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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-19

It was regarded as significant that
President Roosevelt continues to ham,
mer away at his announced purpose
of forcing down rates he considers
too high by developing public power
projects to serve as 'yardStick.'
Visiting Tupelo, Miss, the first COM
munity to buy power from the Ten
nessee Valley authority, the presi-
dent quoted figures Sunday to show
that rates had been cut and that
consumption Of power had jumped
1875 per cent. His statement that
what you are doing here is going t.
be copied In every state Of the Union
before we are through" was an In
oication to many observers that he
plans no halt in his "yardstick" pc.
Icy.
iva Has Strong Foes
The IVA has it's vigorous foes. II
has been criticized recently by Goa
operators, who call It an encroach-
ment on business fields and insist
that coal can produce electricity
cheaper than water power.
OF critics. the president nad tnls
to say:
I'VE recognize that there will be q
certain amount of-what shall say
rugged opposition to this develop.
ment, but I think, We recognize alse
that the opposition is fading as the
weeks and months go by, fading II
the light Of practical experience"
Meanwhile, the National Association
of Manufacturers. pursuing the line
Of cooperation toward recovery re.
Gently emphasized In meetings here
issued a summons for a congress Of
American industry" In New York Dec
5 and 6.
The Chamber of Commerce Of thu
United States and the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor still are far from
seeing eye to eye on the way to IN.
duce recovery. The chamber de.
nounced the A. F. Of L. plan for Z
statutory 30-horr week.
The A. F. Of L. report saw bushes.
in a better position Ito 60 ahead
than last year.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-19

Los Angeles, Nov. 1o.-R-
One Of the strangest mysteries Of
the Galapagos Islands at the
equator in. the Pacific 500 miles
off Ecuador has resulted from the
finding Of two bodies on one OF
the most lonely and waterless
islands.
Death came from thirst. . lin
gering terrible death, weeks be.
fore the remains were found Sat-
urday by the Tuna clipper, Santa
Amaro.
The mystery Is:
Were these the bodies Of Arth-
ur Whitman. German adventur-
or, father Of the first white child
born on the old Convict Island,
and his wife Margaret?
Whitman was the only man
eknown here to be Of rather large
stature and slightly bald, who liv-
ed on Charles Island. and his wife
the only woman known to have
baby clothes.
or, were the bodies those Of the
strange Baroness Elotse Bousquet
ee Wagner. reputedly Of Vienna,
= years Of age. and one Of her
companions, Alfred Rudolph
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-19
MUNICIPALITIES
sought IN TEXAS
Fear for Safety Of Unidentified
Victim az Two Youths
Evade Arrest

Waco. Tex. Nov. 19.-R}-Fear for
the safety Of one kidnap victim was
expressed Monday as posses pressed
q search for two youths who sought
to evade arrest on q murder charge
by abducting five persons and drtv-
ing away In their motor cars.
The two, Joe Averett, %, and Roy
Curry, 26, both Of Hubbard, Texas.
have evaded capture since Saturday
night when James Malcolm Stewart,
IS, Of Katy, was found dead near
here with two bullet wounds In his
head.
The first four persons abducted BY
the pair were released unframed. but
the fifth, an unidentified man, has
not been found, officers said.
Officers expressed the belief that
Stewart, q former Hollywood drama
tic student, had been killed while re-
sisting an attempt 70 steal his motor
car.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-19
THREAT Of WINTER
HOVERS over STATE
Mist Makes Driving Conditions
Hazardous; Colder Wealth
or Forecast

The threat OF ice-oovered highways
hovered over portions of North Da-
kota Monday, as a fine, misty rain
drizzled down from leaden skies.
A forecast Of colder weather Mon
day night and snow Tuesday VA
made by the weather bureau here.
Some motorists driving into Bis
marck during the night reported the
highways covered with = coating d
ice, making driving hazardous.
Williston was the coolest spot re-
porting. with 4 low Of 70 degrees
above zero, but no rain. Devils Lake
received the greatest amount Of rain
reporting IL riches. In three other
spots, rain was reported.
At Fargo, .O6 inches fell: 90 inches
at Bismarck, and q trace at James
town, where fog enveloped the city
Tho ta1a1n slhAUAd.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-19
KIDNAPPED Child IS
RETURNED TO HOME
20 Year : Old Girl Abducto
Held. Says She Meant to
Bring Boy Back

