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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-19
Machine Guns Guard
Scion of Rockefeller

Fort Worth, Tex, Aug. l9.-(P-
Winthrop Rockefeller, scion Of wealth,
dined with a Yale classmate here Fri
day night while an armed bodyguard
remained nearby.
The guard had accompanied the 81
year-old son of John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., to Fort Worth from Houston, Tex,
where Rockefeller had spent three
weeks studying the oil industry. He
was with young Rockefeller when he
departed at midnight by airplane to
return to his New York home. And
In making the trip from the airport
to the home of his friend, w. H. Stay,
Jr., and returning to the airport, two
federal agents, with pistols and a SUBJ
machine gun, augmented the body
guard. The federal men also remain
ed on guard outside the home during
dinner.
Young Rockefeller refused to an
swer any questions relative to the
presence of the guards and smiled
when asked whether he feared kid
napers.
The federal men said they were
"just riding around"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-19
MINNESOTA BANDIT
IS CAPTURED ALIVE
Youth Is Taken in Haymow is
Miles from Scene Of Fatal
Robbery Effort

st. Paul, Aug. 19-(R-Contrary
to his VOW that he never would be
taken alive, q 2l-year-old farm youth,
sought as the accomplice Of q CO.
year-old farmer slain In the holdup
Of the First National Bank OF STAR
buck Thursday, was nabbed at Z q. m.
Saturday In the haymow Of a barn
is miles from the scene Of the rob-
berry.
Melvin 6. Passolt, superintendent
OF the state bureau Of criminal ap.
prehension, said Operatives Herman
Vail and Ira Mallette informed him
the youth, Clifford Anderson, had
confessed his part In the holdup.
The $1,000 loot was found in the
pockets OF John Kjornes. farmer near
Benson. shot and killed by Rudy
Hanson, cafe proprietor, as he emery
ed from the bank.
Shoot me If you want to-" Ander-
son challenged possemen as they sur
prised him In barn on q relatives
farm Is miles south Of Starbuck.
A few minutes after the robbery
ne appeared at the Kjornes farm
home, tricked 15-year-old Wilfred
Kjornes, son Of the dead man, into
entering his car and went into hid
ing with him. The boy did not know
for some hours that the bank had
been robbed and his father killed.
About IL hours afterward Wilfred
was released near his home.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-19
Bismarck Woman Wins
Floral Show HOnOrs

Mandan, N. D., Aug. 19.-(P)-Stu-
art Farmer of Mandan was awarded
the American Gladiolus society gold
medal for winning the sweepstakes
In the annual North Dakota gladiolus
show conducted here by the Mis-
souri, Slope Gladiolus society, it was
announced Saturday. The event
closes Saturday night.
Farmer scored total of SO points
to win the sweepstakes. r. R. Lutz,
Mandan, with 81 points, was awarded
the national groups silver medal, and
Mrs. Peter Reid, Bismarck, took the
bronze medal with 30 points.
Single spike entries at the show
ranked in a class with the national
show entries, Judge John H. Lewis
of Minot, president of the American
Gladiolus society, said In an address
at a banquet for flower growers Fri
day night. Other point winners in
cluded George Eide and Miss Rita
Murphy, both Of Bismarck, 3 each,
and Meyer Cohen, Bismarck, l.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-19
Crooks Fight Back Desperately
In Unending Contest Between
Good and Evil
BANK ROBBERS THWARTED
Guns Blaze il Streets Of Mich
igan Town; Five Are Wound
ed in Battle
by the Associated Press

Society went on Saturday trying to
crowd crime into corner for a
lethal blow-and crime fought back
frantically.
The latest of several recent bat
ties between criminals and the law
spread itself on the records OF the
amending war between good and evil.
Four robbers held up a bank in
Grand Haven, Mich, late Friday. AS
they ran out with $4,000, bank en-
ploye sounded a burglar alarm. Citi-
zens rushed to the bank and there
in the street-battle famed.
Two bank employees, two bystanders
and one robber were wounded. The
robber was captured: his companions
fled, but pursuit forced them to
abandon their motorcar and most of
the $4,000.
Chicago sought to strike terror into
criminals by sentencing 40 to prison
Friday.
Posses with bloodhounds and ma
chine guns searched parts Of Okla
homa, Kansas and Arkansas for
Leroy Wright, who is wanted in the
Urschel KIDNAPPING.
President Roosevelt gave approval
to a crusade against crime" under
the direction of the United States
Flag association.
Suicide In church wrote strange
finish to a Tennessee mountain
tragedy that cost four lives. Glen
Wright, crazed farmer, shot his
father to death near Murfreesboro
siew two neighbors- wounded his
brother and a companion and then
cornered in the church-killed him
self.
Chicago police identified two ex-
convicts-Charles Connors and Basil
Banghart-as the men who slipped
away from 300 police Tuesday when
trap for the kidnapers of John
(Jake the Barber) Factor was sprung
futilely.
Arthur Reese, 80, Of Anoka, Mimi.
seized Friday night by Sheriff E. ]
Welter at La Sale, ILL.,, refused to
answer questions regarding four rifles
a shotgun, two revolvers and $685.
found in his belongings. Two federal
operatives from Chicago were sent tt
question him and to check the money
with serial numbers of ransom paid BY
william Hamm, st. Paul brewer, TO,
his release.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-19
WillistOn Plans to
Organize Consumers

