The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 20, 1921, Page 1

. , The Weather Generally Fair FORTIETH YEAR HEARD SLAYER . ‘STRIKE BLOWS: } i Important New cot Rusisace is Dis- covered in Fargo Murder Mystery 4 HATPIN IS ALSO FOUND). Was Near Nozzle With Which| Murderer Killed Marie Wick Fargo, June 20.—Discovery of a hatpin bent so that it would: unlock a door and the story of al * girl who. heard. the /blows that | killed Marie Wick in the room of a local hotel recently are new, developments in the case, au-; thorities said today. | The girl who heard the blows struck has been under treatment in a local! hospital for several days and told her! story to a nurse, who had William’ Green, states attorney, called in. Awakeried by Sound The girl.sald she was awakened by) a sound as of “blowg from a baseball bat.” She could not tell where they), came from, but thought they came from the room below hers. Soon after she heard someone leave the room and/ walk, down’ the corridor toward the| stairs that lead to the office of the, “hotel. ‘These sounds ‘were heard! about 4 o'clock in the morning, the, girl said. The hatpin which authorities: be-; lieve was used in opening the door was found in the corridor near the) fire hose from which the assailant is believed ‘to have taken the nozzle, with which he beat her to death, The authorities ‘believe the murder’ was committed to seal the girl's Ups after she had been assaulted. The preliminary hearing of William’ Gummer, night clerk at the hotel where the girl was murdered, charged with the crime, is set for 9 o'clock to- morrow morning. 4 fi \ PHILIPPINE AID - BILLIS PASSED ‘washington, June ‘ 20.—The “house; + passed today a bill authorising the | Philippine government to increase the Mmit" of indebtedness from $15,000,- 000 to $30,000,000. An effort will’ be made to obtain quick senate action, proponents of the measure ‘said. RENEW APPEAL . THREE 0 GIRL DECLARES, ‘ By Newenapee Enterprise. Kalamazoo, June 20.—Whether this city is to surrender the city manager- commission form of government to the old mayor-councilman plan depends | largely on the political sagacity of a woman. She is Mrs. Mabel Balch., She led the fight that resulted in a-vote for a new charter after a three years’ trial of the commission form of gov- ernment. She. is recognized as one of ‘the | Most astute politicians in (Michigan. | She piloted her husband, James B. Balch, to themayoralty of Kalama- | 400 four, times. She wrote the outline for some of ‘MEN FIGHTS TO! OUST CITY’ MANAGER MRS. MABEL BALCH Ri sheeches aud. public mes- Pulaston framing a new charter. GRAIN APPEALS BOARD ADOPTS U.S. STANDARDS Takes’ Action Despite -Legisla- ~ FOR FLOOD AID Red Cross Chapter of Burleigh , County Receives Request The Red Cross of the city received an urgent appeal in benalf of the flood \ tribute what sums they can so that the work of rehabilitation can be pro- vided for.. The plea: was ‘signed by’ Oliver Shoup, governcy of:Colorado: James L. Lovern, president: Pueblo City Council, and C. L. Gann, president Pueblo Commerce Club. The damage is estimated between $15,000,000 ana $25,000,000, exclusive of the loss of municipal highways and railroad prop- are now being tak- fugee Camps.and fed at the Red Cross field kitchens. Five; hundred thousand dollars are urgently | needed as a bare minimum for the nec- essary relief. The people of Pueblo are appealing to the genérosity: and sympathy ‘of the nation to assist in meeting the situation which is entire- ly beyond the resources. of the com- munity. NAW ADMIRAL OFU: S, FLEET Washington, June 20.—Vice Admiral 8. P. Jones was assigned today to! command the Atlantic fleet with the rank of admiral. He succeeds Ad- miral B. Wilson, who will lower his flag’ on June 30 to assume com- mand of the Naval Academy at An- napolis. Rear Admiral E. W. Ebert, now com- manding a battleship division in the; Atlantic fleet, was named commander- in-chief of the. Pacific fleet with the rank of admiral. He will succeed Ad- miral\Hugh Rodman, who will, be as- signed to command the naval ‘operat- ‘ing base at Hampton Roads, Va. _ f “Today’s Weather 1} For twenty-four hours_ ending at |’ noon, June 20. Temperature at 7 a. m. Highest yesterday . Lowest yesterday Lowest last Precipitation ... Highest wind velocity. ‘Forecast. For North Dakota: Showers to- night and probably Tuesday; cooler tonight and in the east portion Tues- day. 7 ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteoregolist. sufferers of Pueblo, Coloradé, to con-| , ’ Jature’s Resolution | Minneapoiis, June 20.