The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 14, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER FORECAST Mostly fair tonight and Wed- nesday. ESTABLISHED 1873 MANY FLEE CITY ELECTION VOTEREMAINS | AS ANNOUNCED Offical Canvass Completed By City Commissioners; Casselman Elected NAMED POLICE JUDGE City Auditor Instructed To Advertise for Sewer and Water Main Bids Official canvass of the votes cast at the city election on April 7 by the city commission last night showed no changes in the result. Following is the official vote as announced by the commission. President of Commission A. P. Lenhart H. A. Thompson Members of Commission Charles Wachter G. T. Humphreys J. F. Runyan . Alex Rosen Police Magistrate W. S. Casselman W. C. Cashman H. R. Bonny William Cook . Justice of Peace | R. H. Crane 21,474 The city auditor was instructed to issue certificates of election to the candidates receiving the highest votes. The only close race was that for police magistrate. The canvass showed | that W. S. Casselman won over W. C. Cashman by 13 votes. An are light was: ordered in- stalled at the corner of Twelfth street and Avenue D. The city auditor was ordered to notify the police department ‘to al-| low no parkin alleys of the cit 95! 688 | of a proposal to re tire street paving bondd was ended when the auditor announced that the retirement of the bonds would leave (Continued on page three) STATE BOARD TO EXAMINE NURSES HERE Classes from Bismarck and St. Alexius Hospital to Take Exams for Certificates —+ When the State Board of Nurse Examiners meets in this city on April*30 and May 1, following ‘the annual convention of the North Da keta State Nurses Association, class- es from the St. Alexius and the Bis-} marck Hospitals will appear before them to take the semi-annual exam- inations for registered nurses’ cer ficates. From the Bismarck Hospital the following will be examined: The Misses Anita Stephens, Verna_ Til. ton, Sophia Knauss, Pansy Etlin Rebecca [Baltzer, Mabelle Michael, Laura Meland, and Margaret Tellman, From St; Alexius Hospital the class of candidates will include: Mis: Frieda M. Uhde, Miss Katherine M. Hummel, Sister M. Ernee, QO. S. B. end the Misses Clara H, Gass, Fay V, LeBarron, and Sallie M. Miller. The meeting place for these semi. annual sessions of the Board of Ex- aminers vai.es in order to meet fairly the convenience of the candi- dates from the vario ctions - of the state, the lagt ing been held in Jamestown, ELECTRIC RATES “IN FARGO TO BE REDUCED A petition for authority to estab- lish new electric rate schedule for residences in Fargo, reducing the present rates 5 to 20 percent, was filed with the state railroad com- mission by the Northern States Pow- er company yesterda: | The basis of m rates would be changed’ to “zoom schedule” basis, which would be as follows: First four hourg per room per month 10 ‘cents per Kilowatt hour; next four kild@vatt , hours eight cents; all in excess five cénts with discount of fiye per cent} if paid by the tenth of each month. The new rate would, according to railroad commission officials result in decreased rate for use of ‘electric! appliances. / COUNTIES AID‘ PRELIMINARY BRIDGE WORK liston, N. D., April 14.-A total has been wi of $20,000 of county mone; made available for preliminary work in connection with uri river bridges here and at Sanish, through action of the commissions of Mc-/ ouales Williams and Mountrail coun- ies, The McKenzie commi: a resolution authorizing $5, for the Williston bridge and $5,000 for the Sanish bridge for | preliminary ‘work. The Williams county comm: sion apthorized expenditure of $5,- for the same purpose dn the il. Nston bridge, i wht ‘The Mountrail county ‘commis: iS agreed to-use hag Seri Mountrail . canny money for initial work’on t! Sanish bridge. © ae The $20,000 will go toward making joundings and other preliminary ex- penses. ; ion adopted 0} of vehicles in the|! "| stat .| pany operates in the state. THE BI WEDDED “There's more criminality and dev! ing,” says J. N. Kellis, 99, of Shelby county, bate! his 76th wedding anniversa’ .