Williston, N. D., Aug. l9.-{R-Ad-
vocates Of lower rates for electricity
in Williston propose the organization
Of an electrical consumers league and
a meeting for that purpose Is to be
held Aug. %.
Petitions to the state railroad COM
mission for a reduction Of rates have
been in circulation and the sponsors
of the movement say they have the
signatures of approximately 40 per
cent Of the power company's patrons
here.
Eugene Bruegger. president OF the
city commission, and commissioners
Oscar Lee and Arthur johnson have
issued statement urging all patrons
to sign the petitions and to work for
lower rates.
The present law, passed at the last
session, requires the state board to
take action on a petition signed by at
least as per cent Of the consumers in
any city or village.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-19
SLEEPING SICKNESS
SPREAD|NGFEAR0F
DEATH IN ST. Louis
Three Fatalities Bring Death
List to Nine; II New Cases
Are Reported

st. Louis, Aug. 19.-(F-The cpl
demic Of sleeping sickness" in St.
Louis and vicinity. which appeared to
have been checked two days ago. has
taken a turn for the worse.
Since July 30, nine persons have
died Of the disease, while approx
mately a hundred others have been
hospitalized.
Three of the victims died Friday.
Seventeen new cases were reported
during the last twenty-four hours. OF
these, II were in the suburban dis
:ricts which have been hit harder
than st. Louis itself.
Meanwhile medical experts study
ing the outbreak of the disease, medi-
caIly known as encephalitis, delved
deeper into their attack against the
epidemic.
To facilitate control of the cpl
demic, the cause of which Is unknown
TO medical science, a permanent met
ropolitan health council has been
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-19
CONSIDER PROPOSAL
TO LIFT Limit ON
GRAIN PRICE Swing
Chicago Board Of Trade Lead
ers Ask Consent to Abandon
Regulation

Chicago. Aug. 19-(FHProposals to
loosen the price swing restrictions on
grain market operations were receiv.
ing consideration from two sources
Saturday-one Of them federal au-
thorities.
President Peter B.. Carey Of the
Chicago Board of Trade said 1t would
probably take action before noon to
modify or eliminate the limitations on
daily fluctuations to S cents bushel
either way for wheat. rye and barley,
4 cents for corn and cents for oats.
Carey said officials of the board be-
Neved that no limit is necessary but
that q 10 cent limit would be more
comparable to the range now placed
on cotton trading.
He explained that no action. would
be taken, however, without the ap-
proval Of the federal department Of
agriculture. A representative Of the
board is now In Washington, presum-
ably to obtain its acquiescence. Sec
rotary Of Agriculture Wallace de-
clined to comment.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-19
Former Devils Lake
Man and Wife Killed

Starkweather. N. D., Aug. l9.-(P-
L. D. Maurer of California left here
Saturday for Long Beach following
word that Mr.. and Mrs. Leon =
Maurer, his son and daughter milan,
both former North Dakotans, had
been killed Friday when their auto
mobile was struck by a street car.
Leon is a son of L. D. Maurer, pio-
neer Ramsey county business man,
who moved to California and had re-
turned for visit.
Leon was born here in 1890 and at
tended Starkweather schools and the
University of North Dakota. He was
employed with a grain company IN
Devils Lake and later conducted a
hardware business before moving to
Long Beach in 1922. He was married
in 1916 to Edith Kerr Of Fargo, in
structor in the Starkweather schools.
They leave two sons, Leonard, 16,
and Donald, "a.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-19
Challenge Legality
OF Moratorium Order

