The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 22, 1926, Page 1

| « Unsettled tonight and Thursday, probably rain. Warmer tonight. S SYSTEMATIC — RELIEF WORK |S STARTED er Agencies Begin Opera- tions in Full Force HOSPITALS: CROWDED) 3,500 Injured in Miami, 1,000 of Whom Are in Crit- ical Condition (By Associated Press) The art Ah hurricane- swept communities, facing a) death list of upwards of 400 persons, 4,000 or more _in- , jured and property damage which will amount to $50.- 000,000 or more, centercd their efforts entirely today on bringing a degree of order which would permit an ac-' curate accounting of the havoc’ wrought by the disaster. The Miami area, hardest hit of all, was going about the work of rehabilitation, m caring for the injured and | seeking out the dead in sys- tematic manner. The Ameri- can Red Cross and: other re- lief agencies were on hand full force, with troops on guard and martial law de- clared in many places. Injured Are Removed The injured in Hollywood, Miami suburb, have been or- dered removed to points north |. of the city and persons un- able to aid in the relief and rehabilitation, work have been instructed by military author- ities to evacuate the city, ac- cording to information brought to West Palm Beach ast night by Dr. William R. Redden, 1 f the Al medjcal service. Dr. Redden estimated the serious]; injured at 1,400, He found 1,350 pa tients in Miami hospitals and estimat- ed that the total injured there was 3,600 of whom 1,000 suffered serious hurts. About 500 of these had fractured limbs and skulls. He also said the official list of deaths in Miami had been placed at 135, jo Lives Lost at Pensacola Pensacola and Mobile, struck by the hurricane just before it passed inland and. dissipated, made knowo to the world that there was no loss of life in either city. Mobile egain was connected with the outside world by a telegraph wire (Continued on page 3., ONE LITTLE GIRL. BOOTLEG PRICE-CUTTING. HARD TO BEAT FRENCHMEN. WAR A MONEY LOSER. my Ashes Didone ri it You have reed of Miss Mabel Nor- mand, just married, and know about bre! “scree! hear now how, out there, as she herself says,| a little girl, knowing nothing! s t4o,000—"just, a: lied <i a le She put that into Los Angeles real estate and now it is worth three quarters of a million. This is not advising you to in- vest in anything in particular, but just to let you know whi tel girl knowing nothing about busin can do if she goes to the right p! to do it. Our new American industry, bod<- legging, complains of overproduction. In sas City one bootl r tele- th ee Dans rs “a cut n honest bootlegger gives five addresse: ind ize. PI so that can't live. He » and th lige y at This “aquegling” on b cuwers may heip tem) it seems justified. price- jorarily, and at $1.50 a But for real results big boot! will have af me vy kil Li} rs, ers, as en exactly| ‘ iring to keep prices ‘but not fighting to Knock them down," aig te tee, war. jaan with the visoret Bang oft d left or 5 Til- seas caput ieee eer hgigrtlegion, Peder apr! vey a little] m THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE DEVASTATED é.bove is what a “baby hurricane’ wrought by the storm on Sept. 18. oa VENETIAN CAUSEWAY SWEPT BY BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, ‘AREA PRESENTS APP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1926 ago a hurricane hit Miami, but did little damage, compared with the havoc The photo shows a hurricane sweeping across the Venetian Causeway between Miami and Miami Beach. al PHILADELPHIA ISCROWDED AS. FIGHT NEARS Fans Hunt Tickets and Places to Sleep—Not Bothered | Over Legal Tilts Philadelphia, Sept. -(P) day before the battle found the; Dempsey-Tunney championship bout! still behind a smoke screen of legal} entanglements and the city of Phil- adelphia swamped by the advanee in-| flux of one of the greatest crowds 22. -The that ever gathered anywhere for a| sporting spectacle. { None of the dozen or more court cases started eitner vy Jack Kearns, Dempsey’s former manager, or B. C. Clements, Chicago promoter, appear- ed likely to upset plans for the bout,| | but rival squads of lawyers were prepared for all 11th hour maneuvers.