Lexington, KY, Nov. l9.-tF)-Kid-
mapped four-year old Jackie Gibbons
was restored to his parents here
Monday by Detective Sergeant Claude
Embry, who brought him from
Chattanooga, Tenn, where he had
been taken by Bernice Givens, 90
year old hitch-hiker.
The girl is held in Chattanooga for
Kentucky authorities.
iii, daddy! Did you come down TO
meet me?" shouted Jackie as he ran
down the station platform toward his
father, John Lawrence Gibbons, Nor
thern States Contracting company
employee.
His mother almost sobbed as she
came up.
Missing since last Thursday after
noon, he was found Sunday. The
Owens girl admitted he accompanied
her from Lexington to Tennessee. She
claimed she intended ito take him
back home after q while"
The Givens girl has waived extra
dition. She will be brought back to
Lexington Immediately, probably Mon
day.
The state kidnapping law under
which the girl is accused imposes
from one to three years in prison.
Police Judge Claude r. Burton has
set preliminary hearing for Tuesday.
He said today that he viii either hold
the girl to the grand jury which meets
ir January, or order q sanity hear
ing.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-19
AAA APPEALS FOR
SUPPORT OF 1885
CORN-HOC PROGRAM
Next Years Plan Represents
Considerable Relaxation
in Campaign
ASKS CUT OF 10 PER CENT
Permits Farmers TO Rent Fields
for Government, Grow
Any Other Crop
ASKS CUT OF 10 PER CENT

Warrington, Nov. 1o.-(ReThe
AAA appealed to farmers Monday to
support the 1885 corn-hog program,
which represents . considerable re-
Taxation Of the drive for drastic
slashes in output.
Secretary Wallace announced that
next years acreage adjustment con-
tracts would call for Q 10 per cent
reduction each In corn acreage and
hog numbers from the 1932-33 aver
ages. Cuts Of 20 to 80 per cent in
corn acreage and Is per cent in hogs
were required this year,
Easing up the program further,
the AAA will permit farmers to rent
any part Of their corn fields to the
government, purchase feeder pigs
from other contract signers, and grow
any crop except corn on rented
acres.
sisners may reduce acreage up to
30 per cent II they choose and re-
ceive additional benefit payments.
Benefit payments for acreage taken
out Of production viii be increased
from 80 to IS cents q bashel. Farm
ers will be allowed $l5 head for the
number Of hogs reduced from the
base period average. Under the 1884
contract they were paid IS head
for the number remaining after the
Is per cent reduction was made.
TIA AAA will begin disbursement
Of the second installment Of the 1894
corn-hog payments, totaling about
90, OOO, 900, within q few days.
Totals by states Of first payments
to date include: Minnesota $685.
0e5: Montana $224,189; North Dakota
81, 261, 405; South Dakota $3.50 ,367.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-19
NEGROES HELD FOR
| Staying OF GIRLS
Bodies Found in Woods After
Visit to Farm of Alleged
Murderers

Clifton Forge, Va. Nov. lo.-(R-
The bodies of two young girls, their
skulls crushed by heavy blows, were
found in woods near here early Mon
day morning by q searching party
and shortly afterwards authorities
arrested three negroes and rushed
them to Roanoke for safe keeping.
The two white children, Alice B.
Hill, Is, and Ellen Hill, 9, had been
missing since Sunday night after they
had visited the farm on which one Of
the arrested negroes lived.
The negroes arrested were Philip
Jones, Is; Chester Smith, Jr, about
%, and Jones' wife. Commonwealth
Attorney M. j. Putnam stated that
he had a confession from Jones that
he killed the children, and that in
the alleged confession Jones sought
to implicate Smith. Smith, however
denied any part in the crime.
Coroner Louis A. Houff said the
girls, children Of Mr.. and Mrs. E. r
Hill Of Clifton Forge. died Of frac-
tured skulls. He said the older girl
had been assaulted.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-19
Give Demonstrations
For County Teachers

