The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 24, 1921, Page 1

THE BIS = fG¢ ey) FORTIETH YEAR BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, ’21. PRICE FIVE CENTS GERMA | N PEACE TREATY COMPLETED 7R-2 is Wrecked; IUN an | | eee eer eee BARLY AGTION TMONORFICERS . NEWENROLLMENT HOW TH: ze2 LooKED : : | ‘TO GIVE SALARIES + SG a i m i Washington, Aug. 24.—Staff officers | | ! ericans | e jof the International Association of | \ | \ ! Machinists have decided to refund} if ' xf | their salaries for August to the agso- | | bs ine i BY PRE IDENT sts: to‘he used for the relief of! H N HOOL ‘Thousands of People See Giant Airship Built for United States | unemployed members. H | Go Up in FI y y i | iia tence tates | | 10 Up in Flames Over Hull, England, and Bodies Drop Into y — | Seer i ; - ' i : ; . | Waters Below—Four Men Save Themsel i Treaty of Peace to he Fatiowed|() R A N H VICTIMS uperintendent Marlin Believes! | Burning Ship in Parachutes—Hospit a Banas ' | 4 i 1 ‘ arachutes—Hos| i by Treaties of Commerce; | Total Number of Students | ! lespital Aid Rushed to Scene . i 1 1 A til and Amity WILL BE TAKEN May Reach 400 | | i ! MALsateccpes | j Pak ctd { ! Hull, England, Aug. 24 I i ; i , land, Aug. 24.— (By Associated Press.) —Disaster TOLD SENATE COMMITTEE) HOME TOMORROW t=sc##"s LIST COMPLETE) overtook the giant dirigible ZR-2 late this afternoon. The monster } Sues —_——— i robles erp ede pee ie River Humber, falling into the stream, i : eae —— ‘Last Contracts Made Yesterda ithe explosion and fall bringing death to many of the officers and ; Foreign eafairs Body is Given mmittce of Aberdeen Citize eee ‘ i : Be me ;men on board among whom were five officers of the American Details of Proposed Pact | ag eae Ee » ‘Superintendent Said; Pre- | navy and several other men of lesser rank in addition to the with Germany | oming to Escor' Hes OF paring For Opening | | regular British crew. } ; Saat H Rev. and Mrs. Gage = ; The number of fataliti 1s not yet been definitely ascer- Pe Gan e. 24—(By the As. | ok ‘ Enrollinont ia ihe Bismarck Mig Fs ty at tere bea are said to have been recovered and it is soclated Press.) —The : , School is expected to reac new high: elieve at not less than ten on rr sa K aed ea tat Siktee war (INQUEST WILL BE HELD mark before the coming school year | ec signed at. 1 o’cloek this aiternoon, | —- [eis otey alain cas nt. M; Martin | TWENTY-ONE AMERICANS ON BOARD sae H - sd y, after ac 5 i . 5 fs < Washington, Aug. 24—Details ofjJury is Called to Meet This ation. “Mr. Martin expects 400 | Washington, Aug. 24.—Twenty-one Americans were aboard the treaty between the United States! ek fe ‘dents in the high school before the ithe ZR-2 when she was wrecked today. and Germany were laid betore Repub-| Afternoon to Hear Stories year is ended, although the enrollment | ' lican members of the senate foreign.| of Accident Wil “Ot men that large at ‘the stirt.) | London, Aug. 24. — (By the Associated Press.) —The giant relations committee by President) jlt reached about 360 last year. i lairshin ZR-t ‘ ; Atal i : Harding and Secretary Hughes at | Sica 1 One® tifcertain factor is the effect! jairship ZR-2, purch: sed by the United States from Great Britain a “% Conference ‘held: today at~ the’ White| @——— ——_—______ of the new stale law which provides) j exploded over the city of Hull today, according to advices received House. | EE Now as tat townships from which a student; ‘here shortly after 6:30 o'clock this afternoon. Senator Lodge Massachusetts, | | es es, da, Aug. 2). —— | living outside of a city comes shall pay | The airship i reek i river ' it i chairman of the foreign relations com- | The Rey WB Gage and bi | $6.00 per month tuition to the city! ” ans airship eae ue eek in the river Humber and it-ts feared mittee announced after a conference| | May Gage, killed eee ay | school, provided the student lives in, there was some loss of life. , that hee would’ call’#-taesting of, the| | “Whe! jtnet _automol ie eae | Burleigh county and high school fac- | | It was passing over Hull in fine style when suddenly it was committee for this afternoon at which || simak ne ben a ter: a | ilities are not furnished in the town-! iseen to break in two. Instantly there were terrific explosions q time Secretary Hughes would give!| Moje? He was pastor of High: | Pupils planning to come to Bis- land the airship burst into flames and commenced to descend. more detailed’ information as to the|| :.