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FEATUR Picture of Quints on Page 7 Progress of Matanuska Pioneers Jungle Drama of a Lost Nation Eight Pages of Comics in Colors Four Pages of Sports in Green Section The Week in the World of Society The Bride's Diary on Page 5 Pickford's "The Demi-Widow" Vera Sketches a Fall Ensemble "In This Corner" with Cedric Adams Travel and Resort News A Page of Book Reviews Alice and Eleanor Comment, Page 7 Dr. Nelson's Church News, Page 6 In a Thunderstorm With Lynd A Page of Fall and Winter Styles Bob Bums' "Durned If I Didn't" Looking at This Side and That in Your Big Saturday Star Tie Mim AFOIIS MM In Minneapolis, It's Th 6tar 1J 1 ivi JLi The Star's daily average net Ltn.Krf:f:."l 16,539 Vol. 30, No. 142 Largest Daily Home Delivered Circulation in Minneapolis UB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS (INS INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1936 Price Two Youth Jailed for Sending Shirley Kidnaping Threat S. May Sift Peifer Suicide in Jail Cell Ami a a Kims ca mmm Patty Berg Patty Berg of Minneapolis was six up on Anne Harold-son of Duluth at the end of 18 holes of play for the women's state golf championship today.

Patty shot a 41 while Miss Haroldson recorded a 43 on the first nine. Details in Green sports section. If ftj I 1 1 1 'it, v.j"' i i Hitler Opens in Berlin Amid Splendor and Fanfare of Circus SHIRLEY TEMPI.K To her it's a joke Arrest of Ncbraskan Follows Intensive Criminal Investigation by Federal Men North riatte, Sterling Walrod Powell, 16, pleaded today when arraigned before a U. S. commissioner on a charge, of attempting to extort money from Cents in Minneapolis Shirley Temple, child movie star, bond.

OLSON LEAVES BED, CONTINUES TO GAIN Rochester, Minn. Gov. Floyd p. Olson Friday left his hospital bed for tho first time since an operation July 15 when a feeding tube was inserted In his small Intestine. A bulletin from the Mayo clinic said, "The governor had the best night since his return to the hospi-tal.

He was up twice yesterday and walked about the room. He will sit up today. "Improvement continuing, the governor probably will return home next week." FAIR WEATHER TO PREVAIL IN CITY Week-end weather in Minneapolis will be fair, with little change in temperature, the weather bureau predicted today. Occasional rains may fall over northern Minnesota tonight and Sunday, and the weather in North Dakota may be unsettled, but elsewhere in the northwest fair weather will prevail. GREYHOUND LINES SEEK LINE RIGHTS Washington, D.

U.R) The Northland Greyhound Lines, of Chicago, today asked the ICC for authority to acquire motor on- crating rights between Chicago and the Twin Cities that were formerly held by Menzo M. Liederbach, of Minneapolis. ly constant, all but some 8,000 em-ployables were working on WPA or other federal program In June. But if the load increases again and the rise already has start edfederal work programs must be stepped up 40 to 50 per cent in order to approach the federal plan of caring for all able to work. L.

P. Zimmerman, state relief director, estimated there were, or would be by 160,000 persons unemployed in Minnesota. The figure includes those tern, porarily employed on WPA or in industry and some 70,000 border- Relief Cost Continued on Page Two U.S. MAY ENTER PEIFER SUICIDE, POISON INQUIRY Sheriff Tries to Learn How Kidnap Plotter Got Poison DIES IN JAIL CELL Physicians performing the autopsy on the body of Jack Peifer indicated at noon today that their examinations show potassium cyanide as the probable poison used by Peifer to end his life. Sheriff Thomas Gibbons and the Ramsey county coroner's office today pressed an inquiry to learn how John P.

(Jack) Peifer obtained the fatal poison which he swallowed apparently a moment after sentence of 30 years in prison was JACK PEIFER His last picture passed on him for complicity in the William J. Hamm, kidnaping. Meanwhile, U. S. Marshal John J.

Farrell and other federal agen cies studied circumstances of the case, prepared to launch an Inquiry if the facts warrant. Deputy marshals said Judge M. M. Joyce, who sentenced Peifer would be consult- Teifer Continued on Page Two On the Inside Farley quits sanctum for political wars. Lewis, Berry assail Landon's labor policy.

Grainmen oppose trade restrictions. Fifth district NUSJ to picnic. McFarland to be Elks speaker. Closed season on ducks sought. Gamble stores move offices.

