The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 5, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER FORECAST Partly Thursday. overcast tonight and Cooler Thursday, _ESTABLISHED 1873 DRAG NET IS SPREAD POR TWO SUSPECTS: Men Declared to Have Com- mitted Robbery Escaped From South Dakota Jail IN GRANARY; Men Identified as Those Hav- ing Entered Stores in Sterling, Burleigh Co. MONEY Approximately $5,000 in loot stolen | from the Farmers State Bank of Hebron on. August 18 was recovered | in an isolated granary nine miles| south of McLaughlin, S. D. and of- ficials through the reservation coun- try today have spread a dragnet which is expected to lead to the ar- rest of the two men alleged to have blown the safe of the bank. The men sought,’ alleged to have been identified as the robbers, are Fred Rover and Theodore The Mitsukoshi Dvorak. | started. They escaped jail at McIntosh, South j spread. store Dakota, last week where they are held for robbing a store at Lawier, Ss. D. The loot was brought to Mandan last night by Sheriff Charles Mc- Donald of Mandan. It included: four $100 Liberty Bonds, one $50 Liberty Bond, $3800 in American Bankers Association Travelers’ checks, notes aggregating $3,700, non-negotiable, ! and approximately $700 in ten and twenty dollar bills which were so| hadly torn by the charge of dynamite | which was used to blow the safe that they were non-usable. Operations Checked A check of opefations 1s said to identify the men as the parties hav- ing robbed a store at Lawien, S, D., a gasoline station at McKenzie and entered stores at Sterling, N. D. ‘A farmer entering his granary in Corson county, South Dakota, for the purpose of cleaning it out prepara- tery to storing grain saw boxes of the kind used for Keeping money. He notified authorities. A search reveal- ed the loot from the Hebton bank. The two men had been arrest for another robbery of a hard store and had indicated their will- ingness to plead guilty. Théy were lcdged in the flimsy country jail and escaped. Since they did not have an automobile it is believed they es- caped on a_ train and are still in the reservation country, A shot-gun which had been stolen) at Lawien, fixed their guilt for the ‘job. The men had given Butte. Montana. as their home. The car they had was a heavy type Oldsmobile which they admitted having stole in Miles City, Montana. In it were found tacks of the kind used to stop pursuers after the Glen Ullin bank robbery. No Connection Sheriff McDonald said’ there was |" no connection with the Hebron job und the attempted robbery of a bank in Glen Ulin, The latter job, he said, was probably done by three men, one an ex-convict from the North Dakota penitentiary, who left Mandarg the day of the robbery. For the past. ten days the Hebron eng has been working between Bow- man, N, D, and Lemmon, 8. D. SHORT CHANGE PLN GARG 5 asi rye te OPERATORS, ree ue] MINERS AGAIN d Two men are held by the local po- lice, allegedyto! have tried to short- change two Bismarck merchants. charge of disorderly conduct was preferred aga.nst them by Chief Martineson and Police Magistrate Cashman fined them $15 each and sentenced them to 30 days in jail each. > Governor Pinchot Leads Them One of the men, it is alleged by Back into an Effort to nolice, would go into a store, make a “4 small purchase ahd present attwenty Reach Peace dollar bill. When the change was be- ing handed baci to him he would ex- tract a ten do!lar bill and them ciaim the merchant had not given him. the r'ght change. The men gave their names as W. R, McCurdy of Cherok: Ta. and J. J. Walker of Waco, Te: They had been with the carnival that was at the Mandan fair, the police say. Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. 5—Governor Pinchot this afternoon led commit- tees of anthracite mine operators and miners’ union officials once more into conference in an effort to reach a settlement by which the suspension of mining operations may be ended. There was no indication ‘from ary of the parties to the controversy of any change in attitude toward the Governor's peace proposal when they went into executive session. CIVIL WAR VETERAN DIES. Wyndmere, N. D., Sept. 5.—Johr P. Nord, 80, Civil war veteran and resident of this section for several 2 . Uplate et 8° fuer [BATTLESHTE Born in Sweden, he came to Amer- iea in 1848, ang settled in Chisago Aboard Army Transport St, Mihiel, off Cape Hatteras, N. C., Sept. 5.— county, Minnesota. He enlisted in the Union army at Davenport, Iowa, in 1861, and served throughout the| The old battleship Virginia was sunk here ‘today: by: bombs dropped from an air fleet of eight Martin bombers Civil war -with the Iowa Twentieth regiment.’ He was wounded several from Langley field using 1,100-pound bombs and projectiles, | times-and saw some very hard serv- Black of the state highway commis- sion for a bridge over the Red River between Pembina, N. D. and St. Vin- IN CONFERENCE: chief of the United States Engineers, and it is expected that a contract for the bridge will be let late this fall. The estimated cost of the structure is $150,000. length, with steel superstructure, FARMERS LOSE cent, Minn. have been approved by Cost of Production, Above BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1923 . JAPANESE DISASTER GROWS HEBRON B BANK JO B LOOT RECOVERED 10,000 PEOPLE FLEEING FROM WHERE TOKIO FIRE S one of the biggest department stores in the orient —is where the Tokio fire Owing to the breaking of water mains the fire department was helpless in trying to check its TOWER REPORTED FALLEN This is Asakusa Tower, one of the features at Asakusa Park. Tokio’s famous amusement park, said to have collapsed with a huge Big crowds are always at this place. ‘ Bridge Plans Are Approved Plans of Chief Engineer W. G. | ment and the army of German re- TWO KILLED, TWO INJURED, | IN AUTO CRASH Cass County Men in Auto Struck by Northern Pa- cific Train Near Glen Ullin THIRD VICTIM MAY DIE Approached Crossing Near Glen Ullin, Apparently Unaware of Their Danger Two men were instantly killed, another was probably fatally injured jandafourth suffered injuries about head when an extra stock train on ‘the Northern Pacific railroad struck ;an automobile in which they were riding at @ crossing near Glen Ullin late yesterday. The dead: John Archibald, Shel- | don, N. D., ang Alfred Pagel of Chit- | fee, N. D. The injured: R. H. Moldenhauet, | scious; J, F, Martin, Casselton, bruises about head, not serious, Mol- denhauer may die. Says View Was Obstructed. The four were on their way to’ Richardson, 29 miles west of Glen Ullin, where one of the occupants in tended to visit a relative, Archibald and Pagel were instant- | ly killed, one of the bodies being GERMANY HAS LOST FIGHT IN” seek taithe ised neu hai bateaeates RUHR, REPORT rordiaaraedy lt ct scious and, according to Dr. 0. Bensen, the attending physician, may die, Martin was hurt about the head but his condition is not serious, Dr. Benson of Glen Ullin said. He was | thrown clear of the train following the crash, ang when thrown to the, ground sustained bruises about his MAY SEEK FOR PEACE} Parents Notified. The two injured men are being| cared for in a private home in Glen Likely to Take Initiative To-| Ullin, while the bodies were re- moved to an undertaking establish- ward Proposing Official ment. Parents of the dead men were Discussions Declared at End of Her String in Passive Resistance Pol- icy Against French notified and are expected to arrive in Glen Ullin today. J. K. Kennelly, Morton county coroner, was informed of the acci- dent. The men expected to stay at Rich- ardson over night, according to Mar- Hee and intended to go to New Eng- land. (By the Associated Press.) Berlin, Sept. 5.—Germany has ar- rived at the end of tether so far as her further ability to finance passive resistance is concerned. This is the current impression in banking circles which expect Germany in the next few days to take the initiative toward proposing that official dis- cussions be begun with the French and Belgian governments. That the Ruhr ang the Rhineland fight has been lost by tHe govern- Sees Accident, William Stevens, Bismarck travel- ing man, and his wife saw the acci- dent, Mrs, Stevens was confineg to her room in a local hotel today sut- fering from the shock, Mr. Stevens told friends that he saw the train approaching and that whistled. He stopped on the west side of the track, The men in the death car approached from the other ide and apparently did not see the train until it was almost on them Stewart Farmer, the engineer, in Mandan today said he blew the whis- tle when he saw the car, and declared there was no obstruction to the track. Another Glen Ullin report 8 the view was obstructed by a string of box cars, The men in the car were off the trail, it is said, and were looking for trail marks. The driver saw the train as he was almost on the track, tried to switch the car, a Ford sedan, to one side and run along the track, The pilot of the engine caught the car, throwing it to one side, away from the train, One of the men was dragged under the train for a considerable distance, Both of the men instantly killed were badly crushed, Father of Eight Archibald, who is 48, is the father of eight children. Pagel, the other dead man, is 32 years old, An