Des Moines Tribune from Des Moines, Iowa • 1

3De tees TiPitoMne THE WEATHER Local Thunder showera Thursday afternoon, night and possibly Friday; warmer Thursday night State Thunder shower proba-ble in central and east portion Thursday night and Friday. (Radio new on Page 5-A) THE PAPER WITH THE WIREPHOTO PICTURES DES MOINES, IOWA, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1937. VOL. 56, NO. PAGES ELIGIBLE FOR APPOINTMENT Pass ests for Fire Chief Mo Seven PASS CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION FOR CHIEF OF FIRE DEPARTMENT Highest Mark Is 86, Scored By Lindquist Of terdinger, Acting: Department Head, Gets 47.

Seven men have passed tha civil service examination and thereby become eligible for appointment as fire chief, 1 fM7 iiiiiiiiiiii tin ih hiiihhiiiTi wyJbi it fi i irfrflT-ir-'iiirirri mmrnmammttti I Ji 'MmSmmmm H. K. HOLD EN CHARLES SLADE E. FAY HATCH FRED HOTTEL, O. W.

JOHNSON J. E. CAVANAUGH INFORMAL REPRESENTATIONS COMMISSION ANNOUNCES GRADES ections to Cardinal Obj Speech Made by Nazis i (:, v. Ky )t The grades of the examina tion conducted last Friday were announced Thursday by the commission. Capt.

Joe Ofterdinger, who has been acting chief of tha department since the death of Chief Will Burnett, failed to pass the examination. His grade, 47.747, was the lowest of the 13 who took the test. The passing grade was 70. Capt. E.

V. Lindquist, who has served 19 years in the fire department, was high man in tha test. His grade was 86.211. Slade Gels 81. Lieut.

Charles L. Slade, with IT years service, waa close to Captain Lindquist with a grade of 81.829. Others who passed the examination include: Lieut. John E. Cavanaugh, IT years in the fire department 76.927.

Assistant Chief Fred Hottel, 24 years in the department 75.430. Salesman. Priv. E. Fay Hatch, 12 years service 74.564.

Harold K. Holden, salesman for C. C. Taft and a ma- jor in the Iowa national guard 71.170. Priv.

Osborne W. Johnson, 16 years in the fire department 70.130. Due to the fact Holden must take a physical examination, Thursday night, the list of seven men who passed the test was not certified to the city council immediately. The commission announced the list will be certified Monday. Acts Until July 1.

Captain Ofterdinger's appoint-, ment as acting chief can last only until July 1, according to the civil service law. On the other hand, Safety Commissioner Henry Has-Brouck has 90 days in which to make an appointment from the list certified, he said. HasBrouck's selection will have to be approved by a majority vota of the city council." If the council refused to approve any of the men on the list, another examination would have to be held, according to Deputy City Clerk Glen Wick. Chief- Continued on Page Six. A hush fell over city council chamber Thursday as the civil service commission announced grades of IS men who took the examination for chief of the Des Moines fire department.

Left to right are Paul Olson, commission member; Deputy City Clerk Glen WickUff, who assisted with the examination; Hugh Burken, commission chairman; and Charle Guth. its third member. 1.14 INCHES HERE Heaviest' Rainfall V. LINDQUIST i Hey! Fork Over! Who's Got That $10 Bill ST. PAl'L, MINN.

(UP.) A package of currency 500 bills in 5, 10, and 20 dollar denominations broke open as Bank Express Co. employes were placing it in their armored car in front of a bank here Thursday. High winds caught up the bills and whisked them into the air. Hurriedly the guards scooped up what they could, then dashed after those still being whisked down the street. Pedestrians joined in the scramble.

When the excitement died down, the guards reported recovery of all but one S10 note. 'Curse-Carrying' Bone 'Explodes' Owner Says Egyptian Relic Disintegrates. EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND (U.P.) The ancient Egyptian bone which Sir Alexander Seton owns and to which he attributes illnesses and fires in the family, came to a welcome end Thursday. It was asserted that the bone exploded, with a force that shattered its glass container which has a steel frame, and that nothing but a white powder was left of it. Sir Alexander acquired the bone at Glzeh, Egypt.

It was supposed to have come from the spine of a princess who died 5,000 years ago. It was placed In a case In the library of Sir Alexander's home. There for a year, it was blamed for phenomena strange shattering of glass, illness and mysterious fires which caused those at the house to believe it bore a curse. ENVOY HEINRICH DIECKHOFF. New on the Job.

Wegman Escapes In Auto Crash Birmingham Also in Mishap; Neither Seriously Hurt. State Treasurer Leo Wegman of Carroll, and Democratic State Chairman E. H. Birmingham of Sioux City, Thursday escaped serious injury in an automobile ac cident east of Ogden, la. The accident occurred on the Lincoln highway at 11 a.

m. as the two men were on their way to the state high school baseball tournament at Manson, la. Sheriff Fred Wilkins of Boone, said the state car driven by Wegman collided with a car driven by Lawrence Wirtz, Ogden, which came on the highway from a gravel road. The cars were slightly damaged. SqNo Popcorn NineWindows Are Smashed During Night Responsibility for Act Is Disclaimed by Union Head.

