The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 2, 1927, Page 1

in bovoresen AR insettled and colder tonight! Tuenday partly cloudy and | OME-COMING pF FLYERS cool, BE CELERR ATHD tresident Coolidg and Other! E| High = vill yn Conte pXPECT LARC; CROIWD merica’s Goodit Plan f\Reach Bolling Field Lage This Afteriioon Wwashington, May 2—(P)—The| long | [urney of the army air men, who gpk the word of American eh ws the Rio Grande was friend- ip and good will to the nation to be ingly celebrated with an official “me coming at Bolling Fiel E for a 2 today. program, calli come at ‘the fisla® by P lidge and other high govei ials, included the prospe “pltitude of citizens joinin S}resentatives. of the 20 0 “itral and South American co! in expressing gratit ‘> flyers for a perilous but bs Ji rgue, celle commnnael iat nh. ‘des Captains Arthur B. and Ira . Eaker, and Li nis obinson, Muir S, ee in spite of its ti pedi The rest of the sa in. here sonal ident | are with !more | trie: ince of ¢Dan tol} 22s) TH ee SM-2CK TRIBUNE [muse ut \This Phctograph shows. the begin ; Bernard and Plaquemine parishes “| vent a F of ten children, eight of whom are fis Te EO bests oS a 3 CHICAGO COPS - ning of the exodus from the St. in ‘Louisiana, which were flooded {by dynamiting the Mississippi levee near Poydras in order to pre. reat disaster at New Orleans. Mrs. Tony Nacosia, mother shown in this picture, was among} the first of the refugees to reach New Orleans, with some of her ‘h@usehold -goods packed on the tr children rode mi uten- | Whitehead, Charles Fairchild, (Continuedgon page threa) erce Tells Value of paigns in Ne. Boo! eValue of. clean u and "mpaigns is recogn zed by | \'Statos Chamber of letin dssued by ''e civic nt department «/ that @ mn shows. ¢)iThe. bulletin, entitled “Cles en Keep It Clean,” f Mintages of these campaigns 4s some of the benefits to from such a campaign as progress here in Bismarck. ig eke make our town a betj re, a a n Up is now ftal purposes for the exiftence o' Shambers of commerce,” thg bulletin to this end, millions being spent and th ident. Our business disthic year become more dignfi essive, hands 8 a a ao improving . a1 pave become our pride. Is world. , Our public buildin = and parks ani. ing to the joy of “Then what follows? W Farad on, we scatter ster it nd’ our streets bear’ mu! o our negligence. We alow to satu i in vacant neglect repairs. ina is "not good busi hi ny givie. consciomsness = whi: VPidtat.in the mind of the whether he be the casual the keen industrial scout. } “Good citizenship J6 good ie at bX Beweide On the atrenj 2. ay xaling, he! is ces. dollars: rgults are 13 year ied, im= ization ands ifettor all utter: our [oe pol positions nd carfess aban- ‘wher/ we will— testimony debris We It lackness of chaycter BES rver— frist or sion oe 4 uf be} truek farmere were | Seldiers jof the Louisiana National levees below New Orleans and help Fate Repeats Cruel Attack of || Two Centuries Ago and | People of Evangeline and Gabriel Once More Bid Homes Good-Bye — Refu- gees Complain But Little (BY BRUCE CATTON) New Orleans, May 2. exile of ‘the Acadians been re- enacted, Fate has repeated its cruel. trick of two centuries ago. The peo- ple of Evangeline and Gabriel once more have had to bid their homes goolby and taken up the heart- breaking trail to the land of strang- e When a mite ri tween a wighily charge of-dyna- pped open the great levee be- oydras and Braithwaite, 15 Orleans, and rl an pleasant homes of St, Bernard and Plaquemine parishes, Acadians were made homeless again. uy Sse ae : pled largely by French- seendants of the Nova Seatians ‘whom, the British removed by force from | their northern honieland more thar 200° years ago—the - whom Longfellow wrote hi poem, “Ev: lini History has repeated pe, But whereas the first used by . the wars of” ‘ish immortal! a reault of the war of man against. mature. The levee fadpemery: that New Orl Te iad Acadians 7 in hp ay z Rand to ‘go—a ie. destruc- tion of the flood the homes they and their fathers had inhabited for many | reatensen Prior to the destruction of the levee the exodus of the Acadians, went on, It was a tragic sight; a t to be, compared with the, i ia tened flight of French