—The Minne- apolis state board of grain appeals at | its annual meeting in Minneapolis to- day re-adopted the federal. standar for the grading of grains in the state. The board took, this action despite the fact that the last session of the legislature passed a resolution direct: | ing the state board to readopt the Min- nesota standards in case the secretory of agriculture refused to modify the federal standards. Although a delegation of Minnesota men asked Secretary’ Wallace to make changes the secretary said that the federal grains should stand. The attorney general held that the resolution was net mandatory. ASK GREECE TO. HOLD TROOPS Paris, June 20—Great Britain, |France and Italy have again appealed to Greece to postpone her offensive and accept their mediation in an effort to forestall war in (Asia Minor. FARMERS UNION HOLD MEETING The Farmers’ Union of Burlegh coun- ty held its annuat meeting at Sterl‘ ing Friday. There was a large num- ber of people in attendance. Chair- man Fogarty called the, meeting to order in the big hall. The program, consisting of instrumental and vocai music, began at-2 P. M. and H. O. Sauer, county agent of Emmons coun-. ty, addressed the members on the sub- ject, “Co-operation.” -| Bram will be concluded by noon. sages and aided in molding his poli- cies. She is determined“that\he will! again be the city’s cliief executive. “Commission form of government, has failed completely in Kalamazoo,” says Mrs. Balch. “It is unrepresen- tative and dictatorial. It. increased’ the tax rate from 6 to 13 mills in three years. It is not a’ government! of, by and for the people.” Proponents of the commission gov- spament say, that Kalamazoo has own. unprecedented progress under| that government. They: point to the! payment of inheritedd debts, establish-| ment of a motorized fire department, paving and sewer improvements as; causes. of the increase in taxes, Mrs. Balch ‘is a member of the com- TOWN CRIERS _ MEET TUESDAY The state meeting of of the Town Cri- ers opens at Mandan 2 o'clock Tues- day afternoon for ‘organization, ap-| pointment of committee and. program} work.’ Dinner will be served at the! \\ Reaches ‘Stage. of Ten Feet in | MISSOURI RISBS' RAPIDLY; BRIDGE IS WASHED AWAY! Bismarck: This Morning; To Go Higher TRAINS ARE DETOURED) Bismarck Has Only Two, Trains On N. P. Until Tracks Are « Repaired ‘Tho— Northern Pacific railroad | ‘breed orders; Sunday dfternoon ; | that trains Nos. 1, 3,.3 and | | ri all trans-eontinental trains, | would be detoured, und travel over | the Great Northern. Westbound | trains come to Jamestown, ge to Leeds, over the Great Northern into Montana, where ‘they again take the. oy Pacific. Trains | Nos. 7 and be the only rega- | lar trains main line until the wash-out track In the west- ‘ern part of the state Is repaired. They run between Meflora and St. Poul. during the emergency. The | order. om train service was Is- sued “effective, until further or- | ders”/ It fs expected the washed- | it track will met be repaired for week or ten The Missonri river rose rapidly Sun- day, as_a result of heavy rains in Montana and North Dakota. More of the temporary bridge across the Missouri here, used by the Founda- tion company in work on the new ve-| hicular bridge, went out with the rise of about afoot Sunday, in the ‘swift, swivling current. The stage of the river was 10 feet this morning, an. exceptionally high stage at this ‘period of the year. The average stage during the usual June. rise is about 81-2 feet, O. W. Roberts, weather observer, said today. Over the Bank. At 2:30 o'clock ‘this afternoon the river had risen. over the bank’on the Mandan side of the river opposite the Indian school. Thgvriver stage then|. stood at 10 feet 1 inch, The ferry was operating.this afternon with diffi- culty apd the captain said he