inquest was held this afternoon. Engineer Farmer declared that ane, driver was looking in an opposite sisters is also tacitly admitted political circles, although the press has: not yet discussed the situation with which the government is con: fronted, It is believed, however, that the German editors have been informed by Chancellor Stresemant. that the government. would seek to force a solution of the Ruhr conflict in the near future. The situation in the occupied areas also is steadily becoming worse both in respect to economic condi- tions and the temper of the resisters who no longer are able to maintain |the solidarity necessary, for a united | front. R, E, WENZELL IS APPOINTED TO RISK BODY General Lansing H. Beach, It will be 650 feet in FIGURES SHOW Sales Price of Products eee Sept. rat a com- piled by the department: of agricul- ture from 4,000 farmers in all parts of the country show an average pro- duction cost in 1922 for wheat of $1.23 a*bushel, for corn 66 cents and for oats 53 cents utes the average sale price realizcd on the crop was $1.11 for wheat, 73 | cents for corn and 48 cents for oats. Inst these fig- The department added that it. felt the figures closely approximates the average production costs incurred by farniers throughout the country dur- ing the period covered. Grand Forks Man to be Rep- resentative of Employers + on State Board rection. Martin, the driver, hims said he did not'see the train until it was almost upon him. He then tried to tip the car over in a ditch. The machine was crumpled. Moldenauer reagined consciousness at 9 a. m. today. The bodies: will be shipped to Sheldon. Stock Raisers Protect Prices By Joint Action Buenos Aires, Sept. 5.—A co-orer- ative association of cattle. raisers similar to those operating in the United States is being organised here by Dr. Tomas A. Le. Breton, Minister of Agriculture, to protect their interests and insure fair prices for stock sold to packers for export and to the Buenos Aires meat trade. Cattle raising is Argentina’s most important industry and prices have reached such low levels that some- it is asserted, they do not cover the cost of transportation from the ranches. Dr. Le Breton would have the cattle raisers cooperate in Preventing offers to the market re- demand, by, regulating R. E. Wenzell of Grand Forks to- day was appointed a comm mer of the Workmen’s Compensation Bv- reau by Governor Nestos. He suc- ceeds Philip Elliott, who resigned to accept a position in the Attorney- General's office. Mr. Wenzell is appointed as a rep- resentative of employers, since Mr. Elliott was appointed their represen. tative, S. 8S. McDonald was appoirted as a representative of labor and G. N. Livdah] was: named @ represen- tative of the public. Mr. Wenzell’s appointment is for the balance of Mr. Elliott’s term, which would ¢x- pire December 31. Governor Nestos said he considered Mr. Wenzell exceptionally well qual- ified. He’ is a graduate of the Uni- versity. of North Dakota, a lawyer, » student of compensation insurance and probably the best qualified man in the state in this respect. Mr. Wenzell has been secretary of the state’ employers’ organization, secre- tary of the state bar association and| sardies ‘president of the University of North | consignments and aden directly Dakota: Associa! with the. packers and Alumni tion. | Dutehers, fourth suffered injuries about the, Chaffee, injured about head, uncon- | * vantages. [ROTARY CLUB | READY T0 AID | FAIR PROJECT Necessity for Starting Ac'ion Now for. North Dakota | Dairy Show Shown BISMARCK CORN CAPITAL George Will, Carl Nelson and, A. F. Bradley Show Need For Association Rotary will get behind the project | ito organize this fall a North Dako- | ta Corn and Dairy Show. It is hoped that at an carly meeting of the di- |reetors of the Association of Com- |merce that the drive will be launch- jed so that a fair can be held next year. It was pointed out by speakers! at the noon luncheon of the club at) ‘the McKenzie hotel that action must ‘be taken this fall to organize if any fair is to be held next year as the! \organization work, securing @ site, |and general preliminary steps will take from four to five months, | Rotarians See Need The corn and dairy show was the } topic presented to the Rotarians by| the September program committee | consisting of A. F, Bradley and Supt. |Saxvig, Mr. Bradley presided and in his opening remarks indicated the demand among the merchants and people generally for a fair or series {of entertainments that would be of an educational nature and at the same time bring trade into the city by advertising Bismarck's many ad- Other cities it was