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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-08-31
Man Admits Killing
: Five Persons, Says
There Are No More
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aid, his hobbies crime-"sclentiiic
crime"-and sex psychology.
His letters. police said, revealed him
as a self assigned student OF women.
Meanwhile he was professionally a
r%oustabout salesman. OF his early
life he would say nothing, beyond
that he was born In Cedar Rapids, Ia.
More letters addressed to Corne-
Illus o. Pierson, the name under which
Harry r. Powers corresponded with
many women, we're In a p~ostoffice box
here Monday while the man was be-
ing held in connection with the
deaths OF two of those women.
The letters will not be removed from
the box until a postal inspector ar
riveS here.
Chief OF Police C.. A. Duckworth,
Clarksburg. after interviewing Mrs.
Luella Strother Powers, wife of Harry
r. Powers, said that he was mot
through with her."
The woman, arrested shortly after
her husband was taken into custody,
was released Saturday after being
questioned. In the statement the au-
thorities alleged Powers made con-
Tossing the killings, he absolved his
wife.
Mrs. Powers told Duckwort.l and
newspapermen who interviewed her
at her home that Il love that kid"
and that each morning I carried him
two bottles Of soft drink before he
was out of bed"
The woman said Powers had given
her only $l2 in their four years of
marriage.
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DEAD| IN WUHAN AREA
PLACED AT 100000
President Chang Kai-Shek Is
Shocked at Havoc Raised
BY Flood Waters

Shanghai, Aug. 31.-(P1-While au-
thorities sought Monday to pierce the
veil of uncertainty that cloaked the
flood situation In northern Kiangsu
Province, another area placed its
dead at 250, 900 and its destitute home
less at 500, 900.
The Wuhan District, comprising the
cities of Hankow. Hanyang. and Wu-
chang, in central China, although it
still, lay under from four to 20 feet
Of muddy, d~isease-laden water, was
able for the first time to tally its
grim losses.
Officials announced that l63 600
houses either collapsed or were DAM
aged beyond repair by the sWirling
flood waters of the Yangtse River.
Half the population of the three cit
les, or $4,000 persons. were home
less and pennileSs. Many were half
starved and suffering from dysentery.
cholera and other diseases.
President Chang Kai-Shek, who
reached Hankow Friday after leaving
his anti-communist campaign in
southern China to his aides, expressed
himself as shocked at conditions in
the Wuhan area. He ordered Kiangsi
and Human province authorities to lift
cmbargoes on rice to permit supplies
to be sent to the affected region.
Residents of Hankow do not ex-
pect to walk the streets dry shod until
Oct. Is at the earliest, although the
YangtSe Is subSiding at a rate OF
several inches daily.
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MAN SAVED FROM
PRECAR|OUS PERCH
63-Year-0ld With Nerves o,
Steel Rescued From High
Ledge on Chimney

Rochester, N. Y, Aug. 31.-(R-
Nerves OF steel and q stout heart kept
63-year-old James Kemp, steeplejack
clinging to a p%recarious foothold on q
l0-inch ledge at the top of a 150-foot
chimney Monday until rescued-two
hours after his fellow worker. Con-
dolfo Di Primo, 40, plunged to death
when a scaffold broke.
The two men were working on a
tiny scaffold near the top Of the stack
when the scaffolding slipped.
While firemen with out-stretched
life nets awaited Kemp's fall, which
seemed almost inevitable, another
crew of rescuers attempted to fire a
line over the top OF the stack with a
rope-gun.
The fifth shot draped q rope over the
chimney top ana slowly, foot by foot,
Kemp hauled in the light line with a
heavier rope attached. With a solid
hold for him to grasp, Kemp soon
drew up a second line with a small
swing attacked. into which he stepped
and was carefully let down.
Without assistance he walked into
the emergency room of the Yawman
and Erbe plant.
II knew better than to let the thing
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SERVICE RECORD OF
LIONS IS PRAISED
Civic Undertakings Of Local
Service Club Are Enumerated
At Toronto Convention