would suspend operations for the rest of the day. If the river continues’ rising it| will flood all: the lowland on the Mat-| dan side, it is believed. Flood stage in the Missouri is 15 feet. The weather observer does not expect the river to go to this stage. A section of the pile bridge: across the river at’ the new bridge site was ; Public \ Meetings Arranged to! | MEETING TROTZKY SAYS REVOLUTION IS LESS PROBABLE London, ‘June 20—The Daily . Herald prints a dispatch from Moseow which says Leon Trot- oky: Bolshevik war minister, ad- dressed a congress of communist women at Moscow, asserting world revolution is less probable that it seemed two two years ago. SURGEONS GIVE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF KNOWLEDGE Drive Home Methods of Prevention IN BISMARCK! The coming public meeting of the} American Gollege of Surgeons to be} held at 8 p. m,, June 24, in the Audi- torlum, -shows that this society has the good of the public at heart, a cording to Franklin H. Martin, M. D., Secretary-General of the' organization. Dr. (Martin, who is to spezk at this meeting, sent the following statement to the Bismarck Tribune. “The Ameri- can College of Surgeons is a society of five thousand surgeons of the Unit- ed@states and Canada, who have al- lied themselves in this association for the ‘purpose 6f improving the service ewhich they are rendering to their pa- tiefits. It comprises only a part of the one hundred and forty thousdnd doctors of the continent, who repre- sent, a ‘profession which has always endeavored to command the respect of its people by serving them faith- fully, and honorably. _ The’ surgeons of the American Col- lege of Surgeons are putting forth’ every: possible effort to make better’ surgeons of, themselves; to aid in.pro- viding better training for the special- ists in medicine who are called upon to do surgery; to discourage unnec-| essary surgery by insisting upon a thorough diagnesis before an opera- tion is attempted; to encourage phyal- clans..who desirp to become surgeons to take a practical training in the art' of surgery with surgeons. of recog- nized ability before operating .inde- pendently upon their fellowmen and women; to encourage’ the establish- ment and maintenance of well-equap- wil Pitals with safe nursing, with appa- ratus for the thorough examination of patients, safe sterilizing outfits, DIE > IN ‘CLOUDBURST : ‘IWO OF CREW OF FIVE ESCAPE WHEN THEY ARECAUGHT ON TRACK ONCRERK BANKS WEST OF MEDORA | Reports of Heavy Damage, Caused by Cloudburst, : Filtering in From Many Sources, Indicate Storm is Worst That Has Ever is Reported Severe. ‘ Dickinson, N. D., June 20. — (By Associated Press.) Struck Western North. Dakota and Eastern Montana — New Washouts on Northern. Pacific in Montana — Heavy Kain Holds Biangh’ Line Train All Night at Dodge—-Crop Damage R ’ @ Three of a crew of five section men were killed on duty in the heavy rains and cloudburst which raged over western North Dakota and eastern Montana Friday night ard: Saturday, it was learned here. The five were returning to Medora early Saturday morning from Sentinel Butte where they had: been making repairs and were caughfpin a cloudburst on the banks-of Andrews creek, three miles west of Rider. A crest. of water which survivors said was 20 feet high struck the speeder on which they were riding as they were rounding a curve. Arnold Stillson, 35; Tom Everts, 46, and Peter McNair, 41, all of Medora, were the men killed. Fred Zeigler, section foreman, and a section hand named Robinson, escaped with severe bruises hospitals in which the surgeon! have every facility, for determin-| ing the ailment of the patient; hos- The bodies of Stillson and McNair have been recovered and injuries Mc- Nair had received from debris caused his death, it is indicated. Tears Track Away. The cloudburst is the most disast- rous ever known in this section of the state. Long stretches track be- tween Medora and Sentinel Butte are torn away. Steel and concrete bridges have been wrecked, grades are wash- ese ¢ ®# ** NEW RAINS IN BEACH BASEMENTS; (Special to the Tribune) (Beach, N: D., June 20.