Fargo, N. D., Aug. 19.-{R-Ques-
ton as to the constitutionaity Of Gov
ernor Langer's moratorium on mort
gage foreclosures was raised In Cass
county district court Friday with the
right Of the mortgage to take pos
session Of q Fargo home the issue at
stake.
A lumber company contends the
moratorium is unconstitutional.
The defense said the home owners
are ready to refinance the mortgage
through the Home Owners Loan cor
poration, but that consent Of the
mortgage is necessary and that has
been refused.
Judge M. J. Englert of Valley City
Is sitting In the case.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-19
Miss0urians Voting
On Repeal Question

st. Louis. Aug. 19.-(P)-Missouri
where a number of the worlds larg-
est breweries are located, voted Sat-
urday in a referendum on repeal of
the 18th amendment.
The question doesn't seem to be
whether the "show-me" state will join
the twenty-one others which already
have approved repeal, but just how
dig a majority the vets will pile up in
selecting delegates to state conven-
ton in jefferson City. Aug. 20.
Although it was freely predicted
that the balloting would be light. a
forecast throughout the state Of fair
weather, with moderate temperatures
was an aid, at least, IN getting cut the
voters.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-19
Complete Two Dams
In Burleigh County

Two dams have been completed on
Burnt creek in Burleigh county by the
Citizens Conservation Corps and an
ether is partially completed on Apple
creek east Of Fort Lincoln. Four adj
citional projects will be begun when
easements to property are secured
along Apple creek.
Consideration Of a major project at
the lower end Of Apple creek has been
made by engineers with the idea Of
creating a lake which would back up
the water In the creek for q consider
able distance, especially In the spring
Of the year. However, the govern
ment requires that easements be Sc
cured on all property that might be
flooded and there is no prospect at
present that this can be done.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-19
BLUE EAGLE E|VuIS
COO AS INDUSTRIAL
FIGHTS ARE ENDED
Several Eastern Strikes Adjust
ed But New Ones Develop
In Their Places

The blue eagle emitted something
like a COO Saturday as 1t saw strikes
giving way to q prospect Of industrial
peace.
Grover A. Whalen, NRA mediator
in New York, announced at dawn.
after an all-night session, that an
agreement had been reached in the
strike Of 10000 dressmakers in the
Metropolitan area and that the work
ers would return to their jobs next
week.
Points In the agreement included
the right of collective bargaining, a
35-hour week and minimum wage
scales representing in general a
compromise between union demands
and employer offers.
Pear-picking was going on again in
the Santa Clara valley, California,
after a governors mediator an
nounced that strike had been set
tied with promise Of higher wages.
Western heads Of the NRA cam
paign urged that 5000 film workers,
on strike in Hollywood, be put back
to work and that difficulties be .arbi-
trated later by the NRA labor board.
Agreements to end the walkout OF
employees Of two Pottsville, Pa, shirt
firms were announced Friday night
in Washington.
Other labor-capital difficulties had
not yet yielded to settlement, how
ever. Ten thousand midwest gar
ment workers were called to strike
Fifteen hundred miners in North
Alabama decided to strike Saturday
Seven hundred textile workers were
idle at Newberry, 8. c., after a walk
out Of weavers.
Three men were hurt in q fight
between leather workers and picket.
ers at Wilmington, Del. Six hundred
employees Of q biscuit firm In Phila-
delphia walked out, while in Cam
den, N. j.. seven women, who were
arrested while picketing tailor shops
were sentenced to Jail.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-19
Shields Is Winner
OF Tennis Tourney

Newport. r. l., Aug. l9.-(R)-Frank
x. Shields, rangy New Yorker who
has dominated the recent eastern
grass tennis fixtures. today gained the
historic Newport Casino champion
ship with q sensational comeback
drive that overwhelmed Wilmer ALI
son of Austin, Tex, by l-6, 1l-9, 6-l,
6-3 margin.
Ellsworth Vines and Keith Gledhill,
national champions, defending their
tennis title, gained the final round
for the third straight year by defeat
ing Gregory Mangin, Newark, N. j.,
and Berkeley Bell, New York. Ga, So,
60, 60.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-19
Adopt Code for Steel Mills
Six Dead Ten Injured in Notorious Misl1ap
Society Continues
War on Criminals
Mahatma Disdains
Offer of British

Poona, India, Aug. 19.-(Fe,
The Mahatma Gandhi began the
fourth day Of his fast unto
death" Saturday, disdaining the
offer Of the British government
to free him from prison If he
would quit his civil disobedience
campaign.
Official doctors watched the
health Of the mahatma but issued
no statement on his condition.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-19
Robertson Off Board
OF Sales Tax League

Otto Bauer OF. the Bingenheimer
Mercantile Co., Of Mandan has. sue
ceeded G. r. Robertson, who has re-
signed as q member Of the board OF
directors Of the State Protective
League, the organization opposed to
the adoption Of the sales tax law.
Robertson was appointed q member
Of the board Of directors together
with T. H. Thoreson Of Grand Forks
and George Hoenck Of Fargo.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-19
Render Appointed As
County Labor Chief