Recognition of the work that has
been done in Bismarck by the Lions
club was afforded national recogni-
ton at the recent convention of the
organization at Toronto by Melvin
Jones, founder and secretary-general
OF Lions international, local Lions
were told Monday.
In a letter to the local club read at
the luncheon meeting, Jones said that
he had included a report of the var
ious undertakings Of the Bismarck
unit in his report to the recent inter-
national convention at Toronto.
In the record Of service achieved by
the club here. Jones included the fol-
lowing projects: Provided money to
send Boy Scouts on camping trip;
cooperated with Isaac Walton League
in protecting wild game; held joint
Lions club meetings: assisted with
community chest drive; was host to
American Legion convention dele
entertained high school football
squad: sponsored a Boy Scout troop:
unprivileged boys and
girls at Christmas dinner; erected a
NLlI lSVlIldS tTCS dIIO dSSAoCCO A1 OAoe
tributing 1000 bags Of candy; placed
decorations on streets: SUI
pervised city spring cleanup cam
rendered annual banquet to
high school basketball squad; nine
reports received, eight
on time; and one Key Member in
club.
Judge v. H. Stone, a member of the
Uptown Lions club of Chicago, was
the guest speaker for the day. Judge
Stone spoke on pioneers and the
spirit. He praised the men
who had been responsible for building
up this great country and eulogized
The driving force that motivated
hem.
An invitation from the Mandan
Lions to attend their luncheon meet
ng Tuesday was extended to the Bis
club. They also were invited
% attend the anniversary celebration
held in Mandan this week.
Arthur Berry. Winnipeg, was a
yuest at the meeting.
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City-COunty News

MI. and Mrs. Gilbert Cederstrom,
Mckenzie, are parents Of q son born
Saturday in the Bismarck hospital.
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Bones of Child Are
Found in Burned Barn

Beaver City, Neb., Aug. 31.-R-
The bones Of q child six or seven
years old were found Sunday night
In the burned ruins Of q barn on the
farm Of Glide Williams, near here.
The barn burned Saturday night
during the absence Of the Williams
family.
Officers believed the child was dead
when placed In the barn and the
building then fired. On q nearby
nighway q small suitcase filled with
childs clothing was found.
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Graf Zeppelin Starts
On Pernambuc0 FLIGHT

st. Vincent. Cape Verde Islands.
Aug. sl.-ReThe Graf Zeppelin, on
9 nonstop flight from Friedrichsha.
len to Pernambuco. Brazil, was sight
cd over the city before noon Monday.
Inc dirtgtble took off SATURDAY.
night with passengers on a NONSTOP
flight to Pernambuco expected to take
about 70 hours.
Tnere Will be q brief stop in Bra
a ana the Graf will start back for
Germany.
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Schilling Predicts
More Farm Profits
In Minnesota Talk

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product by the consumer, less neces-
sary marketing costs.
Render Valuable Service
cooperative marketing organiza-
tons can, and do render certain
valuable services to their members.
They can enable farmers to crate and
pack their products nor scientif-
ically; they can help in proper CLASH
fication and grading; they can reg
ulate the flow of products to the mar
ket in an orderly manner. thus pre-
venting gluts and famines; they can
obtain through better and more &C
curate market information. through
better salesmanship and better CO.
ordination Of products from various
sections into the various markets, the
best prices under prevailing economic
conditions. and they can give the
farmer a larger bargaining power to
deal with buying organizations.
Cooperative. marketing q and
will succeed II its friends will sell it
on Its merits. It can and will sue
coed II only farmers and their friends
know what to expect and what not to
expect. When farmers join cooper
atives they should join because they
belteve IN cooperative marketing and
have . firm determination to support
the organization by delivering their
products and assuming their share
Of the responsibility for sound AN
aoement.
1T Is easy to run the cooperative
association when the weather's fine
10d Al things on an even keel, but
Ua3t until trouble comes and then It's
something different. II your ASSOC
11ottou y going al right, the mem
Do1yhip viii be elad to know It. If
lum ~ g0tng wrong. IL u better to
~ them 81. secrets In = cooper
0eM olNeyS hgsode trouble.
- 1o4UettonA 10 working cap
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sooner o. later. On a rising market
things will go all right, but the test
OF the soundness OF your financial
structures comes with a continuous
decline In markets. Many organiza-
tons 90 on the rocks because the
members have been paid too much
for their products, have spent the
money, and have allowed the person.
al gain to wreck their association and
forever destroy its usefulness to the
farmer. If reserves are set up by
making small painless deductions
every day, the associations will live
and thrive and their membership will
be proud Of their achievement.
1T is almost humorous to stand by
and listen to the 'favors' the farmers
are receiving at the hands of the
government. Some interests seem to
have worked themselves into a color
ful frenzy over the placing Of $780,
OC0,OC0 IN the hands of the Federal
board for the purpose of help
ing agriculture to organize. They
it class legislation. They forget
what the government Is doing for the
others, such as ship owners, the rail-
roads and labor.
Certain critics say that Farm
Board loans to cooperative market
ing organizations arc a subsidy to
Every loan made by the
Farm Board to cooperatives is made
IN the view of its repayment. The
revolving fund provided in the agri-
cultural marketing act only enables
farm organizations to secure credit
on a parity with large industrial
Such loans cannot be called
! subsidy. To do so Is unfair not
to the farmer but TO the gov
Certainly the farm group
should not be denounced because the
government enables it to get loans
1T reasonable rates."
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SAYS FARMER BETTER
OFF THAN MANY OTHERS

