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The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-12
ENGINEER INJURED
WHEN TRAIN JUMPS
TRACK STERLING
Five Coaches Also Are Derailed
When Locomotive Journal
Breaks

The engine and five coaches Of No.
4, Northern Pacific eastbound pas
senger train, were pitched into a ditch
about 8:25 O'Clock Wednesday night
three and one half miles east Of Ster-
ling when q main journal on the loco
motive broke.
Four of the coaches remained on
the tracks.
Tom Farmer, Jamestown. engineer,
was slightly injured when his leg was
pinioned by machinery Of the loco
motive as 1t pitched and plunged
500 feet along the rails before 1t
dove off into the right hand ditch,
burying the boiler one-fourth It's
length into the prairie loan.
Cling to Safety Rails
Six men in the baggage and mail
cars, three in each, escaped injuries
by clinging to the overhead safety
rails In their cars as they were tossed
and buffeted about.
Farmer estimated the train was
speeding 50 miles per hour when he
noticed the trouble. He applied the
brakes as the journal dropped and
one of the drivers broke off. His
leg was pinioned as he applied the
brakes q second time. He estimated
the train travelled from $500 to 1000
feet before coming to a stop.
The SIS persons aboard were taken
the 30 miles back to Bismarck by q
relief train that arrived shortly after
the derailment.
More than 500 feet Of rails and ties
were torn up.
Wreckers on Scene
Restoration of traffic over the main
line was expected shortly after noon
Thursday, according to T. p. Allen,
Bismarck agent for the railroad.
Crews Of men were at work on the
scene with two wreckers Thursday
morning.
No. 2, eastbound passenger train,
was detoured over the 500 Line be-
tween here and Jamestown Thurs
day. This train was to go from here
north to Wilton, east to Pingree, and
south to Jamestown. Allen expected
this train would be an hour or an
hour and q half late into Jamestown.
No. 2 was due in Bismarck at 11:42
a. m.
No. 1, westbound train due here at
7:45 o'clock tonight, will come over
the main line, however, Allen said,
and is expected to be on time.
Investigation Thursday indicated
that the derailment was caused as the
broken 14-inch journal struck a
The broken journal apparently
dragged along the track after becom-
ing disengaged until 1t reached the
switch. AS the two came In contact,
the impact which sent the train hurl-
ing from the track resulted.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-12
BISMARCK WOMAN IS
INJURED IN CRASH
Mrs. w. &. Cleveland and Leo
Wagner, sanborn, Arc in
Hospital Hero

Mrs. ". E. Cleveland. Bismarck,
and Leo Wagner, Sanborn, were in
a local hospital Thursday morning
suffering from fractured legs re-
ceived in an automobile accident on
the Bismarck Mandan highway about
8 p. M, Wednesday.
Mrs. Cleveland suffered fracture
across t. knee joint in her left leg
while Wagner's fracture was across
the knee Joint of his right leg.
Driving through the underpass near
Mandan on his way to Bismarck,
Wagner. who was driving, was blind
ed by the bright lights Of an oncom-
ing machine. Unable to see the road.
he crashed into an abutment Of the
underpass.
Both Mrs. Cleveland and Wagner
were thrown through the windshield,
suffering cuts and bruises.
In the back seat OF the auto were
Mr.. Cleveland and Ole Sundeg, Ruso,
who escaped with minor hurts
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-12
Scientist Asserts Person Who Reads
Is Blind More Than Half the Time

you probably would be unable to
read.
In conducting this experiment
Moss used an accurately timed
rotating disc painted white on q
white background and pierced In
the center with two parallel Sits.
How the vision Jagged behind the
actual position Of the parallel
Sits in relations to the horizon
tai, was made known by the SUBJ
ject through signals.
Moss made 10000 measure
ments on this one subject. using
varied intensities of light. They
were part Of his effort to deter
mine how much light our eyes
need for comfort while at work.
He estimates that they need
about 13 times as much as they
get in customary office lighting,
which averages In strength that
Of an eight candlepower lamp on
q sheet Of paper held foot away.
Another peculiar phenomenon
Of the eye. Moss discovered, is
that it increases In accuracy and
rapidity Of action after q day Of
hard work.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-12
Road Dedicated by
Nelson County Group

