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iOm DEUNQUENCI The Rapid City Daily Tournal "The Newspaper of Western South Dakota" NUMBER 17414. RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1939. ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE olfc1 ri niT7 ami SCHOO ES MEET Cm PIERRE IpNAL IT EDITION JUS 1 Vatican City Center Of Great Activity Today Cardinals Prepare To Elect A Pope I NEW ART MUSEUM VJA OFFICE OF OSSERVATORl ROMANO, PAPAL DAILY NEWSPAPER CHAMBERLAIN HINTS EARLY ACTION LIKELY Reports 'Disobedience of Orders' Caused Attack on Is-land of Minorca. Black Bear At Zoo In Custer Park Has Triplets Twenty-five below zero weather meant nothing to Old Doc Stork in a visit to Custer state park late last week. It was learned Monday that he had delivered triplets considered rare-to "Rosle," a black bear in the Custer' state park oo, Claude Gray, chair PALACE FROM WHERE POPE RULES WORLD'S SMALLEST INDEPENDENT STATE I VATICAN GARDENS Xib INDIVIDUALS i- ilUr civil government! Irailroad stationI staff residenceI AVmm IRADIO STATION I PALACE BUILT BY BUILT BY POPE XJm BUILT BY POPE I POPE PIUS XI PIUS XI I PIUS XI I Vatican City, in Rome, head of the Roman Catholic church, commanded more than its usual amount of attention Monday, as the result of the death of Pope Pius XI Friday.

Daily special masses attendant with the funeral of the pope, plus preparations for a meeting of the college of cardinals to select a successor, occasioned the attention. From remote corners of the earth, cardinals (there are 62 altogether) hastened toward Rome Monday to take part in the election that follows only after the death of a pope. The last was held in 1922. Democrats Worry Ways Of Promoting ST. PETER'S SQUARE WHERE THRONGS HAIL NEW POPE SISTINE CHAPEL WHERE CARDINALS ELECT NEW POPE AND WHERE POPE PIUS LIES IN STATE About Unity EXTORTION PLOT BROKEN, St.

PAUL St. Paul, 1 Feb. 13 () An at tempt to extort $15,000 from Charles A. Ward, president of Brown and Bigelow, one of the largest adver Using specialty houses in the world, was frustrated Saturday when Ward, cooperating with the St. Paul police department, trap ped the alleged blackmailers who today are held in St.

Paul police headquarters. Held on charges of attempted extortion are Mathew, W. Steg-bauer an ex-convict, and Harold McAvoy, both of St. Paul. (Page 2, Column 6) GERMAN REFUGEE DECISION REACHED Washington, Feb.

13 (AP) Secretary Hull said today the agreement just reached with Germany by George Rublee, director of the inter-governmental committee for refugees, would permit an orderly exodus of refugees from Germany. He spoke approvingly of the agreement in general, saying it was designed to include concessions which might solve the problem satisfactorily. Rublee submitted the German memorandum to this effect to the Inter-governmental committee in London today, and then resigned. Hull said that the 70-year-old Rublee, in accepting the appointment as director, did so with the understanding that he would retain it only a limited length of time. Washington, Feb.

13 (AP) Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt expressed hope today that legislation to admit 20,000 German refugee children to the United States in the next two years would be enacted. "It seems a wise way to do a humanitarian thing," the first lady told her press conference when asked about bills introduced by Senator Wagner (D-NY) and Representative Rogers (R-Mass). Mniiiimic.se Vatican City, Feb.

13 (Thousands more passed the bier in St. Peter's cathedral for a last view of Pius XI today as the congregation of cardmals Tegan formal preparations for the conclave which will choose a new pope. Foreign cardinals who will participate in the election continued to arrive and today the congregation received the man charged with enforcing the secrecy of their gathering, Prince Don Ludovlco Chigl-Albanl. Prince Chigi acted at the election of Pius. Members of his family as marshals of the papal conclave have had the responsibility continuously since 1712.

Damp Weather Those who went to St. Peter's today gathered under a heavy gray sky which drizzled rain and darkened the square. Only a few hundred persons were waiting at the cathedral gates when they were unlocked at 8 a. but many troops were in the square in expectation of another mighty crowd. Those who came early stayed for the funeral mass, the second of nine successive daily services, which was again sung before the giant catal-falque, twice the height of a man, at the far end of the nave from the great bronze doors.