| have taken note of five wars, Kellis during the Civil War. COUNTIES MUS REFUND TAXES TO COMPANIES Only State Board of Equali- zation May Assess Tele- phone Property Taxes cotlected by counties over the state from telephone companies in 1924 will have to be refunded, according to T. H. H. ‘lhoresen, tax commissioner, who has seni letters to county assessors advising them not to assess property of te:ephone companies this year. Many telephone companies that paid both county.and state tuxes last year have iilready asked for a refund and others are expected to ‘demand the refund in the near future. Many coynties in the state have jin the past assessed the property of telephone companies while the law provides that the property may be assessed only by the board of equal- ization. Mr. Thoresen’s letter to the county tax assessors follows: ‘The question has arisen as to whether real estate owned by a tele- phone compuny and used exclusively for the purpose of carrying on a elephone business is subject to lo- al assessment~or whether such pro- perty must--be included in the as- sessment of telephone property as made by the state board of equaliza- tio ection 179 of the Constitution reads in part as follows: ‘The pro- perty, including franchises, of thle- phone. companies or corporations: perating -in this state and used di- rectly or ifdireetly in the carrying of messages, shall be ass the state board of equalization in a manner prescribed by such state board or commission us may be pro- vided by law. tax_com- missioner, in his in- structions to assessors in 1922 and 192 fact that the statutes in regard to the assessment of real estate of tele- phone companies were conflicting. dection 2091, C. L, 1913, requires the board of equalization to assess the personal property of telephone companies. Section 2144 requires the state board of equalization to assess at its actual value the fran- chise and ,ail property within the state, of telephone companies, “As a matter of practice, for many years the assessment of the ty of telephone companies and the real estate of telephone companies used in connection with the opera- tion of their business has been as- sessed locally by the local assessor. “chapter 306, Laws of 1923, re- quires the state board of equaliza- tion to assess “all property, real or personal, belonging to * *..* tele- pene companies and used exclusive- ly in the operation and maintenance of its lines or routes in this state.” ‘This chapter further states that such property shall be assessed by the | state board of equalization and not otherwise. Chapter 306, Laws of 1928, became effective on July 1, 1923. Assuming that real estate of tele- phone companies was properly sub- ject to local assessors. prior to the enactment of this law, Chapter 306 would govern the assessment of 1924 and subsequent years and ~conse- quently real estate of telephone com- panies used in connection with the operation of telephone business was not subject to local assessment -for the year 1924 and, is not subject to local assessment for the year 1926. “Section 2251, C. L, 1913, requires that the total value of the property of a telephone company 2s assessed by ‘the state board of equalization, shall be ppporsioned among the 5ev- eral couftties in which the company does kusiness, in the proportion that the number of miles over which such company operates in each county, re- spectively, bears to the entire num- ber of miles ‘over which such com- Conse- quently, the value of the real estate of a telephone’ company, and the value of the personal property of a telephone. company must be distrib ed on @ mileage basis, the same as is done in the case of a railroad com- pany, . “I am. calling this matter to your attention in order that you may is- sue instructions to the assessors of| M, your county that real estate of a telephone company used in connec- tion with the operation. of its tele- phone business is not subject to lo- assessment, and that the value of such property will -be included in} the assessment as made py yee state board of, equalization.” There are many beaches, often- tim of very small “area, whose an 3 tl culiar property of giving out a-distinct musical tone when stepped upon. ‘Locusts have been red. by the ton in Bocholt, ane sand J oil extracted from ‘their. bodies. Of 11 children, six still live, there being: 33 grandchildren and 26 eras tanaea en and two great-great-grand- P children, by/ disease, was ill but a few days, Fun- , called attention to the, state; oard of equalization has covered on-| ly the value of the personal proper-| SMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1925 76 YEARS iltry now than since I've been liv who recently cele- ry. Mrs, Kelis is, 95. The couple having served in the southern army STATE SCHOOL AT BOTTINEAU TO BE OPENED Plans for the opening of the For-| estry State Normal school Bottin- | eau next September are being made by the state board of administration. The board is holding a meeting in Bottineau today where preliminary plans for the re-opening of the insti- tution are being discussed. The school was closed on July 1, 1923 after Governor Nestos had ve- toed the apprepriations bill for the school. The last legislature passed another appropriations bill, which Governor Sorlie signed, No decision has been ‘made as to what courses will be offered by the institution, That will depend upon the money available and the wishes | of the people of Bottineau and vicin- ity. The new president and faculty for! the institution will need to be chosen} before it is re-opened in September. | DEATH TAKES INVENTOR OF AUTOMOBILE {Elwood Haynes Succumbs To Influenza Following Short’ Iliness | (By The Associated Press) Kokomo, Indiana, April 14.