Green ready to quit to unite labor. Menace to life seen in river proposal. CHURCH FUNDS SEIZED BY REDS DEFENDING CITY 65 Americans Arrive Safely at Valencia to Board Warship ITALY FLIERS HELD Revolt in Brief By United Press War clouds, billowing out of Spain's civil conflict, cast an ominous pall over the capitals of Europe today. MADRID Rebels and loyalists battle along 100-mile front 11 miles north of Madrid; government sources warn foreign aid to rebels is equivalent to an act of war and may precipitate general European conflict. FRENCH MOROCCO Formal charge of infringing air regulations placed against eight Italian aviators forced down en route to Spanish Morocco with munitions ostensibly destined for use by rebels.

PARIS France, gravely alarmed at international complications arising in the Spanish revolt, falls in effort to effect international neutrality agreement when Great Britain refuses to participate. German aid to Spain's rebels hinted. By International News Service Government shells burst along a 100-mile front north of Madrid today as rebels, reportedly within 11 miles of the capital's gates, and loyalist armies locked in a titanic battle on the plains below the Guadarrama mountains. Spain's leftist government turned upon the churches for financial aid by seizing millions of dollars in long-saved funds. Search Churches The government issued drastic, sweeping orders that all convents and churches suspected of harboring large sums of money be searched immediately, and that all located caches be seized in the name of the loyalists.

Answering an urgent call for re inforcements to defend the capital against rebels closing in from three northern points, 700 soldiers arrived by train from Valencia today. Another Valencia train was expected to bring 200 more tonight. Determined that, even if Madrid falls, the disaster will not prove de cisive, the government opened half a dozen other offensives, attacking Ovideo, Huesca and Saragossa, and Revolt Continued on Page Two THE WEATHER Fair Tonleht and Sunday; Not Much Change in Temperature Temperatures midnight to noon H12 II 2 31 4 51 6 71 8 9101112 Highest year ago, 92; lowest, 72. Complete data, Editorial page. by threatening to kidnap her.

Tho Grant, farm youth was bound to the U. S. district court here for sentence. The boy appeared frightened and unwilling to talk. Ho was kept 'in tho commissioner's office while his father, Carl Powell, at in the Lead Olympics Now Cedric! See WhatYouDid This piece should make Cedrio (In This Corner) Adams' head swell.

In his column Friday, Cedrio suggested his readers give their "kids a treat" by taking them to 5500 First avenue to watch a rat terrier climb a 75-foot pole and jump into a net. Apparently Cedrlc's many readers follow his suggestions religiously for the following report was turned in by police squad 52 after a call at 9 p.m. Friday; "Checked a disturbance on First avenue S. between Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth streets. A dog jumping from a high pole into a net.

Traffic blocked." Beating Was O.K., But Not Force So Seeks Divorce Mrs. Ida C. Munger, 47, appar ently didn't mind being beaten by her husband, Ross R. Munger, 38. But she did object to "unnecessary force," according to a divorce suit filed today in Hennepin county district court.

Munger "pursued a systematic course of cruel and inhuman treat ment," Mrs. Munger alleged. "Upon divers occasions, without cause or justification, he brutally assaulted and beat plaintiff with unnecessary force." In addition, Mrs. Munger charged, her husband frequently was drunk and "broke dishes and household furnishings." SCHMAHL RESTING EASY ON RETURN Julius A. Schmahl, Minnesota secretary of state, was reported resting easily today after his re moval from Duluth to Midway hospital, St.

Paul. Schmahl had been taken serious ly ill at a summer home near Lut-sen on Lake Superior and was re moved to Duluth Thursday. His physician, Dr. Norman P. Bentley, brought him to St.

Paul. SCHALL ESTATE IS STILL UNSOLD Berwyn, Md. Bidders balked at the price set on the estate of Thomas D. Schall, late senator from Minnesota, so it remained unsold today. government proposed to care directly for all employables on WPA projects and other federal programs, leaving unemployables as the sole responsibility of state and local units.

