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Thought for Today I hope to find my country in the right: however, I will stand by her, right or J. Orittenden. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE North Dakota's Oldest Newspaper--Established 1873 The Mostly cloudy and colder with occasional light snow tonight and Friday. Increasing winds becoming northerly and reaching 30 miles per hour. Low temp, tonight about above; high Friday about above.

VOLUME 73--NUMBER 50 BISMARCK, N. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28. 1946 PRICE FIVE CENTS Telephone Strike Threatens U. S. 29 GOP Conventions Name 242 Delegates No Instructions Given 200 But 42 Favor Young Problem-How to Get It Down Press Official Republican conventions in 129 North Dakota counties Wednes- Iday night had elected 242 delegates i to the state Republican convention in Bismarck March 13.

Twenty-five conventions named i200 unlnstructed delegates, but four counties, all in eastern North Da- 'Jcota, directed 42 delegates to vote U. S. Senator Milton R. Young. One county added the qualifying phrase, "on the first ballot." Young is a candidate for the short-term U.

S. senate seat which he now holds by appointment. Sole business of the Republican convention will be to nominate a Republican candidate for the special else- June 25 to choose Young's successor. Prominently mentioned with Young as a candidate for the post former S. Senator Gerald P.

Nye. In Morton county, where 12 unlnstructed delegates were elected, a resolution expressing "unalterable opposition" to Nye was adopted. Nye's name was not mentioned by official GOP conventions in any tother early-reporting counties. Cass county elected 36 unlnstruc- delegates, largest county block, ito the state convention. Grand 'Forks county's 19 delegates are pledged to Young.

Pemblna county's 8 delegates, Ramsey's 8, and Ransom's 7 also Instructed to vote for Young. i The Pemblna convention said Young "on the first ballot." The state's 33 counties have a total of 394 delegates at the convention. Uningtructed delegations elected from these counties: Adams 3, Billings 1, Burleigh 15, Cass 38, Cavalier 7, Divide 5, Eddy 3, Em- -Kidder ,5,. Logan 6, Mclntosh 9, McKenzle 4, -McLean 9, 'Mereer-B; Morton 12; 'Nelson 5, Pierce 7, Rlchland 15, StoerL- dan 6, Slope 2. Stark 10, Bteele 3, Walsh 8 Williams Identification of these with either of North Dakota's two factions of the Republican, party, the Nonpartisan and the Republican Organizing Committee, is difficult.

The Republican Organizing Committee (ROC) Is expected to support Younr, who was appointed to-the senate by ROC Oov. Fred G. Aandahl, but the Nonpartisan League's stand on the short-term senate ress Is not known. Kidder County Nonpartisan Leaguers Tuesday, however, endorsed Nye for the short-term senate seat. Republican conventions Wednesday, in Stutsman, Benson and LaMoure counties were postponed roads.

because of snow-blocked ROC county conventions held Wednesday In three eastern North Dakota counties resulted In two blocks of delegates to the state ROC convention instructed to vote for Young for the short-term race and State. Senator J. B. Bridston of Grand' Forks for the long-term senate race. The state ROC convention will be held i- Bismarck March 11 and 12, one -day the official Republican convention.

Walsh county's nine ROC delegates and Pembina county's eight are pledged to Young and Bridston. Cass county's 42 delegates are unin- the Kidder county strueted. At Steele, Democratic convention David G. Kelley, Grand Firks, for the senate but did not specify whether for the short term or, the long term. In Morton county, tlo Nonpartisan league convention adopted a resolution to encourage "unity of all liberal forces" and directed Its executive committee to give force to the resolution by cinferrlng with Democratic representatives after lie June primary election.

Yellowstone Report Favors Irrigation Crops worth $10,646,162 have been produced by the Lower Yellowstone irrigation project during the last four years, according to figures given the state water conservation commission by Axel Persson, project manager, The irrigation district comprises approximately 45,000 acres-- one third of which lies in McKenzle -county, North Dakota and the balance in Montana. In 1942, the average' value per acre was in 1943, in 1944, $62.69, and in 1946, $57 13. The 1945 return was reduced by bail Josses Persson said. J. J.

Walsh, secretary-chief engineer of the water commission, said "this tract of land-- about equal to two townships has produced as much in money value as the average county In western North Dakota produces during favorable crop years and 10 times as much in drouth years." He said the project Is producing enough feed to maintain a 'livestock population valued at $2,500,000. HUNGARIAN EXECUTED BUDAPEST UP) Bela Imredy, former Hungarian premier and finance minister died before a four- man firing squad Thursday, He was convicted last November of war crimes and anti-Jewish acts. THIS BULLDOZER belonging to city of DAllas ran away from a vacant lot where it was parked, smashed the corner of a house and climbed on top of L. P. Sims' auto.