°. e was pastor of Migh- | marck high have been advised to con- | i E ise Appa i " treaty: j| land Par Presbyterian church. !sult their township board to prevent | Nsaean Nene | ‘Thousands of people of Hull watch- Terms of the treaty were said to| | The Revs Gage served overseas delays in getting started to school, | | jed the disaster, while ‘oceurred at ¢ ‘ || with the American expedition- SAG eel i = 5:40 o'clock, When the explosi te ‘ vt have met with no opposition by any of!| ary forces during the World aMany senda coming to thei high | i Hacted' they dashed panie Lanne the majorit sot the’-com: i | 8 are Ipreparing to work for gu eee ce 4 mative al oe ee oied thac ail | War. ’' their board or room or both. Superin-| jall directions for fear of being en- nave: talib aleiecgedial approval ad <T 7Y endent Martin is now making up a! T RO i Yeloped by the wreckage Just over the ), ‘Asks Early Ratification, ‘ | A committee of Aberdeen, S. D.,!list of persons who desire high school: i j Vicloria ‘pier. Py The president, it was stated, hoped| citizens is expected to arrive in Bis-/sirls or boys to work for room andj | f Two Dead Landed. 5 for ratification of the pact at an early; marck this evening on the Soo train pear during ie penal year. Lust| 1 ATLANTIC OON: Two dead and a number of injured date. It was explained, however, that! to accompany home the remains of igh cohol teu tan: isn | |'were landed from the river and con- he would not ask the senate to fore | Rev. and Mrs. Wm. B. Gage, who were} 7 | i ee | veyed to the Hull infirmary. i = ay reree set ee eee . ‘Killed when their automobile was Teachers List Complete h I Th British Burning fragments of the airship i inasmuch as it was desired that the : ccinw; The teachers list was completed Airshi arger an British: sent dense columns of smoke’ and ad i German Reichstag and the senate con-| struck by a train at Sterling crossing’ yesterday, Mr. Martin said. rive res- eat a i % {flames which extended for hundreds ag sider the treaty at the same time and! yesterday. Acting Coroner Beer re-'ignations had been received in the R-34, First to Cross jof feet along the water, ‘. & the German executive body does not! ccived a message from a banker in'jast two months, since all teachers Ocean | liye witnesses say at least four men ot cenyene until September 30. | Aberdeen asking that good care be were engaged. “None of those who re-/ | descended from the burning ship by Repnblitan’ members of the senate taken “of the ‘bodies, stating ‘that a'signed were teaclers*-who--had béeeh | rs i parachutes. © Three. men. were seen committee attending the conference: committee of citizens would come here here Jast year.and had signed con-| COST MANY MILLIONS) banging from one:~ The explosion of | the big dirigible wrecked many win- (dows in Hull. New York, Aug. 24.—The 4R-2,| Uae ‘which blew up in England today, and| Captain Rescued. which was soon to cross the Atlantic} A message from Hull shortly be- to her American moorings, was a! fore 7 0’ ck said the captain of the larger ‘ship than the British R-34/ ship had been rescued. which made the first airship trip; Tugs and other crafts of all kinds across the Atlantic ocean. | put off from the shore for rescue Certain defects of the R-34 had been work immediately after the disaster. avoided in the new craft which is 41] Simultaneously a corps of ambulances refused to discuss the terms of the! and that all expenses would be rn ‘tracts for 1921-1922, he said. Only one| committee hut allowed that it is 9| Rev. Gage was Presbyterian minis-'or the new high school teachers en-| A comparatively short. document, ter in’ Aberdeen and was held in high! paged Will not comet: He Is "TA:A. Borah Not Present. jesteem by the people of that city. (iuley, engaged as teacher of com-/ i Senator Borah, of Idaho. one of the|The Knights of Pythias lodge here) mercial work and athletic director. Republican committee members, did} was notified by the Aberdeen lodge peter ‘T, Swanish, of Minneapolis, ' not attend the conference. He ex-| that Rev. Gage was a member. ' prominent athlete of the University of | plained to newspaper men that he had} The bodies were brought to. the \iinnesota, will be commercial teach- 5 : hot declined the president’s invitation! Webb Undertaking parlors from)... ang athletic director, ; but was “unable to attend on account Because of the few state minimum Sterling after Acting Coroner Beer | and Sheriff Welch had visited the of other matters.” / ch, . ie ene. A coroner’s jury was obtained |wage law, which has the effect of! - - = : : f feet longer than the