Miss Olga Peterson, critic Of the
Minot Teachers college high school
department, assisted Miss Marie HUI
Der, county superintendent Of schools
in conducting -four teacher demon
stration meetings last week In Bur
leigh county rural schools. Miss
Peterson returned to Minot Sunday
morning.
Eighty-five teachers attended the
meetings which were held on Tuesday
at the Regain school taught by L. B
Cox, on Wednesday at the Arnold
school taught by Miss Gladys Han
son, on Thursday at Lyman No. 2 Of
which Edward Banttari is instructor
and on Friday at Boyd No. where
Miss Catherine Mclean teaches.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-19
j. S. WAR AGAINST
WAR URGED BY NYE
Senator Sees Tremendous Ad-
mission Is Profit Ban Sug.
gestion by du Pont

Philadelphia, Nov. ls.-Resen.
ator Gerald p. Nye, chairman Of
the senate munitions investigating
committee, Sunday night urged Is
1.-THE greatest possible service to man.
kind" complete destruction Of the
profit motive In the manufacture Of
munitionA
Picturing the world on an insane
course, or arming for war, with NUM-
lions manufacturers even bribing
public officials In selling their goods,
he appealed to an overflow meeting
at the Friends meeting house for
support Of government monopoly Of
munitions manufacture.
Every American. he said, can help
erase 70 thought which is often heard
that maybe what America needs to
get back On its feet Is another lit
tie war;"
The senator referred briefly to q
letter sent to him by Lammot du
Pont, president Of e. l. du Pont de
Nemours q Co., and made public BY
that company Sunday night.
Believe me-" he said, the du
Points are not In favor Of . govern
ment monopoly. but they do admit
that there Is something very rotten
In the State Of Denmark"
Tremendous Admission
After the meeting his only addi-
ton was that 1T seems to me their
letter IL 4 tremendous admission on
their part" The du Pont letter pro-
posed elimination Of huge wartime
profits and government supervision
Of sale Of munitions q: Ill times.
Condemning munitions manufac-
turers Is the worst band Of racket
GERS In the history Of the world,
Nye said the work Of his committee
already has uncovered 80 sordid =
tale marvel the people aren't up IN
arms against the arms makers"
Nations, he said. "are moved Ike
checkers on Z checkerboard BY arms
makers, Who" he asserted, roll up
huge profits Tor themselves. capital
isine on the fear they create through
lcbbies on which they spent fortunes,
bribery Of public officers and large
commissions to those who stand close
to officials" who purchase war ma
terial.
the sod part about this" he went
on, 'is that the partners Of the
munitions manufacturers are their
governments.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-19
Local Folk Suffer
Series of Mishaps

State Engineer r. e. Kennedy,
who suffered q broken vertebra
in an automobile accident last
August 81, hopes he Is through
having motoring mishaps.
Saturday night as he was driv-
ing with his wife on Highway
No. % near New England, he
suddenly saw q horse in the
road. It had been struck by q
preceding motor car and was sit
ting in the road. unable to get
up. In trying to avoid hitting
the horse, Kennedy turned his
car into the ditch. where 1t turned
over and came to rest upside
down. Mrs. Kennedy suffered
severe cuts and bruises but the
state engineer, his body protected
by . heavy plaster cast which he
has been wearing because Of his
previous injury. escaped UNI
scathed.
Finding their car would still
run, they started for Bismarck
Sunday morning, driving slowly
because it was in bad condition.
Eighteen miles west Of Mandan
the car slowly slowed around,
headed into the ditch and again
turned over, q good deal like
slow motion picture" Kennedy
said. He and his wife crawled
out the same door from which
they had escaped the night be-
fore but neither suffered addi-
tional injury.
Kennedy had thought the car
became unamanageable because
Of . crack In the frame giving
way, but investigation showed 1t
was due to flat tire and the
slippery road.
The Kennedys were brought
home by . passing motorist and
wrecker was sent on. for the
damaged automobile.
It was one Of numerous calls
received by Bismarck garages.
many cars having gone into
bitches because Of the slippery
pavement.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-19
Bismarck MasOns Will
Hold Annual Election

