The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 21, 1927, Page 1

—_— WEATHER FORECASTS Fair tonight and Friday, Not Ye. quite so cold '» ESTABLISHED 1873 100 BELIEVED KILLED WHEN MEXICAN ‘Jolly Cap? | U.S. CITIZENS ABOARD TRAIN | WERE UNHURT: Presidential Office Charges | ‘Catholic Rebels’ Respon- sible For Attack | TRACKS ARE TORN UE Military Escort Fights Val- d jantly to Protect Train, But Is Overpowered Mexico City, April 21.—(P)—Fifty- dies and 82 injured persons had en today from charred of a passenger train burned its in a holdup in the state Unofficial estimates indi- cated that the total dead might reach 100. The military escort of 50, which was on the train when it was held up, fought until all were dead or wounded, A statement issued from the presi- dential office charged “Catholic reb- els’ with responsibility for the at- tack, asserting that three Catholic priests were among the leaders. It said Secretary of War Amaro had or- dered “the required measures for an energetic peaeie of the priests, who received their instructions from the episcopate of Mexico City. Almost without warning, the train was stopped in a lonely region a geet Pog bandits or rebels, estima: Ped at to 1,000 men, hastily dis- posed of the military guard, oil and gasoline on the coaches as the p gers looked on helpless and soon the coaches were a mass of flames. { 4 Some May Have Escaped Late information was that about half the passengers escaped, among them E. S. DeYima, vice president ps} the Banco de Mexico and director of ‘the National Railways, and Eduardo Mestre, president of the institution of public charity in Mexicy City. Advices to the presidential office gave the name of Coquita de Leon, daughter of former President Obre- zon and the wife of yn army officer, as among the dead or injured. No Americans were on the train, Tracks between the stations of Limon and Feliciano were torn up. When the train reached the break the rails the engine overturned, but the coaches remained standing on the tracks. One report, received at the railroad offices, was that a passenger became insane when his wife and five children were burned mous English who tea has racer, players fun. | cabs Order of Mistrial Detroit, April 21. 4#)—. n Stewart Hanley, heading the defense in the- absence of ) ,, within a second coach, The! Cora Hoffman, ele ; Poa eT a number of buildings which the ing his family was behind him. He} had granted an interview, -| Max Wagnei | eee t attempted to return to them, when he! stance of which “appeared in asi {mate of Kelly? fold of the women's | 8200000 for a building at the St i heard theit screams, but the flames) Tyestay’s Detroit Times. visit in a statement to the district | Claud Teachers college. prevented. a “This triak falls to a large extent | attorney. Raymond's. demands that! ,,%100,000 for ‘a building at the ! A Statement Issued ..| because justice_has been crucified |his wife break her friendship with| Moorhead Teachers college. D “As the only comment on this/upon the cross of unethical and de-| Kelly were discussed after which) . $7,000 for a building at Morris a painful happening,” the | statement] praved journalism,” said the court. | Kelly called the actor on the tele-| School of Agriculture. from the presidential office said, “we desire to call the attention of the people of this country who have common sense, and especially of the poor classes, to which the passengers who were barbarously burned‘ alive by this church crowd belonged, to the low moral level of those who desire to constitute themselves into spiritual directors of our country and seize General Jaime Carillo, chief of staff of the war minister, in a re- port to the president, said that “the a band headed by the priests Vega, ‘Pedroza, and Angulo, named Loza, a com: league for the defense of religious Judge Raymond expressly ly stated sha was a and asserted disbeli had indulged in any asserted: in the affidavits. wards a new trial. id a lawyer ink ee le formation ' Against Slayer of Comedy Star in Los Angeles ted By Woman—Previons