| Chief of these was o hearing, sched- uled at 1:30 this afternoon; on ap- vation for an injunction to stop the fight,‘brought by Clements, who claims he has a prior contract bind- ing Dempsey’s services. Pinchot Will Not Interfere There will be no interference so]. | far as Governor Pinchot or any other state or city officials are concerned,| | The governor not only has peoinad to obatrus occupy @ ring: Gene Tunney. .He so Charles Scanlon of Pittsburgh, gen- eral director of the department of welfare of the Presbyterian jan education, who re. quested that the boxisg The ‘rom all quarters of the globe to port. ic fans, who are coming [make up @ record crowd of probably} || 182,000 at the first heavyweight title match in three years, are not bother- ed by the legal barriers that have] | beset the bout. Their chief difficul- ties have begn concerned with getting a pl to sleep and a tieket with wh ch to pass the portals of the gigantic sesquicentennial stadium to- morrow night. as scaree as uncracked liberty bells. INJUNCTIONS TO STOP FIGHT ARGUE! DAY Philadelphii rt. mon pleas court No. 1 denied a motion to po nts on the application of Cle ts of the Chicago . Coliseum club, for injunctions to stop the Jack Dempsey-Gene Tunney fight here to-| proceeded to hear | morrow night. The court th arguments on the injuncti: pone jenjamin F. Golder, iad been requested to do so by the attorney general of Pennsylvania, who did not know of the proceedings until late yesterday. Two injunction applications were filed by Clements, one yesterday against Dempsey, Foneey and = T Pigs the promoter. The other led tod: nial exhib: firey stadium the against. the the Ranney Sale state athletic commis- sion. ‘i The injunctions were brought on e* cut-rate; the ground that Dempsey and failed gentlemen. were selling corn whisky; to fulfil a contract ith Clements to fight Harry Wills, the negro heavy- weight, before he met any other fighter. _ $53 {Temperature and 1 | Road Conditions’ | m -—————— ——— +| the (Mercury readings at 7 a. wm.) — Bismarck~Cloudy. 5 St. ace FEY io 4 ot—Cloudy, 35; jo—Cloudy, 58; roads 5 far Ube vasa pants bout but plars to} | ide seat and root for| | informed] | governor stop the| | bout; Mr. Pinchot paid tribute to} | Both are becoming} | States Brief Sidelights on Florida Disaster (By Associated Press) ‘The palatial Miami Beach home of Harvey S. Firestone, tire man:iacturer, was the scene of a Heer battle yester- day, when looters attempted to carry off a large amount of StL ay Blue jackets, on guard near the residence, drove the men cif, * + The 1am us James Whitcomb Riley oak tree, set out by the ier }. et several years ago at the intersection of Collins a ie and Lincoln road, two main thoroughfares cf Miami Bach, was uprooted by the storm. + * As doctors and nurses gave medical attention to the in- jured and relief workers meted out scanty supplies to the homeless at Hollywocd yesterday, Caesar La Monica’s band puraded the streets playing lively airs. Pane ey A weman relief worker at Sebring appealed to news- pa,crmen last night for belts. “We have a quantity of trousers for men,” she’ said, “but no belts to hold them up. Please issue an appeal for belts at once.” ee & No casualties were reported among the Seminole Indians at Miami. The wily subjects of Chief Tony Tommie, taking note of a bit of Indian lore, retired to the fastnesses of the > everglades several days before the storm, when. they noticed ‘the blooming*of Sawgrass. “Mean much rain, maybe big storm,” said one brave. * 4 An Associated Press correspondent driving into Fort Lauderdale yesterday was hailed by a farmer, who had an iron spike driven through his left cheek. He was taken tc Fort Lauderdale, where a doctor sewed up the wound. ee # C. G. Rhodes, a Fort Lauderdale millionaire withdrew $20,000 from a bank yesterday and passed out bills of large denomination to destitute persons on the streets, * e Seeing his dog floating dewn the street in a deluge of water a Sebring man plunged into the flood in an attempted rescue. Man and dog died together. A Miami Beach druggist, clad only in a bathing suit, for three days has dispensed drugs and soft drinks from the soda fountain of his store, unroofed and demolished by the hurri- cane, s * * When flocd waters of Lake Okeechobee swept over Moore- haven, C. F. Bowman clutched at a tree to which he clung until rescued more than 12 hours later. His wife and two daughters were drowned, ewe Joseph Alton, Fort Lauderdale bargeman, carried Chuck Lewis on his back from Hollywood to Miami, a distance of 18 miles, for medical treatment. * Caught in the deluge when Lake Okeechobee burst