-Elwood , Haynes, 68, who in 1894 invented the arriage” dead at his , a wictim of influenza. Mr. who ‘had never fully recov- rom a previous attack of the eral arrangements have been made. The pioneer automobile manufac- turer also gai international re- !putation as a scientist and metallur- gist. His widow, son and daughter were | at his bedside when death came. On the Fourth of July 1894, El- wood Haynes, then a young field su- perintendent for a natural gas com- pany with headquarters at Kokomo, Ind., had a queer buggy, without ton- ; gue or shafts, towed out onto a coun- itry road. He drove it triumphantly { back into Kokomo, at the remarkable ; speed of eight miles an hour, under power generated by a gasoline en- :gine. That, it is claimed, was the first trip of a gasoline driven ve- hiole in America. This horseless carriage, which soon became a familiar sight in the streets of Kokomo, years of experiments preserved in the Smithsonian Insti- tution at Washington, D, C. Mr. Haynes said he was ordered to “get that contraption off the streets”, when he drove his first automobile into Chicago, . The automobile the direct re- sult of the fact that Mr. Haynes had a large territory to cover in his du- ties as field superintendent for a natural gas company. He desixed to make his rounds more rapidly than he could with a horse and started his experiments, being of an, inventive turn of mind and having a technical education. A year after his first successful trip with his horseless carriage, Mr. Haynes formed a company for the manufacture of automobiles and was president of it for many y. He invented numerous improvements in the automobile. “The Father of the Automobile” was a school teachér at the start of his career. This did not suit him, however, as he always was of an in- ventive turn of mind and, long be- fore he developed the idea for horseless carriage, was given to ex perimenting in: chemistry. One of ambitions was to find a combin- ation of metals that would resist the oxidizing influences of the atmo: phere and at the same time take a good cutting edge. An alloy of balt and chromium, which is used; now for making dental and surgical ; instruments, was the result. He al- so invented and discovered a number of other alloys. Mr. Haynes was a native Hoo: having been born at -Portland, Ind. October 14, 1857, the course in the there, he attended Worcester Poly- technic Institute’ at Worchester, las where he was graduated in 1881. Later he was a student at Johns Hopkins Universit: He was married in 1887 to Miss Bertha Lan- terman, olso of Portland, Ind. The not ier, ublic schools KANGAROO RACES TRAIN Melbourne, N. 8. W. April 14.— A ki roo raced a train for three lgerol and Bellata kept up with the train by taking long 16-feet “jumps... At tl id of the three miles it stopped itting: back on its long ‘tail, id the train go by. between Ed; recently. and, watches |ROAD: After completing | y, CITY OWNED POWER PLANT I$ REJECTED Petition Proposing Ordinance For Municipal Ownership Held Illegal HUGHES GETS PERMIT Ordinance Granting Fran- chise to Electric Company Now in Effect Municipal ownership of an elec- tric light and power and steam heat- ing plant was rejected by the Bis- marck city commission last night when two initiative petitions were turned down upon the advice of City Attorney C. L, Young. -One petition asked that an ordi- nance, passed by the commission on March 9, and which granted the Hughes Blectric company -a fran- chise to use the streets, alleys and other public places of the city for the purpose of transmitting electric power to the inhabitants of Bis- marck and suburbs for a period of 25 years, be submitted to the voters of the city of Bismarck at a special election. City Attorney Young stated in his opinion that the petition failed: to comply with the statutory require- mens because it did not show the age and length of residence of the the city of Bismarck n was not accompanied by an affidavit sworn to by any, le- gal voter stating that the signers thereof were at the time of signing legal voters of the city. The city attorney. also stated in his opinion that because the ordinance declared the franchise for thé power line is necessary for the immediate preserv- ation of public health of the city of Bismarck and the inhabitants there- of and that it take effect and be in force from and after its passage; that it contains a statement of its urg- ency