Lakota, N. D., Nov. 12.-(AP)-
Several hundred persons gathered at
Stump Lake, south of here, when
new grade across a portion OF the
lake was dedicated as huge bonfire
provided light for the ceremonies
Tuesday night.
The road, only 120 feet long, was
constructed by farmers, supported by
Lakota businessmen and will enable
some so families on the opposite
side of the lake to cut from IL to rs
miles from the distance they must
travel to reach Lakota. DR.. Einar
Lohrbauer, mayor of Lakota, was q
prime mover in getting the project
under way.
Residents of surrounding towns
took part in the dedication cere-
monies and speakers included S. A.
C. Wehe, DR.. Lohrbauer, and DR..
r. E. Beck, all of Lakota, Kenneth
Wishart, George Groves, and Mrs.
B. A. Wishart, the latter IS years
old, all farmers in the district bene-
fitted.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-12

Cleveland, Nov. 12.-(P)-When
you do such things as read TINS
newspaper you are stone blind
during all but tiny fragments Of
split seconds.
These tiny fragments were
measured by Frank K. Moss, re-
search engineer in the lighting
laboratory at Nela Park here. He
found them to range in size from
seven to Is hundredths Of a sec.
ond.
AS you read q printed line your
eye moves and stops at short tn
tervals. While the eye IS in mo-
ton 1t picks up" the reading
matter, but the connection with
the brain Is shut off.
The while the eye moves until
it has picked up" all it can hold,
or in other words, until you get
an eye FULL" the connection to
the brain Is broken.
You are blind. Moss discovered.
about three tenths Of second at
q time. The eye accurately meas.
ures this interval, and he said,
II you don't pick up what you
have read n that length o9 time
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-12
CREW OF SCHOONER
RESCUED FROM SEA
BY U. S. Navy ship
II Men Found Living and Five
Dead; Captain of Vessel
Badly Injured
BAD WEATHER REPORTED
Nine AirpIanes Joined in Search
For Group Reported BY
Mail Pilot

Balboa, G. e., Nov. 12.-(F-The U:
s. s. Swan reported Thursday she had
picked up the crew of the wrecked
schooner Baden Baden with IL men
living, five dead and the captain bad
ly injured.
She took the lifeboat in tow after
taking out the survivors and their
dead and is proceeding to Coco Solo.
Captain Wabli, the message said,
was suffering from serious injuries to
the spine.
The Baden Baden left Rio Hacha,
Colombia, on Nov. for Cristobal. She
carries no radio and 1t was feared she
may have been lost. Vessels search
ing for the castaways reported heavy
weather in the vicinity where the boat
was found. At least nine planes
searched Wednesday after a mail
plane pilot said he saw the small
craft with the castaways. The Baden
Baden had been In the coastwise
trade with wood cargoes.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-12
Asserts innocence OF Crime
Explains How Blood Came
to Be on Trousers

Minot, N. D., Nov. 12.-(AP)-
did you kill that woman?"
"No, sir"
And thus in district court in Mi
not Thursday William Savora,
charged with the first degree mur-
der of. his housekeeper, Mrs. Dena
korchenko, on September %, assert
ed his innocence.
In explanation of how human
blood came to be found upon his
after the woman's murder,
Savora testified that it may have
come there about three weeks be-
fore the woman's death when she,
while drunk, fell against a stove in
the Savora house and cut her head.
Savora said he picked the woman
off the floor, carried her to sink
where he washed her off" and
treated her wounds. He said he got
blood on his shirt but did not know
whether he got any on his trousers
on which human blood was found by
chemists after the murder.
The defense counsel considered
that a victory was scored Thursday
when the court ordered the use Of
an interpreter in the questioning Of
Savora.
An interpreter was seated beside
Savora but Savora was answering
the questions being asked him on di-
rect examination in broken English.
Judge George H. Moeiiring, who
is presiding, inquired Of the jurors
if they could understand what the
defendant was saying, and several
indicated they could not.
II cant ether" remarked the
court. 1--WE had better use the in
States Attorney Paul Campbell
protested that he could understand
what Savora was saying and pointed
out that the court reporter, George
w. Olson, apparently was not hay-
ing any difficulties, either.
Campbell said he believed the de-
fendant could be understood if close
attention was paid.
The court paid no attention to the
prosecutors opposition and the use
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-12
METEOR DISPLAY
TO uIGHTEN SKY
IN NEAR FUTURE
Leonids Expected to Appear in
East After Midnight;
Nov. Is Is Best