Walter Renden, assistant manager
of the North Dakota Power and Light
company here, has been appointed
volunteer unemployment director for
Burleigh county under ]. G. Taylor,
state director, and has established an
office in the city auditorium for the
purpose Of listing unemployed persons.
The aim is to list those who need jobs
but who are not on public relief rolls.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-19
CUBA QUIE7S DOWN
AS new PRESIDENT
ANNOUNCES POLICY
Four Major Items Are Listed in
New Program for Island
Republic
HARBOR STRIKE UNSOLVED
Threats of Vengeance Against
Machadistas Worry New
Administration

Havana, Aug l9.-(P)-Cuba looked
back Saturday on an eventful week
that saw the overthrow of one regime
and the establishment Of another, and
had confidence in the new order.
It was week OF revolution against
Gerardo Machado and Of strikes,
bloodshed, retaliation. hunger. and
tumult, but provisional president Car
los Manuel de Cespedes called it one
Of happy success"
II am satisfied with the progress
Of the matters of great import that
have been confided to me-" he said,
referring to the reorganization Of the
government, conversations with Unit
ed States Ambassador Welles about
new financial arrangements, the gen.
eral restoration of order and the par
tial settlement Of widespread strikes.
The young administration had sew
eral irksome problems on its hands,
however. A harbor strike, threats Of
vengeance against Machadistas, and
Communist agitation, particularly In
Santiago, were among them.
De Cespedes has promised to out
line soon his governments financial
and economic program.
Four-P Point Program
It was predicted his platform would
have four main points:
Closer financial and economic CO.
operation with the United States;
Greater and more sympathetic at
tention to the problems of laborers
who, with the general strike, proved
to be an important force in pushing
Machado out.
A complete cleanup Of public life
and politics, and the vigorous prosecu.
ton of all miscreants under Machado;
A systematic reform OF the Cubar
political system.
It was freely predicted that efforts
would be made to extradite the form.
er president, who flew to the BAHIA.
mas, and others Of his followers who
fled to foreign lands.
Army officers and members Of the
A B c secret society, digging In horse
stalls in Atares Fortress, have founc
the bodies of four men, their skulls
crushed. Two of them had been miss
ing about year. Political prisoner
were confined at the fortress during
the Machado administration.
The bodies were identified as those
Of Cuban Negro labor leader; %.
year-old student, man who had beer
arrested for activities against the gov.
eminent, and another who had beer
arrested for plotting to kill Machado
In cells at Principe prison Satur.
day were more than 40 men accused
of having been members of the form.
er presidents strong arm squad. Sew.
eral high army officers were under
arrest at Cabana fortress.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-19
BOWMAN MAN INJURED

Bowman, N. D., Aug. 19.-FTed
Hager suffered several broken ribs
and his face was badly cut when his
car collided with one driven by a
Baker, Mont, man six miles south Of
here. Before the wreckage of the two
cars could be cleared away 1t was
struck by third car, but no one was
injured IN the second accident The
accident occurred at the top Of . hill.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-19
British Star Rallies
To Defeat Californian

Forest Hills, N. Y, Aug. l9.-P)-
Staging an amazing rally after los
ing the first set and three times hav-
ing match point against her In the
final set, blonde Betty Nuthall came
back to defeat Alice Marble Of San
Francisco Saturday in the quarter
finals OF the women's national tennis
tournament, 6-8, go, rs.
BY her victory, Miss Nuthall quail
fled to meet Mrs. Helen Wills Moody
in q semi final bout Sunday. Mrs.
Moody defeated Mary Heeley of Eng
land.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-19
TRUCK RUNS AWAY
AFTER COLLISION
ON INDIANA ROAD
One Side Torn Off Makeshift
Conveyance Bringing Young
Folks from Fair
DEAD STREWN ON HIGHWAY
Officials Launch Investigation
To Determine Identity
Of CuIprit
DEAD STREWN ON HIGHWAY

