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| BEACH MARKETS " wAYOUT t -- as they are, the gover-| his gang in the state | department overlooked| financial partnership the government has in the done in the state..In projects the government 50 Percent of the cost, not immense sums prac- Therefore when Leader gang took five of highway workers' sal- the federal government had interest in the proceed- as Washin~C~on authorities oplxmed to grafts for person- purposes. It was quiet of this phase of the graft,: added to the assessment of five Per- of CWA relief workers, that the removal of Governor Northern wheat .............. $ .62 Flax ....... $1.54 I Barley ..... 25 OFFICIAL PAPER OF GOLDEN VALLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF BEACH THE WE +:+ ~... Teml~rature $ a• m ........... .IR" Prediction: Cloudy, probable ~ VOLUME XXV. Eight Pages---All Home Print BEACH, GOLDEN VALLEY COUNTY, N. D., THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1934 This Issue 1031 Copies NUMBER Sentinel Butte Wins BB Champions , v from the headship of 4k ~ ralahoiErellef ofln ,thispersecution,State., by • Doll Taken From Child'sLung :k ' " I~nger falls on deaf " o_o, + B[AClt BANTAMS IN+S[GOND, GOLVA IltlRD, • c~Yes and because of the re- SD II [AY WON 90RIgt$SItIP ClIP :~ many affidavits from vic-I ~ - - ' ------ ~O~JS of the' of the plunderbund. ~O~f co~ the governor is en-I I A packed house of basket ball A ~ T | . |.ANC~.R I , ,~1~- aannssions and affidavits of ] day nl ht to see the fast Sentinel ] MAN~T [ A~ victims are so discredi~able~ [Butte gleam win the tournamentIL~l~.j~~ HOLD SPIR, ~v~at a recall election at the same/ !championship from the Beach Ban- L~e ~ the primary would seem/ i tams by a score of 35 to 31. It was ! • rip ~, ]~ ~]E~, IE~, rl~|~T/"~ ~l~e only way out to redeem the / { a hard fought battle with victory ! 1 I ]~J l~ tHl~lblll~lb ~ln the eyes of the world. / I seemingly flirting with each team I ~"~ +--@ for a while the Sentinels plowed l ~ ~, - ..... County Leaguers Repudmte I steadily to the front in a splendid-l IllU]~2 ]~|~l~ ~ ||"[ ly played game in winch both sines' Vlassoff and Noben +and r~ -- ~--~" ~ "~ showed fine metal ann gou worg.~ 4[~L2~+~ TURNED IN ]McLain and Miller were the out- - standing players from down the line, A HOSPITAL Fredriekson Will Turn Story Into Modern First Floor De- Other Uses. Pearl Fredrickson, who is the Beach county has secured the rental of building now occupied by the Bird hotel and about the first April Will open it as a first class Years ago Mrs. Fredrick- had a hospital in the same After April first the place cease, to be occupied by the but what Mrs. Foster's plarm in this connection are unknown. l~redriekson says many im- ~:~ingments will be installed in the to better fit it for a has- and she hopes to make it able o ac~ntmodate all classes of med- cal and operative cases; the surgl- ~l department being well equipped modern appliances. The hospital Will be open to all the doctors prac- ticing here and will be general in Its nature. Such an institution is badly needed here for the care of Patients who for reasons of their own do not care to go far away • rom home for treatment, and the four excellent doctors and surgeons ~of the city Will have a place that Will greatly aid them in the care of their patients. As to what disposition will be made of the lower floor of the b~ is as yet a moot question, out it probably Will be divided into ~orerooms or other uses. NOT MqUCH TIME TO SPARE ---....__. Those who are ambitious to serve the city must file their nominating petitions on or before next Tues- Langer Wins Renom+ination At Valley ; --Smith Sent to Jimtown. About 80 antl-Langer Nonpartl- sans held a meeting at the court house last Saturday and repudiated A. Vlasoff as their leader, and N. P. Noben as a candidate to succeed himself for the lower house of the legislatur~. They also sent Charles Smith to Jamestown convention to help name a state ticket in no way associated with the Langer faction, ~and passed a couple of resolutions ~-~.