Cambridge, Mass, Nov. 12.-F-
Another might of the falling h1irs,"
q visitation of the leonid meteors, Is
due on one of the first four nights Of
next week.
The latest prehistoric record Of
these leonid meteors has been found
chiseled in stone in ruins Of the an
cient Mayan civilization In Yucatan.
This story has 1t that the hairs
fell from heaven with the lord of the
dead, Tzontemocque. The stone
bearing this record is believed to have
been set up about 900 years before
the arrival of the Spaniards in Mex
leo. The Mexicans had q similar
tradition. It describes the fine
threads of fire which meteors leave
as they flash across the heavens.
The leonids appear in the east,
after midnight.
For more than 1000 years these
leonids, about three times each CEN
tury. have turned night into a BEAU
tiful but awful sort Of day for sew
eral hours at time.
In nearly all lands where they have
been seen they have been taken more
than once as the sign of earth's fin
iSh.
DR.. Willard J.. Fisher, meteor ex-
pert of the Harvard observatory, says
the time when the leonids may ap-
pear this month Is uncertain, but Is
more likely to be after midnight,
Monday. Nov. 16.
The public again Is requested to re-
port to astronomers the number of
meteors 1t sees, the period of time Of
observation directions and courses
in the sky, and descriptions of very
brilliant meteors.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-12
Omaha Liquor Dealer
Is Killed by Gunmen

Omaha, Neb., Nov. l2.-R)-George
Kubik, south side liquor dealer. was
shot to death by three men here
early Thursday. He was dumped
from an automobile and left for dead
outside the city limits but remained
conscious several hours.
Police said they learned Kubik re-
ceivcd an ultimatum three weeks ago
from an alleged liquor syndicate but
ignored 1t.
Before his death Kubik told Chief
Of Detectives Paul Sutton that he
had been abducted by the trio. whom
he believed had an Illinois license
plate on their automobile
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-12
LEGION PROHIBITION
RESOLUT|ONBACKED
NBANQUET SPEECH
Speaker at Annual Armistice
Day Dinner Says Legion
naires Were Justified

Defense Of the resolution adopted
by the American Legion at its con-
vention In Detroit which asked that
the prohibition question be submitted
to the voters was made "wednesday
evening by DR.. J. Q. Arnson In the
feature address at the annual Armis-
tice Day banquet. sponsored by the
Legion Auxiliary.
DR.. Arnson declared the Legion
naires had right to make such q
proposal on q subject which is 50
popular a question and characterized
the criticisms made by DR.. Clarence
True Wilson as ridiculous" He chal-
lenged the latter's description of the
convention as gathering of drunk
en- and disorderly lot.
Would Maintain Armaments
The speaker also pointed to the
necessity of maintenance of arma-
ments by the United States, declar-
ing that ample protection Is insurance
against war.
Members of the Legion, American
War Mothers, and fathers of veterans
were special guests at the banquet in
the gymnasium Of the World War
Memorial building.
Mrs. George F. Shafer presided as
toastmistress and Mrs. Harry W..
Rosenthal, president of the Auxiliary,
extended welcome to the guests.
In giving response, Spencer s..
Boise, commander of the Legion post,
announced winners in the recent
membership contest staged by the
post. He said the post has a men,
bership of $50, the largest on record
for Bismarck, for 1882. Milton Rue
and A. G. Brainerd won first and sec
ond places, respectively. in the indi-
vidual contest, while a squad cap
tained by Rue and including Ken
meth King, Thomas Burke, John
Musolf, Russell A. Young. and Frayne
Baker won the group contest over
three other squads. Last years men,
bership was 1876.
Mrs. Burke Speaks
Mrs. John Burke, state president of
the War Mothers, gave q short mes
sage of greeting, representing her or
ganization.
In short talk, william Schantz,
chef de gare of Les Quarante Hommes
ct HUT Chevaux, described the or
ganization and purposes Of the 40 and
8, which is the play" organization Of
the Legion made up Of members who
have distinguished themselves through
extraordinary service to the Legion.
Eleven pupils of Miss Margaret Ann
Ramsey presented series Of solo,
duet, and group dances as part of the
program. Solo dances were given by
Audrey Waldschmidt, Dorothy Bar
neck, Anne Bergeson, and Peggy Ber-
eeson while ,Bernadine Barrett and
Camille Wachter presented duet
dance. Others in the finale group
dance were Beverly Bauer, Marian
Peterson, Lydia and Emma LANCER,
and Arlene Ruder. The accompani-
ments were played by Mrs. Arthur
Bauer and Mrs. Harris Robinson.
Several songs were sung by the au-
dience.
TWO hundred and nineteen persons
attended the banquet.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-12
Will Establish New
Hettinger Creamery