kankakee, ILL.,. Aug. 31.-tP-Ag-
rlculture has withStood the economic
depression better than many other
major American industries, Alexander
Legge. former chairman of the Fed
eral Farm Board. said Sunday in an
address before a soil and crop assoc
iation rally.
Il do not hesitate to say that in it's
capital situation agriculture is in far
better shape than any other major
industry Leggc said. And even If
prophesying is a risky business, / fore
cast a future for the American farm
Ell better than anything he has en-
joyed in recent years."
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Mother and Daughter
Are Killed by Train

Mitchell, S. D., Aug. 3l.-(P)-Mrs.
Ethel Cooper, 80, and her daughter
Florence, IA, were killed when struck
by a train while walking on a trestle
near here Sunday.
Carl, five, another member of the
family, wa hurt seriously. A baby,
three months old. fell six feet into
sand OF a dry creek bed and was not
hurt. Alfred, II. was unhurt also.
They were walking against the wind,
which. in the opinion of trainmen pre-
vented them from hearing the train.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-08-31
Carl Dorf1er Keeps
Mandan's Golf Title

Carl Dorfler retained his Mandau
city golf championship By defeating
Bob Ridley 2 up and l to play Sunday
IN the championship round Of the CITY
golf tournament.
Ridley was l up on the first nine
and 2 up at the end Of lS holes. Dor
Tier shot part golf the third round to
gain q s up lead at the end OF q holes
and IN the fourth round Ridley came
back with par golf to eliminate Dor
Tiers lead on the 33rd hole but Dor.
Tier took the 34th and 35th to win the
match.
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S. d. Persons Burn
To Death in Auto

Artesian, S. D., Aug. 3l.-(P-Two
persons burned to death near here
Sunday night when their automobile
went into a ditch, turned over and
caught fire.
The victims were MI. and Mrs.
George W. Shumway, Mitchell, S. D.
The tragedy occurred on an isolated
section Of road and they persisted be-
fore aid arrived.
Shumway was county commissioner
of Dawson county.
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roo LATE TO CLASSIFY

FOR RENT-Nicely furnished apart
ment. One room, kitchenette and
bath equipped with electric refrig-
orator and stove. Suitable for two.
Close In. Phone 260. Dr.. Enge.
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LOsT-Large white purse between
Main and 5th and Montgomery
Ward Bldg, containing $3.50. Finder
call 19l.
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FORECASTS

For Bismarck n vicinity: Gener-
ally fair tonight n Tuesday; not
much change in temperature.
For North Dakota: Generally fair
tonight and Tuesday; not much
change In temperature.
For South Dakota: Mostly fair 70.
night. and Tuesday. except unsettled
tonight east portion with showers ex-
IRENE southeast portion: cooler to.
night west and south portions and ex-
IRENE southeast portion Tuesday.
For Montana: Unsettled TONIGHT
and Tuesday. probably showers south.
east portion; cooler tonight.
minnesota: Partly cloudy to cloudy
tonight, showers in east portion;
silgntly warmer in extreme south
east portion; Tuesday becoming fair.
cooler In southwest portion.
GENERAL WEATHER CONDITIONS
Low pressure, with centers over
northern Manitoba and over Nebras.
ka. extends from the Mississippi Val.
ley westward to the eastern Rocky
slope. High pressure areas
are conferred over the Great Lakes re-
glon and over the north Pacific coast
states. Precipitation occurred In the
mississippi Valley and In Utah. wy
oming and northern Manitoba. Cool
weather prevails throughout ali
northern and western districts and
light frost occurred at some stations
in eastern North Dakota on Sunday
morning.
Missouri River stage at Z a. m. ia
IT. - hour change -0.1 IT. Bismarck
station barometer, inches; 1912. ra-
duced to sea level 29.ST.
ORRIs W. ROBERTS.
Official in charge.
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WEATHER CoNDITuoNs
REFEREE SAVES PAYROLL

Chicago. Aug. 3l.-R-Another
good long count from Dave Barry.
The referee Of the second Dempsey-
Tunney battle swung vigorously and
effectively on two thugs and rescued
a bank messenger who had 4 payroll.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
GEORGETOWN TOURS
TO BENEFIT CHURCH
Guides to Take Visitors on One
Hour Trips to Famous Old
Houses Next Month.