New officers OF the Bismarck lodge.
No. S, A. F. and A. NJ, are to be
elected and work for the third Ma
sonic degree will be given two candi-
dates at the meeting which opened
at 4:3O p. M, Monday afternoon.
Lunch will be served during the
evening and q social hour will follow
the annual election Of officers. Out
Of town Masons visiting in Bismarck
have been invited to attend the cere-
monies.
Present officers Of the local order
are James H. Wiley, worshipful mas
ter: Lester 8. Diehl, senior warden;
Leslie A. French. junior warden: Mar
vim s. Ness. secretary: H. s. Lobach,
treasurer; Lorenzo Belk, senior dea-
con; Henry Groves, junior deacon;
T. w. Settee. senior steward; Otto
Convert, junior steward; George s.
Register, tyler. and Tom Hall, Ma
sonic officer. A. p. Lenhart's term as
trustee expires this year. Other trus-
tees are George Dullam and Arthur
j. Arnot.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-19
CONSOLIDATE four
SUITS CHALLENGING
CONSYIYU7|ONAu|TY
Action Is Taken at Request Of
Government; Hearings
Set for Jan. 8
100 BILLIONS AFFECTED
Attorney General Cummings to
Personally Argue Legal
ity Of Action
100 BILLIONS AFFECTED

washington. Nov l9.-(F-To has
ten q final decision on legislation es-
timated to affect Is much rs $780,
600 .0o0, 900, the supreme court Mon
day consolidated four cases challeng-
ing the abrogation Of gold clauses In
contracts and set them for hearing
on Jan. 8.
This action was taken at the re-
quest Of James Crawford Biggs, the
U. s. solicitor general.
SO important does the government
consider the litigation that Attorney
General Cummings personally VIII
argue the cases before the supreme
court.
The legislation, passed June 5, 1888
set aside the provision In contracts
that payments must be made In gold
The suits were based on the con-
tention that after devaluation Of the
dollar payments would BE- made In
currency worth only 5906 per cent
as much Is before.
The government contends that the
purchasing power Of the currency did
not depreciate nearly Is much and
that the welfare Of the many instead
Of the few should control.
One Of the cases grew out Of the
reorganization Of the Missouri Pacific
railroad. Another Is between Nor
man G. Norman Of New York and th<
Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
The other two were brought against
the United States by John N. Perry
and +. Eugene Nortz, both Of New
York.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-19
Of Two Bodies on Lonely
South Sea Isle Creates Mystery
Lorenz Of Paris and Vienna or
Robert Philipson, her mate?

Lorenz Of Paris and Vienna or
Robert Philipson. her mate?
That they could be those Of DR..
Friedrich Ritter and Frau Dore
strauch Koerwien Is not deemed
in possible by scientists who know
the Islanders. The two left their
marital mates In Berlin In the
hope Of establishing . Garden Of
Eden.
Or they may be Q shipwrecked
couple, not known In the islands.
Identification Of the bodies, It
was reported by radio. was almost
impossible. and the state in
which they were found cast doubt
about the first report that they
appeared to be that Of q man
and q woman.
Captain Manuel Rodriguez,
skipper Of the Santa Amari, first
reported the smaller body seemed
to be that OF q woman. slight and
blonde. The larger, slightly bald
body was that Of q man. It de-
veloped later that the strange
circumstance OF q bundle Of baby
clothes nearby led to his belief
the smaller body was that Of .
woman.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-19
ARGENTINA GUARDS
AGAINST CONFLICT
With CHACO FOES
Bolivian and Paraguayan
Troops Said 'PeriIously'
Close on Border

Buenos Aires, Nov. 10.-(F>-Argen-
tina tripled its armed forces on the
Chaco frontier Monday, upon reports
that embattled Paraguayan and b.
livian troops were "perilously" close
to her border.
General Andres Sabalain left by
airplane for Las Lomitas to study the
frontier situation and to take charge
of troops which. with reinforcements
moving to the border, will total 5000
Hitherto only 1900 men had been at
Las Lomitas.
An airplane squadron was included
in the reinforcements sent garrisons
at Las Lomitas and the territory OF
Normasa. The soldiers were ordered
to disarm and intern any foreign
soldier who enters Argentina.
The government instructed minis
ters at La Paz and Asuncion to re-
mind Bolivia and Paraguay that Ar
gentina Is strictly neutral and to ask
precautions against permitting forces
to cross into Argentine territory.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-19
PRESIDENT HINTS
CONTINUED FIGHT
FOR CHEAP POWER
Speech on IVA Indicates Ad-
ministration Plan to Ex.
pand Program
/ UTILITY FOES ORGANIZE
c. Of c. and A. +. Of L. Still in
Conflict Over Way to
induce Recovery
/ UTILITY FOES ORGANIZE