Archbishop Pietro Plsani, canon of the basilica, celebrated the mass today. The solemn chanting echoed faintly through the vast cathedral, its gloom relieved but slightly by a few clusters of feeble electric bulbs high in the ceiling and the flickering glow of candles from the tides of the altars. The only other sounds were the steady shuffling of feet past" the pontiff's bier, an occasional cry of an Infant carried in a parent's arms and the constant urgings of the guards to the crowd to move forward. 200,000 Sunday An estimated 200,000 filed past the body of the pontiff in the cha-1 pel of the sacrament Sunday. They were permitted to enter the great bronze door of St.

Peter's 12 abreast. Flames of 24 tall candles lighted the bier at the corners of which noble guards in red-cqated uniforms stood at attention. Four Swiss guards in red and yellow striped uniforms stood behind the bier. The funeral couch was of red velvet. The body was dressed in rich red soutane with the lacy edge of a white robe showing beneath.

The feet were red-slippered and a cloth of gold mitre was the head dress. Tomorrow at 4 p. m. the body of the pontiff will be taken from the (Page 3, Column 3) NYE URGES PEST MONEY BE RAISED Washington, Feb. 13 (A5) Senator Nye (R-ND) said today he wanted congress to appropriate the full amount asked by the bureau of entomology and plant quarantine for migratory insect pest control "to find out once and for all if the bureau's methods are successful." "For years we have been hearing protests from farmers that grasshoppers were damaging their crops," he said.

"Many farmers declare in sincerity that poisoning grasshoppers is of little benefit to anybody except those who sell the poison and the bran. Others say the poison has not been adequately distributed. "The answer of the bureau always has been that the appropriation was not sufficient to finance an adequate program of poisoning. Too Small "At the hearing of subcommittee on appropriations of the senate recently. Dr.

Lee A. Strong, chief of the bureau, Intimated the appropri ations had been too small. I accept that explanation. "In order to make a fair test of the bureau's methods, congress should allow the full amount sought by the bureau. Then we shall be able to tell whether the methods are successful.

If they are not, some other approach to tho problem will have to be sought." The senate, on recommendation of the appropriations sub-committee, approved a deficiency item which, together with a balance on hand, would provide approximately $6,000,000 for insect pest control This is tho amount necessary adequately to finance a control program, Dr. Strong testified. Dr. Strong said the bureau wanted especially to be able to poison the migratory species of grasshopper which breeds on idle lands in North and South Dakota, Montana, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma. This step would be necessary, he said, to prevent grasshoppers from Idle land from mov-Ing onto cultivated land and Inflicting such large losses as they caused last year.

The News With death of the 75-j ear-Old Gaekwar of Baroda, Grandson Shrlmant Maharajkumur Singh Gaekwar, above, becomes ruler of one of richest states in India. Former Representative Thomas Anilie of Wisconsin as he appeared before senate Interstate commerce subcommittee investigating his fitness to serve on the C. C. Conducting Spanish peace negotiations is Julio Alvarea del Vayo, Loyal 1st foreign minister, above. ASK EMBARGO Shanghai, Feb.

13 (JP) Chinese reports today from Chcngtu, Szcch-wan province, said United States Missionaries there had appealed ts President Roosevelt to put an embargo on exports of scrap iron, gasoline and war materials to Japan to "prevent the slaughter of innocent victims." iff; A A fx i V. I Xm iy i 1 I s. London, Feb. 13 (JP) Prime Minister Chamberlain hinted today be fore the house of commons at early British and French recognition of the insurgent regime in Spain, but said no decision had been made yet. Chamberlain also disclosed an insurgent explanation that airmen had disobeyed orders last week when they attacked Minorca during surrender negotiations there aboard the British cruiser Devonshire.