Family Average Drops An average of 45,017 families were on direct reiiei during the first six months of 1935. The aver age for the same period this year was 41,321, a reduction of slightly under 3,700. The 1935 direct reliel average amounted to 41.86 per cent of the total load average of 107,789, while direct relief this year represented 41.58 per cent of a total average load of 99,374. WHOLESALERS NOTE GAINS UP TO 32 PER CENT June Trade in Dry Goods Almost One-third Above 1935 OTHER LINES RISE Wholesale trade in the west cen tral region of the United States, in which Minneapolis is one of the principal distribution centers, showed a remarkable increase durr ing June over June, 1935. This was, disclosed in a report issued jointly today by the U.

bureau of foreign and domestic commerce and tho National Asso cialion of Credit Men. Figures are based on reports from lending wholesale houses. Minnesota, the Dnkotas and Iowa are the principal slates In Minneapolis' trade territory which are inculdod in the west central region. Tho region comprises 11 slates in all. Business Gains Over May Eleven wholesalers of shoes and other footwear reported a 29.8 per cent rise in business during June over June, 1935, and a 2 per cent gain over May, 1936.

in drugs and drug sundries, 20 jobbers in the region reported aggregate sales 22.9 per cent greater for June, 1936, than for the like month of 1935. A 31.8 per cent increase in dry goods sales was reported by 22 wholesalers in this field during June, while there was a rise of nine-tenths of 1 per cent from May to June. Food Sales up 0.7 Per Cent Electrical goods wholesalers said their business was up 28.4 per cent in June over June, 1933. Fifty-nine grocery and food wholesalers reported June sales 6.7 per cent higher than in June, 1935, and 7.4 per cent greater than in May, 1936. There was a 23.7 per cent rise in wholesale hardware sales in comparing the two Junes, 36 jobbers in this field reported, while June, 1936, showed sales 4.6 up from May totals.

Nine wholesalers of paper and similar products reported a 3.9 per cent rise In June over the like month of 1935. CORN PRICES SOAR FOUR-CENT LIMIT Chicago, 111. U.R Corn prices bounded up the limit of 4 cents a bushel to new six-year highs on North American grain exchanges today. The boom in the Chicago market was ignited by reports that as much as 90 per cent of Nebraska corn had been killed by drouth. With the nation's corn crop with ering at the rate of 25,000,000 bushels a day, futures traders were stampeded into a rush of buying.

STORE BURGLARIZED Skylight burglars worked their way into the North Side Hardware 240 W. Broadway avenue, and rifled the cash register of about $25 including $3 in pennies, Andrew Johnson, proprietor, reported to police. cation of improved conditions. There is this difference 50 per cent of old age pension costs are paid by the federal government, while state and local governments must pay all of direct relief costs. In the face of the case load reduction, insignificant though it may be, cost figures become doubly interesting: The total cost of public relief in Minnesota for the first six months of 1935 was That included federal, state and local shares of the cost of direct and work relief.

The cost up to June SO, 1936 was $30,520,653, an Increase of Pearson Plans Full Inquiry in Chiseling Case MRS. ERNEST STEVENS Still on relief Determined to Prosecute Pair if Facts Warrant A. Pearson, city relief super today ordered a full in- vestigation of the Ernest. Stevens family, determined to prosecute both man and wife if the fact justified such action. In municipal court Friday, when Stevens was given two suspended sentences of 90 days each, for beating his wife and failing to support his family of four children, Judge Paul S.

Carroll declared the case was "the worst instance of chiseling I've heard of." Worked, Got Relief It was brought out in court that, although Stevens has been working as an automobile mechanic since February, earning about $90 a month, the family has continued to obtain grocery orders, rent and milk from the relief department, amounting to more than $50 a month. Stevens decided he needed a car last spring, so he bought one on time for $75. According to the finance company, he has been meeting his semi-monthly payments of $5.82 "right on the dot." Mother Got Pension Mrs. Stevens' mother, living with the family at 952 Lowry avenue N.E., has been receiving an old age pension of $23 a month to boost the total family Income to over $160 a month. Several weeks ago Mrs.

Stevens appealed to the county board for Chiseling Continued on Page Two THREE JAILED AS DRUNKEN DRIVERS Three men were held in the city jail today to face traffic court Monday on charges of driving while drunk. The men are: Nels Pierson, 30, 2512 Ninth street William Gerfen, 38, Fort Snelling, and Joe Gunberg, 43, 3437 Thirty-second avenue S. Einar Anderson, 37, 226 Washington avenue and a 17-year-old boy, were charged with hit-run, and Roy C. Olsen, 37, 920 E. Nineteenth street, with careless driving.

approximately 25 per cent, or close to 10,000 cases, were taken from the relief rolls. Simply Transfered Instead of a substantial reduction in direct relief, 10,000 cases simply were transfered to another form of relief, providing no tp' 'V I Asks Sportsmanship Be Cornerstone for Nation Relations Other Details In Sports Section By DAVIS J. WALSH Berlin. Amid scenes reminiscent of the days of Germany's imperial glory, the 1936 Olympic games were launched by Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Premier Hermann Wilhelm Goering today. A plea that Olympic sportsmanship be made the cornerstone of new and bet ter relationships between the na tions of the world was the keynote of the ceremonies, with the fuehrer himself injecting this Uto pian political note into the proceedings.