Hettinger, N. D., Nov. 12.-Added
impetus to the dairying industry will
be given in this section Of the state
through the establishment Of an up
to-date creamery in Hettinger within
the next 80 days.
The new business will be known as
the Lee-Gangeness Creamery and
will be under the management Of Jo-
eeph Gangeness, buttermaker Of II
years experience with the Land
O'Lakes creameries and other cream
cries in the northwest.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-12
UNITED STATES TO
JOIN With NATIONS
IN LEAGUE PARLEY
American Official Says Chance
Of Acceptance Appears
to Be Good
MORE FIGHTING REPORTED
Chinese Assert Japs Have Seiz-
ed Coal Mine Which They
Coveted
MORE FIGHTING REPORTED

(By The Associated Press)
AS news of more conflict came
from Marchuria, the United States
Thursday announced compromise
plan was being prepared for submis-
sion to the League of Nations In Paris
next week.
Undersecretary Castle of the state
department, while not revealing de-
tails, said European and American
statesmen had communicated con-
cerning the possible means Of settle
ment and that the chance Of accept
ance by Japan and China seemed
good.
Iu Paris, Aristide BRAND, League OF
Nations council president, telegraphed
league offices at Geneva asking the
secretary to inform both governments
he insisted their commanders in
Manchuria be ordered to refrain from
new aggressions.
China informed the league at &C.
neva that the Japanese command in
Manchuria had ordered General Nah
Chan Shan to evacuate Tsitsihar but
that he had failed to do so. A coal
mine and colliery near Dairen has
been seized, said DR.. Alfred Sze, Chi
nese representative to the league. He
charged Japan had coveted this prop
erty for long time.
Expect New Outbreak
From Tentsin came word an ar
sangemert by which japanese agreed
to permit g. neutral zone search by
Chinese police had broken down and
that more fighting was in prospect.
Japan's war office reports Is car
loads of arms and anamunitions and
1000 troops of an international COM
munist army have arrived at Angan-
chi from Russia to reinforce the Chi
nese General, Nah Chan-Shan.
Mukden learned SO Chinese were
killed and 800 wounded In q three
hour battle in the night near Kung.
chuling, to the north.
Japanese Minister Shigemitsu was
Instructed by Tokyo to protest to the
Marking government in China against
recent troubles In Tientsin, on the
ground that Chinese troops went
within so meters of the Japanese con-
cession, which the Japanese govern
ment said was In violation OF an
agreement signed between the two
governments in 1902. The agreement,
1t was said, was a development of the
Boxer protocol.
Tientsin, with American and other
foreign forces on patrol, fearel more
serious fighting between Chinese po-
lice and rebel rioters.
Tokyo reported 10000 japanese
troops would move into Manchuria on
Saturday as reinforcementS and re-
placements. Chinese forces at Chin
chow were estimated at between TO-
600 and 10000, and General Nah was
reported to have 10000 more ready to
strike in the Nonni bridge area.
Aristide BRAND dispatched another
note for the League Of Nations tc
Japan and China, demanding that
both use every means to prevent fur
ther armed conflict.
League officials have taken heart
at the prospect of more active cooper
alton by the United States which they
read into President Hoover's Armis-
tice-day speech and the appointment
of Ambassador Charles G. Dawes aS
the American representative at next
Mondays League Council meeting.
England's cotton industry Is BOOM
ing as a result of China's increased
demand for textiles.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-12
Dead Civic Worker
To Receive Tribute

Fargo, N. D., Nov. 12.-(ReFargo
will pay a last tribute to one Of its
longtime civic workers Friday when
Mrs. J. A. Davis, who died here We'd
nesday Is buried.
Dr.. w. J. Hutcheson, executive Sec
retary of Masonic service and educa-
ton and longtime Methodist minister.
will officiate. Burial will be In Far
90
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-12
Sau0ra Denies Staying
HOusekeeper in. Min0t

Of the interpreter. began.
Considerable of the testimony
against Savora has been about con-
versations had with him following
the murder, in some of which alleged
conflicting statements were brought
out.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-12
FARGO WOMAN DIES