~ ~~.::i~:.~: :~:'~: :::::::~::+:.~ :!. ~:~:::~.~. ~ ~!:-~:~ • ~2-'. -~:" .-,. ..:.-:~::.~::::".~.::::~ , .~?::;!:~.!:'::~:.::~::~:~.:-::::~.~:~i~:s.::::~:~:.. Elect New County Officers~~~,~.~~'~'¢~:::':!:*:*::::,~::'~*:~-~: ~~~ ~/~j~~N~ of interest. The gathering organized by elect-I ing William Ueckert as chairman Of the meeting and later elected him chairman of the county Nonpartt- i i .i I m san organization. Ed. Shosn was elected assistant chairman, and Charles Smith secretary of League affairs. After a discussion of the events that led up to the late League coun- ty convention and the allegedly il- legal actions of Chairman Vlasoff before and at the convention, a res- olution was adopted condemning such acts and censuring Viasoff and Representative Noben for the way they had been handling the Nonpartisan organization in the county, and refnsing to further rec- ognize Vlasoff as chairman and No- ben as a candidate for reelection. Another resolution was pa~ed de- claring that Vla~ff had not been legally elected-as delegate to the Valley City convention and asking that body to not seat him. A copy of the resolution was sent the chair- man of the convention to be read at the meeting. while MacMaster led for the Ban- tams. Sentinel Butte was a consistent winner throughout the tournament. beating in turn Beach DeMolay and the Congregational team for their own town 71 to 25, but the Congre- gationalists won the right to the semi-finals by defeating Alpha 47 ~o 34 in the Friday scrimmage. The I Bantams defeate@ the Beach Out- I laws 46 to 27 Friday night and Gol- va Saturday morning by 50 to 40 in one of the fastest games of the series, Golva having beaten MedoraI Friday night, 71 to 18. Golva won / over the Congregational team Sat- urday night 45 to 38. 1 All the games were well attended t SURPRISE Mrs. Anion Witzlg was most pleasantly surprised by a number of her friends and neighbors last Fri- day in honor of her 74th birthday, when they met at her home and presented her with a lovely gift and served very delicious refreshments after a pleasant afternoon of social chat. Those participating in the surprise were Mrs. Geo. Oech. Mrs, Leon Carlson, Mrs. A. M. Schmitz Mrs. Jane Moran, Mrs, C, I, Cook, of the federal government, directly responsible to it. In Fargo, Thursday, March 8, the United States grand Jury will be convened, but whether It will con- sider matters develoPed in connec- tion with the sensational dismissal of Langer aa head of relief work remained uncertain. Nye Urges Presecut/on From Washington came the news late Thumday that Senator Gerald P. Nye had called for prosecution of any and all Persons involved as he charged that greed for political power, greed for political money, had developed the system that brought~ about the federal government's dis- missal of Langer. In connection therewith it devel- oped as longago as last AUgust the emergency council had adopted a (Continued to page five) m. ~even-year-old Violet Stewart, of Brooklyn, N. Y., re~tds" at ea~ at Greenpoint Hospital following the operation .to re_move a troy dollfrom her lung, where it had reposed since she swallow.ecl it a year ago: below, left, an X-ray photo, showing the doll in t~.e child's tung; as right, Tam toy after.it .had been removes oy Opera~IO~ SOUTH DAKOTA WEAmES fiR E N T E R P roSES Abandonment of _Her Rural Credit, Hail Ins, Bonding Depts. Followed by Coal Mine Loss. In view of the Townley-Langsr effort to saddle half a million dol- lars additional debt on the state through more statebecked indus- tries, the following press story is II- A. J. O'KEEFE, PIONEER, D I E D LAST FRIDAYI Twice a Cctmty Commission- er, Large Farmer, and Ac- tive In Many Lines In This Section. At 10:10 ia~t Friday evening A. J. O'Keefe, a pioneer of the county, chairman of the county board and well known in local and state Demo- cratic political circles, passed away luminating: ] at his home in this city after a corn- Pierre, S. D., March 2.