The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 12, 1927, Page 1

WEATH! RECAST Prey cloudy jose =|THE BISMARCK TRIBUN , ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1927 HOPE STILL HELD THAT FLYERS MAY BE SAFE Ready o HOP. PLANE HEARD TO SENTENCE. SNYDER, GRAY FRIDAY, 43TH Murderers of Albert Snyder to Be Told of Death Pen- alty Tomorrow Smokes *Em Short Studious Lover 6 KILLED WHEN | BLAST WRECKS H DALLAS STORE Mere Than 40 Persons In- jured, Some of Them Being ' in Critical Condjtion AMUNDSEN RELATES TALE OF POLE TRIP, SHOWS PICTURES OF EXPEDITION HERE |Immensity of Flight in Dirig- ible Shown in Famed Ex- plorer’s Speech—Tells of Suspense When Buffeted By Wind, Lost in Fog— Pays Tribute to Americans 2 Die as Result of Gun Duel Over Bible Argument Atlanta, Texas, “May Charles Preston, dead following an a Bible which battle ut the Sh day at Midway Community, nine How he flew over the North Pole in a dirigible was retuted graphically to a Bismarck audience last night at the city auditorium by Capt. Roald Amundsen, renowned arctic explorer. 55 yeurs old, with his turned a silver gray and his deeply lined by the suffering exper- ienced in polar expeditions, Amund- serfhas announced that he is through with exploration work, but his step is still sprightly and the story he told in Bismarck was related with 1. 0. 0. F. LODGE MEETING IS PROBABLE Explosion Occurs While Fire- men Are Fighting Blaze in Drug Store Justice Scudder Date of Sentencing, First Set For Monday Shields and Preston were mar ried to twin sisters and each was the father of three children. ‘The former wes a farmer and the lat ter a me COURT ASKED TO DOOM HOUSE. OF DAVID CULT fe" Pee May 12.()—Five a woman were killed and mofe than 40 persons injured in an ‘“xplosion that wrecked a two- brick building here last night. The explosion occurred while fire- men were fighting a blaze in a drug store on the first floor. 35 members of the Metropolis lodge of the I. O. O. F. were assembld in a hall on the second floor, persons were in the drug store. Shortly after the arrival of the firemen, a quantity of gasoline was ignited and a terific blast resulted. Spectators said the roof seemed to lift while the walls expanded slightly, then collapsed. Persons in the strect-were injured by flying brick and glass.’ Windows in adjoining blocks were shattered. jured were reported New York, May 12.—()--On Fri- Mrs, Ruth Snyder and her one-time lover, Henry Judd Gray, ly told they must die chair for the murder day, the 13th, of her husband. Sentence will be imposed tomorrow by Justice Scudder, must sit elsewhere Monday, the day originally set for the sentence. A sentence’ of death in the electric chain is mandatory as a result of their conviction last Monday of mur- der in the first degree for the brutal slaying of Aubert Snyder i slept in his Queens Village home on Amundsen’s life has been fraught i he abandoned for a medical who found he with adventure his books and study profession at the age of to sea in a Nofwegian whaler. achievements of his life hus been the discovery of the South Pole, | he planted the Norwegian flag De- Using slides ‘and motion illustrate his Amundsen said he first conceived the idea of flying to the early as 1909 but subsequently Perry iscovered the pole and such plans were abandoned. Escape Death coln Ellsworth, an flight to the pole 4 Immediate appeal of the ‘obably would not be followed by | its consideration by the court of up- peals before October or November. SNOW: ON S00 BSTABLISHES | NEW RECORD, “Economical Andy” secretary, believes in ge ting his money's worth out of a ciga ‘Mhis stub hes re-lighting seems to be about an inch and a quarter long. ‘PEOPLE RESENT EFFORT T0 GET U.S. INTO WAR. Hands Off Policy Best, Says Reconstruction League Sec- retary, Here Today Several of the in, in a critical con N.? OFFICIALS SEEK CUSTODY OF PRISONERS Williams County Sheriff and U.S. Marshal Confer With Mill City Police an eff gan to break up the American, began John Coolidge daughter of the rnor of Massachusetts, ‘ti o, he doesn’t allow that fac to. interfere with i forced down on the Arctic was told by the explorer. For a month, the two explore i nions worked desperately Amherst College PLOT T0 FREE