in Death of Lo- cal Woman's Father capital of Shantung pro- » and the sea. Tsinan, Japanese ‘to the firm per as @ state, the young attorney gave ursday near Wheatland, N. Cass coroner's jury found Mon- BLAZE NEW SKYWAYS OVER PACIFIC OCEAN Pan-American to Inaugurate 4- Day Mail Service Between ~~ U, S..New Zealand ~| himself over to a study of federal court THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE North Dakota’ 's Oldest Newspaper BISMARCK, N. D., MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1937 , Baby, Die in Flames on, Long-Time N. D. Judge, Dies Pioneer Woman of High-Flying Prince | Now Has Guardian 7 5 Warsaw, Poland, Dec. 27.—()— A district court at Ostrowo Mon- day appointed Count Alfred Chla- powski, former Polish ambassador to Paris, as temperorary guardian for 67-year-old Prince Michael Radziwill, at the request of the Prince's family. The family is opposed to the prince’s marriage to 31-year-old Mme. Jeanette Suchestow. The prince and his fiancee are now at Monte Carlo. ATLEAST 500 MEET DEATH AS COUNTRY OBSERVES HOLIDAY North Dakota Apparently One of 5 States Without Violent Deaths (By the Associated Press) Violent death tisimed at least 500 lives as the nation’s price for one of its most extensive Christmas celebra- tions in years. kot The double holiday, crowding high- ways with an unusual burden of homeward-bound travelers, swelled the toll aboye norms! years. Traffic accidents caused many times as many Eight, Negroes. lost their lives when @ motor car plunged through a bridge guard near Chinquapin, N. C., end overturned in the Northeast river. On the basis of early reports, North Dakota was one of five states to ob- serve the holiday week-end without at least one accidental death. INJURED YEAST NOW HEALS BURNS Mysterious New Chemical Heals “ Terrific Burns Quickly, Without Scars Indianapolis, Dec. 27.—(7)—A mys- terlous new chemical made by injured * aa {yeast cells, which heals terrific burns The work of codifying the North Dakote statutes was divided among had charge of criminal procedure, Amidon, although 2 son of a staunch view , Grover Cleveland, then president of named Amidon as Adam Leo Schock of Deering, of: Minot and Hilde, Edns, Bennie andi Two Truck Lines Hiner’ Hopkins of Orystal Byeings Seeking Permits Mrs. John Ritter —— of of and Mrs. John Gimble of Hazelton. Fireman Killed When Train Hits Landslide Death Takes Scot, 87, in Jamestown|* Wanted Procedure Simplified Early in his career, as judge, Ami- himself vue «| PRESIDENTIAL WAR quickly and without scars, was re- ported to the American Association for the Advancement of Science here Monday. The chemical, a watery fluid, grows fresh, normal skin over the burned areas, instead of the usual, tightly- drawn, disfiguring scar tissue. It gets the victims out: of the hospital, the association was told, faster than any other remedy. It is a by-product of discovery of a new principle of tissue growth. ‘The burn remedy is one of several seemingly miraculous effects on growth, and the only one which has been applied to human beings. ON TRUSTS IS SEEN Assistant Attorney General dackson Hits Practices in Address Sunday ney general, received widespread terpretation Monday as a prelude to a broad administration anti-trust < & Bismarck Is Dead Mrs. Harvey Harris Succumbs on Christmas Eve After Five Years of Illness Early Christmas Eve death took Mrs. Harvey Harris, 601 Sixth 8t., pioneer Bismarck businesswoman and leader iu church life. Death came at 5:20 Pp. m., in a local hospital, ending an illness of five years. Mrs. Harris was 81. Long-identified with activities of the McCabe Methodist Episcopal church in Bismarck, Mrs. Harris was its oldest member in point of time. She had been a member 53 years. Funeral services were held at 2:30 Monday afternoon in the Methodist church, with Rev. Walter E. Vater, pastor, officiating. Burial was in St. Mary’s cemetery beside the bodies of her husband and only child. Born in Mlinois Sars Jackson was born in St. Marie, then entered Oxford college and was Graduated in 1875 as valedictorian. The Weather Cold wave, zero to 10° below; Tuesday fair, much colder, PRICE FIVE CENTS MARGARET GARBER, SON, 3, PERISH IN XMAS TREE TRAGEDY Conflagration at Los Angeles Takes Daughter of A. Johannsen, Bismarck WAS MARGARET JOHANNSEN Mother, Others, Suffer Injuries; Rescue Try May Be Fatal to Boy OPEN HEART CASH DONATIONS REACH TOTAL OF $4,654.53 Report on Big Christmas Activ- ity Made to Lions Club Meeting Monday 1871-1937 THOUSANDS BENEFITED A. A. Johannsen of the Bismarck hotel Monday was bereft of his daugh-- ter,Mrs.MargaretGarber, and 3-year- old grandson, burned to death in a Christmas tree tragedy in Los Angeles Sunday that left Mrs. Johannsen suf- fering from bruises and shock, four others seriously burned and three others slightly injured. 