The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-05-01
SERIES OF BLASTS \
SHAKE BUILDINGS IN. !,
BUSINESS DISTRICT
Communists Blamed For Dis.
turbance; Four Are Held
For Questioning
OTHER NATIONS Celebrate
Germany and Russia Take Lead
in Observance With Ma
tionaI Holidays :
OTHER NATIONS Celebrate
by the Associated Press

Thunder OF bombs in the heart o.
Chicago shot a livid streak of vio-
lence into May Days dawn Monday.
The day was hardly more than two
hours old when series OF deafening
blasts shook buildings and spread fear
In the loop district. Shattered glass
and damaged buildings betrayed the
trail OF the bombers' automobiles.
Among the targets were a branch
OF Marshall Field g. Company and
the Illinois Bell Telephone company
headquarters. Police attributed the
terrorism to radicals celebrating May
Day.
Around tle globe, May Day found:
Multitudes parading in Red Russia.
Nazi throngs roaring triumph In
Germany.
Bayonets cleaning in Peru, where
Q president my slain.
Ru,nblings OF renewed revolt in
Cuba. !
Millions In labor ranks celebrating
peacesbly.
Chicago Loss $4,000
One estimate Of the damage at Chi
cago wa6-$1vo,o<c, No one was killed
or injured. -.
Attributed by the pollsJ to COM
munists celebrating May DAY, five
tombs IN all apparentsu wer,, thrown,
rom moving motor cars 1t the same
time, damaging the estabL. haents at
which they were aimed, as Well as
smashing windows in surrounding
structures within radius of one bSock
in each case. All known communists
were ordered arrested.
The explosives were apparently Of
he powerful dynamite type, frequent
!, employed by racketeers in their Az
t<,npts to intimidate.
The plants attacked were the Mar!
shall Field and company uniform
division, the Illinois Bell Telephone
company headquarters, Sprague War
ner and company. wholesale grocers:
the Hubbard, Spencer and Bartlett
wholesale hardware company, and the
Howard Willett teaming company.
Five men were arrested for Ques~
tioning but their names were not I'M
mediately made public. A huge iron
door was blown back into the build
ing and the masonry about 1t was torn
into bits.
So powerful was the force Of the
explosion at the Illinois Bell Tele-
phone company building that 1t shat
tered the windows on the west side
of the first three floors OF the Bis
marck hotel, one of the largest hos
telries in this midwestern metropolis.
At least IA store fronts in the vicin-
ity of the Bismarck We're shattered
and the debris was scattered all over
the street.
Berlin Youths Parades
At Berlin thousands of youths clam
ored so loudly for Chancellor Adolf
Hitler that he made an unschedulec
appearance before them Monday In the
first big Nationalist May Day ce!e-
bration.
Chief honors in the youth demon
stration in the Lustgarten were plan
ned for President Hindenburg, whe
delivered the principal address. The
chancellor did not intend to speak
until the demonstration at Templehof
airdrome Monday night. He limited
himself to proposing three cheers for
the president.
"You are the future of the German
nation" the venerable president told
thousands OF youngsters as he formal
ly opened the day Of national labor. !"
Later a score Of veteran laborers
from all parts OF the Reich. here as
the guests of the government, spoke
briefly on labor conditions in their
localities. All states as we'll as parts
Of Germany lost under the Versailles
treaty were represented.
The Nazis missed no opportunities
to impress the country that the for
mer Marxist governments had failed
to make May national holiday as
was done this year for the first time.
DR.. Joseph Goebbels, propaganda
minister, made a half-hour speech
paying tribute to youth as the corner
stone Of the new Germany.
Moscow Observes Day
While a bright sun beat down on
Red Square. the proletariat and the
military power Of the Soviet Union
passed in review before the highest
officials of the government and Of the
Communist party In the annual May
Day demonstration at Moscow
From the time 101 gun salute
doomed out from the Kremlin battle
ments. signalling the beginning OF
the celebration at 10 a. M, until the
last section Of the shouting and cheer
ing workers passed through the square
late in the evening, Joseph v. Stain
head Of the Communist party. stood
With his colleagues on the reviewine
stand on top of the tomb OF Lenin.
At least 100000 persons including
! so 900 loops Of the Moscow garrison
participated In che tumultuous but
, well-ordered g. inonstra ton.
y In Madrid police fired into the ali
several times to break up demon
| stration by 1000 Communists before
the, ministry Of war, A few persons
we've injured.
| Vienna saw great military show
N strength by the new dictatorial
IDollfuss regime. Streets were strung
with barbed wire and machine guns
were mounted at strategic points
Some 200 persons we're arrested.
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