PRISONERS AT |i JOLIET FAILS al rodigious effort, man- ithe. ai to get one of the planes into Claim Fall Near Hie ies Sanish Was Greatest in 23 Years —Train Is Rescued What is claimed to be the hea in 23 years: fell between Ruso and Sanish on the North Soo line over the week-end, checkup made y thence to Kings Bay and the | at Spitzbergen were briefly des all illustrated. How a crew of worked for months a@ Spit: n to build the hang: inner workings at the hearing des Glai The colony was founded when| of Cottonport, ell, born in Kentucky in 1862] [crevasse 10 feet wide occurring. ; preacn-| *A crew of several hundred work- storia,| rs started at once to repair the May 12:=4)--North arrived here today ht for custody of two noka on charges of “The American people took at face value the declaration that the World War was a ‘war to end war,’ sent keenly any Dakota official to open their fi men held at murder: and. burglary. Two men, Frank Herdakips. which were endured by the men abourd the giant Norge as it soared through the air and over the Escaped Missouri Lifer Cap-j pole were minimized by Amundsen, tured When He Appears in Garb of Priest * gathere move on the part} , of the present or any other admin- istration to-get us into.a war to pull Great Britain’s chesnuts out of the jibson and Jack are charged with murder Benton Harbor, i ay in 1922 it numbered! New Orleans, psstire of s y the Bayou des ~-the 144,000 persons who were to be-| were holding. early € come immortal. Ww Benjamin taught that those who]at any moment hings, but Throughout the night citizens ana tt took| laborers filled sandbags corpse| flow of water $ was carted from the colony un-;structed topping and to mourned. the dike between miles on ar Old residents said that, as far as they remembered, no greater amount of snow had fallen even during the hesietate to pay tribute toythe work of his compan- but. his audience could readily 1,000 men and women eager to share| the p sata, plan to take them to Cambridge for trial on the charge.of murdering ¢4 marshal and the North Dakota men want them for the death of a banker at Wheelock. t Sheriff A. R. Marshall of Williams Dakota, and United States Marshal Osmund Gundvaldsen of North Dakota, armed with requis’ reached Minneap early today and went into conference with the police before taking up the matter of extradition with the gov- sufferings of the small group. was not sufficient space for the men to sit down, and the entir stood sleepless for 71 hours. After passing over the after sighting Ala: buffeted about b; heny’s oil concessiohs said Benienia C. Marsh of Washi xecutive secretary of the construction League, who | remai is in rhea today. Mr. Marsh was a guest this noon at an informal luncheon attended by several state officials and other lo- cal, politicians, at which time ‘he di cussed the present politic: He is at present en route to his home | following a three weeks’ trip through the. west with Senator Lynn J. Fra- i North, Dakota, and Walter Liggett, formerly of Minnesota and North Dakota but now of Province- Large audiences were addregsed at Indianapojis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver; Sait Lake City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, pad other western cording to Mr. Marsh, at which the international] situation was discussed, and Senator Frazier spoke on “For- eign Affairs as Seen by a. Farmer.” ow, with only a few large drifts died had disobeyed hi No damage to range cattle has been reported. ‘An average of 12 inches of very wet snow fell’between Ruso and San- ish and a 47-mile. wind blew the into high: drifts, ite i It was estimated by many the snow had been light, the | ground would have been covered with a three-foot fall on the level. With removal of a Soo passenger train from a drift in which it had been marooned since Monday morn- the entire North ped Missouri li failed yesterday in an elaborate plot ‘to free from the state prison here the man who aided him to a life sentence four years ug ike) Evans, e: county, North a storm Fb gaining control of ee ship eases again headed John Hansel and his. wi pelled from the cult, sued for <uunting of propert compensation in 19 seized ut the prison gates of the old state