—Seldom have rain, hail, lightning and wind done more damage than the most con tinuous series of storms that have passed. over this section since lat Friday afternoon, as' has cost three lives so far as known and tremendous public and ‘private losses. Dozens of bafns have been blown:down or atrack by. lightning and ‘burned and many head of horses and cattle drowned. Another tremendous downpour’ yes- terday ‘afternoon washed out more railroad tracks, making the Northern, Pacific impassable at ‘many points. for a distance of about thirty miles Ten Days’ Delay | It_will be at Teast ten. ‘aays beforo| traffic is restored. Every bridge and) culvert in the north of half of the county is gone, wires down and roads Lewis and Clark foHowed by a smoker | waghed out several days ago, and most at the Country Club. Wednesday the! session opens at 10 A. M. aiid the pro- GREAT TANKS OF OIL BURN Workers Try to Save Large Part) of Wyoming Supply Casper, Wyo., June 20.—Seven hugé oll tanks fired by lightning yesterday on the Mid-West Refining company’s tank farm here were still burning to- day but officials of the company de- clined to estimate the loss. Thousands of barrels of crude ofl wag saved by shooting holes in the ‘their cars on the other side of the riv-j of the bridge between piers Nos. 1 and No. 3 will have to be replaced as a result of the additional washout, Mr. Roberls sald: The high wind and swift current in| the river caused the ferry here con- siderable trouble. About 40 Bismarck; cars were léft standing on the Man- dan side of the river last evening about 8:15 o’clock. Many people left er and walked home, The ferty was rupning early this. morning but had difficulty in bucking the wind. Summary of Conditions. Mr. Roberts made ‘the following statement oh weather conditions: “Heavy rains over eastern Montana and western North Dakota during the past three days has practically stop- ped both rail and auto travel through- out that district. Heavy rains occur-) red in the Little Missouri valley on the 16th, Dugn Center reporting a fali proper operating room _ facilities,; blocked. It is believed, however, dam- honest and competent management, age to grain has been comparativety and medical staff. | small except for early stuff. The water, The American College of Surgeons: forced cutworms to the surface of the believes that the best \surgery that! ground where millions of them were can be done by the most expert diag-; nostician, in the safest environment that, can be secured, is none too good and that every man, woman, and child is entitled to the very: best surgery drowned and the butterflies from) which they come have been oblitera‘- ed, Fifty bridges have been ordered by the railroad company for, use be- tween Sentinel,Butte and Medora. Cut Through City that can be obtained. The waters cut a wide swath The American College of Surgeons, believes that there is no state in the| through the center of this city follow United States.or no Province of Can,| ing the railroad drain, taking bridges ada that;cannot furnish the very saf-| and culverts away and dividing the) est kind of surgery for its citizens if} city in twain several times by a the medical’ profession and the citi-; stream 100 feet- wide. The railroad zens-of such states and provinces will) yards here, were badly waghed and get together and co-operate in helping; from the state line west to Wibaux each other in this problem. | Several miles of gtade are gone. East The American College of Surgeons} of Sentinel Butte the grade is gone believes that this is a problem that) in many places for ten miles and it interests laymen and mejlical, men! is estimated it will take ten days to alike, and the medical men cannot! get trains through. Mail. between here work it out alone. and Medora has been arranged for by The American College of Surgeons} auto truck service until traffic is re- is now holding @ meeting in Bismarck} sumed, that being as far west’ as bottom of tanks, the oils thus released | of 2:00 inches. A general rain oc-' heing drained into a large reservoir thrown up by thousands of workers Thousands more barrels were pumped from the bottom of the bank. The tank contained 445,000 barrels when the fire started. + Steams of chemical played on sur- rounding ‘tanks throughout the night and large fire walls hastily construct- ed prevented the fire from spreading. In the same ‘field is a reservoir wth a capacity of 10,000 oF 10,008; gallons. QUT ARMY TO. 150,000 MEN Washington, oe 20.