The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 9, 1927, Page 1

‘WEATHER FORECAST Rain and snow and colder tonight., Freezing temperature tonight. _ ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, MAY 9, 1927 PRICE FIVE CENTS | CENTRALWEST HARD HIT BY WEEK-END STORMS Severe Storm in Western N. D. Rescuing the Homeless in the Mississippi River Floods MANY KILLED, Sets Record for Total Rainfall - SCORES HURT | Registered at Bismarck \ Twisters Which Sweep ELEVATOR MAN) wet: res em | ARB REPORTED | , day Night to Monday Morn- ‘ ee Morning, Predicted “Here! - Steve Patterson of McHenry Tonight With Freezing Captains Nungesser and Coli} Ends Life After Being . kota have had the heaviest rainfall TWO OTHERS IMPLICATED |ever recorded at the government] TRIP IS NEAR AN E weather bureau, with total precipita- sap as 4.15 A from Friday night until 7 o'clpck this morning marking e > One Is Already in Peniten- an all- time record in this eee Frenchmen, Who Left Paris is was the statement made toda: . tiary and Other Will Be | by 0. W. Roberts, federal torevanter Early Sunday, Due in New ‘i ere. : Arraigned Today Meanwhile, in the west Slope coun- York This Afternoon try and eastern Montana, it was | Pass Over Isle of Shoals | Buildings Razed in Southeast- { Temperatures A | 4 Charged With Arson i“ at 3:03 P.M. | ern South Dakota, Ne- ; as Bismarck and western North Da- ee | | braska and Iowa { Tornadoes and torrential rain- t storms swept at least 55 person: to death, injured more than 100 and caused property damage estimated close to three million dollars in the middlewest - and southwest, between Saturday and carly today. Northeast Texas was stricken ‘ wing, with d 7 One man has committed suicide,|*ROwine, with drifts, ranging £00! Wattingiom May 9p | OF S8°and mors then 50 injured. another is in the state penitentiary, idly piling up under a strong north-| Passage of the Nungesser plane Sixteen were killed at Nevada, here and a third will be arraigned inj west wind, reports to the Northern] Qver the Isle of Shoals, off the | 19 at Garland, four near Wolfe ‘ court at Jamestown today as‘ the| Pacific station here indicated. etkvan the! unre Mena oe City and two near Kellogg. The snow is expected to. rench|* Ported to the navy department in here tonight, with freezing temper-| {he following memage from the atures’ predicted, but with a rising] Portsmouth Navy Yard. temperature tomorrow. ‘At 3:03 p.m, the French Near Beaverhill, Mont., train crews] Plane passed over the Isle of told of encountering drifts six feet] Shoals.’ The navy department at p.m, eastern time, today report- result of the clean-up pf an alleged gang of firebugs in Foster county, 8. Peterson, deputy state fire marshal, said here today. The dead man is Steve Patterson, about 60 years old, reputed to have Twisters and high winds killed 12 in Missouri and 10 in Kan- sas and there was one dead in lowa, q May 9.—44)—Torn zards, torrential rains an been one of the wealthiest men in ae q 9 & h storms in the western states McHenry, a small Foster county vil- nN AROONED IN DRIFT puusdtwer Ta Saturday night and yesterday killed lage. He hanged himself Saturday One Soo" are passenger train Z ‘ at least, 55 persons, injured scores ‘ morning following a conference with | is marooned in a snowdrift near New York, May 9—(P}—Cap- | An NEA Service photographer recently accompanied ene of the rescue boats working in the flooded area around Vicksburg, Miss. The | 4nd lef@ hundreds homeless. Peterson Friday at Carrington dur- | Plaza and another is just get- tains Nungesser and Coli were | graphic story of his trip from the time refugees were picked off sma li boats, housetops and trees until the homeless were safe in a refu- ttle P ing which Peterson informed Patter- | ting over a washout near Merri- sighted passing Cape Race at 10 | gee camp is told in the pictures above. The pictures tell better than words the great tragedy that has hit the rich Miss reed Pa eta feet pans Sree aay oie La aah hit cd a & lea eee reece this morning, according 1—The small boats shown in