Statement Is Recanted Los Angeles, April 21.4) revelation of sensational detail: bearing on the death of Ray Ray mond, musical comedy star, follow ing a fist fight. with Paul Kell ‘Murder Indictment Returned |State School | WIFE CAUSE OF TROUBLE | PLAN A BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, APRIL 21; 1927 TRIED T0 HIDE'SOLONS AGREE 7 MURDER FACTS CORONER SAYS APPROPRIATION ON DETAILS OF Aid Payment | Settled By Minnesota Leg- | islature Conference Group NEW BUILDINGS Friendship For Slayer Admit-' Total Appropriation Two Mil- lions Over ‘Deadline’ Set By State’s Governor | coSteoglitl, April 21 ls| Controversy over state payment whieh deadlocked (/P) After a hool = aid kept the legislature all through last night d at times threatened to precipitate miss -NEA, New York Bureau! Sir Thomas Lipton has a jolly good | time whether he wins or loses. fs magnate been trying inly for years to win the interna- itional yacht trophy, was snapped at the New York Yankees’ ball park. He insisted on putting on one of the caps to help atong in. the | The and : FORD-SAPIRO SUIT COMES T0 SUDDEN HALT, Judge Raymond Grants De- fense Counsel’s Motion For der of mistrial granted upon motion of de- fense counsel today brought to am brupt halt Aaron Sapiro’s $1,000,000 | ing she had gone to Kelly's apart- libel suit against Henry Ford. Judge Fred M. Raymond, ordered, Wilkinson, in the afternoon and that the jurv discharged and instructed a! mistrial be entered upon the plea of | was taking place. In a previous state- Ford ment to pi Senator | her James A. Reed .of Missouri, that Mrs. | cleared Mrs. Hoffman of allegations made in a series of affidavits by Ford detec- tives and other employes that she had discussed a $10,000 bribe with “Kid” Miller, and that she had wrong- ualified juror that Sapiro miscynduct as Judge Raymond immediately invited counsel for both sides into his private chambers to discuss steps looking to- Judge Raymond asserted that the in the affidavits had been turned over to the federal de- partment of justice, but that he had screen juvenile, who is under indict- ment for murder, were promised at | senate and house finally reached an today’s inquest into the traged; s| agreement shortly before 8 a. m. to- Coroner Frank Nance moved to in-| day and prepared the way for pass- vestigate an alleged plot to “cover | age of the final appropriation bills, up” facts in the case d_ adjournment. an extra session, conferees from the a. The belief that a concerted The house adopied the conference tempt has been made to suppr report hout debate and promptly vital facts immediately after Ray-| repassed the education bill, the cer- mond’s death, was expressed Coroner Nance yesterday. A murder indictment was returned elly following a grand jury investigation of the actor's death. | The bill was returned a few min- | utes after Raymond’s widow, Dorothy { MacKaye, stage actress, had finished her testimony. Woman Collapses i Miss Mackaye, who has admitted | |that her friendship for Kelly was the cause of the trouble between {the screen player and her husband, collapsed in the Witness chair, As she was being a: ted put of the grand jury room, she leatned of the jury's action. “it can’t be true,” she screamed and sank to the floor. For three hours Miss MacKaye was grilled in the grand jury room. Her testimony was suid’ to have reached its climax when she admitted that she was with by | tificate of indebtedness bill and the tax levy bill, The measures then were sent to the senate for approval, The plan for settlement of the ‘state aid deficiency controversy | which finall? was adopted by the | conferees calls for: Payment of the $910,000 school aid deficiency for 1925 and 1926 in full from certificates of indebtedne Payment of $400,000 on the 1923. 