—Senate con- feres on the €rmy appropriation bill decided today toi recommend that the sefiate yleld to the insistence of the house that the army be reduced to 150,000 enlisted men by next October J, L. LEWIS ENTERS NAME AGAINST GOMPERS FOR LABOR PRESIDENT Denver, June 20. —)John IL. Lewis, president of the United Mine ‘Workers of America, today formally announced he was a cap- didate for the presi Of the American Federation of Labor. in opposition te Samuel Gompers. “I have decided to permit my Rame to be submitted to the con- presidency of the American J. ration at Labor,” was the brief announcement made by Mr. Lew- is. He declined to make any far- ther statement. President Gompess announced that he would be a candidate for reelection in the following state- ment: “The delegates to the conven- tion will determine who shall be their officers and if they ste fit to. reelect their president they will ave the opportunity. My name will go before the convention and it will mot eg Githdrawn,” curred in the Yellowstone and Little Misgouri valleys on the 18th, Dunn Centér reporting 1.00 inch, Williston 1.70 inches, Wibaux (Montana), 2.19 inchgs, and other stations lesser amoants. This morning (20th), Dunn} Center again reports 1.82 inches on Sunday and 0.64 inch Monday morn-|. ing, while Williston reports 0.66 inch, and Miles City 3.58 inches. As a re- sult of the heavy rains in the above mentioned valleys there has been a| rapid rise .in the Missouri river at all points, a stage of 10 feet having been reached at Bismarck this morniny,| with ‘every indication of a much high-| er stage.” MAY EXTRADITE DRAFT EVADER Ottawa, June 20.—The extradition to German of Grover ©. Bergdoll. the dyaft evader, is under considera- tion ae the Canadian government, C. J. Doherty, minister of ieee an- nounced. AMERICANS ON JURIST BOARD Geneva, June 20—Elihu Root, Judge George Gray, John Bassett Moore and Oscar Strauss have been invited by the council of the league of nations as members of the Hague arbitration tribunal to propose the names of four persons, no more than two to be Americans, as candidates for judges of the international court of justice. | attend this meeting in large numbers,| in order. to get together in this state the surgeons, eye specialists, ear, nose, and throat specialists, obstetri-| clans, and gynecologists who are inj sympathy with their program, and in a square-faced talk with the citizens in your state, this association is en- deavoring to work out some plan -by; which everybody who is interested can co-operate with the medical pro- fession in helping it to make the sur- gery of North Dakota as safe as it is anywhere in the world.” \Not only will citizens of Bismarck but a large contingent from Madan! is expected as well. The program of the- meeting printed below will show the eminently practical and worth while subjects to be taken up. LYNCH ACCUSED ‘SOUTHERN NEGRO waciy Ss. Cc, June 20—Her- bert Quarrels, a negro, charged with| attacking a white woman, was| lynched. \ TOWN CRIERS TO CLEAN UP CAMP ———_——_—_—_——_* Members of the Town Criers lab will clean up the auto camp on. the penitentiary grounds this evening. All members are to meet - at the Commercial at 7:80 e@clock sharp. The notice tells the Criers to bring a rake and & hoe for bes ness, and a knife, fork, spoon and for pleasure. The reireshment committee will provide the feed, aiter the job Is finished. | i i i | trains can run. ‘Enjoy Themecives ‘Passengers marooned on Friday’s train ‘No. 1 are enjoying themselves} J. in many ways, having dances at local halls Friday and Saturday nights. It will be several days before they can get west. Friday afternoon, as a freight train was pulling slowly through the water on the tracks the engine toppled over in the ditch but the enginemen escaped unhurt. Houses Washed Away Two houses were washed away at that point but railroad) and wagon bridges are as yet standing. Nearly all kitchen gardens were washed away Friday or today