this picture are bri ¢ in nearly i _refug rescued from trees, barn lofts, houseteps and levees in area \etare Sutunday HiBKe and swept four Witheca: attempt te buimian clavate tal thee fendent, said this after- fh ripe cl eal ceo arcund Holly’s Bluff in the Yazoo delta of Mi ppi, north of V burg. The extent of ‘the’ flood i indicated by the fact that. this | counties; lenving: 12 “known Meaty at MeHenry, of which Charles Wil- Pus aiokgh Goo drain has’ been spondent at Sydney. N. § picture was taken nearly 25 miles from the main channel of th Mi sippi_river with nothing but water between the two points. o Fou pefavas: are kngwe anu! was manager. in the drift, which is eight feet The Times message, which was | Nearly 800 people were rescued from this bridge near Holland’s Landing, M by the Ransdell, a river boat, after they spent two days | ,con killed. several were unaceount-—° son was brought to the peni- | high and 600 feet long, since 8 the first definite there without food. When this picture was taken a few hours later the wat weeping over the floor of the bridge. It was neces- | eq for and’ more than 40 injured by 1tentiary here Saturday to begin | o'clock this morning, Simpson cerning the flyers sary to leave the horses shown on the bridge, as there was no room for them en the rescue boat. 4—This picture shows the rich planta- tornadoes and bigh winds that struck y; fayiy a peice ee ant isabee ae. E rbrekdds were supplied said the Marconi station at tion of Houston Bros., near eae Miss., on the Sunflower river, with the flood waters up to the roofs of the big barns. jarland, northeast of Seis: alf years. ie pleaded guilty to | with food by a Pl. man who Bay rej 7 spss y this morning. ee OF S ee eee cage and ies apcedinon sevestt to ynldeinter daperby 4 the coast ut New Foundland id Reema cep SRE INT 5 oe TAPES | ‘i listed as missing. ‘0 enitentiary a month ago riving out in a sight | x had since been held in the Carring- storm ‘is now abaiing: aicapeas weir wes OlL MAGNATE Communication Disrupted w ton jail, Peterson said. :| said, and a crew is to be sent New York, May 9.--()--Ships in | Two residents of Nevada, Collins & out to extricate the train some- oN 4 fue county, were believed to have per- Knuth Will Plead Guilty tee enna tigate the ‘train some- Tithe North Atlantic and radio sta ; : is ; 1 ished and upwards of a score injured The third man is Henry Knuth of | trains on the Plaza to Sanish || tions along the const were on, the! by a twister shortly before 4 o'clock McHenry, also charged with com- | jine, which have been inoperative || alert today for news of the white i e nun a ‘Ee this morning. Virtually all wires plicity in the arson plot, Peterson . . . i most of the day, are to start out airplane decorated with skull and were down in the storm area. Un- said. | Peterson said Knuth has | again late this ‘afternoon, Simp- P| < i firmed ts told of damage to agreed to plead guilty to his part in | 2&2, lat 1 || gross bones in which Captains Charles Other comniunities near Nevada, the affair: Th Mack Merri- || Nungesser and Francis Coli left ee perenne The affair first came to light fol- ree washouts between Merri- 1] Paris on a non-stop flight to New i ‘wo women and two childre 2 : | lowing \an investigation by the fire ngoure and Mallpttan delayed the 1} York killed in a tornado near Eldon, in iy , iemare! nd. south Soo pass- The fff. L south central Missouri last might. marshal’s office of af glleged at- 1 “onger train and will result in its OF ott Pacis, we te18 ae oo aee'| Present Application of Penal- fe eager re ica ; 1 2118-4 ; ion of Penal-| me an. | Meager reports indicated the storm tempt to burn the elevator at Mc- | arriving here three or four hours field, near Paris, at 12:18 a. m., Sun- ‘PP! | \Col. A. E. Hu aeons of Den Bion hed ond (Sparen oe , Henry, Peterson said. The attempt ite, Si i * [| day, (eastern daylight time) and if] 4; i y ..