South Bend, Ind, Aug. 19.-R-
Six residents Of Wakarusa, Ind, and
vicinity were killed and IL ,th>.s
injured, several perhaps fatally, early
Saturday when truck, converted
into a NOTORIOUS in which they were
returning from an outing at the Chi
cago Worlds Fair, was sideswiped
and wrecked by another truck near
here.
One side was torn off the make
shift bus which careened wildly down
the road, strewing its passengers,
dead and injured, for q distance of
several hundred feet before 1t went
into q ditch.
n In Improvised Bus
Twenty-seven young people had
spent all Of Friday at the Century
Of Progress exposition and were
laughing and singing when q heavy
van, numbering along from the op-
posite direction, sideswiped their bus.
Stopping only a moment after the
collision, the van speeded on.
AS the dead and injured were be-
ing removed Sheriff Walter I. Fese-
gan of st. Joseph county and q score
of South Bend policemen and mo-
florists who volunteered their serv-
Ices, took up, pursuit Of the fleeing
truck, which was Chicago bound.
Orvil Metzler, owner OF the canvas
covered farm truck, and his driver,
John Laughlin, said the van bore
down on them at terrific speed and
forced them off the pavement.
The dead:
Mrs. Walter Berkey. %, Walter Ber-
key, Is; Mrs. Mary Huntsberger Wis
Ter, Is; Wayne Pippenger. Is: Gerald
Messmore, II, and Kenneth Lechlit-
ner, is, all of Wakarusa, Ind.
Six Are In Hospital
Six. persons were brought to Ep-
worth hospital here, suffering from
broken bones and skull fractures.
Several others were less seriously hurt.
Leaving Chicago late Friday, the
occupants of the improvised bus, tired
and worn after a day at the fair, were
doing on hard wooden benches when
the large van bore down on them.
The passengers had no warning of
the crash until the left side OF their
vehicle was suddenly ripped away and
they were hurled to the pavement.
Shortly after the crash an alarm
was sent out to all cities and towns
asking authorities to be on the look
out for the hit-run van driver.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-19
Farrell Takes Lead
In Canadian Tourney

Toronto, Aug. 19.-P)-Johnny Far
rell, Mamaroneck, N. Y, stylist at
tempting a comeback this year to the
golf heights, scored a "a Saturday In
the third round of the Canadian open
golf championship to take the lead
among the early finishers with S.
hole total Of 2l6.
Johnny was out In 81 but went one
over perfect figures coming home with
s, 50 for hts par ~. He missed sew
eral short puts for brides.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-19
WILL USE MONKEYS
IN FIGHT ON DISEASE

Washington, Aug. 19.-P)-Surgeon
General Hugh M. Cumming Saturday
authorized DR.. James p. Leake in st.
Louis, to purchase monkeys for lab
oratory experiments in encephalitis
the strange sleeping sickness" which
is prevalent there.
The surgeon general told DR.. Leake
was was dispatches to st. Louis on
the first reports of the outbreak, to
stay there as long as he could be OF
any help to the local health authori-
ties.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-19
COX IN TOP FLIGHT

Bemidji, Mimi, Aug. 19.-P}-Ed.
Cox, Bismarck, N. D.. was matched
against Ernotte Hitler, Crookston,
MINI, In the championship flight Of
the B!rchmont international Coli
tourrsnent which opened hare Sat-
prday.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-19
ALL0T $4,000 FOR
GOVERNMENT FOREST
NURSERY AT MANDAN
Trees from Nine Stations to Be
Used in Erosion Control
Projects

Washington, Aug. 19-(R>-The
public works administration Saturday
announced an allotment Of $3,05205l
for additional work-giving projects In
all sections Of the country.
The projects approved included es-
tablishment Of nine erosion control
nurseries by the department Of agri-
culture at q cost Of $4,000 each at
Mandan, North Dakota; Woodward,
Oklahoma; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Els
berry. Missouri; silverhill, Alabama;
Hays, Kansas; North Platte, Nebras-
ka; Ames, Iowa: and one In North
Carolina, to be located later.
The administration also allotted
$50, 900 to the bureau Of fisheries for
construction Of buildings, ponds and
equipment for fish cultural stations.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-19
HORSE THIEF SENTENCED

HORSE THIEF SENTENCED
Marmarth, N. D., Aug. 19-Belmont
Holbrook, living south Oh Marmarth,
was sentenced to year In the peni-
Tertiary by Judge F. r. Lembke for
attempting to sell stolen horses. He
has begun to serve his sentenoe.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-19
N. d. GIRL HONORED

st. Paul. Aug. 19.-(P)-Three grad
yates Of St. Mary's Hall, Episcopal
school for girls at Faribault, have
been given scholarships at Barnard
college. They include Edith Truax,
Velva, n p.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-19
FOUR PERSONS KILLED
IN TRAIN-AUTO CRASH

-Four persons were killed and two
others critically injured early Satur-
day when an automobile was struck
by passenger train at q street cross
ing.
The Waterman at the crossing said
the occupants of the car failed to heed
his signals and drove directly into the
path of the train.