Prpblem is, how to get it dpwn. Police Sgt. D. J. Cameron said youths playing on the machine started the motor, accidentally slipped it in gear.

(AP Wirephoto) Here's New Weather Service Prospect for March Indicated by Records Compiled in Last 65 Years By special arrangement with the Bismarck office of the U. S. Weather Tribune Thursday off a feet, a forecast of the weather to be expected for the month ahead, as disclosed by the records of 65 years of weather observation. Each month The Tribune, will print the 65-year weather record of the. ahead, showing' both the averages and the extremes.

It is expected that this service will be valuable to housewives, en-, gineers, contractors and others in planning their work. The weather Bismarck Tailor Found Dead in Shop Frank Krall, 69, Bismarck tailor was found dead in his shop at 510V4 Main at 9 a. m. Thursday by W. Williams.

Mr. Krall had been had been looked after by Williams. Williams left Krall about 10 p. Wednesday, Coroner Robert G. Aune said that had been dead about 10 hours.

An autopsy will be held to determine cause of death. Frank Krall was born Jan. 6, 1877, in Austria. He came to the United States 'in 1907 and after living in Chicago, 111., for six months, came to Bismarck. He worked as a tailor all the time he lived here.

Krall was a veteran of the Russian-Japanese war. He never married. He had no relatives in this country. Funeral services tentatively have been set for Saturday at the Calnan funeral home. Burial will be made in St.

Mary's cemetery. The body is at the Calnan funeral home. Prohibit Use of Grain In Industrial Alcohol WASHINGTON W)-- The agriculture department Wednesday prohibited use of grain in the manufacture of industrial alcohol unless it gives specific authorization, The department said the ban was Imposed because of a shortage of grain for food and livestock feed. Little grain has been used for such production since last September, the department said. The department previously had restricted the use of grain in the manufacture of beverage alcohol.

Baby En Route Here Two British brides of Bismarck service men will be aboard the Saturnla when sails from England March 9, according to the Associated Press. PeggI I. Woodland and her daughter, Susan, 17 months, dependents of Neol Ervin Woodland, star route 1, Bismarck, and Phyllis M. Smith, wife of Sgt. Edward L.

Smith, 115 Washington will be among the 714 brides and oMI- drcn of American servicemen coming; to this country. The passenger list also includes: Baydene M. Wlnete, wife of Cpl. Ernest W. Winnegge, Devils Lake, and Edelene M.

Ceynar, dependent of Sgt. Harold Ceynar, Sanlsh. Pope Holds Consistory For Two Cardinals VATICAN CITY--(A 1 )-- Pope Plus XII held a special ten-minute consistory in the Vatican throne room Thursday to complete the formalities for elevating to the purple two Latin-American cardinals whom illness had kept away from the consistory during the closing events last week. The pontiff imposed the symbolic red hat on Manuel Cardinal Arteaga Betaneourt of Cuba, and gave Cardinal Arteasa and Juan Cardinal Guevara of Peru their cardinal's rings. TO VOTE ON MONARCHY ROME The cabinet has decided to submit to Italian voters the fate of the monarchy in a referendum to be held simultaneously with elections for the constituent assembly, tentatively set for May 25, bureau does not guarantee that any.

month will conform to the average, but the statistics do indicate the weather- the 1 general-ualun during the month ahead. Here's the March record for the last 65 years: PRECIPITATION Normal for month 0.89 inches. Total last year 0.98. Wettest March 3.27 Inches 1876 and 1916. Driest March, trace 1926 and 1930.

Greatest 24 hour amount 1.80, date 21st, 1916. Average number of. days with ,01 or more 7. Greatest number of days with .01 or more 15, 1908. Least number of days with .01 or more 0, 1930 and 1926, Average number of days or more 1, Average number of days 1.00 inch or more 0.

Average snowfall 7.6 Inches, Greatest monthly 25.6 inches, year 1916. Least monthly trace, year 1930. Greatest in any single stQrm 19.1 inches on Greatest amount on the ground 22.4 inches on 8th, 1897. TEMPERATURE Normal normal maximum 31.7; normal minimum 12,1. Highest date 22, 1910.

Lowest date 15, 1897. Maximum normal number of days or above 0. Minimum normal number of days 32" or below 29. Minimum normal number of days zero and below 5, -10" or below 2. Normal number of clear days 10, partly cloudy days 10, cloudy days 11, Sunshine possible hours on 1st 11.1; possible hours last day 12.8.