One-hour tours of old GEORGETOWN
wiz be held on April 10 and II, &C
cording to an announcement of Mrs.
Jefferson r. Kean, chairman of the
committee which is planning the tours
for the benefit of st. Johns Church.
Guides, who are now making a Spe-
ctal study of Georgetown history in
preparation for the tours, will be, in
addition to Mrs. Kean, HIS G. T.
Charest, Mrs. William Dow Boutwell,,
Mrs. Peyton Evans, Mrs. T. II. Nichol-
son, Mrs. J. B, Wychoff, Mrs. E. O..
Hulburt, Mrs. F. Blair Tucker and Mrs.
A. Kent Paris.
The hour tours will be made in buses
which will start at half-hour intervals
beginning at pm. from the Peck Me-
mortal Chapel at Twenty eighth and
NJ streets. The route has been planned
so that visitors will see all the famous
old houses Of Georgetown, such as the
DR.. Worthington house, which often
opened its doors to George Washington:
Che old Russian embassy, the Dent
home. where President Grant lived;
Tudor Place, Evermay and many others.
To each person making the tour will
be given at the start of the trip a
booklet, "Doorways and Dormers of Old
Georgetown" prepared by Alice Coyle
Torbert and illustrated with sketches of
Georgetown houses by Charles Dunn.
The booklet contains a map giving the
old street names of eighteenth century
Georgetown and charts the tour and
principal points of interest Historical
notes about the most notable residences
are also included.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
METHODISTS TO HEAR
DR.. B. W. MEEKS TALK
District Superintendent to Preach
Tomorrow Evening at Pet
worth Church.

DR.. Benjamin w. Meeks, district su-
perintendent, will be the preacher to-
morrow evening at Petworth Methodist
Episcopal Church. The morning service
viii be conducted by the pastor. Rev.
Robert l.. Wood, who will have as his
sermon 'Emptying Self; Sunday
school, $50 am; mems Bible class, 10
o'clock. Preceding the evening service
the Epworth and intermediate Leagues
will hold devotions.
The young peoples groups will spon-
sor the midweek service Thursday eve
ming at o'clock. DR.. MeekS will pre-
side over the Fourth Quarterly Confer
ence Wednesday evening.
Other activities for the week include
st. Patrick tea to be given by the
Buttercup Circle Of the Women's Home
Missionary Society at 4120 Fifth street
from to pm. Tuesday; the monthly
meeting of the Philathea Class at the
home of Mrs G. C. Mcdonald, 1929
Randolph street, Tuesday evening, and
a play by the women Friday evening.
L. T. Jones was elected delegate and
j. B. Williams alternate to the Lay
Electoral Conference, which will be
held during the sessions of the annual
conference, at a meeting following
prayer service last Thursday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
VISITOR TO PREACH
z SERMONS HERE
First Congregational Church
to Hear Pastor Emeritus of
Broadway Tabernacle.

Dr. Charles z. Jefferson, pastor en-
eritus of the Broadway Tabernacle
Church, New York City, will be the
guest preacher tomorrow morning and
evening at the First Congregational
Church, Tenth and @ streets. DR.. JEFF
ferson has been the minister of Broad
way Tabernacle Church since the year
1898, and has only had one other pas
torate. His subject at the morning
service at IL o'clock will be THE New
Commandment" and at the evening
service at 8 O'Clock he will speak on
Shining Christians"
The church night supper will be
held Thursday at 6 o'clock. Rev. George
L. Farnham, minister of Cleveland Park
Congregational Church, will Iced the
prayer meeting at GAS pm. Thursday.
His subject will be Modern Version Of
the Book of job"
The Sunday School meets at 9:45
am. Sunday. The Senior Society of
Christian Endeavor will have tea and
social hour at 6 pm. in the Sunday
School room. The regular meeting will
follow at $3.50 O'Clock. Albert H. Co.'S
ter will lead the meeting and the topic
for discussion will be my Response
bilities to the Church" The Young
PEOPLES Society of Christian Endeavor
will meet at $50 pm Sunday in the
east parlor. Miss Katherine Fowler
will lead the meeting and the subject
will be What Does Christian Loyalty
Involve?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
CONC0RDIA CHURCH
ANNOUNCES TALKS
Rev. Charles Enders to Preach on
Overcoming Discouragement"
in Morning.

