The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 23, 1927, Page 1

WEATHEH FORECASTS Fair tonigh . SI iy Frode ana St Sunday. Slight- ESTABLISHED 1878 SUFFERING IS INTENSE OVER FLOODED AREA Fifty Persons Known Dead. But Full Toll Will Not Be Known Until Later MUCH DAMAGE DONE Situation at Memphis and Hickman Eases When Wa- ter Level Recedes Washington, Apr April 23.—(AP) peng nd Hoover was directed President Coolidge to go to Memphis today in connection with the Red Cross relief in the flood area. Memphis, Tenn, Al April 23.—)— The swollen Mississippi, on its greatest flood rampage of history, beat today against barriers of the lower valley as the impounded wa- ters tore their way to the sea. More than 60 pers: were known to be dead; more than 75,000 were homeles$, while yearly 100,000 others were endangered as the torrent as- suiled the delta defenses. Huge bit unestimated property | damage through a wide area from Hlinois and Missouri to Arkansas | and miesiesiee mounted cates | Waters spilled through Arcane: | river defenses and the White river NEGRO Aipblet DEPLORE K OF PETTICOATS Helena an, April 23.—(#)— Flapper styles added to the dis- comfort of 2,000 negro women and girl refugees here, when it was discovered that contribu- tions in clothing contained no pleaded one buxom a relief worker. “how come we can’t get petticoats? Sho’ funny to. me, how do these white ladies keep warm?” overflow was encroaching on new towns and communities, With the rush of the floods. into the lower valley. sath. preestibee were taken from icksburg to strengthen bulwarks against the assault, Situation Very Acute Their homes engulfed ¥ the rag- ing waters, thousands refugees were in beleagured cities and towns or clung Perlenale to housetops, ! 5, trees, all knolls and levee tops. Reports to the Mississippi river| commission indicated that the refu- | * gee situation was most acute along | a line from Bolivar to several miles | below Greenville, Miss. All possible | government equipment and many! private boats have been sent to; ‘Greenville and also to the levees above the crevasse at Stops Landing | to remove refugees to points of con- centration. Suffering wi: to be intense | among hund: ill_marooned in the flooded area without provisions or sufficient clothing. Greenville, Miss. turned into swirling Venice by waters which broke over the municipal protection ' levee, quartered 10,000 refugees from | the lowlands in addition to its citi- el The situation, there, with the r supply gone, most of the food destroye id (Continued on page three! PEIN. ae eS | Weather Report 7 Temperature at 7 a m. .. Highest yesterday . Lowest, last night qraciitation to 7 a, m. hest wind velocity . ther conditions at North kota points for the 24 hours ending vt 8 a, m. today: Temps. § | Precipitation in inches SeeSssarsersegges highest eoecoeccoo SELSRRRSSRpRsegess lowest ecocoooescs. 54 44 WEATHER FORECAST — For Bismarck and vicinity: Fair tonight and Sunday, except for some Fesaleess. 4 Sli nly, warmer tonight. For North Fair tonight ae age eee pt for wens Clee ness. warmer ton ea: and’ soneeat portions, x . GENERAL WEATHER CONDITIONS The high pressure area, with ihe” aia said om Moorhead, Minn... Clear ng. rr ane mrred in the ismecreenn, cerry, te sree | The weather is unsettled pMevga the eastern Rocky Te beg pool slo) din the south. oe Ise- re poet i ‘Vaile OBRIS W. ROBERTS. Official in charge. Ke street ARCHBISHOP AND 5 OTHER PRELATES _HAVE BEEN EXPELLED FROM MEXICO New Seeretry Lars J, Siljan of Dunn Center, who incident, charged that the leaders will succeed E. G. Larson as secre- tary to Governor A. G. Sorlie about oli¢ pricsts and one delegate of the Mr. Larson ‘has resigned to league for defense of religious free- June 1. return to the practice of law and dom. will open “7 in Valley City. ‘POLA NEGRI TO MARRY PRINCE | SERGE MDIVANI | Wedding Will Take Place in Paris May 5—Couple on Ship En Route There- New York, April 23.