Average per cent of possible sunshine Average hourly wind velocity 10.4 miles. Highest velocity and date 56 NW 8th, 1892. Prevailing direction NW. JAP SENTENCED TO DEATH SINGAPORE UFi Lt. Gen.

Fukuei Shimpei, commander of Japanese prisoner of war camps in Malaya in 1942, was sentenced by a war crimes court Thursday to death by shooting. The 57-year-old general received the verdict caljnly. Senate Favors Vandenberg Stand WASHINGTON W-- The senate lined up Thursday behind the stand of Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich) that the United States take a firm line in dealing with Soviet Russia on controversial global problems. The backing was unofficial, since no legislation was involved out Vandenberg evidently had won his colleagues' support in the formal report he made on his observations and conclusions as a delegate to the recent UNO session in London. From Democrats and Republicans alike came unbroken endorsement of the way Vandenberg appraised relations In his speech Wednesday tojan applauding senate.

"The situation calls for patience an'd goodwill, but not for vacillation," the Michigan senator summed up. Vandenberg's assertion that the United States, backed by a consistent, positive foreign policy, must speak up when Russia makes her claims found colleagues apparently unanimous in their approval. Senator Hatch (D-NM), a foreign relations member who Is a doss personal friend of President Truman, said Vandenberg "expressed my sentiments about Russia exactly." Similarly, a Fullbright (D- Ark), who has criticized what he said was the administration's failure to assume consistent leadership in world affairs, said he thought the Michigan senator was "absolutely correct in the essence of his statements." "We ought to take a fair stand and then.be firm about it," Fullbright declared. "We cannot assume that we -represent all of the moral leadership in the world, but we must speak out for the principles for which we stand." Senator Ball (R-Minn) said he agreed 100 per cent with Vandenberg's position on Russia. Both he "pepped up" by the senator's report that accomplishments at London far outweighed the meeting's failures.

Senator Russell (D-Oa) said he subscribed to the general outline Vandenberg laid down and hoped President and secretary of state would draw clearly the line beynnd which Vandenberg said, the world should be told the United States is unwilling to compromise In Its international dealings. Senator Bre water (R-Me) interpreted the speech as a "delicate suggestion that we need to be as competent as the Russians." "I think he was trying to tell us that the moral earnestness of the United States should have been far more vigorously asserted at London," the Maine senator declared. Ickes Signs Up as Newspaper Columnist WASHINGTON (F) Harold Ickes, the "Ol'' Curmudgeon," Thursday turned newspaper columnist. The recent secretary of the interior signed up with the New York Post syndicate at a price which a syndicate official said placed him among the highest-paid columnists in the country. Ickes will column three times a week, the syndicate announced, with his maiden effort appearing on April 1.

His work will appear in various newspapers throughout the country, according to the announcement. Striking Soldiers Confined to Barracks BOMBAY ffi British head- quarters'at Bombay said Thursday that 250 Indian soldiers who went on strike al JUbbulpore in the central provinces Wednesday had been rounded up and confined to barracks and that no more troops were striking. Headquarters the number participating was 250 and not 2,500, as reported Wednesday Headquarters said there was no revolt. Picket Line Action SEVERAL MEN on a picket line at the General Electrical plant, Philadelphia, try to stop a mounted policeman with an American flag. The police were called out by Sheriff William J.

Morrow to enforce a court injunction limiting picketing at the plant. (AP Wirephoto) Strikers and Police Fight in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA Striking General Electric workers and sympathizers battled police In a free-for-all Thursday in one of the most violent outbreaks In postwar laboi disputes. Irvine Named to Succeed Swenson Andrew Irvine, 60, life-long Burleigh county farmer, Wednesday was appointed to the board of coun- 'ty commissioners to fill the unex- plred term of the late E. Swen- Representing the first district, Irvine will serve until the 1946 Irvine has been a member of the Burleigh county welfare board for the last six years and has been active on the school board and township board in Missouri township. The new commiasioner was born and has resided on a farm 16 miles south-east of Bismarck.

County Auditor Adolph Schlenker, County Judge I. C. Davies and the board of county commissioners made the appointment. January Traffic Toll Is 3,000 1 CHICAGO-- VP)-- Three thousand" persons were killed in traffic accidents in the country in January and the National Safety Council predicted a possible total of 38,000 fatalities in 1946 on the basis of January's toll. January's total was 49 per cent more than reported in January, 1945, when gas rationing still was in effect, and it was the third most deadly January in the history of motor vehicle travel in- the United States, the council said.