peasants in Fold before the advance of the; field Gag Bg 5 Foes Von ia Five thousand people lived in this. modern Acadia, The two parishes they accupied were well ‘worthy of Acadia. _ Homes . were right. flowers. of crimson and creamy- spring fields were green with eptreid corn, The. orderly little dens of on ces was th loltke: the dynamiting of the Poydras levee t HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF; ANOTHER GREAT ACADIAN TRAGEDY IS ENACTED IN FLOODED AREA OF THE SOUTHLAND SS era (NEA)—The} inst French, the second came as| ps et last Ma; uck. ules to the city. Guard, shown above, patrolled the ped to bring out the families before: to save New Orleans. Rain Is Heavier | North of Bismarck | egret Although only .26 of an inch of rain fell in Bismarck last night, reports from Baldwin and other points north of here indicated that they experienced one of the heaviest rainstorms in years. Persons arriving from Baldwin said the roads were almost im- passable due to more than an inch of rain which fell in that vicinity. Fields throu; district were thoroughly ° these are advances, * Constantly, Bringing Mes- sages of Cheer | Roanoke, Va., May 2.—()—Prayers ‘were spoken for ter’ L. Boothe, 118, today, as hundreds of Wiis fellow | citizens watched with undiminished interest, the coming of the 11th, day of his fight against death.’ The telephone at" Jefferson hos-. pital, where companions ‘lifted and lowered his arms to force sir into his lungs, rang almost coh: {bringing me: of cheer ai surance of Early stig ie pulse was fairly condition improved after two severe sinking spells since he was eee April 21. Members of the eaateathes. corps, | steadfast to the task they had chr ported systematic order, not bluctonly willing | but eager to render serv- ice. The boy’s vondition ernie from a fracture and dislocation of a verte- {bra received an: automobile ne le was . partially lyzed when s — j|Sreration ‘April 2 Pt Nada an Re Se Her husband and two other} ‘YOUTH ENTERS A1THDAY OF HIS FIGHT FOR LIFE Hospital Telephone Rings utisfactory and his} 5 “CHECK PLOT'T0 KIDNAP YOUTH ‘Heir to Great Fortune Was, | Intended Victim of Million | A Dollar Scheme | ! ‘DETAILS .ARE SECRET} — | | Authorities Claim’ Plan Was | Conceived By Man Once | Convicted of Murder | | Chicago, May %—{@)-—-A_ million! dollar kidnaping Web conceived by aj convicted murderer, planned for ex-} ecution by one of — Chicago's most | feared ‘criminai bands, and directed | at a nine-year-old heir to a great! fortune has been checkmated by the| police. Henry J. (Midget) Fernekes, now xerving a prison term for robbery! while awaiting a new trial for mur- der for which he once was sentenced to be hanged, was the man, the po-| lice say, who ‘plotted the kidnappin, The intended victim, now as closely guarded as a president or a king, was John Shedd Schweppe, son of Charles H. Schweppe, a broker, and a grand- son of the late John G. Shedd, who | Was one of the city's wealthiest’ men. | ice refrained from revealing de- tails of the plot nor would they name all the conspirators. The million dol- lars which police believe was to have | been demanded for the boy’s release was to have gone in part into a | great defense fund for Fernekes, who once tried to blast his way out of the ! | Cook county jail with dynamite. Woman Identified By Pleture Mrs. Jessie Mulhall Saunders, more recently known as “Mrs. Fernekes,” aceording to information in the session of Chief of Detectives Wi j liam O'Connor, was one of the wor en active in the plot. Mr. Schweppe identified a photograph of Mrs. Saunders as that of a woman he had) seen prowling about the grounds of his Lake Forest estate. “Seven well known gunmen” were | ihvolved in the plot, the police said, all members of the ‘band which kid- | naped two cabaret owners recently and finally released them for a re- ported ransom of $100,000. Firet'reports of the plot said that the boy’s sister, Joan, 11 years old, was to have been the object of the kidnapers, but Chief O'Connor said that police information was plain that the boy was the one to hate been taken. Police Learn All Details “We knew from conversations. over- ‘heard by our telephone squad all de- |v of the scheme,” he