poi (ed out had distanced Bismarck in t respect, George Will of the Will Seed Com- ‘pany and Carl Nelson of the North- ‘ern Produce gave forceful talks show- ing the advantages to be gained by, the community in such a project. — | “Bismarck is the corn capital | Of North Dakota,” said Mr. WilL | “As fine specimens as are produc- ed anywhere are grown in this section, in fact this section de- monstrated what North Dakota can do in the production of corn.” “When farmers come to our plant,” said Mr. Nelson, “to mar- ket their products they say Man- dan and other places have a fair or place to show farm products and stock; here in Bismarck you have nothing. Such a show would stimulate dairying on this side of the river, Morton county is ahead of us in this respect and I find that farmers who grow corn and feed cows and other stock are not in the foreclosure lists.” Great Need Seen “Dairying continued Mr. Nelson is being started in Bismarck and is part of the Rotary program but we need to foster it more and more. It is necessary to have a fair ass ion to afford the farmers a place of exhibit and entertainment.’ Mr. Will declared that South Da- kota, Montana and other states had corn shows. This state he declared was ahead of Montana, Wyoming and (Continued on Page 3.) ‘RIBS BROKEN DRIVES ON Assistant State Dairy Com- missioner Injured in Auto Smash George H. Ritter, assistant state dairy commissioner, is in a local hos- pital suffering from injuries sus- \tained last night when his Ford “coupe struck a tank wagon and turn- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [muomr] PRICE FIVE CENTS TOKIOTRAPPED AND BURNED 10 DEATH; RELIEF RUSHED TO CITY As Story of Disaster which Enveloped Great Japanese Cities Is Unfolded. Tale of Horror Grows and Estimates of Number Lost Continues to Remain in the Hundreds of Thousands—273 Distinct Earth Shocks, One Lasting Six Minutes, were Felt in Tokio on Saturday and Sunday — Fire which Swept Capital Burned For Several Hours. PROVISIONS SCARCE Osaka, Sept. 5.—(By the A. P.)—Water and provisions are reported still scarce in Tokio. Three persons are sharing a single piece of bread. Approximately 10,000 refugees, fleeing from the ruins jof Tokio, were burned to death in the yard of a military clothing factory in the industrial suburb of Honjo. DOWAGER PRINCESS DIES London, Sept. 5.—(By the A.-P.)—The Japanese embassy ‘here received a telephone message today from Princes: Kitkshirakawa in Paris saying she had received information that the Dowger Princess Yamashina, Princess Kiroko Kanin and Prince Moromasa, members of the royal family, are dead in Tokio as a result of the earthquake. (By the Associated Press) As the story of the Japanese disaster is unfolded in the fragmentary messages frem press association correspond- ents, Japanese newspapers and individuals it is apparent |that the magnitude of the catastrophe has not been over- drawn. In only one dispatch has there been a suggestion that the death list will not reach the proportions already indi- cated. This was a message from the Radio Corporation of America in Japan which said the Japanese Home Office esti- mated the dead in Tokio at 10,000 and in Yokohama at 100,000. On the other hand Admiral Edwin A. Anderson, com- manding the United States Asiatic says latest unofficial re- ports give the casualties in the capital and Yokohama at - 240,000 dead and 450,000 injured. A wireless message from Admiral Anderson to Admiral Eberle, chief of naval operations, conveying this information was picked up in San Francisco. Naval officers in San Fran- cisco, believe that Admiral. Anderson who is speeding to \Japanese waters obtained advices of conditions in Japan by radio. Estimate 320,000 Dead Another estimate, this one coming from the Eastern News Agency, says that 820,000 persons have been killed ‘in the entire stricken district. TWO MURDERED ARE FOUND IN STRAW STACK Jamestown Authorities Seek- ing Identity of Men Found Found Near That City Is Fresh calamity has overtaken Ts: kio and the terrorstricken remnants of its population. Nearly 10,000 peo- ple, seeking refuge in the yard of 1 military clothing factory located in a suburb, were trapped by flames and burned to death. Two hundred and sixteen distinc: earth shocks were felt in Tokio last Saturday followed by 57 Sunday. Th« most severe tremor was of six min- utes duration. ‘The flames that swept the capital burned four hours and fifty minutes. leaving Tokio and its environs in ruins and desolition. 