1,200 of 2,200 Children in Rural Burleigh County Re- ceived Items Bismarck’s Open Your Heart cam- Lesrgearl yore rauen Aubhicatine in scan The accident occurred in the home jul poor thou- wten of Mr. and Mrs. James Rudd, formerly sands of new and used articles which ne * C a of Minneapolis, who, with their two had been given it by the warm- sons, James, Jr., 12, and Kenneth, 17, were burned. Mrs. Rudd is a sister of the Bismarck woman. at their luncheon meeting Monday in the Grand Pacific hotel. Making the report was Kenenth W. Simons, pinch-hitting for G. A. Dah- len, Open Your Heart chairman. Of the cash donations, 533.10 was received from the annual Charity ball, the remainder from organizations and individuals in the city and surround- ing countryside. Late Open Heart Gifts Acknowledged Late gifts reported Monday raised cash contributions to the Open Your Heart campaign to $t,- 655.13. The final cash statement of the activity is as follows: Previously reported ..... - $1,008.53 any Lutheran Ladi Major items listed as given away includes 1,000 pairs of stockings, 600 pairs of mittens, 600 suits of under- wear, 500 pairs of shoes (some new and some repaired) 30 snowsults for girls, 172 baskets of food and 70 boxes, NEWTON D. BAKER CALLED ‘GREATEST SECRETARY OF WAR’ America Eulogizes Wilsonian Cabinet Member; Died Christmas Day Cleveland, 5 funeral services will be held Tuesday for former Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, eulogized by prominent Americans Monday as one of the na- tion’s great leaders. . Arrangements Monday called for the body to lie in state with a military Christmas afternoon with coronary thrombosis. He had been confined to his home by heart illness for nearly @ month. He was 66 years old. Death Very Sudden “Death was very sudden,” said his Tree Caught Fire Mrs. Rudd said the tree caught fire as she turned off a gas heater which had been burning close to the base of the tree. As the tree's tinder-like needles flared, Mr. Rudd seized the huge torch and attempted to carry it from the apartment on the second floor of the house. Heat from the flaming tree and the flames licking at his bare hands forced him to drop the tree near the stairway, cutting off escape from the second floor. escape with only shock and minor bruises. Jafnes, Jr., suffered burns that may prove fatal in attempting to rescue Mrs. Garber. The Johannsens had resided in Bis- marck for many: years. Mr. Johann: sen, long employed’ in the land de- .|/partment of the Bank of North De- kota, recently has been working with the highway planning survey. Was Born in Minot Margaret Johannsen Garber was 23 years old. She was born in Minot but containing stockings, mittens, under- wear, toys, books and incidental items for rural femilles. Immediate members of Mrs. Harris’ Rural Children Benefit family now living are J. P. Jackson, ® brother, and Miss Jackson, Hardy ;& sister, both of 601 Sixth St., and another brother,’ Hugh Jackson of Fremont, Ohio, J. P. Jackson is man- ager of the Harvey Harris real estate SUB-ZERO WEATHER FORECAST TONIGHT Temperatures Will Continue Next 24 Hours 1 a F i i é iy EE Fe i jai? 4 ag i #F I s s it f i a3 ys i . s E iii In addition, Erratic Christmas Week End|t envy sued Dahlen estimated, enough children were given material it the headquarters to make a total of E ii E 5 son, Newton D. Baker, 3rd. “He seemed well and happy to the end.” In Mr. Baker's service as secretary of war under President Woodrow Wil- son in World War days, few were closer linked than Gen. John J. Per- shing. Gen. Pershing said Monday in Tuc- son, Ariz., “Mr. Baker was America’s greatest secretary of war.” Baker was a lawyer and a fight- ing pacifist to whose lot it fell to conduct the most stupendous military activity in which the United States had ever engaged. For five years he managed affairs “| which began on his advent in office with the Pershing expedition into Mexico and culminated in the World Weg and ‘the later task of demobiliza- Fought for Ideals Thereafter he fought for the ideals of Wilson, argued for cancellation of war debts and, as one of eleven mem- bers of President Hoover's national law enforcement commission, wrote into the Wickersham report of 1931 @ personal declaration in favor of the repeal of the eighteenth amend- ment. Baker was born December 3, 1871, at Martinsburg, W. Va. His father, for whom he was named, was a phy- sician and served with Stuart's cav- graduated at Johns Hopkins univer- sity in 1892, and two years later ob- tained his law degree from Wash- ington & Lee university. He entered politics in Cleveland, where he served several terms as city solicitor and twice was elected mayor. Shortly after the expiration of his second term, President Wilson named him secretary of war to succeed Lind- Elizabeth Wells Leopold of town, Penn. They had one son and two daughters. Won’t Stand Trial for Artist’s Model Death New York, Dec. 27.—(7)—The New Sub-Marginal Land Office to Dickinson had attended the Bismarck public schools. Mrs, Garber’s uncle, James Rudd, was the son of a ploneer Minot fam- ily, his father, Christ, having been mayor of Minot at one time, Mrs, J. A. Novak, Minot, aunt of Mrs. Garber and sister of Rudd, left Monday for Los Angeles, the Associat- ed Press reported. A former student at St. Mary's high schol here, Mrs. Garber later at- tended St. Benedict's, Catholic girls’ school at St. Joseph, Minn, Mr. Johannsen had not been reach- ed in Bismarck at the time The Trib- une went to press. 2 WHO KIDNAPPED 4 CHRISTMAS EVE NOT IDENTIFIED Boy, 3, Mother, Nurse, Grocery Clerk Seized in Indiana, Later Released Richmond, Ind. Dec. 27.—()— Sheriff Arthur Quigley said early Monday authorities had failed to establish identity of two gunmen hunted in three midwestern states for a bizarre Christmas Eve kidnaping of Fish Hits Landon’s Endorsement of FR