--The state'~ paratlvely short illness of a serious of South Dakota is going to pull out ] nature, although he had been aft- of private business because it can't Iing for a long time. make any money out of it, Coming amaug the first to old Its venture in the coal mining business will follow three other state enterprises--rural credit, haft insurance and bonding departments ---into the discard as financial fail- ures. Fulfilling campaign promises, Gov. Tom Berry said Friday he planned to shut down and sell the stateowned mine, situated in North Dakota. He says it has lost money continually. Abandonment of the 15-year-old coal mining business will be made on an expected loss of nearly the entire $185,000 it cost. Billings coRnty, he filed on a home- stead on the outskirts of Beach and at once became identified with the growth and progress of the country. When Golden Valley was created he was one of the first members of the board of commissioners and act- ed as chairman. He also served Beach as postmaster, and in all the years since has served on the coun- ty or state committees of his party, being the member of the state com- mittee from this legislative district at the time of his death. He fol- lowed farming as an occupation for The worst fire Beach has exper- ienced in a number of years early Monday morning destroyed the barn, a cow. a heifer, a truck, a car and a miscellaneous lot of tools and well digging apparatus belonging Roy Turtle, living on the north side of ~own. The loss was over $2,000 without any insurance. The fire was discovered by Maurice Miller and by the time the firemen reached the place, which is quite a ways out, the fire was beyond control. The location was a block away from the fmarest hydrant, and the firemen l~ad to go back after the hose cart, the auto truck carrying only 1,000 feet of hose, and it required over 1,400 feet to reach the blaze. As a conse- quence nothing was saved• Turtle says he retturned in his car from Bismarck about mid~ht, and his son came in at about 1 p. m., at which time there was no sign o! fire., so the cause of the blaze remains a mystery. The loss to Tattle is a severe one and all hands sympathize with him in his loss. The strong wind prevailing aided the fire in its thorough work, and had the wind been a bit more westerly, undottbtediy the Tattle home would also have been destroy- ed. old Hopton. Commimioner of .~ri¢~lt~- Theo. Martel. Supt. la~tmeUon--J. M. Commissioner Ra~ -- Cart. Judges S~preme C~Lrt-- J~Jle Moelrtng, Senator ~ L L Fraser, U• S. Senater---Llmn Frmder. Congressmen- Not ~eleeted I~ midnight last nlght, with toward Congresmnan Lemlm am~ + Usher L. BmxUck. State Exeeutive Comm/tt~ -- Harry Pe~ of Mo~MII ty, W. & Fiamu~an of ~~ F. W•. Keltmmm of Lake4~, Official Paper--Lanl~P's L~&~'. Officials expect to realize only a few thousand dollars from sale of the coal mine. which produced about 475,0p0 tons of lignite since it was purchased in 1919. Mrs• Roy Robertson of the north country, who is the proud possessor of a brand new baby girl, whom she named Audrey Helen, departed for her home last Monday. Mrs. Rob- ertison was a visitor at the Pat Birming home, before taking her new daughter home. Albert Meyers arrived home from the hospital last Sunday and is feel- ing fine, which is good news to his many friends. The Alby Rollins little girl has been quite ill with a sore throat. Mrs• C. Taylor has been suffering badly With a recurrance of sinus trouble. Mrs~ J.W.~mer has been quite ill recently. All hope she will soon be fcelia$ fine again-.