The attacking planes, according to diplomatic circles in London, were identified as Italian machines in the service of Insurgent Gener alissimo Franco, Chamberlain read a telegram from the British consul at Palma, Mallorca, Franco's Balearic island air and naval base from which Minorca, another Balearic island then in government hands, was at tacked. Minorca was surrendered on Thursday. The consul messaged that he had been authorized to quote the insur gent command as "saying this at tack was carried out in disobedi ence of orders and is very much regretted." Responsibility Chamberlain, responding to a question put by Laborite Arthur Henderson, said his government not the house of commons would assume the responsibility in according any recognition to the Spanish insurgent regime. The speaker of the house refused to accept Henderson motion lor adjournment to permit immediate debate on the recognition issue. The prime minister said that with the situation changing rapidly it was impossible for him to give as surance the Britisn government aia not contemplate recognizing in surgent authorities as the de facto or de jure government of Spain.

(A de facto government is one actually functioning although not set up permanently or not yet recognized. A de jure government is a legal regime.) Decision "I may say, however," Chamberlain added, "that his majesty's government who are in close touch (Page 2, Column 8) Late Bulletins Cle Elum, Wash. (JP) The five members of the family of Steve Jacobs, crippled Cle Elum miner, were found shot to death In their home today when firemen answered an alarm. Mars Hill, N. C.

(JP) Three workmen were killed instantly and five others Injured seriously today In an unexplained dynamite blast at a rock quarry six miles from here. Columbus, O. (p) Trustees of Ohio Stat University today authorized a committee of its members to Inquire Into charges of "un-American" activities within the university. Washington (JP) President Roosevelt, confined to his room for the last three days with a slight attack of grippe, today was described as Improved. Washington (JP) The justice department announced today it had denied a claim for the re-' turn of property to Grover C.

Bergdoll, army deserter of World war days. The property Is valued at close to a half million dollars. Duluth (JP) A SO-mlle an hour wind and a heavy snowfall today threatened ta create the most serious snow condition Duluth has experienced In years. Schools closed at noon. dependent on foreign countries for seven of the 13 important nonferrous metals used in making steel.

The seven are chromium, nickel, tin, manganese, cobalt, tungsten and vanadium. Glrdler declared the mining Industry Is being throttled in many cases by ruinous taxes. He quoted a study showing that the tax collector takes 27 cents out of every dollar paid for Lake Superior Iron ore delivered at lower Great Lakes ports. The tax, he said, Is twice (he actual cost of producing the ore. man of Custer state park board, reported.

Attendants at the zoo reported to him they saw the cubs Monday morning and that "they are doing fine. So Is the mother." "Rode," who -Is about five years old, is a native of the zoo herself, and the birth of her triplets raised the total of the bear population to Ave. They are her first children. Birth of twins Is common among black bears, Gray said, but triplets are considered a "bumper crop." MILLIONS OWED BY COUNTIES ON SCHOOLS Hammerquist Repprts Conditions Measure on Lands Is Before Legislature. Pierre, Feb.

13 (Alternative proposals dealing with school loan delinquencies, one of the major pro blems before the soutn jjaKoia. legislature, will be discussed at a pub lic meeting of the joint committee on school and public lanoa nere tomorrow nleht, Recently submitted to legislators by Earl Hammerquist, Rapid City, commissioner of school and public lands, was a report showing that counties, charged by the constitu tion with the responsibility of in vesting money in the permanent school fund, now owe the fund in principal and $1,152,530 delinquent interest. Of the money invested by the counties, the report shows, is tied up in 676,058 acres of land that has been foreclosed upon by the counties, while $2,780,977 is invested in loans on 289,931 acres of land that are one year or more delinquent. Loans on an additional 441,800 acres still are in good standing. Remedy Suggested A measure awaiting legislative consideration would place all the lands in the various counties on which school fund loans have been made back in the department of school and public lands, relieving the counties from obligation as to both principal and interest on loans made by county commissioners.

An alternative measure proposes to lower from five to three percent the rate of interest counties now are required to pay the department on funds they have invested, proponents claiming: the lower rate would greatly ease the burden now being carried by the counties. Both measures would require constitutional amendments. Hammerquist'a report stated the plan for investment of the permanent school fund by the county boards of commissioners presented little difficulty until the '30's, the first county defaulting on its interest payments in 1932. Other counties rapidly followed suit, and now only 15 have no delinquency. In Arrears Among those far in arrears are Gregory, owning a principal amount of $577,653.33 and delinquent interest totaling Beadle, $441,821.20 principal and $75,799.72 delinquent interest; Brule, (Page 2, Column 7) Flying Weatherman Fails To Return From High Ride Spokane, Feb.