prison when he asked to sce Harry Funk, a prisoner serving a 10- year to life’ sentence for robbery. It was Funk make his get-away from the Missou; json ut Jefferson City, offering im refuge after Evans, a trusty, had fled when sent on an errand from Guns and Explosives Found person and in his auto- mustard — gas | a revolver and enot rs destroy a city biock. There were in the car also four sui of clothing, presumably as chang: for Funk and three other prisone! unnamed, after a way to freedom blasted through the walls. The prison is two miles from the! new state penitentiary. ity of Nome as Teller, a small town, was the landing spot. Landed in Gale to land in the teeth terrific gale was a problem. 5 “Then the miracle oc- curred. As the ship dropped down and from the suit-came evidence} had po a on which the pending civil and criminal actions ure based. Three young women cult = mem sof criminal at-1) NEGRO FLOOD VIC tack against “King Ben,” und he BUILD ARK. BUT If LEAKS disappeared. A worldwide search ended with his capture last Novem- ber 16 in a midnight raid on his Exhorted room at the colony. Brought to/} community Episcopalians of North Dakota Will Convene at Fargo The forty-third annual < of the missionary district of North Dakota will be held in tae Gelieee fane Cathedral at Fargo on Ma; Ministers, promt ing near Plaza, bers filed charj Soo line was opened for regular traf- fic yesterday afternoon. Regular service had been resumed etween Bismarck and Drake Tues- day afternoon, after work in clear- ing away the snow. to open many snow cuts 10 feet deep for a distance of 2,000 feet, accord- ing to reports reaching the division earth, the winds suddenly we landed without difficulty It was necessary Speaking humorously of some of the hardships encountered on eventful trip, Captain Amundsen told how thermos bottles filled with tex and coffee had been taken uboard, 16, 17 and 18. lavmen and officers from the W. an’s Auxiliaries and Guiids of the district will be the conventiun speak- Frazier’s Statement ‘The senator in his talks, according to Mr. Marsh, took the position that the government “should pay as much attention to farmers as it does to in- vestments and; sometimes fraudulent- ly secured concessions for oil obtain- ed by Americans in Mexic ported ‘that the deflation farm property since 1920 amounts to about seventeen and one-half billions of dollars and suggested that it is administration to think Up some method that will put agri ‘ity. with other legit- imate buniness interests. Frazier told his audiences, said, that “the American peo- fe cenaaia get out lof keep out of Mexico ‘and kxep their ds off’ in China instead of mix- ight of the European Because the snow was very heavy, is. was. difficult to handle it with the regulation snow-fighting equipment of the railroad and it was necessary to aid the snow plows with shovels, One of Northwest's Leading Musicians Dies at § St. Cloud St. Cloud, “Fame Funeral services for Albert J. Koeh- ler, 51, former band master for St. Cloud and before that a concert mas- ter of the Minneapolis Symphony or- chestra, will be held at St. Cloud Sunday morning at 11 a. m. followed Lakewood cemetery,, Had the plot | 5 , it would have opened the way to flight for all the prisoners, including four couvicted, murderers ra. The four-day program will Sunday morning at 7:30 with the celebration of holy communion by. Bishop J. Poyntz Tyler, asaisted by H. Davenport of Bismarck pnd other ministers. topics to be discussed age rural work, missions, field service, work born, and religious duration. A number of prominent Episcopal- jans.from the national organization ‘wait take part on the program. | ‘ Weather Report, ||™ +Weather conditions kota points for the 24 hours ending 7 a. m. today: Temperature at 7 a, m. temperature in the | was below freezing,” the , “At first, the tea and coffee were at least warm. iced tea and coffee. | became brittle. they became harder.’ wspense of the passengers on ife; legal representative and former jus- tice of the California William J, Barnard 0} Purnell’s personal lawyer; and Myrtle J. Tulk, an elder woman ieee srhes women cult members charged, escorte the dirigible, unuble to see land be- them as girls of 15 to Benjamin's cause of a dense fog, was clearly con: wed to the audience when Amund- | sen told how, bearings, they decided to come close | te ground-to see if | observe anything. Firing which wouid have echved buck if they The sandwiches Warden Elmer Green said he had| learned of @ plot to free one of the convicts und that the guards were on/ Evans, in priest's f appeared at , struck by the man’s hardened features and unpriestly mien, called to aid him, and chambers in Shiloh temple. May 12—)— for other guards pounced upon the imposter. Evans Convicted sentenced to life im- prisonment from Kansas City, in 1919. The charge was murde: escaped August 9, 1923. Funk, whom he sought to repay, was convicted for participation in a $60,000 robbery of a bank at Chenca, FARMER KILLS “HIMSELF AFTER 2." has a moved to auf yee all res- | idents have moved to highe jexcept the 1,000 or more determined ine into the Powers there. ntil agriculture and labor are in better shape than they are at the present time, it will pay the admin- ration to attend to its own knit- ting instead of trying to run the universe,” Marsh said here today. Still in the West (Aanaten Fue, is a in the west, descended but were unable to see any- Started May 11 It was" on, vag 11, at 2:30 in the Norge started) her light, from. Sp zbergen and on| May 12, about 1:30 in the morning,! |‘ the Norge passed over the pole. Mo- tinetly showed the by interment at oehler, regarded as ane of the northwest’s and a cornet soloist of national reputation, died afternoon at his home ag that forced him from the’ Sipsckognbin of Bt. Cloud's bands last fall. He is survived by his widow, wo children and a brother .bers of the Shrine at St. C) aoe Cities will -conduct the Preeipitati Highest wind velocity Evans admitted under ques! that he had three other friends in| n besides Funk, but he did not Asked why he had such a heavy charge of nitroglycerine, he “It might have been. nece: ary to blow a chunk out of the gon.” wget a lone | tion pictures flags of the three nations ing in the flight—Italy, the United States and Noiway, from the dirigible on to the ice far has scheduled in California and Arizona. being dropped} it week he addressed the Commonwealth. club of San Fran- cisco, the address being broadcast. He expects to return to.this - state early in June. Mr. Marsh will leave tonight font Minneapolis and St. Paul, wi will address meetings, and 1} other, speaking enga, a durits his return t Woman Is Seriously ~ er lescription of the ager who ie “McC tacked and seriously rf Eiel m priecend | in the ki Peiciae the ‘house wit! the seized Mrs. Wiegand, nocked | Foul down Shi On Friday of I low. Graceful ealbute. was paid to Com-| Winona, Minn., May 12.—()—Her- man F, Schultz, 55, retired farmer} within the next 24 h living at Mondovi, Wis., is dead asy a result of a self-inflicted wound and| Arkansas breaks his wife, Anna, is in a hospital) Quarters and Cabin ‘Teele Soevauel in a serious condition after being beaten: by her husband, thought to! basin, bringing some relige, to Mis: have been crazed by drink. She was|sissippi river saved from death by a neighbor. Schultz came home at 6 p. mmyes-| knocked his wife down and) Red Cross relief workers, d beating her with a piece of | Miss’ Winnifred Callahan, a Rec stove wood. Her screams brought | Cross work Winthrop Nogle, a neighbor, who! of smallpox were discovered by res-| second largest town in New Found: pulled Schultz away and protected | cue workers in the Bouef river sec- | land, “Meee a eg of 5.008. ian came tion, but all cases were in one house, Penincaien | where negroes were marooned. The| The EA epaterh of the Nogle then went for a policeman. | ms were isolated and placed ‘un- they found! ae med ak care. Q jioning of convicts who m: have been involved with Evans w: Junder way today. BE CAREFUL! the pole en back just Amundsen started on hi paid by the explorer, who Mecited that the feeling between himself and friendliness an pei He characterized | American as “the greatest aviator | | of modern time: | ar tain Amundsen y was introduced | Sorlie, who raid WATCH Y. YOUR STEP! TOMORROW IS FRIDAY, THE 13TH Timiareow is Friday, the 18th! walk, «under h a splashing red loosely over pest Pia splashing ly oN kit up. I : Pog bills veda). 