= Mr. and Mrs. Byron Brun~vold, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ga~ and Helen Robertson attemled the dance held at Skaar Saturday evening. Mrs. Archie Lewis, is gradually improving from the operation per- formed on her at the Beach h~- pita£ recently. COMMUNITY BUILDING ELF~ TION IS APPROVED At a meeth~ o~ the ~ Boar~ ~.Beview last evenI~ the resolu- tion of the city coati some t&me ago for a popul~ vote on ~ pr01ms/- tlon to bond the city for not more than $20,000 for a $30,@00 c~mmun- Ity buildln~, thls amount to be sup- plemented by a 30 percent grant by 4he federal government, w~ ap- proved. The q~estion will be ll~e- sented for decision of the voter~ at the city election April $, this beiz~ a sp~ial election held at tim same time as the regular city election. This means that if the eledt~n for the community building carries, but no federal funds are available, which may turn out to be true, though many believe otherwise, the eommunlty building will become a dead issue, as the erection of the bulidin~ depends entirely upon the fedm'al app~olml~tion. many years and became in time the $. B. P. T. A. owner of ninny tracts of land in the the Langer assesment < county, but when he moved his The Saddle Butte Parent-Teach- federal workers house tO town several years ago, he era' association w~ll hold its regular finalll practically retired from active work, meeting next F~Iday evenln~, March gin. Then art hour or, having most of his cultivated land I 9th, at the Little Beaver school ' llng occurred over • out on lemm, house. A short program will follow During all his years of activity the business meeting. Everyone is Mr. O~eefe gained many friends l cordially invited to attend. I A lot of time was lost .. who admired his stand for econ-I (Continued to omy in government, and eveni " though while differing from him asl ~-~a~--- I~llll I..Jl~ to policies all agreed as to his hon- ~t~l~ IWUIIIHUUI| esty of purpose and straightfor-l wardness. 1It Is Feeder For The funeral was held at S~. John's t church last Monday morning atI 8:30, Father Hake, a long tlmel friend and admirer, conducting theI service with much feeling. The t church was packed with the friendst of the deceased from all parts of the count~ and genuine sorrow at Draining the How th~ at Grand Forks Valley City, March 7.---Special to the Advance.--Two ling marked the known as the vention at was given the ment of the convention he ently having most things, but being opposed in others. \ The gove~ was endorsed Tuesday but the o~-, + vention got nowhere for the 12 hours, and only completed ticket, save congressmen, late tlMa evening. When the convention Tuesday Chairman Nystul ot tlm state executive committee and ~m~ others took the stage and annmm~ ed that the executive and about 100 other Leag~ra l~- ent, did not recognize t convention as a tion of the asmuch as many delegates had obtained by fraud and trleke~F under duress of the army of lm~ rollers on the governor's ordera, or words to that effee~. Nystul and lfl~ crowd then walked out inviting all who believed in fair play and de- cent government to follow him tO Jamestown on Thursday. This tin. expected play dumbfounded the Langerltes for a time, but they ceeded to Organize ~ conv~tU~t and from that time on/~R this message was sent atIL p. m. Wednesday, wrangles and unhap~- ness ruled things generally .... Two hours or more were ~Pent yes- terday and today overa '~lut~m of censure of Senator Nye ,for ~ _ speech in the senate fund around which eenr~ers ~ vestlgation being conducted,: United States of Governor Langer of federal l~lief and North E~kota, audit audit, the upper part of whichI admirably adapted to sucli a i and great satisfaction was express-I and since her return has ed over the good work done by Ref- anxmus to secure that prop-1erees Nick Mariana of Miles City l which she has taken under' and Arnold Quamen of Glendive, I and by A..R, Miller, scorer, and Emil ReimcIw, timer. AI. Kuhfeld opened the tourna- ment with an addre6s of welcome and also presided at the final cere- mom'es. In every Way the tourna- ment was a huge success and much credit is due the committee, consist- ing of I. I. Orlndstuen, Howard