In the morning services at Concor-
dia Church, Twentieth and @ streets,
Rev. Charles Enders will preach on
Overcoming Discouragement." The
sermon topic for the evening viii be
The Substance of Salvation"
In the midweek Lentsn services, Eng
l1sh on Wednesdays and German on
Thursdays, the pastor is preaching q
series of sermons on Personal Atti-
tudes to Christ" The special topic for
the coming week is "Mocked by Herod."
On March II the Concordia Brother
hood will have C.. C. Bennett, identifi-
cation expert of the War Department,
as its guest speaker. He will give an
ILLUSTRATED lecture on Means Of Iden-
tification"
The Concordia Guild, meeting March
II In the Concordia parsonage, will hear
book report by Miss Josephine Esche-
rich.
The Concordia Mission Society meets
March 19 at IL am. A report on the
work done at the Raipur Station Of the
Evangelical Synod Mission in the GEN.
trail provinces Of India will be given at
this meeting
The monthly business and social
gathering of the Concordia Links, the
intermediate young peoples, organiza-
ton, wiz be held Friday at pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14

It's doorway Is in the best style of
Gothic art, and is considered the finest
in Brussels. The pulpit is remarkably
fine specimen of wood-carving, and
some of the beautiful stained-glass win
dows of the fifteenth century still re-
main. The choir is adorned with mural
paintings, reproduced with scrupulous
accuracy from the fifteenth century
originals discovered in 1860 in the course
of the repairs.
There are also some paintings by
Van Eyck and other masters, but the
chief interest of the edific is In the
numerous tombs and mausoleums 1t
contains.
Here rest the remains of the cele-
brated poet of the eighteenth century,
Jean BaptiSte Rousseau, removed hither
from the neighboring Carmelite monas-
terry in 1912. In another chapel is a
monument erected in 1856 to the men,
DRY of the Marquis de Verghera, COM
mander of the Austrian forces in
the Low Countries in the last century.
Count FlaminiuS GARNER, secretary to
the Duke of Parma, one of the best of
the Spanish governors, is commence
rated by series of alabaster bas-relief,
representing incidents in the life of
Our Lady. Perhaps the handSomest
part of the building Is the seventeenth
century burial-chapel of the princes of
zhurn and Taxis, one of the noblest
houses of Europe. 1t occupies the north
transept, and is sumptuously adorned
with black and white marbles. In the
dome are the armorial bearings of the
family to which it belongs, and over
the altar is a statue of st. Ursula by
Henri Duquesney, and on one side
stands an angel bearing a torch, the
work of Genpello.
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Christian Endeavor

A Christian Endeavor mass meeting
was held Monday evening at Luther
Place Memorial Church, with Robert M
Lyon presiding. A prayer trio composed
of Carolyn Smell, william Bond and
Mauro Baradi had charge of the devo-
tional service. Special music was fur.
nished by Miss Helen williams at the
who entertained with Hawaiian music.
Darrell Grain, vice president of the
union, gave a talk on the Golden Jubi-
lee Convention of Christian Endeavor
to be held in San Francisco, Calf, July
ell. Miss Ceba Miller is chairman of
the local committee and is receiving
registrations for the convention now at
room 217, Y, NJ. c. A. Building. Ma
win Holmes spoke on the Westminster
Conference to be Aeld the early part of
July at Western Maryland College,
Westminster, Md. Well known Wash
ington preachers and popular with the
young people will be the leaders. Among
these are Rev. c. E. Hawthorne, Rev.
r. Schearrer, DR.. c. C. Rasmussen and
DR.. S. T. Nicholas. Instruction classes
will be conducted by those who are
experts in their line of work. The
president of the union, Robert M. Lyon,
gave a short address. Friends G. e.
Society won the shield for having the
lergest percentage of its membership
present. The next mass meeting viii
be held in June, at which time there
will be election of officers.
The I. G. z. monthly meeting was
held Friday evening at the Sherwood
Presbyterian Church. The Fellowship
Circle of the union had charge of the
service.
The senior board of the union met
at the Y. w. G. A. last Friday night
and planned to have a supper in April.
The department of drama and pageantry
is rehearsing for a pageant to be pre-
sented at the union Easter sunrise serv-
ice.
The intermediate and Senior Soede4
ties of Keller Lutheran Church, are
holding a mission study class, which
meets once week during Lent to study
the book India on the March"
Topics for discussion In the various
societies on Sunday are: Junior, Using
Our Gifts for Cod; intermediate, why
Do We Have Churches: Senior, what
Are My Responsibilities - -