Washington, Nov. 19.-(P)-Though
peace pacts" between government
and business are becoming the vogue
the Roosevelt administration still
shook its big "yardstick" at giant pow
er Monday.
An unofficial source disclosed thai
spokesman for electric utilities have
been coming-like bankers and other
leading business men-to swap view
points with the administration
Whether these discussions, described
rs touching on general power policies
got to the point Of suggesting another
treaty Of cooperation was not dis
closed.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-19
ImmuniZati0n Clinic
Open Through Friday

Immunization against diphtheria
and smallpox Of Bismarck children,
whose parents are on relief or whose
parents cannot afford to pay for the
services, was going forward rapidly
Monday. Over 100 had been inoc-
ulated ct noon.
Tho immunixation clinic which
opened Monday ct the World War
Memorial building win remain open
through Friday. Doctors are on
hand TO perform the inoculationa
from . Z n. !,ntii ! p. H.. each day.
Dr. 4. n. Flsher. city health Off.
Ger and Dr.. Maysil n. williams, state
health officer, are In charge Of the
clinics. Authorization for the free
service may be secured from Miss
Grace Gardening. county FERA
director.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-19
Display Your Flag
Is Mayors Request

Request that Bismarck merchants
display their flags Tuesday from .
a. m. to p. m. in honor Of the visit
here by James e. Van Zandt, ma
tional commander Of the Veterans Of
Foreign Wars, was made Monday by
Mayor "A. p. Lenhart.
Thus the town will take on q gala
appearance for the day which will be
marked with numerous activities In
which Van Zandt will be the leading
figure.
These include a reception and din
ner at the Grand Pacific hotel be-
ginning at $50 p. m. Tuesday. pub
lie address at 8 p. m. in the city audi
forum, a radio speech later in the
evening and a breakfast at the state
capitol building Wednesday morning.
Van Zandt also is scheduled to ad-
dress the regular meeting of the XII
wants club Tuesday noon.
Monday the veterans leader was at
Fargo and Wednesday he will SO
from here to Minot.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-19
WOODWORK WOMAN
KILLED IN MISHAP
Sjx.Year.Old Runs Mile TO Sum.
mon Aid for Victim Crush.
Cd by Vehicle

jamestown, N. D., Nov. lo.-(R-
Miss Helen Fisher, Is, Of near Wood
worth, was killed Sunday when the
automobile she was driving ran into
. ditch and overturned. Her chest
was crushed.
Miss Fisher was accompanied By
her six-year-old nephew, who -.
ceived only . few scratches. He ran
to the John DECIDE farm . mile from
the scene Of the mishap and sum-
moned help. Miss FisherS death.
however, was instant.
z. p. Willett, Stutsman county cor.
oner, said no inquest win b held.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-19
Roosevelt Arrives
At Warm Springs

Warm Springs, Ca, Nov. 19.-tR
President Roosevelt, with the
pronouncement that all is we'll"
and that the New Deal is progress
ing in its present program, partic-
ularly for cheaper power. settled
down at his "other home" Monday
for a Thanksgiving visit.
He reached this settlement, which
he has fostered, after 10 o'clock
(CsT) Sunday night but the folk
were out to greet him as they were
out at every turn throughout hts
three-day trip through the south.
For the next two weeks the White
House will be this tiny, white COT
tage high up among the pine trees
on a hill overlooking three states
Georgia, Alabama and Florida.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-19
Z Held in $780, 900
Auto Parts Robbery

Flint, Mich, Nov. l9.-(R)-Theft
from two General Motors Corporation
plants here Of more than 500, 900 ia
automobile parts and raw materials
Was under investigation Monday -
authorities held seven men In custody,
four booked on specific charges and
three for questioning.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-19
Two Valley City Men
Injured in Accident

Valley City. N. D.. Nov. lo.-tR-
Arthur Cross Of Valley City and Ed.
ward Krieg Of Fergus Falls are re-
covering here from injuries received
Sunday when their car overturned
five miles east Of here.
Mary 6trissle, Fergus Falls, the
driver, received slight scratches.
Authorities Monday said Strissle
apparently became panic stricken fol-
lowing the mishAp and jumped on
passing truck bound for Fargo. His
identity became known Monday.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-19
Pioneer Of Morton
County Dies Sunday

Mrs.. Richard aeiferth. 65, who had
resided In Morton county for nearly
% years, died Sunday. She came
from Germany In 1905. settling In
Morton county.
She leaves her husband and DIX
childyen. Funeral services will be held
Wednesday Afternoon ct Judson.