—(4)-—Pola Negri of the movies and Prince Serge; Mdivani of Georgia will be married In Paris May 5 und at the end of} the month will return to this coun-' try where she will resume her mo-} tion picture eareer, says a radio-| WERE NOT GIVE gram in the New York American to- day from the couple, who are aboard the S. 8. Aquitania. * The -message said Serge, whose brother, Prince David Mdivani last summer married Mae Murray, also of the films, would represent his father’s oil interests on the Pacific coast on his return. Miss Negri’s first c wi |came to this country live years ago. Last year, when Rudolph Valentino | secret service men was stricken with fatal illness, she | Episcopal home within two announced she was engaged to him and hustled the prelates into a eu! jund’ she came from Los Angeles: to! riage, said Archbishop del Rio. attend his funeral. CLEANUP WEEK PLANS MAPPED BY LION GROUP hundreds camping on |: i Meet With Scouts to Project Plan of Work; City Will Be Canvassed By Boys —— Initial steps in the campaign which is destined to make and keep—Bis- marck the cleanest city in the state, were taken last night when a Lions’ club “cleanup committee” met with Boy Scouts to outline the project to them. The Lions are sponsoring “Clean | Up and Paint Up Week,” to be held | here May 2'to 9. The work which the scouts will do| | Was outlined to them by Fred Peter- son, They will be assigned definite sections of the city to canvass and learn where ashes or other unsightly rubbish exists. Each homeowner who has rubbish in his yard will be given a card by the nenohe urging that he clean up the place. A second can- vass to see beter the. work has |\ been done will be made some time during “Clean Up Week” and, if no action was taken, the matter will be taken up. with the City Commission, which ‘has“agreed to cooperate with Lions in the Cleanup campaign. Division of the city into sections proximately 16 blocks each was m by the committee. Plans are to have the scouts mect next Tuesda: to be assigned their districts. Each scout will be given four blocks to canvass. Nex} Wednesday, the first canvass of the city would be made. Divisions of the city, to By of which 16 scouts would be assigned, will be as follows: Divisi The district bounded by Main ave- nue, Avenue A, Eleventh street east to 16 street east; district bounded b; Main avenue to Avenue A, Sevent! street east to Eleventh street east; district bounded by Main avenue to Avenue A, Third street to Seventh east;. district bounded by pty ington aire to Third street, jain avei Avenue A. The ‘tetrict. boundéd by Griffin street to Washin; arent north of the railroad tracks ersort avenue; district bounded, by Lg ington street to Third street’ Avenue A to Avenue r Third street east to Seventh street, east, Avenue re-| A & to Ayane Aver we ai ie fg: it eat ven ieee F; leventh egy ‘to Six. (Continued on page three) weU UU Wake Lusees that * Prince | *, country. husband was | edo this morning from Mexico City. ‘ount Eugene Dompski, a Pole, from | hom she was, divorced before she | day by the government to leave thej | members of the Episcopate without it, soreith street east |’ | | out of Mexico and stay corted to the American side, ‘SEEDING DELAY fot Are on Their W: Way to Laredo,! Texas, Today—Deportation | Leaves Catholic Church! Without Functioning Su-} preme Body in Country— Censorship Established | Mexico City, April 4)—-Areh- bishop Mora del Rio of Meixco City, head of the Mextean Catholic hier- | archy, and five other prelates today were on their way to Laredo, Texas,| taving. been ‘expelled. Their depor- tation left the church without a functioning supreme body in the country for the first time. While the government issued no} official statement, announcement an “the sending of the prelates ou . the country was made at the bishop's residence here. The government's drastic action had as its origin the recent burning of a passenger train in the state Jaliseo with a consequent loss many lives of passengers and federal soldiers who were acting guards, neral Alvarez, chief of staff for President Calles, in reporting on the fe of the outrage included three Cath- He charged also that the Cath- Jolie episcopate was the main. cause for the religious unrest in the Denies Catholics Attacked Train Archbishop Ruiz broke his. long silence to reply. He declared if Catholics participated in the, train jattack the church had no knowledge of it. He denied vigorously that! the attacking band was organized by the Catholic episcopate and added that if the government's report of, the atrocities committed was true, the outlaws “deserve the reprobation of the entire world.” Such church dignitaries as remain in Mexico are in hiding. It is be lieved that only seven archbishons and bishops are in the republic. Their identities and whereavouts are unknow The churches in the republic have been for nine months without priestly ceremonial because | of this opposition. Simultaneously with the deporta- tion of the archbishops and bishops Thursday night, the government es- tablished a ‘strict censorship over cablegrams -and: telegrams. TIME TO GATHER BELONGINGS Laredo, Texas, April 23.