and was passed by a four-fifth vote of the commission, it therefore went into effect immediately after its passage, and ig not referable un- der the law. It follows, the opinion stated, that the city commission can- not be required to take action on the petition. The other petition proposed that an ; ordinance be sitbmitted to the voters at a special election granting the Co-Operative Power company an ex- clusive franchise to use the streets, alleys and other public places for the purpose of transmitting electric power and steam to the inhabitants of Bismarck and its suburbs for a period of 25 years. The purpose of the ordinance, as stated in the pe- tition, was that the company be ac- quired by the City of Bismarck and | immediately owned by the city. y Attorney Young stated in his opinion that the petition does not comply with the law in that it did not uniformly give the place of resi- dence of each signer and was not ac- companied by an affidavit sworn to by a legal voter stating that the sign- ers thereof were legal voters of the city. The city attorney also ‘ruled that the city has‘no authority to grant an exclusive franchise and is not re- quired to submit to the voters a pro- posed ordinance that would be void if adopted. S TO SEEK RELIEF FROM FREIGHT RATES (By The Associated Press) Chicago, April 14.—Western rail- roads may join in asking the federal court for relief by injunction against the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion from presennt freight rates in he northwest, S. W. Sargent, general solicitor of the Chicago ad North- western Railroad indicated today at the annual stockholders meeting of the roa ‘ Rates now in effect in the west, according to Northwestern officials, are considerably lower than in the east and south, and consequently yield a lesser return, a situation, Mr. argent contended, that ought to be corrected by court action participated in by all_the western railroa STATE LEGION CHIEFS TO FIX DRIVE QUOTAS (By The Associated Press) Fargo, April 14.—Officers of the North Dakota Department of the American Legion meeting here this afternoon were to fix the quotes of various points for the $5,000,000 Le- gion endowment fund drive. Among those in attendance at the meeting were R. J.. Foster, executive field secretary of the national order in charge of the meeting; A. B. Welch. Mandan, state* vice com- mander; district deputy commander Heine Handtman, also of Mandan; rs. Knaus of Jamestown, pres ident of the state woman’s Aux- liary; H. F. Collar, Fargo, ate correspondent of the Forty and Eight; Jack WilMams, Fargo, state adjutant of the Legion, and Mrs. L. * Ha Fargo, state secfetary of e Auxiliary. GIRL IS EYE EXPERT London, April 14,—Considered the finest maker of: artificial eyes in reat Britain, Miss Millauro, Lon. on girl of 19, can.make a perfect specimen in 15 minutes. A. parrot owned by Mrs. C. H. Williams of San Antonio, Tex., sings the complete choruses of both “Tip-| perary” and “Silver Threads Among. the Gold.” ~ : MARKET PLAN ~ OF GOVERNOR Sorlie Expects to Make N. Mill Big Factor in Wheat Crop Marketing WILL INSPECT GRAIN Campaign of Education To Advertise North Dakota Spring Wheat Governor A. G. Sorlie, who re- turned to his office in the capitol today after a business trip to Grand Forks, plans to mgke the state mill and elevator at Grand Forks a big factor in the marketing of North Dakota’s wheat crop. Governor Sorlie als@ spent a few days in St. Paul and Minneapolis on business in connection with the state mill and elevator. The governor’s plans, it is under- stood, include a campaign of educa- tion to call the attention of the flour millers in the country, especially those operating in the east and south of the twin cities, to the fact that through the elevator at Grand Forks, a “milling mix” of straight hard wheat may be obtained carrying whatever gluten content may be de- sired. ‘ The hard spring wheat element will be emphasized since it is believed that this will be a point with the milling trade as most of the mixes obtained contain a proportion of the softer wheats. At the same time North Dakota grain producers will be urged to market their wheat through the state elevator on the ground that by so doing they may take advantage of the inspection and testing facilities which it is able to offer and thus et the benefit of the full gluten con- tent of their w! It is to facilitate this campaign that the governor is planning the es- tablishment of a grain exchange at the state elevator. Both the mill and elevator will hold memberships on this exchange the mill for the pur-, pose of purchasing its milling wheat ' 5 and the elevator for the carrying on of its general grain business as out- lined above. For the time being at least