said. Word of the intended kidnaping came from a conversation overheard | by the police, The talk was between two persons apparently not in the plot, one reciting to the other what he had hegrd from a third person. Seven men and two women were involved. All are known, the police added, but because of the manner in, which the information was obtained they have been unable to make any arrests. Plans were laid instead to trap the band in aw attempt at kid- naping. A special guard also has been plac- the late Mr. Shedd—Mary Shedd Reed, 13 and John Shedd Reed, , who live near the Schweppe estate. Mr. Schweppe also has been given a po- lice guard. r Homes Guarded Fear of kidnapers has led to pre- cautionary measures in other Lake Forest homes of wealth. One indica- tion of the apprehension was seen at Ferry Hall, an exclusive school for girls not far frpm the Schweppe home. New evening hours have been posted and no girl may go out alone. The student body of 500 girls marched to church in a body yesterday. Fernekes, the “midget bandit,” was convicted and sentenced to hang for the murder of a loan company ecash- ier. He was taken to Joliet peniten- tiary to start serving a 10-year term for robbery while awaiting action of the state supreme court on his appeal from the murder conviction, The supreme court granted a new trial, and it was to tinanes this, police be- Here, that the kidnaping was plan- ned. Chest Quota Will Be Easily Reached, Say Campaign Heads The quota of $5,000 set for Bis- marck in the Community Chest cam- paign will be easily reached when all cleanup work is finished, in the opin- ion of those -in charge of the drive. In numerous cases, prospects were out of town and solicitors were not able to see them, it has been reported. Those in charge believe that if these people respond with the same degree of generosity which has marked con- tributions up to this time, there can be no question but what the quota; will be reached. | Excellent response to the appeal! for funds Wth which to finance the Hor the com social service agencies lor the coming year was met in ery instance. indicating that ar People have almost unani- mously accepted the idea as a one and are willing to back it up. ‘'Jersey Youth Slain By pelied ot Polk of Police Bradley Bench, N. Jo, May 3—U)—| ie KOTA, ee wh Ac ateay shot Aap eee a MONDAY, MAY 2, 1927 NOB GIVES UP ITS SEARCH FOR BOY MURDERER 16-year-old Negro Who Killed White Girl Concealed By | State Officials | 5,000 MEN STORM PRISON Lad Confesses He Lured 12-; year-old Girl to Church, At- | tacked and Killed Her Little Rock, Ark. May 2.—(>) Failing in its’ effort to tind Dixon, 16-year-old negro who con-| fessed late yesterday to outraging | and murdering 12-year-old Floelia| McDonald in the belfry of the! fashionable First Presbtyerian; chureh, a mob which at one time! numbered 5,000 persons dispersed | early this morning after searching! | all Jails here, ineluding the state | |penitentiary and those in nearby | cities. \ In the meantime, Lonnie Dixon, the negro hoy, was being conceal by state officials who had ea asked for aid from the Arkansas N: tional Guard, but who were unable; to obtain their aid because the| guardsmen were needed in the flood | areas. Dixon confessed to police yeste day that he had slain Floella M Donald, after having lured her to the; belfry of the First Presbtyerian | church here two weeks ago on al promise to show her the flooded city. | He attacked her, he told police, and{ when the child threatened to scream | struck her on the head with a brick. The girl's disappear city-wide search since Ap her body was Aisioverad by Dixon's father, the janitor at the church, | The boy exonerated his father in, the | confession, police said. After the ‘negro’s confession was made public, a mob was aeaaeh formed, GRAY T0 BLAME FOR MURDER IS WOMAN'S CLAIM Fate of 77 Miners to Be Learned Soon, Fire Bel Cross Examination Fails to Shake Mrs, Snyder From Her Direct Testimony Queens Court House, New York, May, 2.—(AP)—Cross ex- } amination by counsel for her co-/ defendant failed today to change Mra. Ruth Snyder's direct testi- mony laying sole blame for the murder of her husband on Henry Judd G Queens County Court House, New York, May 2.