earlier ship and ‘dashed to the pier and took injured Senator Johnson, of California, who, | like Senator Borah, was an irrecon-| cilable over the Treaty of Versailles, | also was absent. He has not been inj Washington for several days. The of-| ficial statement with respect to the conference as’ made at the White, House emphasizes that the treaty was| primarily a peace treaty and that its| ratification would be followed by a; treaty of commerce and amity. To Make Text Public. H An agreement, it was said, has heen; entered into with the German govern. ment not to make the text of the: treaty public until the signatures of, Ellis Loring Dressel, the American; ‘the crossing to the farthest point | a it also visit- | increasing salaries, the corps of teach- yesterday afternoon and it lers will be above the average in pre- m s e. inquest was to be: a r Page ane this afternoon |Vious experience, according to the su- when members of the train crew were ,Perintendent. A majority of the teach- to be present. jers have had at least five years ex- Can't Salvage Wreck jPerience, he said. The teachers will The acting coroner, after examining |ather in teachers meeting on Septem- the bodies, said that Mrs. Gage’s neck |ber 5; the schools open on Septem-| was_ broken. he found that it was 360 steps from Some Kepitirs Made During thte summer some repairs where a piece of the wrecked automo-jhave been made to the various bile was picked up. Mrs. Gage’s body | buildings. The junior high school was about 90 feet from the crossing |quarters in the North Ward school and Rev. Gage’s body was about 50: were enlarged to take in part of the feet further. A switch standard near jold chemistry room when it was the! the crossing was broken off. It is be-|high schol. The concrete floors of} | ! Measuring distances ' ber 6. ical cic sd i This picture shows a dirigible| about, enabling the nose of the diri- “docked” at a mooring mast in Eng-| sible to be always pointing into the land. This mast is 100 feet high, The] Wind Passengers ascend the mast in mast beine etectod av. rat. elevators, entering the boat at the poe Gee ved at Larehurat. Nod, prow. Fuel is carried up in pipe Wiig t i, Une! Sam’s new glant lines. Dirigibles have been “anchor- dirigible, is 250 teet.-~ ‘The “crow’s} ed” at masts like this in England for nest” at the top of the mast swings] months at a time. OCIALIST IS SPIRITED AWAY LAND VALUES Ja., Aug. 24-“Ida K. .Crouch Hazlitt, socialist speaker, j seven feet greater in diameter. It al: members of the crew to the infirm- had a gas capacity of 2,700,000 cubic | ary as they were landed. feet as against the R-34’s 2,000,000, a! A Hull message said that Captain total horse po of 2,100 as compa =| Swean, the British officer who com- jed with the R-34’s 1,250 and a cruis-j} manded the ZR-2, was unharmed. ing “endural of 6,000 miles at 60! A dispatch to the Press Association miles an hour. The R-34 at full speed! says five men were saved from the had a cruising radius of a little more} crew of 49. than 4,900 miles. i gn-9 Z | American Officers on Board. Dimensions of: the 2-2) wets: | It is learned that the American of- Length (feet) ... 695) ficers on board the dirigible were Diameter (feet) see ‘ommander Louis H. Maxfield, Wash- Capacity (cubic feet) ++ +2,700,000| ington; Lieut-Commander Valentine Total left (tons) .. see bet H. Bieg, of Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Lieut.- commissioner in Berlin, and Dr./ jieyed that the impact of a body hurl-!the new Richholt school were paint-/ Friederich Rosen, the German foreign! ed through the air broke it off. ‘ed to prevent dust and the kinder-| minister, have been ‘affixed. This, ac-: No attempt will be made to salvage | garten was repainted. if Bookkeeper Says He Recognizes Captured Men | cording to press dispatches from Ber-/ the automobile, as it was broken al-| A new grade has been added to} i he made public simultaneously in Ber- also was torn into pieces. jAgnes Boyle, principal, Miss Dora! lin and Washington. ‘The acting coroner obtained no fur-| Wallen, of Volga, S. D., will teach| ‘witnesses yesterday. He said that | The general enrollment | Rev. and Mrs. Gage were traveling! schools is expected to show an in-| BRIDGE IS OUT WEATHER REPORT. A os 4 Temperature at 7 A. M One Killed and 25 Are Injured: pighest yesterday Precipitation ...... Highest wind velocity lin, will take place today. The text) most into bits, it was said. The tour-;the Richholt school, the seventh NPLUN RS ‘ther details of the accident than were the sixth grade, which was taught; t, and that they approched the; crease over last year. For twenty-four hours ending at * 5 Lowest yesterda: in Wreck on Rio Grande sub siay 4 Forecast. aa i of the treaty, it was said, then would: jst camping oufit carried in the car! grade, which will be taught by Miss) ‘given by the train crew and other/ last year by Miss Boyle. i crossing from the north, There was) panei {no obstruction to their view, he said.’ BANK ROBBERS noon Aug, 24. ce i | Lowest last night | Railroad question of land value: j tax commissioner's |for a reduction in values in the 14 i C ‘leigh, Emmons. 1.0gi Kidder also ar [less than the counti river, Mr. Wallace GUT PLANNED» Make Decrease General A reduction in land values, proba bly 10 per cent or more, will be made by the state hoard of equalization, ac and cording to George 1. Wallace, state tax Mason City last night. of the! Commissioner. South Dakota recent- {ly reduced values about 10 per cent,, {he said, The state ing the pled the commendation hoard, discu: counties west and south of the Mis- The reduction, Mr. V 2 Valuations of the counties of Bur- » McIntosh and to be cut somewhat west of the Grand Junction, Col., Aug. 24.—Two! for North Dakota: Somewhat un- | Fessenden, N. D., Aug. 24.—George ; ms ; 1 persons were killed, two are believed settled but generally fair tonight and | Thewlin and Charles Maker were iden- ALLAGE WILL dying and 25 to 30 were injured in a ‘Thursday; cooler Thursday and in the! tified by Mr. Knutson, bookkeeper of | wreck on the Rio Grande and Western | northwest portion tonight. the Bremen Sate ‘Bank ‘yesterday | railroad near Gale Coto early today.; ;as two of the unmasked bandits who| Granda Junction, Col Colo., Aug. 24.— ‘Monday robbed the Bremen bank. The: RESIST ORDER = ;who was taken from Central Park 1State Board of Equalization To, where she endeavored to make a | speech last night and whose litera- ‘ture was burned in a public bonfire fter a band of men had spirited her ay to a lone spot on a country road near Nora Springs, returned to $15,006,000 SECURITIES ARE SEIZED Cleveland, Aug. 24.—Fifteen mil- were sei din the Union Trust com- ety deposit vault here today by John Swaken, departmet of jus- tice agent, investigating the Cleveland activites of Charles W. French, al- leged Chicago swindler, under arrest in that city. The seizure came after Elmer Gerber, Cleveland stock broker, and former secretary to French, con- ,fessed his connection with the French operations to Swaken and led him tc | Souri river, hecuuse of poor crop con- jjon dollars in notes and securities | ditions, 2 : | said, ranged from 10 to 25 per cent. pany saf Engineer Douglas Armstrong, of third man, authorities say, is Louis; Grand Junction, was killed and 25 pas-' sengers injured in a wreck of Den-, ver and Rio Grande westbound pas-} CRIERS HERE senger train No, 1, about 13 miles east; of here, early today, according to word: here. Town Criers clubs of North Dakota, The train crashed into a creek affiliated with the Asociated Advertis- where the bridge had been washed ing Clubs of the World, will hold a out by cloudbursts, advices said. Four | state organization meeting at Mandan, coaches, the mail and baggage cars, Monday and Tuesday, August 29 ana day coach and smoker, piled on their | 39, It is planned to develop plans for sides. more effectively aiding the vigilance committee of the Associated Advertis- Se AR Ea | cl | ing Clubs in driving out fake and ! fraudulent advertising in North Da- ' kota. | Bismarck Town Criers, co-operating in the entertainment of visitors, will give a smoker on the McKenzie hote! TO ENTERTAIN roof garden Sunday night. Repre- sentatives from many cities in the state are expected to be present. Atlantic City, N. J.. Aug. 24.—Sec- retary of Labor Davis has heen noti- fied that his suggestion that the United The Hudson river, New York, is Meddows, driver of the machine inj which the bandits fled. The defend-! ants, who were brought here, waived! preliminary hearings and are held in $5,000 bond each. SENATE BLOCKED BY BEER BILL report for consideration of other legis- lation and gave every indication of heading toward a jam calculated to obstruct plans for a 30-day recess be- ginning tonight. In Iceland, codfish are dried and Mine Workers accept reductions at apout 300 miles long, 136 of which are their coming convention will not be|navigable. > heeded. ] ground into a flour for use in mak- ing bread. Tax Commissioner Wall an- nounced today he wouid appe: case in which