and. many base'| from the debris carried by the torrent. ed\ out ‘and /glaces gtretcheh pf track which lay parallel are on top of each other. The worst damage was donc be- tween Rider and Sentinel Butte. Two miles of telegraph wires were washed out along this stretch. Many trainloads of construction crews, telegraph and railroad repair materials are being hurried to the place where damage ‘ was} done. * ese. 8 TODAY FLOOD FEAR FOR SETTLERS ments were flooded today, causing loss of merchandise. ‘Much anxiety is felt for settlers living along creeks and endangered from sudden floods of Friday night. Parties are out looking thém up. Everything indicates more rain. Two inches fell yesterday, a total precipitation of six inches since Friday noon. -There was rain and wind all last night, The railroad is°* open to Wibaux ‘but there isa new washout just beyond. Al Stilison, Tom. Brorett- and Pete McNeer, Northern Pacific section men were drowned near DeMorris late Fri- day night as they, with three others, were proceeding on a railroad gas . car to repair the tracks. The bodies of Stillson and McNeer have been found, The first two leave a wife and. three children who live at Medora. Section Boss Segler of Medora and five men were ordered out at at midnight to repair the track at DeMorris, and were proceeding thence on a‘speeder when they saw a wall of water coming down the val- ley through which the railroad runs at that. point. They attempted to re- verse the car but the water was upon , them before they could escape and/ they, with the track, were washed away, Segler and two men were washed to shallow ground, where they stood until morning in two feet of water and then made their way to & farm house and gaye the alarm. Searching parties found Stillson near- by and McNeer further down the stream, but) Everett's body has not been found. The rain was so heavy Friday afternoon that vast bodies of water dashed ‘down every ravine and it is feared many were either drowned or marooned. Farmers living in have perished. Mucl stock ‘has been lost and fertile lands ruined. Con- tinuous rains have replased loss of moisture of the past five years. All lakes and streams are bank full. ‘Dr. and Mrs, ‘H. 'B. Museus and Mrs. iP. Reeve had a narrow escape from drowning ‘Friday evening. They were at the doctor's ranch at Beaver Creek and were awakened by a roar of the torrent of water and just had time.to reach high ground after jumping into & few clothes. ; (Due to the rush of.water they. could not reach dry ground but stood in sev- .eral feet of water until men swimming out on horses took them from their perilous position. N Many narrow escapes Jike this and probably fatalities will be retorded as the entire story of the flood ts told. ich places may 139 HAIL LOSSES ARE REPORTED | IN STARK AND DUNN COUNTIES One hundred and thirty-nine hail losses in Dunn and Stark, counties wefe reported this afternoon. It is expected that late mails will increase |the number of losses from hail during the storms of Friday and Saturday. There were 62 losses from Stark and 77 from’-Dunn county. The losses claimed ranged from 10 per cent to a total logs, according to Martin Hag- an, manager of the hail insurance de- partment. Adjusters will be sent im- mediately to the counties. Only ofe loss was reported from Morton county. Other losses from hail reported today follow: Griggs county, 5; Benson county, 5; Eddy county, 3; Burke county, 4; McHenry county, 1; Barnes county, 2; Nelson county, 1; Wells county, 1; Emmons county, 1; Foster county, 2; Stutsman county, 5. The rains in Dunn and Stark coun- ties, however, will be a wonderful help to crops, it is sald. NEW WASHOUTS ON N. P. REPORTED; _ DUNN CENTER GETS TERRIFIC RAIN Reports which came to Mandan to),a washout at (Halliday and branch lins day to railroad officials told of a new washout on the main line of the North @rn Pacific railroad at Colgate, about, nine miles west of Glendive, Montana There was a terrific rain northwest! of Mandan. A rain Saturday caused N. P. No. +163 train was held up at Dodge all night. It got to Killdeer Sunday. Dunn Center had 2.46 inches of rain the weather bureau reported, one of (Continued on Page 3)