—(@)— Archbishop Mora’ del Rio of Mexico City; Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz of Morelia, Michoacan; Bishop Francisco ' Uranga of \Curenavaca und Bishop Jeusus Mpria Eehavarria of Saltillo, deported’ from Mexico City on orders of President Calles, arrived in Lar- | ! Although they were notified Thurs- | country in three hours, six Mexican arrived at the hours | He was put on a train with other; time to assemble personul belong- red at the border and told “to get) out,” they Baid. Archbishop del Rio’ is u man} about 80 years old and the long trip had tired hin. Whe -party was met by United States Consul Hai Walsh at Nuevo, Laredo, an I$ NOT SERIOUS, RECORDS PROVE ‘During Four Years Prior to This, Planting Was Only Slightly More Advanced Proof that seedin, the east Missouri been unduly hindered by the excess moisture of the past two weeks is shown by comparison of the amount eeding done 90 far this year with noma aR the past four years a’ Records. irene by the Soo Lino of- fices here show that seeding, in the four tad previous to this, was gnl:,] a “4 je more advanced than it is thi: | yea tn "1926, the records show that ther: had been no rain or snow for 3 days, the pastures were poor anc very backward and the soil very dry Nearly all hard wheat was secdec south of Bismarck and 60 per cen’ wag planted north of here. Winter rye was poor. In 1925, the weather was very coo and ‘backward. round was fav orable but there was not any to much reserve moisture, Ninety per cent of the wheat was in. In 1924, the weather was cool anc J jonable, but 90 per cent of th was in south Palla’ ane 80 7) 70 per cent nort In 1923, there had Nn consider able snoy and rain for 10 days pre vious to April 22 and the ground wa: well Wis wie moisture. East anc south of Bi per cent of the wheat Pe) in, North of Bismarck, little had been planted. BANKERS TO MEET La Moure—The fourth district group of Barkers will hae. iis. anneal nett, a gh We ident of the aintriee Th let of Dickey, st a counties ic La Moure, Ransom, Sargent and Rich- Sa are included in the group. operations in aoe ere not BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1927 SCORE KILLED IN DETROIT FACTORY BLAST 75,000 HOMELESS, 100,000 ENDANGERED BY FLOODS MIR: SWEEPS Library Recluse Stirs Politics With Series of Letters to Smith Charles C. Marshall, who likes to think and talk in terms of “issues.” (By Lee Thenholm)) New York, April 23. From the quict, book- tined, carpeted library of a stately in New York’s aristocratic street came the questioning theo on the relation of religion to politi by which Charles Clinton Matshall, | retired lawyer, shot Governor Al Smith into heightened national proia- inence. Marshall's “open lette raising ent to the Catholic religion proper ht discharge presidential dut were written not by a sleek, (NEA)- thick home SBth rs” to Smith coated politician but by ‘au’ elderly) make, Tha student — dignified, somewhat of u sentimentalist. For decades, Marshall w: of New York’s many prac yers. retired to his library. Never a Politician “Politics? ~=T am not and have been affiliated either or nominally with any political ganization,” he told me. “Politics n vely have raised, My concern is sole and simply that of an American citi-| zen and a studen Aa he never bas belonged ton politieal organization, so, he added, he never has been identified with any religious body save his own church, Marshull is the type of student wh likes to think and talk in terms ‘issues” rather than of men and current events. ere, as I see it, is an issue, a very clearly defined issue,” he said. “In the terms by which it is most familiarly known, it is the old con- flict of church and state. ages it has had various outcroppings. Its recent manifestations have been the Vatican's difficulties with the Calles government in Mexico and with Mussolini, of the Vanderbilt- Marlborough mar- just one, dawn ing law-| Chureh He retired about 15 years ago; amend those of its tenets at va ‘ r | Ings, he asserted. Leaving Thursday | has nothing to do with the questions | shall’s home. night under guard, they were deliv-iI Down the, own {obscure man, aloof from ) has and the annulment! jInitial Drive, to Raise $5,000 For Six-months Period, De- cided Upon; Civic Organi-! zations to Participate;' Speakers Will Explain Plan: Advantage With a campuign for fun held next Friday and Satur Rismarck Community — ¢ form go into operation. thousand dollars is to be raised, be apportionad among the ten ag cies participating, for the six months ending Setember 30. Henry J. Duemeland chairman of the campaign. members of the campaign c are fk. Brink, G. L. Ne'son and Mrs. F. A. Service clubs of the | cooperate in the campaign, the Lions, Ai ams and Ketary cluvs each furn ishing 10 men, who will canvass the ele xe district. __A house to house canvass in the deve conducted Women’s Community Coun- ch daa names of those woo will help} in the campaign will be announced ; early next week. The Business and Women’s club will eanva district to contributions. in ¢ hospital other places whi employes. 