24 deficiency with a stipulation in | the bill that this shall be consider- jed as full payment of the 1923. and 1924 deficit of $1,359,000. Education Bill Arbitrated The senate and house conferees ; dan agreement early th 1 on the education appropri ‘tion bill, the last being appropria- tion . measure, recommending — total appropriations of $: 5. Added to bills previously passed, this brought the total appropriation ornii Where Roads Must Be Tied Down Kelly in his apartmet when he call-; ed her husband on the telephone last ! Saturday night. hung up the receiver and : Raymond home, where an argument between the two men led to the fight. Miss MacKaye was quoted as say- for the present session up to $42,- 163,806. ' the $40,644,000 deadline beyond which the governor said appropriations should not xo. The appropriations agreed will require a tax levy of not to ex- ‘ceed 3,7 mills for the first year of {the biennium and 28 for the second | year, Matt J. Desmond, deputy audi- she remained there while-the fight! {0% announced when the conferees { Building Items Allowed |The conferees agreed to retain in | the education bill disputed items for ment with a companion, Miss Helen she said she had left home Saturday night. to buy ster eggs for her four-year- some | The conference committee eclimin ated an item of $70,000 for a build- Dr. W. J. Sullivan of Hollywood, | ing at the Crookston School of Agri- who attended Raymond, was among | Culture. the grand. jury. witnesses. ‘The| Members of both houses were ready physician testified he had signed a ‘to act upon the conference report death certificate stating that Ray-|S00n as the bills eowld be prepared mond had died of natural causes, ferepeaen: “nephritic coma” and Bright's dis- Vednesday’s session was the last case. ents G5") at which bills could be passed, Ac- Miss MacKaye, who at first re-| cordingly, members of the legislature fused to testify :before the grand] covered up the clock when midnight jury, on the ground that she might f, approached, und officially, the leg:s incriminate cither Kelly or herscif, nd phone and announced he would “set- tle this thing.” or considerably more thar] ! upon}; Miles of highwa waters of the stretch of pave St. Louis and Fi Mlinois rmount City, I vecting traffic on the same highway, near East St. sandbags to the right of the lower picture. RIOTING AND LOOTING UNDER WAYATHANKOW Foreign Warships Will Act Quickly if Chinese Re- peat: Nanking Outrage Shanghai, April 21.—-()—Rioting and looting wi i valent in Han- lature still was doing business on recanted after her first collapse ng. terrible ordeal,” Wednesday when the sun came up submitted to questior this morning, “It' has been a Miss MacKaye sobbed as she left libe: ty, with & bandit nicknamed “No./ not received a final report of the| the hall of justice. “Why, oh, why FI 14,” were fleeing to the nearby | investigation and did not at the|do they have to do all this to me? (Continued on page three) time know whether there would be|1 would be all right but my nerves = leriminal procéedings against any | are shot to pieces,” one. |, Attorneys for —— . | Weather Report i > Temperature at 7 a. m. . Highest yesterday Lo’ last night . 37 |be agreed upon. ° 7G) SENATOR. REED 18 TAKEN ig| TO HENRY. FORD HOSPITAL PI Highest wind velocity Sapiro and Ford “agreed with Judge Raymond to mect here Saturday, April 30, to determine . 25| Whether a date for a new trial could JAPAN CAUSE “SOLONS WORRY, | {Tokyo Banks Experiencinz | Prohibition Agent’s House Is Dynamited Des Moines, Ia, April 21.—)— The home of George Cessna, member of the Des Moines liquor squad, was eather conditions st North Da-{ Detroit, Mich. April 21.—()—| dynamited here this mor Boot- ae kota points for the 24 hours eerie James A. Reed, of Missouri, | loggers were held responsible by po-| Runs—Premier ‘Calls Bank- | vt 8 a. m. today: chief of counsel for Henry Ford in| "<p, for the attack. | Temps. £ | the $1,000,000 libel suit brought by e explosfon tore away one side| ers Together for Conference 3 \\ Asron-Sapiro, was taken in an ambu- | of tbe house, but neither Cessna nor| 3 y were e; 3 ss lange to the Henry Ford hospital time, were injured. asleep at the) roxyo, April 21—U)—The Bank} Fu gf | Rlchand J, Wiggins, former Kansas - of Japan held an urgent meeting) is © | City judge, associated with Senator | j Sale moras, ab whiee te wes re-| sey £ _E ited in the Ford defense, announced | Last Minute was distussed owing to. the sorioxx BISMARCK © Clear |that the senator suffered a recur- | ee fe emaree aml as: $2 Ape. serious Perey) ; 22 © Clear | rence of the. abdominal pains which | Bulletins | -DRapeiah: SuaMeR. Eater the pres| Bottineau © Clear ‘attacked’ him as he returned to De-| [ec atrieet ieabittce fac a cone) feat Pai rh 03 PCldy.