it is anuderstood that the governor and his advisors will center their efforts on this campaign for the elevator and that no radical changes will be made in the present system of operation of the mill department | CABINET JOB Decides to Abandon Attempt To Form Ministry (By The Associated Press) Paris, April 14—Former_ premier Briand shortly after six o'clock this evening definitely decided to aband- on the attempt to form a cabinet in succession to the Herriot ministry. |. Briand announced his determ- ination not to form a ministry to the Socialistic-Republican group to which he belongs, basing it on the refusal of the Socialists to collabor- ate and the conditions they wish to exact in return for support. He con- siders the conditions incompatible with his construction of the role of premie: ALLEGED VICTIM OF KLAN CHIEF DIES FROM POISON Indianapolis, April 14.—Miss Madge Oberhaltzer, 28, alleged to have been the victim of an attack by D. C. ‘Stephenson, former Dragon of. the Ku Klux Klan died today. Miss Ober- haltzer has been in a critical con- dition for several days as the result of poison which she told her par- ents she took at Hammond, Indiana, following Stephenson’s alleged at- ack. Stephenson was indicted on five charges by a grand jury which in- vestigated Miss Oberhaltzer’s story. BIG CHURCH INCREASE London, Ap: 14.—The member- ship of the churches in England in- creased on a larger scale last year than at any time since the great Welsh revival. total increasé was 110,000 membe i Weather Report | For 24 hours ending at noon. Temperature at 7 a. m. Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday Lowest last night . Precipitation . Highest wind velocity, . WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and Vicinity: Mostly fair tonight and Wednesday. Not much change in temperature. For North Dakota: Mostly fair tonight and Wednes Not much change in_temperatur WEATH CONDITIONS Low Pressure, accompanied dy. peel itation, extends from the Great. region southward to Oklahoma, Scattered precipitation also occurred in western North Dakota and e: ern Montana. Elsewhere the weath- er ts generally fair, Temperatures are slightly lower from the upper Mississippi Valley westward to the north Pacific barometric pressure over the North- ‘west. firm ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Official in charge. 4 1 |. TEAMS OPEN | ga | Physi coast due to higher| ‘TGREAT GRAIN — |DIVORCES INCREASING BUT DAN CUPID'S BATTING AVERAGES IN MATRIMONIAL L SANITY TEST « T0 BE GIVEN GARY WOMAN Bodies of Sons Examined For Poison While Mother Is Held By Police (By The Associated Press) Crown Point, Ind., April 14.—Au- thorities here prepared today to test the sanity of Mrs. Anna Cunningham of Gary, Indiana, held in the hospi- tal ward at the county jail while coroner's chemists of two states sought to establish whether five members of her family were killed with poison. A cursory examination of the bod- jes of Walter and Harry, her sons, exhumed yesterday from a cemetery; near Valparaiso, Indiana, indicated,’ Dr. William MeNally, Chicago cor- oner's chemist, said, that’ they died of unnatural causes. Portions of the organs were sent to Chicago and to Purdue University at Lafayette for complete examination and report. Meanwhile the last son of the, family, David, Jr., was still in-a cri- tical condition in a Chicago Hospital, suffering from poisoning. Surgeons planned a blood transfusion today in an effort to safe his life. Pending the examination of the viscera of the two sons, coroner Wolff in Chicago said no steps would be taken to exhume the bodies of three others, David, Sr., the father, Isabelle, a daughter, and _ Charles, another son, all of whom died unde: mysterious eircumstances, Mrs. Cunningham, who tried to strangle herself in a Chicago Hospi- tal Sunday, regained her composure after being in’ jail a few hours last night. | Bae nes | POISON. FOUND By The Associated Press) go, April 14.—-Poison was fownd in the body of Walter Cun- ningham, °13, which was exhumed Valparaiso, Indiana, Anna Cun- at Crown McNally, reported today. R LEAGUE ningham, is held ‘in Point, Indiana, Dr. W. “s chem MAJO TITLE RACES Initial Battles of Summer Campaign Get Underway ° in Eight Cities i (By The Associated Press) Chicago, April 14.