7 is general | Othe mmittee P Carl} onklin | city are to! ( the Profe: They and offices, Speakers to Talk jay and mharsdey. of next week during the shows and will explain the benefits of the plan. Ministers are to mention the campaign from the pulpit tomorrow. The Community Chest was recent. ly organ ith 10 groups participati They ure the Salva- tion Army, Woman's Community Council, Juvenile Band, Boy Scouts, Campfire girls, Boy’s Welfare Work, Red Cross, Society for the Friend ss, North Dakota Children's Home ba the Florence Crittenton Home and his presidential prospects|° the i hie of whether the American principle of universal and complete 4 religious tolerance is to continue. [till drive. “That the man in question is Gov.] raised Smith is incidental. I do not intend my views to be reflections upon his or anybody's candidacy for public ffice. an admirable governor, pte for him? No, I never did, hut that was not because of relig. ious consideration n venture is chances of nom- T am not a fol- y politics. About! ident he would no idea whatever, bs Smith except the Red ting in this ini- The Red Cross held its a short while ago and its quota, so it will no t in this campaign FARGO MAN IS THROWN FROM cou etopaida senate sianine AUTO, KILLED : of an cra ‘during. which thel os, \ of Rome should begin to His Own Car H Having Gone! Into Ditch, He Was Riding on Side‘ of Another ne: with civil. and religious liberty. When she does, the whole Christian world will be one with her, and her! policy will be in harmony ‘with the modern state.” ae Fargo, N. D., April Jacob | Reimer, 21, Munich, . Armour | ‘land company mechanic employed in’ tains! the packing plant at West Furgo,| his membership in the bar. ba ‘as killed in a freak automobile ie The ornamentation of his home} cident ubout a mile west of WwW clearly reflects artistic tustes, and! Fargo early, today when he was the means to gratify them. thrown headlong from the running} John D, Lives Nearby board of a car. Reimer, with four A short distance away is the fam-| other young men, were returning ous B4th street residence of John D,| from a dance at Kindred, N. D., when Rockefeller, Jr. their mac went into a ditch. Marshall has met Smith personally| None was hurt. only once, he said. This was at a] George Wellbrook, Moorhead, Minn., bar association dinner where Smith} who, with two young women, was made an address. passing on the roud, stopped, attempt- In retirement, Marshall has deyot-j ed to the car out of the ditch, ed much of his study to canonica'| found ‘he could not and then started law——-the rules and regulations of the|to take the fiv randed motorists varior ligious denominations. His) into West Fargo in his machine, Protestant} roadster. According to the story told faith On s jous occasions he| county officials, Reimer and the writt articles for the more] others of his party were standing seFlous magazines. on the running boards and other From this quiet, kindly, relatively} parts of the machine on the trip in- organized| to town. About three miles further York always has be He belongs to no Though no longer uctive, he re is Episcop: ' Henry otek jalong riage. Intends No Reflections polltt ow, here in the Uni States I anti see potentially embodied in Governor! the s ,cume, what to pro-Smith and Smith politicians alike is one of nsations of the year. HELP THE FLOOD SUFFERERS The people of Burleigh county being appealed to today by officials of the Burleigh County Chapter, American Red Cross, to donate funds fcr the relief of the thousands of homeless ‘and destitute in the Mississippi flood area, accord- ing to Miss Mary Cashel, secretary of the local chapter. Persons who would like to assist in the relief work are requested to make their remittances payable to- the Burleigh County Chapter of the Red Cross and mail them te Miss Mary Cashel, secretary, Bismarck. Officials of the national organization yesterday wired the loéal chapter as follows: “President Coolidge has jssued a proclamation