Bricks went through "nine plate glass windows in four laundry or dry cleaning establishments here Wednesday night' Hardest hit was the Cascade laundry. Thirteenth st. and Grand where three fwindows, 6 by i broken. Damage there waa estimated at more thai! J400. Workers at the Cascade" plant have been among the leaders of non-union employes in opposition to the laundry strike here.

However, union officials said they knew nothing of the window breaking at any of the establish ments. "Won't Settle It." "Breaking windows won't settle this strike," President Carl Keul of the Des Moines Trades and La bor Assembly commented. "It only gives the union a black eye. Nat urally we're not doing that. We are opposed to such tactics and I repeat that union people are not guilty of them." While reports of the broken win dows were gaining attention early Thursday morning, a group of union laundry workers marched down Locust st, led by a member who carried an American flag, and into the city council chamber.

Fill Chamber. Early in the morning there were approximately 300 persons in the room, occupying all the seats and standing along the walls. Most of these, it was said, were members of the laundry workers union. A rumor circulated In the city hall was that nonunion laundry workers, who last Monday had filled the council chamber, planned to return Thursday and begin a sit-down which would continue un til the council promised to provide police protection to strike-closed plants sufficient to permit their reopening. Thanks Council.

Hearing this rumor, union laundry workers filled the council chamber early to prevent staging of the supposed sit-down. Arter Tnursday meeting was under way, Lorraine Pierick, pres- Strike-Continued on Page Twelve. Strike Is Started By Grayediggers Minneapolis Group Seeks Hour Adjustments. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. W) Gravediggers and maintenance men at several Minneapolis cemeteries began a strike Thursday for work-hour adjustments and recog nition of the Cemetery Workers union.

funerals were conducted as usual, but caskets were stored temporarily In vaults. The executions were the first of their type to be carried out since Joseph Stalin, secretary-general of the Communist party, last March called for greater vigilance to wipe out spying and sabotage, and declared "the enemy must be exterminated mercilessly." SPOKE OUT GEORGE CARDINAL. MUNDELEIN. Protested "Persecution of Church." See Mountain Slip in West LIVINGSTON, MONT. 0P A mountain half a mile south of here began skidding Thursday and observers feared farm land may be flooded if the slowly moving earth continues its slide into the Yellowstone river.

Residents on the outskirts of Livingston first noted the move' ment about 9 a. when a tion of eartn about the size of a city block started slipping toward the river. The earth movement, they said, was accompanied by a deep rum ble. L. E.

Flint, editor of the Living' ston Enterprise, said an hour and a half after the first movement was noted a chasm about 100 feet wide had been opened. Cotton wood trees were bent riverwards by the slide. Flint said there was danger the Yellowstone river, 300 feet below the hill, might back up and overflow to adjacent territory, Including the town's golf course. If the slide continued. Thrown Buck Heaton Won't Ride Again for Awhile.

Horse Unseats Patrolman Patrolman E. G. (Buck) Heaton won't ride again at least not for awhile, Wednesday afternoon, Heaton aw Patrolman Glade Shaffer arrest a man for riding his horse on the sidewalk at E. Fifth and Locust streets. Heaton volunteered to ride the horse to police headquarters.

Heaton climbed into the saddle, the horse reared, and Heaton at on the pavement. The horse waa brought to police headquarters tied behind the quad car. Later, horse and owner were' released without charges being filed. Heaton is more widely known tha department's expert on catching bees. Nazi Reaction To Mundelein Is Registered No U.

S. Reply Is Called for in New Case. WASHINGTON, D. C. The German embassy has made in formal representations to the state department over Cardinal Mun- delein's verbal attack on Adolf Hitler.

This was learned Thursday co incident with an embassy state ment that the new German ambaS' sador, Hans H. Dieckhoff, who presented his credentials only two days ago, had not thus far received instructions from his government to make a formal protest. Incident Closed. Subsequently Dieckhoff, after a brief courtesy call on Wilbur J. Carr, assistant secretary of state, told newsmen that the representation by the embassy "on Its own Initiative" seemed to close the In cident as far as his government was concerned.

In Berlin, an official commu nique Issued by the German news agency, D.N.B., said: 'The Ger man embassy at Washington made energetic protests in the state de partment on account of the silly and tactless insults to the fuehrer and reichschancellor (Hitler) by Chicago Cardinal Mundelein." No Comment. The cardinal's remarks were called to the attention of James Clement Dunn, chief of the state department's western Europe di vision, by Dr. Hans Thomsen, counselor of the German embassy, Wednesday. Dunn received the German's ob servations without comment, rep- resentationa of such a character calling for no official reply. Diplomatic experts said that the reason Germany did not formally protest probably was that the cardinal held no official position.