—Baseball fan- dom today started its annual , pil- grimage to National and American League arenas for the initi bat- tles of a six’ months campaign for baseball leadership. Fresh from weeks of limbering up in southern and western training camps, but handicapped by en un- usually long list of injured players, sixteen major league teams were pre- pared for the, opening affray that will bring the’ national game back into the limelight after months of partial eclipse by winter sports. A quarter of a million enthusiasts were ready to welcome the return to baseball normalcy. Good playing weather was in prospect at most of the eight opening cities. As the two major leagues dressed for action, the summertime sport al- so got underway in several circuits. The American Assoc and Southern jociation seasons have openings today, while one game in the International League was on the schedule. SHEPHERD CASE INQUIRY SHIFTS TO TEXAS CITY (By The sociated Press) Chicago, April 14.—Investigation of the death of Mrs. Emma Nelson M Clintock, whose exhumeg body was found to contain mercury poison, has shifted temporarily to Galveston, Texas. from where in 1909 # phy: cian was summoned to attend her in Bay View, Texas, where she was at- tacked by her final illness. Galveston authorities. have been asked to question Dr. William C. Fischer, who was practicing there in 1919, he attended Mrs. McClin- tock and what he prescribed for her. ians who attended her after she returned to Chicago to die, ending word coroner’s inquest over the bodies of Mrs, McClintock and Dr. Olson will be delayed. The coroner’s jury later this week will resume its inquiry in- to the death of William McClintock, son of Mrs, McClintock, the final step preceding the arraignment of William D. Shepherd, jis foster father, on @ charge of killing him with typhoid germ: SORLIE TO HELP INDIANS OBSERVE MEMORIAL DAY Governor Sorlie and Major A. B. Welch will visit Shell Village on Fri- ‘May 29, to assist in Memorial servieéy with the Indians. The In- dians of the village are planning a big program for the observance of Memorial day. ying of martial felicity to countless | iver. : Drunkenness Several * Burke EAGUE S HGH Marriages in North Dakota) Numbered 3,822 Last Year; While 336 Couples Were Separated By Courts—129 Weddings in _ , Burleigh County and 19 Divorces During Year BY RICHARD M. ARCHER “Old Daddy” Statistics has routed Dan Cupid, the little rascal of the bow and arrow, whose reckless pledg- victims is known far and wide. Fact is Danny has foozled many a time and oft in the Matrimonial League. Here are the figures, assembled in a nation-wide survey on “Marriage and Divorce,” by the United States Bureau of the Census, now made available for newspaper publication. The statistics are for the period of one year. During the year there were 1, 129,045 marriages in the United) States, and 148,815 divorces—13.2 divorces to every hundred marriages. Or, putting it another way, the Amer- ican-at-large has an 86.8 per cent| margin for steering the matrimonial | bark clear of the rock of disaster. In North Dakota marriages num-} bered 3,822, and divorces 336, or 88 divorces to 100 marriages. In Burleigh county there were 129 marriages and 19 divorces, or 14.7 divorces to 100 marriages. The largest number of marriages was 265 in Grand Forks county with 262 in Ward, and 197 in Cass. Fewest marriages were six in Bill- ings, with thirteen in Sioux, and seventeen in Slope. Most divorces were 53 in Ward, with 37 in Grand Forks, and 24 in Morton. There were no divorces in Billings, Bottineau, Eddy, Emmons and Ol- For the 336 divorces in the ‘state, the causes shown by court records for the year 1922 were: Divorce to Divorce to; Husband Wife | All causes .... . 98 Unfaithfulness . Cruelty nas Desertion .. Neglect to provide... .. causes 2 All other causes .... The record of the year for mar- Hages and divorces by counties fol- ows: ! Marriages Divorces NORTH DAKOTA. Adams Barnes Benson Billings Bottineau Bowman Burleigh Cass Cavalier . Dickey Divide Dunn Eddy Emmons Foster Golden Valley . Grand Forks . Grant Griggs .... Hettinger Kidder La Moure Logan McHenry McIntosh McKenzie McLean Mercer 81 (Continued on page three) STORM CAUSES TWO DEATHS Buildings Wrecked, Telephone - Poles Snapped By Wind oa pO mide eee epctets: | oe (By The Associated Press) Benton Harbor, Mich. April 14.— A high wind and electric storm ac- companied by a heavy downpour of rain caused two deaths, wrecked a partly completed factory building, and snapped off numerous telephone poles in Berrien County last night. Paul Chillici, a farmer, running! across his barnyard in the face of a driving rain, came in contact with a high tension wire and was instantly | killed. Peter Vebore, also a farmer, met a similar fate when he came in contact with a charged wire. The wind ripped the roof from the partly completed building of the Na- tional Cement Products Corporation and hurled large timber nine hun-} dred feet across a field. , BISMARCK MAN STARTS SUITS { | PRICE FIVE CENTS BEFORE RUSH OF FLOOD 9,000 ACRES UNDER WATER IN MICHIGAN | Dam at Power Plant of Ford Motor Company in Flat Rock Gives Way | i i | | | | | DWELLINGS INUNDATED Farm Buildings Washed Down Stream But No Lives Are Lost, Reports State (By The Associated Press) Detroit, Mich., April 14.