} troit from Washington last Monday! secsae Maree FeReampe apr # co faa e 18 0 Clear |-and decided to go to the hospital for | Newport News, Va. April | {Key of the Tokyo banks are ickinson 35 17 .02 Cloudy | a thorough medical examination. 21—(AP)—Richard W. Ken- si a e Toky: a Dunn Center 15 0 Clondy |” Senator Reed, fully clothed, walk-| ison of Boston and Wilbur F. i.’ beian ingked hether® the Tunsiowy Ellendale .. 21 0 Snow ed from his hotel room to the am-| Bingham of New York * | Ie RARE Benen whothey ibe ansicty Fessenden ...... 35 18 0 Cloudy ibulance, said Higgins, who denied | 4 lew York were (can be stemmed, nothwithstandin Grand Forks .... 35 23 0 Clear -|that Senator Reese echdition ‘sight | killed today when their sta- | the fact that the government is ex- Jamestown 3 0 PCldy.\be regarded as serious. j plane crashed into Chesapeake | ercising every effort to renew con-' Langlon o Clear Bay between the Riprape and eee sed ia ha ilask. kab ijrbon o Cear |Civil War Veteran | were recorered two hours aft: |J0P0” fous, that af least 500.001000 Minot . 0 Clear pi gl wo hours aft- ‘yen more was necessary to protect Napoleo o pcidy.| Ig Freed of Murder — ficn cc ue? meyer? sidet, ithe, banks, ‘and it was understood Pembina 0 Clear 4 lers at the Hampton Roads ‘that government assistance might be | Williston 0 clear | Count in 9 Minutes naval base and were on a | asked. Moorhead, P Clay. | | training. iene when the aeci- | bet pbeak % Japan Aids | Leavenworth, Kansas, April 21.— lent occurred. ‘ |, The Bank of Japan was endeavor- fie PEATHER ToRpeae? Fair, Rufus H. Pierce, 86-year-old, New York Apri 30k segak: te SENDIY eliseaRey to most | teeth a Sede See alte un | Cixil: war who shot and! lew York, April 2i—(AP) | e hard-pressed banks. | Lines ' eines and jay. Not quite £0 Litteg ‘Lincoln C.Ensley; 66, who, Common stock of the Gen- 0 automobiles were outside its ’For-North Dakota: Fair tonight | #¢t¥ed in the Spanish) American war,; eral Motors corporation | Pore: BAP employer ederying out to and Friday. Not quite so cold Friday. | because he talked too much,” ‘has| touched = record high price of | pao fupcases and sac eee Rie GENERAL WEATHER CONDITIONS! der, “TU! Ff ® charge of mur-| 192 on the New York ex- | were experiencing runs and every © The low pressure area centered; Pierce killed Ensley by firing’ he racalde r to 10,- jp Rial being made to replenish | over Texas yesterday morning has|three shots through a door of: his 500" pie beslp fends | Toda; poy ‘i al moved rapidly northeastward to the| home when Ensley demanded admit- | rf ang to Toky. iv ‘tut SF aie thee 146, lower Great Lakes fegion and precip-|tance after he had been ejected as, {fom 1891-2 upward. Predic- | fo [vo institutions more than 100 | itation occurred at many places from undesirable boarder, | thons of record-breaking first (standin, ge! ringing the gross oie the Plains States eastward. The| “He talked too much, and I told’ quarter earnings, coupled with | 1,168,000, 000 pong to approximately | a high pressure area covers the Plains States and Rock: Mountain region nd generally fair weather prevails | here iterday. ' from’ the Rocky Mountain ” jon He was always hanging around| * pL Sie ane Sopareny, | Ka Fetes westward to the Pacific const. Cold|the house chinning with the women| — Kingston. Ont» April 21— “| generally were dinteamet. Pent from upper| folks. I wanted some peace, 1) (AP) "Thomas x 22g | Governor fchikt of th Bank of | westward and/told him to get out.” nae: ef Dives * | Japan, sald that the difficulticn were | een! wpe western Rocky} The jury deliberated nine minutes, coy