| Mississippi Fleod Waters, Surging Sireime Thanigh Six Breaks in ® failed’ when gasoline-soaked rags, ee ren tee vente, gam- || they continued their early speed: of ties Inexpedient, Chamber. lighted py Wilson, smothered in the | <Sig, and no further trouble iy 10 oailes an hour, would arrive in lain Tells Commons Dikes, Subject Bayou des Glaises Levee to Enormous | don, causing heavy property ver Killed While Preparing 2, . 5 ? as drowned in a diteh tor nit I i ’ York at 2 o'clock this afternoon ; i Tatts - For Hunting Tri | je nan City plevaer it lnipoy aren ert ere expected. (daylight time). The trip is about! | Pressure—Engineers Fear Dike Will Not Hold—Four Be Joma, whee 4 Wilson then was arrested on an 3,000 miles. London, May 7.—()--Sir Austen ane Ee . Sa ae oa Sts | kota, northern embezzlement charge because ‘of a! deep and all the way from Hebron| .,2"¢ fitst definite sighting of the! Chamberlain, the. foreign sccretary,| Million Acres of ‘Sugar Bowl’ Area Threatened ly onan O Near MOAR shortage in the elevator accounts and ! west it is snowing. Dampness of the| Plane since Ite:hop off was at 5: hen} the house of commans today th a.m. Sunday New York time, when! British government had decided that | 250,000 Persons Might Be Driven From Homes Nebraska, a tornado razed was lodged in jail at Carrington. woods school teacher to make andy j Platte, i i i a8 e i r{huildings, but no one was known to This, charge. was dismased, however, aaa ee ee areca Get git] it turned north as it put to sea, the present plication of erie (Aiba; Hones Ag Ries. nd OBR de SG Se aecaaeea eal en Pat se i i ‘intaini i i res ges a = 7 a ’ ‘ortune ch he ed to to pay the alleged shortage, Peter- | Pected REG ae egy eae No, Witten Carred put! King and,the failure of the Ch New Srieans, May 9—(AP)—The eSugar “Bowl!” of) fortune inte Way hich ky nted tol $00 Buildings Demolished soncaald, evhich accommanied| had a small electric light underneath nationaliats to observe the conditions | central Louisiana was threatened with inundation today as} Colonel “Humphreys | accidentally | » The Kansas tornado raced through Strong winds, which accompanied hi aes of the Mankow agreement was inex- hs if leath his home! Barber, Kingman, Reno and MePher- Patterson Called Ringleader ai rain, wreaked havoc with tele-]{rom which the letter “N” in pedient, however fully justified. the flood waters of the Mississippi river, surging trom six| shot He elf to deat! his homes son counties late Saturday night. j Later, Peterson said, Wilson con-| phone and electric light lines. The| morse, telegraph code could ‘be Sir Austeh said that he believed | dike crevasses in the northeastern part of the state, piled! Mf ys" ing) gaps Raing of cloudburst proportions. fol- fessed that he had set fire to the! Northwestern Bell Telephone office| flashed, similar reasons had led other inter- he B des Gl , Id AAA Teer acednbeee the wind. Upwards of 800 elevator in accordance with the ad-' here reported the Jine to Minot out) Reports from the United States] ested governments to a like conclu-| UP against the Bayou des Glaises levee, seeking an outlet) 1 E a ate er eral et e thuidings were reported demolished een ringleader in the embezzlement on the transcontinental lines west to 7 t the! Britsh government did not propose a ae ve See ears ve | -. Humphreys rhe Kansas twister apparently plot by diverting grain from the’ Billings and east to Jamestown. All| flyers for the first 500 or 600 miles! to address any further notes to Hu.|, , A funnel-shaped stream covering thousands of square trip to Wagon jumped tanans | twister arparemtee elevator and fad advited him to, damage re today aust expected | to phabe journey. Note aed ne gene Chan, fhe Cantonese foreign| Miles of the delta of mariheany Louisiana none ie ae ired to the "| sweeping a section along the Okla- urn the elevator when it became! be repaired today. Just east of Bis-| ever, es | eiaihtes Me Banioee : x pe Bagon des papparent that the embezzlement marck a number of poles were blown] Nungesser is flying a Levasseur-| "Great Britain, the foreign minister ya ae: pacswates that already pected A ai cous tate | ica. lonat, Outings ieth doar Glee ae would be discovered. Patterson, Pet- (Continued