The 3.000 toll was exceeded only by 3,159 in January, 1937, and 3,085 in January, 1942, EGYPTIAN STUDENT KILLED CAIRO The newspaper Al Misri reported Thursday that one student wac killed and a government telegraph office employe wound-ed at Mansoura when Egyptian police opened fire during a demonstration Wednesday by a crowd demanding evacuation of British troops from Egypt. Three thousand marchers broke through police lines three blocks from the plant, bowling over six officers on motorcycles before 18 mounted policemen rode Into their ranks and routed the men and women in parade. The estimated number of injured rariged as high as 20. It was the second straight day In which ClO-electrical workers and sympathizers fought police enforcing an injunction prohibiting mass picketing at General Electric. Union leaders asserted they were not violating the injunction but were conducting a March on city hall to "protest police brutality." Marbles Found at Scene of Skirmish PHILADELPHIA (IP)-- Police reported they found more than 800 marbles--the kind boys play with-at the scene of their skirmish with General Electric Co.

pickets Thursday. Officers expressed belief the marbles were scattered on the street so that horses ridden by police would skid and fall. Several horses fell but none was injured. Acting Sheriff William J. Morrow declared he had ordered police to break up all gatherings of workers within a six-block radius of the plant, strikebound since Jan.

15, Skirmishes between police and the marchers flared throughout the southwest Philadelphia area for a half hour before Morrow reported the situation under control. The marchers then began a 55- block trek to city hall. In the early morning hours, the 575 police on duty in the area scattered all groups of pickets and took two persons Into custody for questioning. The pickets then retired six blocks from the plant Into Delaware county and formed a parade, Led by men wearing military uniforms, the crowd started moving, picking up hundreds of sympathizers on the way, The line of marchers, three blocks long, paraded through suburban Upper Darby singing the CIO song, 'Solidarity Forever." Several lines of police tried to halt the march but the paraders (Continued on Page 3i Expert Says U. S.

Passing Up Available German Scientific Talent BERLIN-- W)-- Because of a stringent denazification policy Americans are "missing many bets" in failing to make use of German scientists in their custody, says Dr Roger Adams, head of the chemistry department at the University oi Illinois. In an interview Dr. Adams, who this week'concluded a four months tour of duty as scientific adviser to the U. S. "military government, said: "We are neglecting much scientific talent which the Russians eagerly are seeking to snatch up, and we also are going far beyond the British and French in denazification.

"The Russians are out to learn can from German scientists --especially regarding atomic energy and V-weapons and other military research. The Russians are out to get the services of everv German scientist of consequence they can and they aren't quibbling too much about denazification ui getting and making use of them. "We are missing many bets here that we should pick up, especially In industrial research and techniques, and I shall report this to American Industry on my return. "There are not many major fundamental processes the Germans can teach us because we have processes of our own. But the Germans have perfected many lesser techniques in operation in some things which we don't have at home and these are ours for the taking.

1 mention a few. items--there is the grinding of lenses, processing of calcium carbine and the production of colored movie films. Such, perfected know-how all would mean a lot to American Industry in the long run." Dr. Adams' opinion was supported by a prominent German scientist who would not be quoted by name. The German said a number of his colleagues had accepted lucrative offers to go to work for the Russians, although they would prefer to work for the Americans, Authoritative sources in Berlin have estimated that the Americans took into custody several thousand German Industrial and academic scientists.

Including perhaps 1,500 out of what is now the Russian occupation zone. Many of these scientists were thrown Into Jail, these sources said, because of indiscriminate application of mandatory arrest directives, under which certain high officeholders were arrested whether or not they were really nazis. Presumably all these scientists were interrogated. Some leaders in German military research were taken to America and many others finally were set free after being questioned. (Secretary of War Robert P.

Patterson announced on Feb. 14 that 130 German scientists and technicians had been put to work in the United States on "military projects" and that 140 more were being brought over In the near future. Some of these men are at work in the navy's White Oak, ordnance laboratory on the same massive rocket-testing equipment they operated in Germany.) There have been complaints from informed American as well as German sources that insufficient encouragement was given those scientists who were turned loose in the American zone. One American source said that such men had 'been "left to shift for themselves In getting back to work--which is very hard in a bashed up country." This informant added: "The British and French have given the scientist a better break--in encouragement and material aid--in getting back to work." The Russians, perhaps because they have more to learn from the Germans, are the most eager to get them. With the Russians, in some cases, it is a matter of learning entire Industrial processes.

How the Russians obtain and treat German scientists was told by responsible German and allied sources here. Many went to work for the Russians voluntarily, some after becoming disillusioned with American neglect. But In other cases the Russians are known to have resorted to pressure--and according to some sources that Is a mild term--to get the men they wanted. But as far as is known the scientists who go to the Russians are well treated, well fed and well paid. A responsible source, relating one of those "pressure" cases, told of a German scientist who "Just disappeared." When this man's wife protested to the Russians she was told: "Why we haven' arrested him.