13 (JP) Airmen and ground patrols joined today in a search for Roy Shreck, 36, who rode his plane three miles up into a stormy sky Sunday and failed to return. Shreck, official United States weather bureau flyer, who every night for three years, in good weather and bad, has gone high aloft to obtain meteorological data that others might fly more safely, was last heard from at 1:20 a. m. yesterday. Then his wife heard his voice over her short wave radio receiver.

She said he told the airways communication station here that he was up 15,000 feet, headed Into a wind so strong his plane was moving backward. He reported, she said, that his ship was laboring under a heavy load of Ice and that, though blinded by fog, he was coming down. He did not return to the airport. Attendants at the field said his gasoline supply was sufficient for only four or ova hours. News JbEnlNQ THP VPaulMallon I World vftprrltfhf by Kin Featnrr it mil irate, nil rights reserved- Heprodnctlnm In fall or -la part trietlr arohlbited.

Washington, Feb. 13 The magic ian at Vice-President Garner's din ner party for Mr. Roosevelt dealt out five poker face down, and called Mr. Garner over. Guests hastened up.

Thi was going to be good. A magician might fool Garner on a bridge trick, screeno, beano or casino but poker hap pens to be a different game. Garner was instructed by the magician to choose a hand first for the magician, then one for himself. He did. He showed down his own hand first He had nothing, not even a small pair.

Turning over the magician's hand, four aces were exposed. The V. comment was not recorded, but It could well have been something about a new deal, Rumor has it the white house in- (Page 7, Column 7) The Weather (By The Associated Press) Rapid City and vicinity: General ly fair and colder tonight and Tuesday. Nebraska: 'Cloudy and much colder tonight, snow In extreme east; Tuesday generally fair, colder in south and east. Montana: Generally fair tonight and Tuesday; colder west and south portions tonight; somewhat warmer east of divide Tuesday.

Wyoming: Generally fair tonight nd Tuesday; colder tonight. North Dakota: Generally fair to-right and Tuesday; colder in east portion tonight. South Dakota: Generally fair to night and Tuesday; colder tonight; much colder south and extreme southeast Tuesday. WEATHER AND ROADS fsfffisrvsrifia i Washington, Feb. 13 (AP) While republicans celebrated Lincoln day with greater jubilance than at any time in a decade, democratic leaders in congress were looking today for methods of uniting their forces.

The success of the republican minority and dissident democrats in bucking administration proposals has produced evidences of concern among new deal lieutenants. House democrats will discuss the problem at a conference tomorrow. This will be preceded tonight by a meeting of about 40 house members, called by Rep. Voorhis (D- Calif) to consider reviving the self-styled "liberal bloc," which suffered heavy casualties by the November election. Seek Attendance The immediate task of the democratic leadership is to hold more votes on the floor through each day's session.

During the first six weeks of this congress the house republicans captained by Joseph W. Martin, of Massachusetts have permitted few of their 169 seats to go empty, and with some exceptions their members have voted almost as unit. Such tactics enabled them recent ly to outvote the majority party, weakened by many absentees, and trim an appropriation for the Tennessee valley authority they had contributed in both house and senate the bal ance of votes necessary to slash $150,000,000 from President Roose velt's proposed relief appropria tion, although the reduction was initiated by economy-minded dem ocrats. In the senate, republicans have functioned less as a bloc than in the house. The republican view, as reflect ed in Lincoln day speeches, is that popular sentiment is swinging away from the new deal.

The next test of administration strength will come in the house this week on 'the first phases of the $552,000,000 national program. The debate, beginning to- (Page 2, Column 7) ORE TAX BOOST AGAIN PROPOSED Pierre, Feb. 13 (AP) The controversial ore tax question which has plagued legislators since the 1933 session and was one of the principal Issues in the last general election, today was back again to harass South Dakota lawmak ers. A measure which would increase the tax on mineral extracted from the state's mines from six to eight percent was dumped into the sen ate hopper today by Sen. August Dahme (D), Mina.