its banks at Moorehaven, a mother lashed her three children to her with inflated automobile tubes. Struggling desperately, she reached the roof of a floating house, and as she crawled onto the es boards, all three were swept from her. She was alone. el see During the height of the Moorehaven flood, a young negro wiilse coe eutivesmemno Uulkisen as Chey wore swept slong’ in white’ and. twelve;negro as they si along in the flood beneath him. A Moorehaven woman clung with a child to a telephone pole until her husband arrived to rescue her. The child was QUESTIONS IN (ait is last day in| the ls the presi it sat down with; 74 Bruce Barton, personel friend, and chatted informally, answering some of the questions which are often in mind of his fellow citizens and fich they would like to ask him if they could. The notes of this talk proved to. be such an interesting rev- elation of the human sid¢ of the chief executive that his visitor prevailed upo im to depart from precedent. this single instance, and allow him- self to be quoted to the American people directly.) ': (Copyright | y "a Mid cae Press, chairé and carpets ru- it ag summ ottages; La on a ‘Citche .. ohate haa ol! pumbler talege: $— HURRICANE “JURY FINDS: | SUBW_BRDALL VIEW WITH BRUCE BARTON (TWO MOTIVES - ADVANCED IN | MURDER CASE Officials of McHenry and Rot- tineau Counties Unite to Investigate Crime WILL QUESTION PARENTS Loiselle May Have Been Killed For Money or Through Jealousy Over Girl motives, one of robbery and another of jealousy et ing checked by authorities in tigation of the slaying of Jo- seph Loiselle, 23, of Newburg, whose body was found Monday in a plowed eld cight miles west of Upham. Officials of two counties, } d Bottineau, today joined in a ugit- ed effort t was a resident of Bottineau county and the cri committed in Me- Henry count: Due to poor roads, Sheriff Car! Hanson of this city waa unable to push his investigation of the crime yesterday, but today he left for Bot- tineau ci 'y where he will meet ols of ‘oceed to the farm home y parents where they will question members of the family in an effort to obtain clues to them in their endeavors to solve the murder. TOM JOHNSON Self Confessed and Convicted | Murderer Gets Life Term - in Penitentiary Money Is Missing when found d ield near a farme! throat cut, had only is - pockets, whereas he was’ in a house, 6 cents Minneapolis, Sept. 22.--UP) Tom] Upham, where he was last seen alive || | Johnson, confessed and conviced slay- hickory a a vat etela Taney i , . vi is [ef of Leonard Erdal, today was sen-| was found, and the only article in! tenced te life imprisonment at hard] his opssession, in addition to a blood wark in the state penitentiary by ck knife which he held in Judge E. A. Moptgomery. jury who | 8 © was passed after the’ investigated the case were inclined to | shortest murder trial in the history|helieve that the jack knife held in! of Hennepin county came to an end! Poiselle’s hand had either been used 3 when Johnson, the only | for self protection or had been placed ss put on the stand by the de-|there by the slayer. counsel, finished two hours of esti y undeg direct and Was Follewed-a Mile cross examination, Tracks which were found in a high- He was started for prison before} way where Loiselle's truck was aba noon, doned showed that the young farmer, amneegeeinnenennen: ease. had been pursued for more than a Col. Frayne Baker =| Power feta’ bye deen sige in his .| Will Talk Tonight at Legion Meeting throat. Col: Frayne Raker of Washington,; Loiselle, it has been reported to’ Sheriff Hanson, was engaged to | D. C., attached to the general staff’ of the U. S. Army, will tell of pres- married this fall, and reports which {have been | received by the sheriff | ent activities of the war department! at the meeting of the Lloyd ca | prompt him to believe that jealousies against Loiselle may have played a post No. 1, American Legion, in the A. 0. U. W. hall at 8 o'clock tonight. I: | | | ny i} i i part in the slaying. pa ute cocoa | Weather Report’ 4 Weather conditions at North Da « +. 