FARGO WOMAN DIES
Fargo. Nov. l2.-(R-Mrs. Davis
Reimer, wife Of q Fargo blacksmith.
died yesterday. She was born at
Penn, N. D. The funeral will be
Saturday.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-12
The heWeatller

Fair and warmer tonight: Friday
cloudy and colder.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-01
CIRCUMSTANCES

Does the lawyer who lodges with you still handle your cases? ?" "Yes, but now I lodge with him. ."-Passing Show.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-01

fault by single card will be disqualified from standing in the Big Ten" the first ten de-. partments having the highest percentage of quota, and will be awarded lower positions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-01
National Photographic Roll Call Shows More Than One-third of l932 Quota Already Paid Up

Indianapolis, Ind.-The greatest advance membership in American Legion history was reported for 1892 at the annual conference of department commanders, adjutants and service officers, held at na- tional headquarters here. The third annual telegraphic roll call, con- ducted in connection with the con- ference, showed that 333,102 mem- bers have already been signed up for the coming year.
 This is close to e-third of the entire membership for 1881, which is approximately one million and fifty-three thousand, and a gain over the same date last year of more than ninety-five thousand. Henry l.. Stevens, Jr., national commander, was enthusiastic over the increase and hailed it as an an- swer to criticism of the legion.
 T want you to know that my heart goes out to you in grateful appreciation for the magnificent showing you have reported at this meeting" he said. God knows, this is the answer to our critics in Detroit and elsewhere. Many said that on account of our sacrificial legislation in De- troit our membership would drop. They said the adjusted compensa- tion loans were responsible for the [ million members last year.
 "The showing here ought to be written in letetrs of gold across the papers of the country. The American Legion is doing the job cut out for it.
 Hawaii Sets Pace.
 Hawaii set the advance 1892 membership pace for all other de- partments by reporting the en- rollment of 75 per cent of it's quota. Wisconsin department of ficials came to the conference with check for $22.292, representing that many 1892 members, and took second honors with 73 per cent of quota. Rhode Island was third with 64.05 per cent and Kan sas which rolled up big member ship last year in honor of Past Ma tional Commander Ralph T. O'Neil of Topeka was fourth with GA per cent.
 Several of the larger depart ments showed Q big increase over the same date a year ago. Cali | fornia reported membership of 27,007, recordbreaking membership for any department at this time of the year, as com- pared with 20.5S6 at the same time last year. New York showed 20,003, as compared with S,293
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-01
UNCLE SAM PADI0CKS DT0RT0 RESTAURANT
HOOVER EACAN OPPOSED IN ONE
 OF HIS PROJECTS
Scheme for Liberalizing Federal Reserve Rules Is Fought By Federal Reserve Banks

Washington, Dec 1A (UP)- General and outspoken opposition to President Hoover's scheme for liberalizing federal reserve rules was expressed by federal reserve banks in letters to Senator Glass, democrat, Va.
 The letters, in the form of re- plies to questions sent out by Glass were made public by Glass senate banking and currency subcommit- tee. With only four exceptions they opposed alteration of regulations controlling paper eligible for re- discount. The exceptions were the banks in Chicago, Dallas, Phil- adelphia and Richmond.
 This opposition represents a ma jor obstacle in the path of MT Hoover's plan to ease credit.
 Glass, author of the federal re- serve act and an opponent of broadening it's provisions, circu- larized the banks on the desirabil- itv of altering the rules. Yesterday his committee made public a com pilation of the replies, which with few exceptions did not favor chang ing the provisions of the federal reserve act relative to paper elig- ible for discount or the rulings or the regulations of the federal re- serve board interpretative of those provisions"
 Of the four exceptions, the Chi cago bank proposed extension of the maturity date on otherwise eligible paper from 90 days to six months at an advanced discount rate, and sanction of 90-day loans to member banks on notes secured by bonds acceptable to the treasury as security for war loan deposits.
 The Dallas bank would make landlords obligations eligible for rediscount, and extend the statu- tory limit on certain advances to member banks from 15 to 90 days. (Landlords' obligations are feed or crop loans to tenant farmerso
 The Philadelphia bank would in some cases permit advances to distressed member banks on what ever assets they may have, with the proviso that such obligations be not used as security for several reserve notes.
 The Richmond band would per init advances to member banks on hirhgrade bonds when the mem bers lack eligible paper. This would be permitted only after the federal reserve board had deter mined the existence Of a national emergency.