raed strat, of phy ilo iam Page edhe eid RRIS W. ROBERTS. Paper money was made ‘n China! penitentiary, was hanged at - {tors being panickstricken. He suid} Offisial tn charge. | 000 years ago. | he county” jail today. ere | Ki . note stm / sang f y s ¥ * him to leave my house and not come back,” Pierce testified at his trial Two small banks suspended today, | an extra cash | influenced {but the others. apparently withstood | prospects of dividend probably | Nonacy, Pigaon and Villalobos. kow, said a wire! that city today, with a panic immin- ent. Eighty-five Americans -were hugging the edge of the foreign set? tlement, reluctant to desert their property, yet fearing to venture far inland. It was learned authoritatively that if the Chinese at Hankow should at- tempt to repetition of the Nanking outrage, the foreign warships would | act without delay. Among the for- eign warcraft anchored in the Yang- tze off Hankow at the present time, are eight American ves: —the Iso- bel, Cincinnati, Noa, Preble, Pruett, An unconfirmed rumor ceived from Hankow that Michael Borodin, Russian adviser to the Hankow government, previously re- ported in a hospital in the foreign quarter of Hankow, was under de- tention. From Nanking it was 1} vireless that firing between city and Pukow, on the opposite side of the Yangtze, had: been resumed. Shells from Pukow fell on the rail- way station at Nanking, resulting in numerous casualti The railway staff fled in panic inking is held by the Cantonese (Nationalist) troops, while Pukow is in the hands. of the norther Railroads Should‘ Lower Switching Cost at State Mill Washington, April 21.--)--Rail- roads should reduce their switching charges at the North Dakota termin- al at Grand Forks, N. D., the Inter- state Commerce Commission was ad- vised today in an examiner's report upon investigation of a complaint made by the state government. The terminal property, # state owned establishment for handling is now required to pay five cents per 100 pounds for the switeh- ing of grain to its tracks from East Grand Forks, Minn, The examiner recompiended that the charge be cut rs. to three and one-half cents per 100, pounds and that transit privileges be extended to the material handled. All of the recommendations must be considered by the commission be- fore action is taken. APPLESAUCE Dentist: Now, I'm not going to hurt you at all, so tust— New Patient: Cut out the pro- fessional chatter, old ~-an, I'm a den- tigt myself—Answers, London, have been washed away by the tor’ | September Fosse co Workmen here wre shown sandbagging a|- state route No. 11, between 1. Below a state puliceman is Louis. Note Coolidge Invited By Shipstead to Come to Minnesota Washington, April 21. —(®)—An in-} vitation to make his summer home in | Minnesota was extended to President Coolidge today by Senator Shipstead of that state Mr. Shipstead proposed some ¢ sites in Minnesota, but he lined later to reveal them. He said the president hoped to give some ion to the selection of his summer home when he has cleared | up some of the pending work now be fore him. CHEST DRIVE TO BE HELD THIS SPRING Plan Campaign For $5,000 Quota in Near Future at Di- rectors’ Meet Last Night Decision io put on a campaign for funds for the Bismarck Community Chest was reached at a meeting of directors last night and a quota of $5,000 for the six months ending 30 decided on. The solicitation will be made some time in the near future, after a cam- | paign committee, appointed by Pres- ident A. M. Christ son, meets to work out plans for it and to decide on the date, The directors discussed whether they should hold a campaign this spring to collect the city’s quota for 18 months or whether they should hold one now for the six-month per- iod and another one next fall. It was finally decided to adopt the lat- ter plan. : | Directors pointed out that the vari- ous organizations in the Chest have not solicited funds this spring and the campaign will therefore be held to furnish them with money for , the six-month period. On the campaign committee, which will meet soon to decide when the campaign will start, are H. J. Dueme- land, chairman; » F, L, Conklin, A. E, Brink, G. L. Nelson, Flames Do Damage in Japanese City; Loss, | $2,500,000 April is London, 21.