9 Be ost ithe SSPSSSSSEAssAighest SBsSeSeeseqeenesalewest by toibate to his exploit: | Targart, accompanied by Mrs. Her- ie oneaager 9} singing tl a “So Vi Elbker and “America, the Beautiful.” the speech’ was sponsored by the | w | Association of Commerce. ° of Commerce. } iTake Advantage of . Gasoline Price Cut Bismarck . motorists today were of the two-cent cut snneahoes yy all ay cut brings se: en oe well as filling rs geen have made ie general over the | tak a ae a tetiding, hould find 13 thou- you'd be lost without a pin to fasten mirre Besides seven years of hard luck have to uy another mirror, and some of Mrs, Schultz untjl a phys to take her to a hospital. it will ill moat them are $7.89 these 4—A hen they returned Schultz lying dead in a room, a dis- | charged rifle near his side. He had | shot himself through the roof of the | Illinois Man" For Bismarck and cleedy. Sextet and Fri door. It will be interest- will let you get, away with No inquest will be held. Incorporations | Flaxton Coeperative Oil company, he ing ta ta know ho Tong friend 6—If you 3 salt throw 01 om ‘ask you if it’s ‘dandraft bagel mre Ne, east at dina ‘At least not, the Ti the check. oe Bos i decbevnees At only, reine oly taking advan‘ 000; a cooperative Shane enton), Lor » 42, brothe: n-law, are ‘ument over ended in a gua Ids home Tue; Shot almost simu tant ught almost instant d » I weighing. Lit pounds Woes ‘Multiply For | ilitins a Benjamin Purnell and His Followe un yee to Bhrow the Hou and des ng Monday i} 16. eet, assert that the cult] . W. of New Orleans able to receivership a retorts that it is sociation, not amen ion, The state 1 humbug and and purposes to picture (AP), ded at 12 as a “boy a following ink and brought his adherents te breal s heyda; “ingatherjng of the Israelites '| water played no fa urnetl, his son, Given $28,000 Judgmen: and for labor] Sissippi. asking $30,- ‘they were uwarded — 328,000,| Rouge w dike he was not the erect man|{ lowlands n with long black hair and — beard ulated the e: whom Benton Harbor had but an ‘aged and feeble figure on a par ased his straggling locks turned H. T. DeWhirst, cuit member, supreme court; of the fla bankment. BEATING WIFE | week, “If [with us on top of it.” ' Neighbor Saves Woman Rescue From Death When Attract- ed By Her Screams muel A, Smith, Ralph Ingerson, Q ats H. G. Holtz, all of Fla: Johnson, ‘ite, and Fred| thi nd K. C, Rnateon, Bow-| of the eR ap si child wag born recently just completed a non-s' jday is flying from St. ‘FLOOD WATERS “THREATEN 10. G0 OVER LEVEE ' a it up. j Citizens Work All Baton Rouge, y he levee on the Bi one mile northwest ing that i river from the 3 Atchafalaya lood relief headquarters at e notified that the the belief thi it before nightfall flood phis, mple of Noah when known, |] they heard Proaching and hastily “ark.” Into the crude v crowded themselves and The House of David promises other|| Worldly — belongings, cturesque figures in the courts}| chick fe Benjamin: “Queen Mary,” his|| While they waited for the 2 they prayed and rejoiced. The flood ns, dogs, cats and fused to float. ; Paw. Paw,|| from a hundred leaks in the un- 4 caulked,bull and, with the flood a foot and a half deep on the floor occupants fled fo a waters would be cascading over the | top, if a crevasse did not occur be- ground | sions of confidence that the }men who sent out word earlier this it will ko out | MUCH SPECULATIO) eet Ts Ready | While outside the a jxone forward for relief in event of { Harbor Grace jreport | e, the citizens ha a plans have | th much of the flood to be diverted down th , Teported that 20 cases Becomes Father For 2lst, Time ight alot ters of Jackson ie, Hihole May 12.) | orn coast of New Fi ee ther | is roughly triangular for He Ga time atte! Mr.; New Fou is been Bde ment ried, ts 8 PRICE FIVE CENTS MONDAY OVER HARBOR GRACE | Frenchmen May Have Been | Forced Down in Isolated | Part of New Foundland |SEARCH IS’ STILL ON | Many Vessels Are Combing | Entire Area Included in Flyers’ Course | Mineola, N. Y., May 12.—(AP) —Lioyd W. Bertaud announced toaay that he and Clarence D. {Chamberlin are planning to hop | eff tonight or early tomorrow morning on their proposed ni stop flight to Paris in their Bel- lanca plane, the “Columbia.’ effort of his} , Bertaud said the decision as to the definite time of the take off would depend largely /on the afternoon weather report, which carry| & expected nere at 4 o'clock, He expressed doubt on the possibil- ity of a get-away before mid- night but was confident he would be on his way to Paris early tomorrow, New York, May 12.—(4)—Search for Captains Nungesser and Coli was rried on today with renewed hope result of a report from Harbor New Foundland, that an air- plane was heard overhead on Mon- any about the time the White Bird | wi ‘as due, Ror not gpk were issued by the minion government that any in- fermatian relative to the fate of the flyers be promptly reported. ee search continued for the French airmen, missing since they ‘left the Irish coast on their 3,800 Jight to| ile jump from Paris te New York, | pilots of the American monoplane hip hearing is set for wm Dike 125 Miles | Columbia applicd for pussports and | completed almost every detail for | thelr departure early Saturday for | Paris. | Lindbergh to Start Soon Captain Charles Lindbergh, Mis- souri national guard flyer, who | reached St. Louis yesterday after a | 1,550 mile non-stop flight from San Diego on the first leg of his journey to New York, plans to hop off for Paris within a week or 10 days. He expects to make the Paris hop alone. Lindbergh left St. Louis for New York city this morning. ~The navy dirigible Los Angeles, in cruising today from its hangar at Lakehurst, N, was under orders to pursue the s ch for the French- men as far as feasible along the Long Island coast and in terzitory not previously covered by ships and ag planes. Virtually: the entire coast guard in New England remained in the hunt, coast#i radio stations kept their instruments open for word of the missing airmen and captai f trans- Atlantic vessels scanned their courses for trace of the plane. Plane Heard During Dense Fog The report of an airplane motor being heard over Harbor Grace dur- ing a dense fog early Sunday was made by Peter O'Brien, a farmer, and was supported by Captain John Stapleton, also a resident of Har- bor Grace. O'Brien said he had made ‘no previous mention of hearing a plane as he had not learned until yesterday |of the flight and the missing avia- tors. Harbor Grace is 25 miles north of St. Johns, N. F., and in the area over which Nungesser had charted his course, Aviation authorities sug- i gested the theory that the airmen might have been lost in the fog and forced down in one of the isolated sections of New Found! where | days might be required before could communicate with the outside world. = i | Vessels Comb Entire Area || While three days of fog und ‘rain | prevented extensive use of a:rplancs off New England, const guard offi- cials said the entire area over which air search might have been effective had been combed by vessels. Twenty coast guard patro] boats, | eight destroyers, two naval tugs and innumerable small patrol craft hunt- jed in vain from New York harbor to | Nova Scotia. The search went on in | | | | urea} an ever-widening area, however. Aviation experts renewed expres- would be found. NAS TO FATE OF AVIATORS | St. Johns, N. F., May 12—()—It airplane which three reputable irring through the ing was tha V tcce Bee bis Sern coe eG ptains Nungesser and Coli, —_—— C1 ated at strategic points. A crevasse at the threatened dike |there is u wide variety of possibili- ties as to what happened to it after- rs would cause | ward, aters from the | Two men, Peter O’Brien, a farmer, and Captain John Stapleton, who gave the first report yesterday, said they distinctly heard the noise of an | airplane engine but could not see the A smallpox | plane because of the feg. Mrs. Hin- epidemic in the Bouet river section f northeast Louisiana was féared by ton, wife of the superintendent of jthe Imperial Club at Harbor Grace, ‘reported today that she also heard it. Harbor Grace, 25 miles in an air line northwest of St. Johns, is the colony is cut up inte great pani sulas. On the southernmost of thi ae is the city of St. Johns, capital “oi Newfoundland. Across another = which Harbor Grace is situated. On the other side ot this’ second peninsula is ,