It was the final day for introduction of bills by in. dividuals. The ore tax was first enacted at the 1935 legislative session when four percent tax was levied. In the 1937 session, with both houses splitting along sectional rather than party lines, a bill boosting the tax from four to six percent (Page 2, Column 8) BODY OF MAIL CARRIER IS FOUND Wecota, Feb. 13 (JP) The body of Roy Kimball, 51, Wecota mail carrier who died in line of duty, was found late Saturday a mile and a quarter north of here within 50 rods of a farmhouse and safety.

Missing since last seen three miles south of here Thursday night, South Dakota's second freezing vic tim had walked more than five miles before he succumbed to the intense cold and blinding blizzard sweeping over Faulk county that night. The tragedy boosted the current storm toll to two in northern South Dakota. A third man died in neigh boring Emmons county in North Dakota Wednesday morning. Discovery of Kimball's body near a fence leading into the Gottlief Kleffman farm north of here cli maxed two days' search by more than 100 Faulk county friends and neighbors. OLD AGE CLAIM BILL DIES AGAIN Pierre, Feb.

13 (JP) The state senate refused, by a 25 to 8 vote this afternoon, to reconsider the bill, killed last Saturday, which would permit the South Dakota social security department to re cover funds granted for old age assistance from relatives liable for the support of aged persons. When the proposal was defeated by a one vote margin two days ago, Sen. Marion Barrett, White Butte, changed his vote for the announced purpose of reconsider ation, but when an attempt was made today to again bring the measure before the senate it was overwhelmingly defeated. There was no debate on the merits of the bill this afternoon. Both houses worked on crowded calendars and progress was slow on the final consideratioa of pro posed legislation.

Credit for Water The senate unanimously passed a bill which would allow property owners a valuation assessment credit of $40 for each acre foot of water impounded on their prem- ses. The art is intended to pro mote the construction of small dams throughout the state for the purpose of holding runoff waters. Also approved by the senate was a measure to exempt from the state sales tax the gross receipts from the exchange of processed agricultural products for unpro cessed products. The proposal, for example, would permit a farmer to exchange wheat for flour with out being required to pay a sales tax on the flour. Proposed legislation poured into the senate during the afternoon, the deadline for the Introduction of Individual measures.

Liquor Laws Several proposed changes In li quor control laws were presented. These included bills to: Require all occupants In on-sale places to be In (Page 2, Column 7) More Need Than For Gold (By The Associated Press) roads 6a hi lo pp Rapid City good 34 87 34 Tr Aberdeen fair -1 38 -3 .10 Sioux Falls good 20 46 20 .00 Brookings good IS 32 13 .00 Yankton good 16 81 15 .00 Mitchell good 10 49 10 .00 Huron good 8 43 8 .00 Lemmon good -2 44 -2 Tr Watertown good 12 36 12 ,00 WEATHER BACK HOME Skies 7 30a HI Lo pp Amarillo clear 38 60 38 .00 Bismarck clear -10 24 -10 .01 Boise cloudy 34 44 34 .02 Chicago clear 33 42 36 .00 Denver cloudy 38 58 38 .00 Des Moines clear 38 48 38 .00 Detroit clear 34 40 34 .00 Dodge City clear 30 60 30 .00 Helena clear 30 48 30 .01 Kas. City clear 44 88 44 .00 P. cloudy 20 40 18 .00 Okla. City clear 42 60 42 .00 Omaha clear 38 44 36 .00.

St. Louis clear 40 82 38 .00 Salt Lake cloudy 22 34 20 .18 Frisco clear 46 54 46 .00 Seattle cloudy 42 46 42 .00 Sheridan clear 28 48 28 .00 New York, Feb. 13 (JP) The time might come, T. M. Glrdler, the steel man predicted today, when the United States would gladly give all the gold In Kentucky vaults for a pile of desperately needed manganese and chromium.

This "time," said the chairman of the Republic Steel Cor-' poration, would be war, and the prediction was made in a speech ta the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. He explained that this country is either wholly or In part 4.