"Paperhanger." The situation was brought about bv Georsre Cardinal Mundelein's address in which he referred to Hitler as "an Austrian paper- hanger, and a poor one at mai. Germany-Continued on Pane Fifteen. Pope Pius Plans World Broadcast He'll Deliver Talk May 31, His 80th Birthday. CASTEL GANDOLFO, ITALY CB Pope Pius XI ordered arrangements Thursday for a worldwide broadcast of the speech he will deliver May 31 at the inauguration of the new pontifical academy. The occasion will be the pontiffs eightieth birthday.

He Is expected to make an Important statement of Catholicism's position in regard to science. MOSCOW, RUSSIA WV-The Soviet government was disclosed Thursday to have carried out the greatest mass execution of spies in three years, shooting 43 men and 'Not Quitting' McReynolds Justice's Letter to Leib Revealed. WASHINGTON. D. Joseph i Leib.

described as president of the first Roosevelt-fo President club, recently wrote Supreme Court Justice McReynolds a letter asking whether the conservative, 7 5-year-old jurist intended to re 4. 'v sign. Under May 14 days before the retirement an nouncement of Justice Willis Van Devanter Justice McReynolds, in his own handwriting, sent a reply to Leib, saying; "Glad to be assured of your esteem and that you clearly see the dangers of the present situation. You may disregard all rumors concerning my resignation." Leib had placed himself in opposition to the court reorganization plan in his letter to McReynolds. More Babies WILDBAD, GERMANY Wilhelm Frick, Germany's minister of the interior, Thursday promised workers and fanners they would get more money for more babies.

Opening the annual convention of public health officials, Frick declared the number of births under the Nazi regime had increased from 993,126 in 1932 to 1,290,000 in 1936. "This, however, is merely the first victory over the unmarried state and childless matrimony," he said. "We now must aim for three or four children." (For each family.) ing railroad wrecks in the Far East" Thousands of other oppositionists to the Soviet Russian govern ment policies are known to be under arrest, AU of those executed were Russians. The woman shot was Da Panova Shargoroskaya. Des Moines Leads State Storm Damages New Box Sewer.

(Pictures on Picture page.) Des Moines was hit by the heaviest rainfall in the state Wednesday night. With thunder showers general over Iowa during the night and more of them on the forecast Des Moines precipitation led with 1.14 inches. Of this amount, .98 inch fell in less than an hour between 11 p. m. and midnight.

It was during this period that a section of the new million dollar box sewer between Grand ave In Ditch (Th Tribune'! low Nw Service IOWA CITY, A Burlington bus went In the ditch near Tiffin, 1., west of here, early Thursday during heavy rainstorm. No one was injured. and Locust st was wrecked on the w-est river. side of the Des Moines Basements Flooded. In addition, numerous basements were flooded, electrical service was Interrupted in some sections of the city, at least one home waa damaged by lightning and about 50 telephones were temporarily out of order.

The top slab of the concrete box sewer was split for about 150 feet, according to John Tippec, city engineer. Damage to the sewer was estimated by Tippee at about S3.200. Caused by Pressure. Tippee eald the damage was caused by pressure from the sudden torrent, the fact that an intercepting sewer from west Des Weather Continued on Page Fifteen. Execution The shootings took place shortly after the conclusion of the trial of the 44 before a military collegium of the supreme court.

A communique published In the newspaper. Pacific Star, at Khabarovsk, on the Manchukuoan-Sl-berian border, 450 miles north of Threat Seen Hull Answers Fears of Iowans. WASHINGTON, D. C. m-Secretary of State Hull told Senator Guy Gillette of i Iowa Thursday Imports of Argentine popcorn do not constitute a threat to domes tic production.

Hull wrote the Iowan, who had forwarded communications from popcorn growers in his state, that Argentina report ed exports of 843,000 pounds of hull. the product to this country last year, compared with 418,000 pounds in 1935 and none in 1934. Since, Hull said, the recent in crease appears due "almost entire ly" to droughts, it is very likely ths imports will decline or disappear with a normal crop this year, Hull said an increase In the duty on popcorn "would work to tha great disadvantage of the much lavger corn-hog industry, which is much more vital to the state of Iowa." During 1921 to 1929, inclusive, he pointed out, this country imported 13 million bushels of corn, but exported 419 million bushels of corn "to say nothing of about a billion and half bushels exported in the form of hog products." German Flyer Killed. VIENNA, AUSTRIA UP) Count Max Arco-Zinneberg, German avi. ator participating in an around-Austria flight, was killed Thursday when his plane crashed near here.

m4 I I Russia Discloses Mass of 44 Spies one woman convicted of espionage and sabotage plots allegedly "under the orders of the Japanese secret The spies were lined up before firing squads at Svobodny In the Far East on May 9. Vladivostok, said; "A military collegium of the supreme court of the S.S.R. has examined the case of a group of Trotskyist espionage diversionists which acted under the leadership and according to the orders of the Japanese secret service In organiz.