on page two.) Lorraine biplane equipped with a 450] said, has informed the other powers | Glaises levee to an enormous pressure. Federal and state a BAS pene i ugh the eastern section of erson said, operated a rival eleva- Tuma horsepower motor, The hull is s0/ of its decision but has reserved full engineers feared the dike could not hold. eons Haier iin in | Hutchinson. Although comparative: i tor ae, MeLleary area eneiad the ; Weather Report ' will float 24 hours. On the fuselage| reer 04 Spire ca cape ry er el Hundreds of men were working on the threatened He died within three hours |} jitsley damage asiten to the oes { Helag alert, He also was interested arated eratk Depeain Rameanet Bas rig at which might be per levee. Engineers concentrated their forces y WERE seROl j after Pyne agents ‘Feacher ctory district was estimated at in_a bank at McHenry. on oe ee upon e lag, i isti os of vessels was! . arly $1,000,000. Forty persons were A Friday, Peterson said, he called| Weather conditions at. North Da-| Plane which was death to many Ger-|Britsh subjects and British prop: | While a rescue fleet consisting of many type | qiorn at Sissonville, W. Va. in| removed ¢o hospitals, many suffering "Patterson and Knuth to Carrington | kota points for ‘the “Sours ending| ™2ns,. This is black heart sur-| erty: being mobilized to meet any emergency. | 2880, he raduated from’ Feo SecGhe EIT Annee confession. om- s e British concession ! 4 oe 5a OREALNe! ca plicity Mahe ata Patocean Said,! Temperature at 7 2. m > 49] either end, above them. at Hankow, which was given to the | The “Sugar Bowl,” wherein the domestic sugar cane is he was 16. yeurs old. He luter at-| Most Damage at Hutchinson atterson finally admitted. his | Lowest last night The endurance - record-breaking| Chinese authorities by an agreement! grown, is thickly populated. It is estimated that 250,000 guilt and asked that he be permitted! pre hee 7 hile property loss was heaviest Bellanca monoplane will abandon its| with the Hankow government at the| He a Hutchinson, smaller Kansas towns pted his first position as al, cipitation to 7 a: mr: rojected Paris flight if Nungesser ont tl persons might be driven from their | teucher Re Bissanville at 2 attacy. aT ae eee beer, seallon Es iss aay eee, heme a confer Tait Ms Highest wind velocity... predectee Pace 7 egceannermr | present ‘slipa, ‘ | perees by a crevasse at Bayou des | month. Ledge, where the tinier setae: should plead guilty to the charge or Tone + |umbia Aircraft SOrparAEinR. | OWAEr® gregaria To ees: spar mene eee ren our- ory i aring he was unable to coun-| reported three ead in that section. a of the plane. A distance flight to e subject to overflow. enance ribaldry incident to a moun-|Tunvan and. Medora, about 100 mites stand trial, Peterson granted the some point other than Paris will be Storm Reports Unless the dikes break, the wate reque: break the wat tain ‘election ‘eld in his school 4 north of Medicine “Lodge, whefe, the nibe: . will be diverted through Old riv ; week attcy he ninstad tasmuing, belies Rare bve| gtiamoted instead by Chanierlin and}/ — From N.D. Points yi, ',cveresi, court Oe Seg RU eich ease teachisi: se] [ornnas apparently spent +> n each reported two dead. “#|the already record breaking flood country store. Father and son soon] engineer was killed when his engine Hangs Self in Elevat Patterson's body was fount in his ; > that ving down the Father of | left the grocery bus to launch che bri Kins- fis soncinclay. ‘He hed hanged bine i Bandits Stage Song || Mandan, N. D., May 9—(AP)—| thst i moving down the | Collapses a lumber enterprise, “They met a| crashed through » bridge near King self. and Dance Act While An extremely heavy first cutting | [7S tyagion SUGGESTS NEW series of misfortunes and, at the age|" Railroad and telegraph communi- % i. Peterson’ said the dead man had of the alfalfa crop was positively | of 27, Colonel Humphreys found him-| cation was crippled at many points, told several intimate friends that he ‘ cf NAMES FOR NEGRO BABIES |) | self $200,000 in debt. Robbing Restaurants"! Western North Dakota to-)| Memphis, Tenn., May 9.