21 Square Miles Devasted Fire and earth convulsions together have devastated an area of 21 square HELD) miles in and about Tokio, demolish- ing 350,000 houses. The suffering of Yokohama, too. Believed That Two Men Were|appears not to have been exaggerat- ; ed. An official statement received Murdered for $200 They by the Japanese counsul-general in San Francisco says that the great Exhibited in the City | port itself and the Yokosuka naval stat ve been wiped out, Thic message added that more than hal’ of Tokio had been destroyed. From Osaka comes a dispatch as- serting that a new volcano has broken into activity 50 miles north- west of Tokio Meanwhile the Japanese cities and towns unaffected by the disaster ary making every effort to relieve the conditions of the millions who are believed to be suffering from injur- ies and lack of food. Very Terrible, Says Message One message which listed Toki> wards virtually undamaged was re- leased by Consul Ouyama at Sav {Francisco who received his informs- tion by way of Shanghai. The other dated September 1, originally wa: sent by Count Makino, keépersof th: imperial household at Tokio. “A'! telegraph wires to Tokio and Yoko hama are destroyed and there is no INQUEST Jamestown, N. D., Sept. 5.—The two unidentified men found murder- ed in a straw pile just outside of the city yesterday were buried in one grave last night after a search for means of identification. The bod- ies’ were in a bad state of decom- position. A watch found on one is the only a le clue to their iden- tity: that has been discovered. The coroner's inquest, held today, examined several witnesses and found that two men answering as to size and clothes worn by the two dead men had visited a local cafe on the eve- ning of Sunday, August 19, and ex- hibited a roll of bills, saying they had $200 to spend for a good time. The inquest adjourned at noon. More witnesses will be examined this aft- ernoon. It was brought out that the straw stack where the bodies were found was threshed on the 17th and 18th. ed a complete somersault 18 miles north of Napoleon. After the acci- dent, though suffering from several fractured ribs, cut face and other bruises, Mr. Ritter drove into the city to see a physician. Mr. Ritter was bowling along at a fair ¢lip when he saw a tank wagon in the road. No horses were hitched to it. He attempted to avoid strik- ing the wagon but one wheel of his car struck the hub of the tank wag- on, His car turned over, with him in it, and landed right side up. The top of the car was @rushed. Immigrants To ; _ Be Sent Back New York, Sept. 5—Immigration Commissionet Curran today; was ad- Washington that several thousands of immigranes who enter- ed quarantine just bef midnight last night were to -be considered. as having arrived in the August quotas which hasbeen filled: This means deportation. ‘Nearly 5,000 aac] grants who were shipped. back j Brooklyn were affect ‘The Drottinghol left means of communication with the for eign office,” seid the message. “N» official telegram has yet been re ceived. Fire, earthquake and flood destroyed much of the city. Three c” four of the 15 wards escaped damag: entirely, It is timated that one million persons are homeless and th. casualties are given as 160,000. Grez: damage was done to Yokohama and hhakone.” “The two cities of Tokio and Yo. kohama are under martial law and au earthquake bureau has been estab- lished in Tokio. All available army units are marching toward Tokio fo- relief purposes.” The Makino message which report- ed. the safety of the Emperor, Em- res id Prince-Ri it, d. th: Says Ma yRhtty” Trerfprg rng cote gy imperial household and adds: * “The earthquake was very terrible * Los Angeles, Sept, Sept, 6.—“Marriage is |and the casualties are estimated a: ° ‘Afty-fifty,” aid Sucatior Judge John | 160,000. The entire business. distric W. Summerfield, in ordering ‘Mrs. | and downtown sections of see ‘were. Mary ‘Scranton to pay tier husband, | almost 100 FORSIGNERS DIE ‘Charies’ Scranton, $5 2 week temporary: alimony pending trial of| 4 5 his: sutt for separate maintenance. | Peking, Sept, Tete ie Associat: Beranton testified his wife, wh>|ed Press)—One red” foreigners ‘earns.$150 a month in @ bank, de-/are belipved to serted him. He saig he was a: analy unable to work. The bodies of two transients, evi- dently murdered for their money while asleep, were found a quarter mile from Jamestown in s straw pile. ‘An iron pump handle was lying near the bodi had been murdered | at st a week ago, the authorities said, The pockets were turned inside out and an empty wallet was left. Through the jeweler’s number in the watch, authorities are endeavor- ing to trace the identity of the men. Both were of medium height, had brown hair and each weighed about 175 pounds. They wore new blue overalls.