36 » 58 city to attend the meeting. % A lunch and smoker will follow the at | | business session, A ' Many Points Report , Frosts Last Night i Freezing temperatures were re- eeansa | corded at many North Dakota points} BISMARCK | last night, reports to the weather | Boti a || bureau here show. alts take Larimore, with 23 degrees, was the | pC "tenes coldest pet In the simte, Tempers: Hie lta tures reported from other points | Picnnte, 3 Grand Forks 26; Jamestown, Crnaha Langdon and Na Devil: Drang vi 28, Amenia and Fessenden 29; | Jamestown . : Pembina | Langdon a ae he net | Lisbon ted cloudy skies which frost. There was no frost | Napél here, the minimum being 36. Peltiteton Moorhead, Precipitation to 7 a, m, Highest wind velocity . Temps. SBLSESESESLowest 08 3 preven’ SVBASSSSSSSTSSE SF Highest s8 01 38 0 % 32 10 Clear WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck end_ vicinit Un- settled toni and Thursday, proba- farmer tonight. Cooler, raday. Be eth Dakota: Unsettled to- night and Thursday, probably rain south -and rain or snow north por-| Aarti s 66 | citizen would: want* to know, ‘why | haven't you come out to see us in, tions. Warmer tonight east and cen- | Our\ town?” tral portions. Co Thursday. Little Time For Travel GFYPRAL WEATHER CONDITIO! The eopeident pushed his felt hat, High pressure, eccompanied by cold back @ little and settled himself back’ weather, prevalls from. the Dakotas ito the old green rocker. From that and Minnesota northwestward to Al- on I interrupted only to con- berta. Ww pressure areas are ce! tribute additional questions. He did tered over the southern Plains States the rest, and he seemed to be having; and over western Montana and east- # eal good time. {ern Washington, Precipitation ocenr- “It has not been po: le for me, red in the Great Lakes region. In to spend much time traveling around Iowa and over the northern Rocky the country,” he began, “The detail: ‘ion. It was snowing at ef administration betome greater monton and Swift Cur- and greater and require more and : , more time. The nerviaion of the experiditure of ly $4,000,000,000 each year is a very large task. It is oy few years “0 500,000 ex- res were less than be Rave been told that when Wilfism retary of the navy ae 4 Poe in Washing- onl lays during one year. th: Id be impossible not be cor- Region Sumi For the week ending Sept, 21, Unfavorable weather fer har ae iting in the rain Feceived. Haitaid cons! jome sections. and seeding of the But in his day, when the rad 0 a vy, ir were Bi fe x he wou! fae lel pe Sm iis, of inintration.’ jeHenry | solve the crime. Loiselle| 3 Bottineau, and| in h ] thought to have had between $50 and $100 in his possession when he was in| A. © Mi Miami, Fla, Sept. The following is the oficial list of dead taken to morticians at Miami.” The compilation was made, checked, and verified by the Associated Press, The dead: Armour, Lawrence; Ayres, Thomas B., Coconut Grove; Bain, Ralph, ne- gro; Baker, Mrs, Edith; Ballou, Anna, Dayton, Ohio; Bee 22. in London; Carter, Venti months old; Comer, John’ H. Jr. Hialeah; Cracraft, Mrs. Lexington, K: Edgar, John J.; Este 60, Miami Shores; Towner, N. D., Sept. 22) —Two| & igvolving a girl, today] D. 8, Houston, gro. James, Martin, Hialeah. Kirby, Dorothy Little Rive: Edna, 6, Hialeah, formerly of land, Ohio; Leet, Georgia Mae, Hialeah, formerly of Paducah,’ Lehman, Tilson K., Hialeah; Little, Alton Bush, secretary-tre: er Miami Beach Beacon; } Kathleen, 15 months old, Hi Ginnis, 1 Mrs. floated in from sea at M’Kenney, Arthur and wife, negroes; "Kinnon, Leona. M’Loeb, Georgia 84, Hialeah; Mur- pe, John Joseph, 19, Miami Beach; eal, Harper, 35, negro; Norma, Mrs., South Miami; Petty, John, 18, Coral Gables, Terrace; Rader, M Mabel, » eah; Riaford, two children, Miami_ Shores, Rexford, Meddow, negro; Rogers, Hollywood; Rogers, J. E. 40, Sawyer, Randoloh, nbout 40, body found on old causew mi! ih s , Jennie, 40, Snow. Biscay! me Park, Sutherland, John. 28, John, 28, negro; Wal: Walts, Mrs. Ethel; Watts, B. about 90 years old; Washingto George, negro; Whitehurst, Seaboard Park; Wind. Esther, 67, negro; Win- ig Oe ha det pgBlzcnyne Park y of 3 Burlingta low, Hattie M.; Wooda' board Park, Twenty five unidentified dead are in mortuaries here, 16 of them be- ing men, Moorehaven Dead Mr. and Mrs. Joe Strum and two ehildren; W. W. Futeh and child; . Barnes Mr. and rs, Riesberg: Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Henderson and child. ir. an is dren; the five children and Clarenc Youngblood; Mr. ris and five cl Joe Zely; Mi daughter; and five children; Mrs. Jacobsen andj daughter. 