()— | Customers and Employes Be-| {i 770.000 in debt. leading to unconfirmed reports of wotld never stand trial on any | \ i henyy. Property, Gamage: —— - || The stork has been such a fre- ley, Ohio, where he married Alice ee seurpe sgiid Rewer woe perve@ Weim | Geaae mene ene ae Chicago, May ‘9-—WP)—Song and rab pe ctceial ate gerern |] quent visitor to the negro colon- || lieved to Have Escaped | Boyd. They. settled at Duluth, where| TEXAS TOWNS REPORT ’ Following réceipt of news of Pat-|Langdop ...... 52 35 dance bandits, who play, sing, clog " en (i te After Brief Warnin ne eloped Meme gasiness: | MANY STORM DEATHS . i an Pecos 3 - and act funny while they rob, have|CxPerimental station here oar out the M er Brie is Developed Mesaba Range St. Louis, May 9.—(#)—Eleven were ree festh, Yeterien acid, Knuth! Lasley fe prey riko oe :70 at 8 a. m. Saturday, 1.46 at|} without the usual aid of ‘de | While staying at a frame hotel in! killed early today in a tornado at 5 Rae ae ares Biot | Mane se i During the holdup of the Bluebird|8 a, m. Sunday and 1.88 inches at |] white fo’k i y 9—(AP)—Ne: the timber country, he overheard| Garland, Dallas county, Texas, and and agreed to come to Jamestown and | Napoleon . 47 390 Ri es 4 | | Chicago, May 9—(AP)—Nearly | A po! Tavern terday, one of the four|8 o'clock this morning. ers has a: | three lumberjacks discussing a rich|16 in a tornado at Nevada, Collins wad guilty, 2+ | Sombie, £342 340 Cloudy) ondits who held up 15 patrons and| Wheat is stooling out, under the|| — Having yeats since exhausted || 100 customers and employes were (re strike. ‘The nest day he secured | oyiny® qommade at Nevada, Collis To gt eee a Moorhead, Minn, 53°44 118 Cloudy th proprietor, Tora e peppy|heavy rain siege bey /weather.|| the usual names of “Bill, Ben, | believed to have escaped uninjured | an option on 12 tracts of 40 acres pong received by Red ‘Cross wie Minnesota Naval he thiwe. iesord ty far the Pauolarte actetspenieneee ghlig ae However, alfalfa, of which there || Frank, and Jeff, etc,” two fami- | today when the Louis department | cach with u $1,000 check which he| Western’ “Readquavters, here” from bouts ending St (1%, mi. today, lees? companion gang and leisurely” col-lig an incre fd acreage this sprine,|| les compromised with their sit- || store, a four-story structure, col-| said he beat to the bunk on which it| chapter represcatatives. rve Captain . ime. fected tribute ASE pr acmeege is spring, ion. by spaing ae af valli 118 a a mass of ruins on the| was drawn at Charleston, W. Va.! J. E. Gibson, chairman of the Col- water” Jones and “Over- |) West Side. is assured of a wy first crop} WEATHER FOREC: When a singing bandit, wavin, Dies Last Night For Bearer and nee Rain | revolver with th, tempo of the realy and pastures are also assured, ; and snow and colder tonight. Tues-| selection played by oy companion, Rg th apa. erie coun-|] called “ Duluth, Minn, Ma ).—(P)—C: loudy with ri | asl iss Betty Fi ral er , tain, Cly de W. Weal em acs any pe tte lou eta ee ring, she * gefused ‘at first to give Excessive rainfall has caused : +" the ath sae fal Minn paneiete Pesiniphine- “Frecsing temperature a well known a ree tect and a resai- ht. e ‘ ‘Over | Friends gave him financial backing lins county searies: tslegraphed eral nson, ey wi e latt, tor, de-| and he- organized the company which!50 to 80 were injured at Nev: (and “Fle” for short, || | jaculs Goliblatt,. proprietn,. Ge-| ceded the Hist “big: development "of| Taite-(enieee at ue testes aed | bnilting. droped with a rumbling | 4 yee Range. adacteen nine-tenths of the business buildings ithin five years he’ located mining! were destroyed and property damage it trouble with telephone and high| Waters. That would increase the | crash, a cracked wall had given | properties worth today more than | was estimated between, $500,000 and “Listen, girlie,” said the baritone tension electric wires. Poles in| strain against levees south of An-|warning and he had sounded the| hundred million dollars. When / $800,000. Norti is is Mothers’ D: Tv | gola. alarm, permitting most, if not all.