the Hughes E 42 8,000 Officers and crew Gasoline supply (gallons) Time in crossing Atlanti (hours)—(estimated) Aboard the R-34’s gondolas, the cars suspended from the airship’s ‘ramework, the living conditions were not so comfortable as provided on the ing accommodations for the offic and crew and an electrical apparatus whereby meals could be cooked. vater was obtained from the radiators on the motors. All the gondolas were snclosed and the men were able to keep warmer than if they had been flying in an airplane. A wireless set in the forward car with a range of bout 1,500 miles enabled the R-3 o keep in touch with the shore almost the entire way across, A still stronger apparatus had been installed in the ZR-2. Seen in flight the ZR-2 closely re- ‘embled her sister ship, the R-34, but her improvements were concealed umid a bewildering confusion of alum- (Continued on page 4) ARR RR eee IRELAND'S REPLY 10 PEACE OFFER -2, The R-34, however, had sleep-; ers in the air Hot) ‘company. secks to enjoin the sheriff ‘from levying on the property of the company to collect the 1919 taxes. He | Will ask that the restraining order granted by Judge Berry until hearing of the case on September 5 | solved. | The Hughes company previously jfiled suit in federal court r | collection of the taxes on the ground had = trict court. CHIEF JUSTICE BACK. Chief Justice J. E. Robinson of the state supreme court h: eturned from his vacation, spent on his farms In South Dakota. He is prep: ge for |S opening of the fall court ;ferm. September 6. be dis- OF GREAT BRITAIN WILL BE GIVEN TO LLOYD GEORGE WITHIN FEW DAYS Dublin, Aug. 24.—(By the Associated Press.)—The reply to Great Britain’s terms for settlement of the Irish question will be delivered at Premier Lloyd George’s official residence in Downing Washington, Aug, 24.—After a two-| that the valuation was too high. This street Thursday night or Friday morning, it is expected here. hour wrangle the senate refused to action was dismissed when the re- The delivery, it is thought, will precede the proposed public meet- set aside the anti-beer bill conference| straining order was sought in the dis- ing of the Dail Eireann The preparation of the reply on which Eamonn De Valera and others were working today while the Dail was taking a recess the cabinet has the benefit of advice from members of the Sinn Fein executive committee which is composed of somewhat older men than the average of the Dail membership. These members were participants in the conferences today over the terms of the reply now being framed. i i Engines. ° | Commander Coyle, of Marietta, Ohio; Main maximum alti- 95,600| Lieut. Marcus H. Esterly, of Washing- Cruising aalus. Sat “60. miles : | ton D. C.; Lieut. Henry W. White, of 6,000 Clearwater, Fla., and Lieut. Charles per ‘hour .. ieiy| Ge Little, of Newbury Port, Mass. It is known that at least six sur- vivors have been picked up, one of 7g; them with a broken leg and one ve! Severely burned. It was while the ZR-2 was cruising over Hull that she was seen to emerge from the clouds and suddenly break in two. One portion appeared to rise r. The other descended slow- ly and fell into the Humber river. One explosion occurred as the ship was falling and another after it touche the water. The wreckage floated on the waters about 200 yards from the Riverside quay and continued to burn The Press Association had a me- sage shortly after 8 P, M. saying that Ensign Marcus Esterly, one of the American officers reported lost, had been saved. When the ZB-2 started on her triai fight from Howden Tuesday she had on hoard Commander Louis H. Max- field, of the U. S. N., who had been designated by the American navy de- partment to bring the ZR-2 from Eng- land to the United States; Brigadier- General Maitland, the British air marshal; Col. Campbell, who super- ed the work of designing the diri- gible; five other American officers, seven engineers and four riggers in addition to the regular British crew. REPORT To NAVY. Washington, Aug. 24.—The first re- port of the disaster to the dirigible ZR-2 received by the navy department. follows: “ZR-2 landed in river Humber as result of hydrogen explosion. Re- ported seriously damaged. Casualties unknown at present. Complete de- tails follow.” TOWN CRIERS TO MEET The Bismarck Town Criers ciub will hold a noon luncheon meeting Friday noon on the McKenzie roof garden to prepare for the entertain- ment of visiting Criers Sunday night and the state convention of Town Criers clubs + Mandan Monday and Tuesday. outth atoW