2 Mrs, Adolph Kumesig; M. F. Fish-t er; Lottie Howe; Mr. Lee; Mr. and Mrs. Rowes; Mr. Mrs. Varnie Bowma Gertrude Bowman; Mrs. Young, whose fi E. Goble; Mis E. € pard; Louise Blackwell; Irminger; Arthur Govern; Unidenti- fied man, three women and three chil- MOTORISTS DISREGARD STOP SIGNS Survey Made at Cleveland Crossing Shows Only Three of 52 Stopped than to the pickets in a fenci cording to a study made by the safets department of the Northern Pacific railroad, the results of which have been presented to the state railroad board. The study, according to F. M. Met- ealfe of the Northern Pacific division, was made in order to dete mine “the efficiency ‘of both rail- way employes and the public in us- ing railroad highway crossings in North Dakota” and was made at the request of the chairman of the com- mittee on the prevention of highway erossing accidents of the American Railway Association Safety Section. Check Made July 23 The study was made at the state highway crossing of the Northern Pacifie tracks. three miles west of Cleveland which been designated railroad board ry id :y | pensing food and medic! ALLING SCENE WRECKAGE IS STREWN ABOUT ITY STREETS Death Toll Tops 400 Mark and Is Expected to Mount to More Than 700 50,000 ARE HOMELESS Long Lines of Destitutes at Relief Centers For Bread, Water and Fuel Miami, Fla., Sept. 22.— (AP)—As search for addi- tional dead and care for the injured and homeless went on today along Florida’s storm devastated lower east coast, late reports from all sections of the hurricane area showed a death toll of more than 400, a missing list of 150, more than 5,000 injured and 60,000 homeless. Varying estimates from the 60-mile_ coastal area in the path of the gale placed the property damage at between $50,000,000 and $100,000,000. Rescue and relief workers believe a complete search of the mass of tangled wreckage ‘]in the score or more of strick- -;en towns and cities and count of the bodies cast up by the waters of Biscayne Bay will swell the death total to more than 700. 250 Dead at Miami The death list at Miami alone was expected to reach 260 this morning as addition- al bodies were given up by the waters of Biscayne Bay. More than 3,000 injured ‘have CONTRIBUTIONS WANTED People of Burleigh county are uppealed to by the Burleigh coun- ty chapter of the Red Cross to contribute generously towards the relief work being done by this humanitarian organization dn the storm devastated area of Florida. The far dl of Miami sent out an appeal today to the Amer- ican people for funds to aid in ite weneb lltistiea. 3 le the national organization immediately donated $100,000 for immediate use, much larger sums will be needed soon to care for the injured and desiitute people in Florida, and every Red Cross chapter in the country has been appealed to for funds. All funds donated by Burleigh county pedple should be sent ai- rect to the Red Cross Chapter, Bismarck, N. D., and checks should be made out in the same manner, local officials state. Every cent collected here will be forwarded to the national head- quarters to be used at their dis- cretion, been given medical assistance by hos- pitals and Red Cross workers, and 22 were reported dead at Miami Beach. Marti: law remained in force throughout the storm area, with na- tional guardsmen patroling the streets, With the arrival of an adequate supply of fresh water, sanitary condi- tions have been greatly improved in Miami and: Hollywood: As search went on for additional dead throughout yesterday and it night in Miami, long lines of desti- tute filed past emergency relief cen- ters for small portions of bread, wa- ter and fuel. dru, freely, ii anaes to ay.” Virtually the whole of the devas- tated area presents a scene of destruc- tion beyond the telling. Parts of au- tomobiles, limbs and trunks -ef huge trees, roofs, t hone poles, glass and wreckage were strewn through the streets by the high wind, while the inrushing waters of the gulf stream cast scores of yachts, schoon- ers and steamers and pleasure craft high on the beaches. Both the Miami river at Miami and the New river at Fort Lauderdale are clogged many blocks inland with marine wreckage. Reports from the citrus and table growing sections show that, the loss to crops was high, one estimate day placing the damage at. $3,- many cases te persons P More than $100,000 has heen sub- - scribed to the relief fund in Miami alone early today, end reports have come from cities to the north of oth- er thousands of doliars for the auf- ferers. is Meanwhile, relief units are rly from the north with