Bn- derle and Donald Wallace. The &war~s Following are the various awards presented at the tournament here last Friday and Saturday: Outstanding players on losing teams Friday-- Disk Carew, Alpha, A shirt do- nated by Buttrey'sQ Carl Skedsvold, Medora, A sweat- er donated by J. C, Penney Co: Randal Thompson, Beach Out- laws, A nqcktie donated by Green- gard's. Rex Miller, Beach DeM0lays, A shaving set donated by Rice Drug store. Tournament high point man. Bud Halg of Golva, with 66 points, a flashlight donated by Overstad Hardware. First All-Tournament team-- Forward--Alex McLain . Sentinel Butet. Forward--Weenie Miller, Sentinel Butte. by the state board which P. O. eral; Berta aud his passing was on every tongue,! The pall bearers were: TonY t Schmttz, Pat Birmingham, John1 Keohane, A. M. Kuhfeld, John] the church service escorted the bodyt to the'depot from whence it w~l taken first to Hokah, Minn, and then to Brownsville, the same state, where it was laid beside his father and mother and other relatives, Mrs. Oq~eefe accompanying the body. Arthur Joseph O'Keefe was born in April, 1863 at Brownsville, the son of Joseph and Nora Flannery OqKeefe and there he spent hts (Continued to page eight) day. Some time ago there was talk Mrs. John Kukowski, Mrs. Jeff But- ~o ~rholding a nominating convention Center---Guerdon Alguire, Beach terfield and Mrs. Pat Birmingham. ~_r city offices, but thls sbems to Bantams. ~:~ e~o~t~ut~o~/cit~l~af. Ouard- A. ~Master, Beach Roland Turnquist, living between , .]Bantams (also honorary captain) here and Wibaux. had the misfor- fairs for the coming four years. The] Guard---John Pariseau, Golva. ~ to seriously CUt his lip and 1Rayor elected on the third of AprilI Z~0nd All-Tournament team-- chin cranking his car. He has a Will serve four years; three of the l Forward--ud Halgh, Oolva (also mighty sore Jaw but is now feeling ~tldermen will serve two years, and|h°n°rary captain) much better. two will serve four years, the bestI Forward--Dave Waldal, Sentinel~ . ' ~- ~l~ls getters having the long term. Butte. I M~ Garnet Kruli from Olendive new provision in the law Center--Roy Oech, Beach De-|via/ted wlth Mrs. Herin Brown dur- the election more important Molays. l lng the absence of Herin in the [.t~ usual, but so far as shown lit- Guard ~ Ray Langberg, Beach | tropical regions of this counfry and Outlaws. ~Mexico. Miss ~r~rull formerly lived r~e or no interest is evinced in this Guard--Carl Otremba. Alpha: |here and her many old friends were ! ~!atter. [ (Continued to page eight) } glad to meet her again. MRS. HOWARD WEI~ERG !Federal Authorities Remove We are very glad to be able to that Mrs. HowardWenberg,, kano As o ~ i~,~en so ill with pneumonia I er Relief Work Head t~en~ a turn for the better. [ • wenberg has ho.~ ..... ser ~ North Dakota i~ still resounding i)+us time of it an'~ ~er~'man;]with reverberations growing out of ~:ndds will be glad to knOW that ]the action of Harry L. Hopkins, fed- ,Or~n ?Pr°vem~n~on.iS ~e lbkab~Yyter~l~ad~f~un~,tr::r°r°dfe:~nr~h~ds=fl" ~hter brou~t in with her, also lmary removal .of Gov~ W_il~m ~ qtllte improved and being tak- I Langer as the actual heaa oz ie~lerat ~ of by ~s. ~. M. ~lre.ef and civil wor~ pro~ects in SUCh time as her mother can~North Dakota. onbe.sl Governor shouted ~an~ren had quite a selge of[crats and was being punished be- lly ~uao, several Of them nar-!crats and we being punished be- +e~ca+ I~g pneumonia. }cause he had "refused" to run as a ~'~.~ -- ,- ~- ]candidate for governor on the Dem- womans club will ~ ocrattc ticket, officials of the Demo- s_reguIar = meeting at the[cratic party in North Dakota arts- John Keohanc ncxttwered with the declaration that the I governor's statement was "untrue.' In Bismarck, Justice A. M. Chris- Birmingham and Mrs. tlanson, chairman of the state emer- entertained lgency council that has conducted week at the] the work in the put, plung~I anew into the Job, sole representative now