Hitler spoke upon receiving members of the i nternational Olympic commit- Hitler tee at the chancellory while in the street soutside and all along the 15-mile route to the stadium, the magic of German efficiency and the bubbling enthusiasm reserved for Olympic games alone transformed Berlin into a pageant-setting of magnificence and majesty. "The he said, "gladly and joyfully undertook the task of preparing for this year's contests in a manner that strove to do justice to the grand ideas and traditions of the Olympic games. "She hopes In this way to be instrumental in strengthening the ideal on which the games are based and which brings nations together. Circus Elements Today's ceremonies had all the elements of a three-ring circus, complete with many bands. While Hitler was receiving the commit tee, the Olympic torch, carried from Athens by a relay of 2,000 runners with only one mishap it went out once and had to be re kindled with a match reached the Lustgarten where a crowd of num berless thousands cheered it and Hitler with ear-splitting roars.

Before the ceremony in the chan cellory, the Olympic committee, headed by Count Ballet-Latour, its president, had been received by Goering in the grand hall of the old Imperial museum facing the castle which was once the kaisers' FLIER KILLED IN CRASH Smithton, 111. INS) An unidenti fied flier from Scott field was killed today and Private Jesse Neal was injured in a plane crash near here. works, social security and all the rest. Relief officials are not opti mistic about it. Based on Figures In order to reach some sort of conclusion, The Star sought answers to specific questions.

The answers above are based on a com parison of figures for the first six months of 1935 and a similar period this year. During the first half of 1935, the federal government was making di rect contributions to the states, under the FERA and SERA programs. Beginning in September, the WPA program was substituted, reaching its peak in January, 1936. Under this program, the federal tempted to arrange for a $1,000 Culminating a remarkable crim inal investigation, G-men took young rowell into custody at Grant, where his father Is a farmer, yesterday. Powell admitted writing George Temple, Shirley's father, that unless he paid $25,000 his daughter would be kidnaped.

Insists It Was Joke Powell, the G-men said, insisted ho wrote the letter as a joke. A letter arrived at Shirley's Hol lywood studio around May 10 ad dressed to her father. It did not come to the attention of a respons ible person until May 18 and the envelope had been thrown away. Letter Analyzed The letter told Temple to drop $25,000 from an airplane near Grant on May 15. It designated the field Into which the money was to be dropped, and said that if he failed to comply his daughter would be kidnaped.

The letter was sent to the feder al department of justice office in Los Angeles, which sent it to Washington, where it was minutely analyzed. Check of paper mills established that paper of the sort used in the note had been sold in only two towns in Nebraska, one of which was Grant. Was Bright Boy A week ago a G-man arrived in Grant, questioned the merchant who had sold the paper and finally came to Powell. The youth never had been In trouble. He was a high school junior, was considered a bright and a good boy.

MINNESOTA RELIEF COST INCREASES DESPITE REDUCTION IN CASES Purpose of Article Division of responsibility for relief work relief, direct relief, old age pensions has given rise to confusion concerning both the whole relief picture and the component details of the picture. In this story Mr. Mills attempts to clarify tlmt picture. The sole purpose of his article is to place accurate information in the hands of Star readers. By LEWIS C.

MILLS Public relief in Minnesota cost more during the first half of 1936 than the first half of 193S. The cost increased despite an 8 per cent reduction In the number of relief cases. A sharp upturn caused by the drouth this year may wipe out the slight gains that have been made In the number of people on relief. In the face of widespread reports of increased business and industrial activity, the pacts ol relief are startling disheartening. Analysis of the relief situation involves unraveling a tangle with direct relief, works progress, public $1,034,044, or 3.5 per cent.

For the half-year period in 1935, the federal government contributed $23,806,066. For the same period this year, federal contributions totaled a reduction of $207,401. Meanwhile, state contributions increased from $2,185,668 for the first six months of 1935 to $3,406,342 this year, a difference of $1,220,674, or 51 per cent. Local costs increased slightly, from $3,404,875 in 1935 to $3,425,646 for the period ending June SO. Assuming the estimate of 20,000 unemployables in the state is fair- I The direct relief load in June dropped over 10,000 cases, as compared with June, 1935.

The old age pension act passed by the special legislature last winter was moving into full operation in May and June. There were 38,000 on the pension rolls in June, of which.