--()-Direct examina- tion of girs. Ruth Snyder was com- ed over twa other grandchildren of| Dicted at. this morning's session ‘of ler murder trial and cross examination began. Edgar F. Hazelton, Mrs. Snyder's lawyer, resumed the direct examina- tion of his client immediately when court convened, During her examination Friday, Mrs. Snyder had outlined her ver- sion of the crime, laying the entire blame on Gray, and so today’s direct examination was the more or less perfunctory sewing up of loose ends. Gray More Alert Henry Judd oo-defendant, (Continued on page three) a ——— | Weather Report | —_______¢ Weather conditions at North Da- kota points for the 24 hours ending at 8 a. m. today Temperature at 7 a. Highest yesterday Lowest last night Precipitation to 7 a. m. . Highest wind velocity .. ‘im incher Amenia ..... BISMARC Bottineau Devils Lake Dickirison .. Ellendale . Fessenden Grand Forks Jamestown . Langdon .. Larimore . & 2k jg Precipitation dy. | there will be a large audience. Moor! nding at 7 a. m. today; local WEATHER FORECAST For Bi biped er ? North’ Dakotas colder toni ly rain or snow north porti rd rue lay partly cloudy itis coo}, JERAL WEATHER CONDITIONS A well defined low pressure area is centered over Minnesota and time, cos Unsettle pee, betloced by North ray. 1 the| addyoes PRICE Fi [weer Comp ont ttre] SITUATION Ss for miles around. Red Cross Needs More Relief Funds Contributions to the Burleigh county chapter flood relief fund fell off somewhat over the week- end, only $4 being received to add to the total of $185 previous- ly reported. Local Red Cross o ficials hope, howeve., that t day's appeal from the nutional organization for more funds will stimulate local citizens to donate to this worthy It is stated today that at least $10,- 000,000 will be needed to aid the suffering in the flood swept ter- ritory of the south, and all chap- ters are being asked to double the amount previously asked. Those wishing to help raise Burleigh county’s quota are urged to send their contributions to Miss Mary Cashel, Bismarck, secretary of the local chapter. Donations reported today clude: Herman Lidberg ... $2.00 John Dawson 2.00 LECTURER OF NATION-WIDE. FAME IS HERE in- Dr. Ira Landrith of Chicago Will Speak at City Au- ditorium Tonight Dr. Ira Landrith of Chicago, inter- national extension secretary of the United Society of Christian Endeavor, will speak at the city auditorium here tonight and the wide interest which has been shown among Bis- marck people in the coming here. of this noted lecturer Indicates that Dr. Landrith has lectured in practi- cally every state in the union and} those who have heard him say that he is one of the country’s outstand- ing orators. In addition to giving his lecture here on forcement , and World Peace,” he will also speak! concernin, je world-wide extension of the Christian Endeavor Society. Following Dr. ndrith’s recent ent at McConnelsville, Ohio, the rald of that said: “Dr, Landrith is naires in an elo- foay. wer. fe pleas every- Stang id it was the Dent | (cts ever heard. As an ogee pendent of the BP lacty ‘was a masterpiece. ea is an orator of the South: ern type, ten with a splendid voice any ity, hg ol fasei- at tocal te ti | Flying at an altitude of only a few. hundred feet, the NEA flying cameraman cbtained this closeup of the levee at Greenville, Miss., showing the refugee tents on the levee which was the only dry ground The pecple anxiously. awaiting the rescue boats are plainly visible. STILL SERIOUS. «SAYS: HOOVER» Secretary cabtice With Pres” ident and Red Croas Offi- :. cials at Capital 'ANOTHER APPEAL MADE i | | | i i ved to Have deal lowed Explosion Saturday in West Virginia Mine—15 Known to Be Dead, Seven ine Escape Un- Fairmont, W. ay (AP. )—Delayed Py gp ee bs a fire in the inner recesses of the | Everettville mine, rescue work- ers today resumed exploration of | the blast-torn tunnel intent up- | on determining the fate of 77 | workers entombed since Saturday | afternoon. The rescue experts generally | were agreed it was almost cer- tain that, when reached, those | trapped would be added officially | to the 16 known dead, 12 of whom { were removed from the mine and me other four killed on the tip- ple. A