| wealth seemed assured, he was caught | gents vied tte last night. ne eee Collet south portions Taee | got a lot af mamas, 20 lot's have side-his ‘the toll was, weducsg '1o| q,attallons, of laborers under, the | the persdhs to reach the strect in in the panic of 1800 and lost, more| STORM DAMAGE REPORTED : ~h 45 years old. day partly cloudy, rising temperature fio rings’ Throw in the wateh and 111/Over, a8 the soll was reduced t/ direction of engineers have been | safety, than a million dollars, | FROM TOWNS IN MISSOURI ° Captain Kelly was taken ilt in:Min- fest and. north’ Strong | have my partner dani high raising low spots for weeks on the Clerk Is Injured He next prospected in British Col-| Fulton, Mo., May 9—(UP)—Fi ‘turn home was ing temperature tonight. tender gave the signal whereupon| Jamestown, N. D., May 9—| strengthening weak places in Pyepar- huried fyom the fourth story and silver and gold camps, but 1895} and a number seri lis laSt wee! and spon his northerly winds A sient. Frees: jecting the ring a watch, the lower reaches of the stream and| 44,. nae McGinnis, a clerk, was|Umbia, where he opened valuable! sons are reported te have boon til ‘where an operation ier pails jano swung pte | ively jazz aa (AP)—Jamestown and Stutsman| ation for the height of the ba aly i injure . She ‘was taken toi he returned to West Virginia to en-| tornado which last night s! rack Aax- was. performed ‘GENERAL THER CONDITIONS A er member county experienced the heaviest} Should the Bayou des Glaises dike ter coal mining. vasse, New Bloomfield, a . x bs large portion of the flood | a Su ful in Oil Busines: ton, towns near he apenas in an ant given ~ a is peers eee. an abets eh catgen | Si tatee eget as minutes band Sunda, “nealf"three poreAy wae rs ps be diverted through poapital fell in and the entire | The west culled again and pee seriously_in:; neat ind other public| this morning and precipitation oceur- bei t: the state hospi-| the Atchafalaya basin, bringing some | building was smashed to a heap of | here in 1898, where for 16 years he| Houses and other bu ted from ‘the Lakes region to : A measure a relief to the beleaguered | ruin | prospected for various unacele with | blown down or. serfously detigned by Captain n Ral We jo the central sndSerthern Wacky Moun Aged Woman ‘Struck, Sun aie Saturdey | lower: river i aiapy Parsons were at first:be: | unusual succete wien ee aes . The excessive Then he entered the oil business | was killed. ; eee Bey cigars teary i tus appes Mission cae i ‘Injured d By Robber cers to retard ‘End Believed in Sight ieave, been zapped wear] and after some wild eat operations TTélepione. wints wary Sbesa | Idren, } in Lives or'injured, but a is widow and two chi in the Dakotas and ‘in nort! for several] Tautness of battle lines on .the ‘the ither | ear Tulsa, Okla., made the bi and contmunteation disrupted. © orthern Colotad ade ; May 9-—-UP}—Attacked| days, oan ha a “generally |1 i trasted sharply with of diggiig at ruins, neither strike of his Ii the ‘Big Mandy a a v in, oy Mn 4 ig according to the northeast Lousiana, line, where ited She An red was area and field of W: Dita. in ise. ee on }the battle is over and the river has the autharities accepted Mr. Gold-| Texas fields followed, imran cs ae te Mgt Salle tt virtually ‘ll ha | HRS inh mokwu, ps se at 8! oints, = en j 3 ; 2 i ae Sieally all of that ‘part of the state. oopaped Sotlapse was attributed ‘ty threatened his life some, years ago ws ies Wy, May 0.07 ithe’ novthenstern aa he : (fields in -th Foe eee erties ouions of excavating at an adjoining site for| It God oT Mave ond elt't shalt pe es ie : High tempatatu : the, flooded area, from the extreme fn'the future to the forwarding, of : elde: : 2 t north came reporte of @ fall and it His Glory through helping His ‘chil- ‘ : eastward, ‘ y fa . E belie nd was in sight. ce i Sree he vowed. ‘sbove the ‘eink ead we : ; (Ey hile that 1 and. police tne Huse og a a antiautd on page. en a g three) oan