calling upon the peagple to give quickly and generously to the Red Cross Mississippi flood relief fund. The emergency situation is extremely grave, with 75,000 “homeless needing emergency care. The relief problem is acute, as the number of flood refugees increases every hour. It is imperative that a‘large relief fund be raised immediately to meet the mounting need, and every Red Cross chapter must do its part in this national appeal. Wire us probable amount we can expect from your territory.” on, one of the tires on Wellbrook’s car was blown out and, when the ma- chine swerved and nearly crashed in- to a viaduct, the car was stopped. Reimer was missed and a search re- sulted in his being found stuck head first in a culvert, only part of one leg being visible to the searchers. + Apparently the force of the fall from he machine had caused him to be- come stuck in the culvert. A coroner's inquest be held lat- er today. Plan Coyote and Wolf Hunt Near McKenzie Sunday At leust 700 hunters are w: tid the McKenzie territory of wolves, coyotes and rabbits and a hunt is to »e held Sunday at the Irwin Ander- son place, one mile wi and three miles south of McKenzie A coyote run which 14 miles long and 10 miles wide will be cov- ered, A §10 reward will be given avery hunter who kills a coyote or olf. A call was issued yesterday for icipants in the hunt by ; farm- ars’ committee composed.of L. E. deaton, Jr, Irwin Anderson and C. O. King. The committee estimates hat there are 30 coyotes and wolves; nm this run. E. 8B. Klein has been tamed field captein. Lunch and ammunition will be fur- nished but the committee suggests’ that each hunter ane some ammu- aition of his own, All hunters ar pikes. to be at the Anderson farm by 2 o'clock Sunday, as the drive will start promptly at noon. aers than half the tobacco smoked | Canad 4) y" land there are producing '30,000,000 ventt @ year, m ‘ \ Italy's ‘client was not an ordina | | but a political criminal who had an- | FINAL EDITION ==|THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE “mi COMMUNITY CHEST CAMPAIGN WILL BE HELD HERE NEXT FRIDAY AND SATURDAY | Waits Trial | Griffith faces trial at Leba: for the murder of | his nd her two companions, Matthew Lawson, fith, the father of seven children, confessed to the murde jo F ell county officials, that he killed hig wife b loved her and she was le: saying use “he ing him.” : COOLIDGE MAY SPEND SUMMER IN WISCONSIN : | Sites on Lake Winnebago ‘| ceiving Serious Attention of President Washington, April 23.—P)--s on Luke Winnebago, largest of Wis consin’s many lakes, are among those receiving perhaps the most serious attention of President Cool- idge as he ponders over the task of selecting a summer residence. Although he has given up any{ plan of going much more than 48 hours away from the capital, he does intend to go west and, as a result, s Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan are. being turned over thoughtfully in his mind. A vacation home in the lake urea is known to have a double appeal. Besides affording a, decided change | from the summer ‘climate of | the ul, it, offers the possibility of h are en- joyed by both the president and Mrs, Coolidge. Might Take Own Yacht It has been suge ee that if the president should d to summer in that region that ne might take ate yacht, the Mayflower, or government vessel along attracted the | se of this rea- |fon, for it is said that a small vessel could be tuken to this bo water from Lake of been placed at the president's dis | posal. Before he makes a dec Coolidge y will ree the Vv friends who will conduct # personal | homes ! survey of the many summer that have been offered. It is un- likely that this survey, however, will be made until spring has been given time to remove all traces of winter from the lake region. 80 YEAR TERMS FOR TRYING 10. KILL PREMIER Zaniboni and Capello Get | Longest Sentences—Four Others Also Guilty Zani- 42) —Tito of deputy and one valorous soldiers, and Capello must serve 30 years imprisonment for having at- tempted to assassinate Premier Mus- solini in 1925 and foment. rebellion against the facist state. Four other defendants received lesser. sentences Zaniboni was arrested in the hotel Dragoni in a room overlooking the| Chigi Palace in Rome, from the bal- cony of which Mussolini was to de- liver an address. The prisoner was dressed in the uniform of his rank| as major of an Alpine regiment and | Rome, boni, April former mos General Li * was armed with a rifle with a globe; sight. H¢ admitted dramatically ‘on! the