We've given him a good Job and good pay In Russia." Apparently, however, they forbade him communication with his family. Scientists whose work is especially Interesting and valuable to them--and this means in atomic and weapons research--the Russians usually take to the Soviet Union. Informed sources said. Others doing normal academic and industrial research are allowed to work in the Russian occupation zone under Russian supervision and often with numerous Russian technical men working alongside them and learning. "That's how the Russians work it, while we rarely even bother to send observers here," said an informed American.

The Russian denazification policy toward scientific men was described by a responsible American source as being "designed "to denazify the real political nazis good and proper but not to bother too much about those who just went along with the party, not caring much about politics but just trying to get along the best possible In their work." The informant added: "Sucn people are not disturbed by the Russians but are just put to work and watched and 1 Nalion-Wide Walkout Set For March 7 NEW YORK VP) Negotiations between the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. and the Federation of Long Line Telephone "Workers, representing T9.0WT ployes, were broken off early Thursday after a 14-hour conference failed to settle the union's wage and hour demands. J. J. Moran, president of the union, which is affiliated with the National Federation of Telephone Workers said after the meeting: "We are finished.

Our answer will be March 7." The March date has been set by ths NFTW for the start of a nation-wide telephone strike. Involved in the negotiations, which had resumed after a lapse of three weeks, were 10,000 long lines traffic employes and 9,000 other workers. Moran said his union offered to accept a $4 to $8 wage increase with the provision the organization would have the rigbt to distribute the Increases according to its own seniority scale. Previously the union sought a $10 weekly boost and a reduction of the work week from 40 to 35 hours. The company, Moran said, offered a flat $5 a week Increase for traffic employes and boosts of $4 to $7 for plant employes.

A spokesman for the A. T. and T. said after the parley: "The meeting broke up without results. No further meeting has been scheduled, but the company will be very willing to meet with union representatives anytime." NPL Controls Burleigh County GOP Convention Wielding two-vote working majority, the Nonpartisan League faction controlled the Burleigh county Republican convention here Wednesday.

All but three of the 15 delegates-elected state convention to be held here March 13, are league members. The Republican organizing committee, the opposing faction, put up no fight. The slate of delegates selected by the nominating committee, composed of three leaguers and two ROC members, was approved by voice vote. Only forty-two of the .72 county precincts were represented. Four members of the state legislature also were present and- entitled to vote.

The league controlled 24 of the 46 votes. State Senator Milton Rue, Bismarck, representing a precinct committeeman by proxy, raised the jshether legislative numbers could, In such an Instance, cast two votes. The credentials committee ruled that one person could cast no more than one vote. By law, members of the state legislature are entitled to vote as are regularly elected precinct committeemen. Nominating and credentials committees for the convention were appointed by Republican County Chairman William B.

Falconer. There was no opposition to the appointments. State convention delegates elected are: Leo Winters, Albert V. Hartl, William Murray, W. A.

Hart, Frank Vogel, C. J. Myers, Irvin Bourgois, Alex McClain, and Falconer, all of Bismarck; Chris Wetzel and Mrs. Owen Mclntyre, both of Arena; B. Olson, Driscoll; B.

A. Drawver, McKenzle; William Undo, Regan, and Nick Hryckow, Wilton. There were no endorsements of candidates and no resolutions were passed. Says Indian Troops To Leave Indonesia LONDON A Reuters dispatch from New Delhi Thursday quoted Gen. Sir Claude Auohinleck, British Commander-in-chief in India, as saying the withdrawal of Indian troops from strife-torn Indonesia would begin Friday.

Auohinleck made his statement In an address before the council of state--upper house of the Indian central assembly, the dispatch said. Indian nationalist leaders have been critical of the use of Indian troops against Indonesian nationalists. Allied force headquarters in the Netherlands East Indies denied Wednesday reports that British troops would leave Java in April. Kraabel Named Chaplain With VA MINNEAPOLIS Rev. Alf M.

Kraabel, a native ofFCIifford, N. Wednesday was named eighth district chaplain, covering the states of Iowa. Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota, by the veterans administration. Rev. Kraabel, who was a captam in the army from 1942 until last year, said veterans In hospitals under his jurisdiction "win have the kind of chaplain service every boy would get from his minister his own church at home." He emphasized that in his area hospital posts will not be dumpmg (trounds for clerical misfits," Insofar as appointment of his aides are concerned..