--4P)—A fierce ‘tite which believed to have caused many casualties and de- \ stroyed about 1,000 homes in the ; town of Kanazawa, is reported in an | Exchange Telegraph dispatch from | Tokyo. The fire swept oroaah the | town, which is in central fanned by a high wind, doing dam- + age estimated ; (about $2,500,000). Kanazawa has ‘ a population of L FINAE’ EDITION | <8: THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE en BANDITS BURN TRAIN Waters / of Mississippi ittle Rock, Ark., April rem: Memph valley Mi the encroachments Arkansas, through apparent yesterday. Forec: bright, as overhanging The crest at St. Louis t '-(" Bulletins From i Flood Territory —*ap| gether. New Orleans, April 21.—@)— The first pinch of the greatest flood in the history of the Mis- sissippi valley today began to be felt in the lower valley, With a storm sweeping down the valley in advance of the crest of the 's flood, thousands of men were | conscripted to brave the storm winds and fight the rising men- ace of the .waters, | Memphis, Tenn. April 21.—(?) | —The main line Mississippi tiv- er levee at Stops ding, 18 miles north of Greenville, Miss.. | gave way early today, letting i ; @ fush of water ich wil | epread through about a dozen counties, Pettiville, Ark. April 21.—(A) —This village was near extine- tion today from the rising waters of Big Lake. Three buildings, | including one large _ residence, | were washed away. Water was | 18 feet deep in several store | buildings and was rising from the | floods coming down from New Madrid, Mo. Rolling Fork, Miss., April 21.— (#)—Water w Pouring over levees for a distance of seven miles at Albemarle Bend, 10 miles west of here, early toda ' A handred convicts have been rushed to the threatened spot to aid 1,000 workers there and an appeal for more men has been sent out, Issaquena county, where the threatened levee is lo- cated, is already more than 55 per cent under water and a break in the barrier would inundate the whole country, it is believed. | Little Rock, Ark., April 21.—(?) | The south half of the Missouri | Pacifie bridge across the Arka | sas river here swept away by the current early tod al ing with it trains of cars loaded with’ rock which had been run on it in an attempt to hold the structure down. HISTORY OF THOUSANDS OF REFUGEES ARE BADLY IN NEED OF CLOTHING AND FOOD-HUNDREDS PERISH ven South Central States Battle Against Rapidly Rising River—Arkansas Is Worst Affected and Situation Is Critical There RIVER VALLEY ‘Cloudburst Strikes Texarkana, Releasing Several Inches of Precipitation—Many More Deaths Reported as Addi- tional Levees Give Way—Over 50,000 Homeless i—(AP)—Hundreds of families | today and ov : ciated ing in flooded areas in this section will be drowned unless they are rescued in the next few hours, the Little Rock chapter of the American Red Cross said today in issu- ing an appeal for boats and life savers. , Tenn., April 21—(AP)—Death, famine and pestilence rode gulfward today on the ever-increasing tide of the greatest flood in the history of the Mississippi Thousands of square miles of fertile soil lay inundated. Damage to property had already reached an unestimated figure in the millions of dollars. Thousands of persons, driven from their homes by the waters, were suffering for food, clothing and shelter, while others, who had braved the flood to stay in their homes, | had perished. Seven states—Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, ippi, Tennessee and Louisiana—were battling against of the river. quantity of water from western tributaries. which several i’ were rising above and casting aside all barriers, was the worst affected in the group, though danger points had de- veloped at points in Illinois and Mississippi which were not st Calls For More Rain , The outlook throughout the valley was far from skies and rainstorms were