—Scores of families in the valley of the Huron River between Flat Rock and Lake Erie were driven from their homes early today when the dam at the power plant of the Ford Motor Com- pany at Flat Rock burst and rei ed millions of gallons of water into the valley. More than 5,000 acres are reported under water, which is reported to be twelve feet deep in some places and steadily rising. The valley’s inhabitants were warned of the flood by troopers of the Michigan state police as soon as guards at the dam had telephoned of the break. _So rapidly did the water rise, of- ficers were soon forced to takc to boats, going from house to house with their warning, bearing scores of fam- ilies to places of safety and sending the men ahead in commandeered boats to aid in the rescue work. No lives have been lost, so far as could be learned, although many houses built below the level of the dam were inundated. Reports from various places along the seven miles from Flat Rock to Lake Erie indicate that the entire valley, at some places a mile wide, is under water. Small barns, boat houses, wooden farm implements, trees, bushes and furniture were drifting down the valley on a current running ten miles an hour. The troopers reported see- ing “chickens clinging to drifting sheds, and once a dog marooned atop a small barn howled in fear as the waves rocked and buffeted his raft through the wreckage. ‘The break-in the Ford Company’s | dam followed the crumbling in of the jearth embankment that flanked the new Detroit Edison Company at French Lunding, several. miles above Flat Rock yesterday. The impound- ed water of the’ six mile artificial lake rushed through the break. The dam, which is thirty-two feet high, is built partly of concrete and partly of earth. Engineers estimat- ed today that already ten thousand cubic feet of earth have been wash- ed away, while the river is beating into the remaining earthworks ana engineers believe more will be swept out. The new power station of the Edison Company was to have been opened May 1. The cost of the plant was $750,000. CENSUS TAKERS WORKING HERE Auditor and Assessor Start Canvassing City Today Taking of the census of Bismarck as a part of the state census was be- gun today by W. A. Falconer, city assessor, and M. H. Atkinson, city auditor. It will probably be the mid- dle of May before the work is com- Pleted, city officials say. In order that all information possi- ble may be obtained, residents of the city are asked to give every possible assistance to the men, so that Bis- marck may make as good a showing as possible. Mr. Falconer and Mr, Atkinson will do the work of assessing while they are taking the census. Formal Opening Of Yellowstone. To Be June 18 The formal opening of Yellowstone National Park this year will take place on June 18 at West Yellow- stone, Montana, the western entrance to the park, according to an announce- ment received from the Department of the Interior of the National Parks Highway Association. In previous years the park has not been opened until June 20. % Appropriate ceremonies have been planned for the opening events, and local color will be given by the pre- sence of a number of cowboys and pack animals. The Governors of Mont 5 tho, Wyoming, and Utah have signified their intention to be present, and will make a tour of the park afterwards. In addition to Mrs. Ross, Governor of Wyoming, the wo- men of the country will be represent- ed by Mrs. John D. Sherman, Pre dent of the Generel -Federation of Women’s Clubs. ‘ Although the hotels and permanent FOR DAMAGES (By The Associated Minneapolis, Minn., April lection of a jury st: apaks C. A. Montgomery lof nepin County district court today in the suit brought by Dr., Charles 0. Robinson of Bismarck, North Da- kota, asking $160,000 damages from the Minneapolis Street Railway Com- 8) 14,—Se- before pany. Dr. Robinson alleges that on May 27, 1924, he had panier peckoe his automobile near a “Y” switch of the street car company, and that on re- turning to his machine, a street car in jing ithout warning and negligently” struck him ‘and shoved him against the side of the machin causing him to suffer serious and permanent injuries. {camping equipment, and . fo: camps will not be open until June 18, as soon as the roads are free from snow, which sometimes occurs. sev- eral weeks earlier, the park will be open to moto rrying gets own p- plies may he purchased at the park store i FOOTBALL “UMPS” SMOKE London, April 14.—Some referees of football matches here have start- ed smoking while in charge of the ‘game and strong opposition is ex- prested in ‘several papers. See OF BAD TEETH ni lo! a he governme!