score of rescue men com- poned the crews making the ad- vance into the wrecked tunnels. Fairmont, W. Pushing through gas-choked and de- bris-strewn passages, helmeted res- | cue workers today hoped to learn the | | fate of 77 miners entombed following an explosion in the Everettville mine of the New England Fuel and Trans-| portation company. It was believed by rescue workers only 700 more feet had to be pene- | trated before reaching the area where | the men were. though to have been | working at the time of the ich 16 men are known to have rn killed and seven injured. Nine es- caped unhurt. Fire Follows Blast Air tests indicated fire followed the explosion, which occurred Saturd and rescuers were forced to di’ their attention between actual rescue | work and attempts to locate and/| choke the blaze. While the rescue squads who work. | | ed in six-hour s' d forward relatives and friends of the trapped workers maintained a vigil at the mountainside entrance to the mi clinging hopefully to the expre: belief of experts that at least some of | the-men still live. Guardsmen Summoned Two companies of the West Vir. Guard were encamped ieee in — rescue a squad of 25 policemen to Emainietn order. i | { more companies of guardsmen were |- ordered to report at ane mine PE Ly ergs rigt pos 0 was of gaseous origin er than caused by coal dust sections of sh tg lb od were known: me have Ree go slight! but regarded as hes AR gh 80, ther id, "State Wark Today Red Cross Chapter Every | Asked to Double Amount Which Had Been Requested Washington, way 2. Le |ommendation of noi the American Red Cross eae the people of the United States: jcontribute a minimum of $10, |to relieve the suffering in the Mi - sippi_ river flood he situation still is very ious,” Mr. Hoover said. “Every: depends on how the levees Fe new breaks reported und: jereate much more distres The Red Cross previous! ed for $5,000,000 and this exceeded slightly today. ry Hoover, however, deemed the sum in- sufficient and the new appeal was decided upon after hehad conferred, with Red Cross officials: and Presi- dent Coolidge today upon his return from the flood district. Mr. Hoover conferred at the Red |Cross headquarters with George BE. Scott and Cornelius N. Bliss of New {York, and Miss Mabel T. Boardman, members of the ai. It was decided that every Red Cross. cha) |ter would be asked to double the pee it had been asked to raise. | NEW ene Seppe | HUNDREDS M PEOPLE Huy 2.—(#)—The New Oneant, 7 cry for men swept from <a | spiaied far down the walls. of th today as flood waters at Mississippi coursed breaks in the bi northeastern Loui: jund: of persons in Con ia, Avoyel Catahoula, and Tensas parishes were endangered as the waters fram the new ‘breaks opposite Natches. rose. bout tl 5 , Stretching from Vicksburg, on the east, to Shreveport, on the, west, the loosened Were jsanee down. to a mere mile of racing torren! pave the Red, Atachafalays and the is- sissippi form a junction near Baton Rouge. The breaks through. which. the wa- ters poured yesterday were bel by engineers to have insured the safety of levees between Natehex and the mouth of the Red thew, but the situation was threatening-te- tween Visckburg and Natehes and south of the Red river. Here, mew: fought to raise and strengthen the levees to meet the joined flow. of the two streams. Warning Issued ? Because of a threatened crortans in the big bend levee, warning been sent through the lew! a Bavou des Giaises to drive cat and to have women and . chi ready for immediate removal. many residents had left the di others were determined to fate the impending rise as long as possible, The Mississippi was continuing-to rise at Viekabuigg, although its pace was slowed and the crest seemed near. Hundreds of men were tar- shalled on the levees, Four men were reported drowned when their skiff overturned north of here, ta- creasing the known casualties te | more than 190, Water Level Is Stationar New Orleans trusted her sai the artificial srevaaee at Pe below that city. Engineers repo: the breach had nerd the river level ~ stutionary during the past 24 hours and that they ex it to take Base of additional water brought fe- nt. 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