stand that he was guilty of at} emnted assassination b+ added.) “But I alone am guilty.” The others on mary with him were not guilty, | he said. In his final address Bruno Cass: nelli, counsel for Zaniboni, as hy crim | swered the dictates of conscience, | believing fascism a betrayal of the! ieatess of the masses. Couns: rgued Zaniboni had committed “a error like that of Brutus.” As his counsel ended his plea,! Zaniboni moved his lips silently into! . | j the word “liberty.” Grif-| rding| al sites | PRICE FIVE CENTS LANT AFTER EXPLOSION Ambulances Take Several Loads of Severely Injured to Hospitals |MANY OF THEM WILL DIE {Explosions Occurred in Paint Shop—Cause Not Defi- nitely Determined Detroit, Mich. April 23.—( —The number of dead—if actually were killed outright— in a fire and series of explo- sions early today at one of the main plants of the Briggs Man- ufacturing company, autom body firm, was conjectural thix ternoon as firemen attempted to search the smouldering ruins of the four-story building An estimat of Charles T. Earl, a deputy coroner, that the dead probably will run between 20 and 40, was discounted by J. W. Carter, superintendent of the service department of the company, who declared a check of the employment records show: ed only three men missing. Detroit, April 23.—()—At least a score of men are believed to have heen killed and 50 or more others | burned and iniured, some probably | tataily, in a fire that swept the main j building of the Briggs Manufactur- | ing company plant after an explosion nt shop this morning. neces took a dozen or more tals, 5 as K. that would | th Ambul loads of injured to various hos; | At receiving hospital, where 2! ed were brought, Dr. The | Gruver, superintendent, sai bubly two thirds of them ead were believed to nurled under the wreckage of the | building. More than an hour after | the ear ree search still was being ed for victims. Rescue Work Mampered A strong wind and the fact that | the plant contained large quantities of paints and varnishes, used in au- tomobile body finishing, hampered efforts at rescue work, More than 2,000 persons were at work in the building at the time of the explo- sion. Many ‘of the injured were treated n the plant's first aid station, but yi had to be abandoned when, the es spread to that part of “the building. Most of the injured. were victims of the heavy smoke and fumes that spread throughout the building soon after the explosion. As the fire continued more than an hour and a half after the cxplo- sions, occupants of nearby houses and stores were directed to vacate im diately, it being apparent the walls t | of the plant would collapse. Police | lines were established 900 feet around {the plant. Fire Follows Explosions The fire was preceded by two ex- lesions which blew out a section of the wall along the Harper avenee side of the five-story, plant. | cause of the explosion’ in the paint | shop has not been determined | workman told police he believed they | resulted from a short cifeuit ta a motor. | "A passerby said the explosions |ecame in quick succession and=4 | (Continued on vage four.) —$____—_———- | Last Minute Bulletins a Chicago, April 23, iy was Florence Stake found guilty hae of man- slaughter for Mae killing of her sweetheart, James Glennon. She, was charged ith having shot him when he told her he was “through.” Miss Stokes sa:d she fired in self defense after a quarrel. Philadelphia, April ‘23—(A?) —Babe Ruth turned out his second home run of the season today off Pitcher Walberg in the first inning of the Yankees’ game with the Athletics. None: was on base. Gehrig, following Babe at bat, also hit for the circuit. Chicago, April 23.—(AP)— Mrs, Edgar Stillman Kelley of Oxford, Ohio, was today elected president of the National Feder- ation of Music Clubs in conven- tion herg. William Barnes Fish- er, ton, first vice presidént, and Mrs. E. A. Ottaway, Port ° Huron, Mich. second vice ‘presi- dent, were reelected. The new officers named included Mrs. A. A. Jardite, Fargo, vice president. Shanghai, April American vessels, in ships in Chinese ters, been fired on on 45 occasions. since August 26, 1926, and six men have been injured,’ says a statement made public today on shipping incidents. American ships have been fired on 11 times in the vicinity of Nanking. Miami, Fla, April 23—(AP)— The United States army's Pan- American fliers landed here at 2:57 this afternoon from Havana, touching their native soll for the first time since their “goodwill” tour of Central and South Amer: fea started Sone. months