forecast. : was believed reached until last nigh* ntial flood! when forecasters saw new waters in prospect as the result Texas was receiving a major tributaries of raing in the headlands. St. Louis is considered the northern boundary of the danger area. ee The most critical situation in Arkansas was at Clarendon, where the White and Cache rivers come to- A break in the levee there yesterday caused wide-spread desola- tion and rendered many homeless with little food or clothing. The only communication to the town is the telephone which had not gone out which reports of the suffering were relayed to the Asso- Press und to the gutside world, Cloudburst in Texas Wind and rainstorms swept over the western and southwestern por- tion of the state early today, pouring a part of a torrential rainstorm into a corner of Texas, near Texarkana. A cloudburst, which struck Texarkana at midnight, had loosed three inches of precipitation within half an hour and was continuing. Unconfirmed re- ports there told of a wide area over ‘which the storm moved. | the dike at New Madrid, Mo. The St. Francis river valley, in the northeastern portion of rkansas, was in the path of a gigantic volume of water flowing through a gap in it was estimated that more than a million acres of land will be inundated fr , this break alone. , Gets Stadium Job Grand Forks. N. D. , April 21.—-Aft- er 18 months of financial campaign- ing, the University of North Dakota Memorial campaign this afternoon let the building contract for its stadium Con- any of Grand Forks at; The work will be and the job must to the Thorvaldson-Johnson struction com + a cost of $15: started tomorrow be completed by October 1 for this season's football schedule. U. S. Sailors Have Battle in Nicaragua Managua, N: —American naval forces ragua, April 21.—(#) | communities n¢ | the number of homeless More Deaths Reported Little Rock reported six more deaths in that vicinity yesterday, bringing the total number to well over a score of known dead as a re- sult of the flood. Two more levees broke~ yesterday in the Pine Bluff sector. The Plum bayou dike and the English levee parted, belching forth muddy. water to cover thousands of aeres and drive in many more farm tenants to be cared for in the city. It was estimated that 400 square | miles were inundated in Arkansas and Texas as the result of breaks along the Red River and backwaters, where there were no levees protecting. Epidemics had broken out yester- day in two refugee camps in Arkan- sas. Mumps and other contagious diseases were offering a new menace to the sufferers, Organized relief agencies estimate the flood throughout the valley at 50,000 and up. SNOW AND COLD MAKE SUFFERING INTENSE pril 21.—()—A cold wave, uccompanied by rain, added to suffering of hundreds of homeless in Oklahoma and Kansas today, where acute conditions were reported fol- lowing a long siege of storms and floods. Red Cross branches in Oklahoma received urgent calls for food while Kansas streams rose again after rains last night. With Oklahoma and = Arkansas streams already overtaxed and run- ning from 1 to 3 miles wide, the ad- ditional rainfall in Kansas was ex- | pected to drive. more farmers and townspeople from their homes. The cold wave swept out of the northern Rocky Mountain ststes, where 2eeenor um reo yg | general. now fell yesterday in | Western Kansas, Hail storms struck Picher, Okls., caus- in Nica- | ing damage to buildings. ragua, after having been fired on on | three different occasions ‘and Tuesday night, came fliet late | wearing found dead after the “reds” | casualtics, CO ues. Pal tae & esterday into con- | yesterday afternoon with an fapan,| armed band carrying red flags and | Northern fire's points. . bands on their hats.| cury hit 1 at five million yen, Three members of the band were | Georgetown Lake Te- tired. The Americans suffered no/ area were b! 16 Below Zero The lowest April tem; years were recorded at in and degrees below pode tt in the Butte-Ana- conda mining district. ‘Roads in, this locked with from six te | 15 feet of-snow. \