The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 14, 1927, Page 1

‘WEATHER: iT Fair tonight ‘and Sunday. Not much change in temperature. * ESTABLISHED 1873 ‘ ‘ BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1927 LOST FLYERS — STILL HUNTED | ~ ASHOPE FADES * French ints! Now ‘Five Days Overdue as Searching Parties Continue Work OFFER MANY THEORIES i Aviators May Be in New Foundland Wilderness, Na- | val Hydrographers Say St. Johns, N. F. May (AP) an Gerbhanient official day asserted that there is uo top foundation for a report that the missing French flyers, Captains Nungesser and Coli, had been found in Trinity Bay. Washington, iy 14.—( AP} The proposal to send ‘tke beer Los Angeles to Labrador search of the missing Preach aviators has been abandoned by the navy department. New nes May 14.—(7)—Theories pr ea) today kept alive a rapialy" dwindling hope for the safety i of Captains Nungesser and Coli. ; The fifth day in which the French airmen were overdue, in their 3,800 oe flight from Paris to New York, a slight strengthening of the beliet that the aviators might be lost in the New Foundland wil “— to- collapsed while an anniversar; extreme oust, vessels in the North Atlantic, and the navy dirigible Los Angeles after a 200-mile flight at sea from New Jersey as far east as Nantucket, Mass. Dirigible May Take Up Hunt Secretary Wilbur announced in Washington he would confer with the naval bureau of aeronautics with 9 view of sending the Los Angeles to Laorador. ‘ Funeral Not Completed wilds where naval hydrographers be- lieve the Frenchmen may be lost and without means of communication with the outside world. The theory of the hydrographers, and reports from points in the 600 miles between Lara Grace, New Foundland, and St. eos fe Bay, Nova Scotia, that a plane had been heard, abyrred the search in the north At- lantie Fegjene. In addition to Favorts that an uni- ¥ dentified plane had ¥ ed over Har- rys is hospital here and is in fairly condition this mornin, His mother, Mrs. Universal, ‘Indiana, where she mother. arrival. , The funeral cf who committed suicide granary after killing wounding be. held at Cleveland Sunday, time depend on relatives from South will bo made at Cleveland. in his bor Grace and St. Bay Mon- Flint day morning, two residents at Har- bor Breton, 100 miles southwest of Harbor Grace, said a plane fi | there last Monday morning. Panes ae SEEN OVER NEW INDLAND MONDAY Harbor Nance N. F., May 14.— —A woman resident of Harbor Grace and two men in Begr Cove, near » reported today at Monday morning they saw an airplane passing ‘he men said it was painted The woman, Mrs, Alice Kelly, who is elderly, said that it was about 10 o'clock fonday + morning when she W. F. Flint, expected in Jamestown today .from! funeral F For Man Who Com-' mitted Suicide After Kill-| ing Neighbor and Wound-' ing Latter’s Son to Be Held, ees -Tomorrow; Plans For Flint | ‘The Los Angeles would be capable| | Jamestown, N. D., May 14.--(P)— ‘of remaining in the region for four| Roy Flint, seriously wounded when weeks, cruising into the Labrador|his father was shot to death at Cleveland by Sayles Hastings Thurs- day, passed a good night at a local] good was} called recently by the death of her! Funeral arrangements for Mr..-Flint wll not. be anade-until her} CHARGED WITH): MANSLAUGHTER, Two Killed When U.S. Patrol! BAYOU DES GLAISES Sayles Hastings,. own and jint’s 16-year-old son, will the e. arrival of akota, Burial PROGRAM FOR SAFETY MEET I$ ANNOUNCED saw the plane. ‘ The men, Eben Peddle, and his ink State Minot Gathering state for the irst time this week and ve jated their story. Earlier in the week éeveral resi- dents of Harbor Grace reported that they had heard the sound of an ai plane engine between nine and 10 Monday pparalen ve nd rege on account of the dense unable ee the plane. ‘This led to the thedey that the pine pilin sed have been’ that of the mi ake Le men, Captains ‘Nui rand Ci No other plane was known to been in this vicinity at the tim Tt Last Minute. Bulletins Tulsa, Okita, May M—tAP)— Speakers of and ‘tively today by the State Council. Elks Home at 10'0’ with registration. -Hon. i. Bratsberg; peesident of the in Minot and? will n announced. W. Corn, of the Natio: Council of ieago, is to give an dress on’ “Safety attorney and ci to speak on “Public morning’s gram. . foung to Talk Heed Attorney C. L. Young of marck, former: president of the noon’s Program Rules: of: the ~1 Shedd, safety Chicago, Rock railway and ‘representative American Railway: a: Aye sy os on oa ‘ bn Railroad’ Asheville, N. C9 May MeotAP) | —Mrs. Anna K.~Montague the morning of May 25 Officials, Nationally Prominent Men to Speak at national rominence will be on the twu-day léty Congress program at Minot May 25 and 26, as announced tenta-|¢he, small Safety | 19. open a Reena and c. s. Buck, Jamestown rman of the James- town Safety Education Comniittee, is Safety Educa- Sixteen companies tion.” . Appointment of committees operating in the Seminole, field, meeting here fed. at and ning. its will complete the Bis- state bar assgciation,, is to open the after- be a talk on “The ‘Réad- La and L. F. superintendent of the “eiend and Pacltie will Prob- » member of the state rativoad cadbisnen, will @ report on the activities of grade, crossing committee of neral safety problems will follow. x The 30, with Geo: the Fargo cit ing. Meyor Bratsbe: bs lice 1 ‘paces ions as & its ‘will be followed by, coealee of the yalue commission, of ve "ite the discussion .of a a session will start Me ge Hoanck, member of "Meas tna | eral di ot unitorrs aor eed A. Whittemore of Bismarck, state health. the Statistics’ Show,” it ‘of ir, is to talk on “will is! And the Bargain Hunters Escaped! Above is the wreckage of a four-story Chicaago department store that bargain,sale was in progress. feared hundreds were killed, but rescuers reported there were no» fa- talities. The walls of the building were said’to have been weakened |, by steam shovel excavations next door. It was ROY FLINT, WOUNDED BY CLEVELAND — FARMER THURSDAY, REPORTED TO BE IN FAIRLY GOOD ‘CONDITION TODAY “Man Succeeds in Killing. Himself Friday, tl the 13th | Rockford, IL, May 14.—(Pi— Foiled once by “hix brother when he attempted to shoot -himself, thwarted a: drank pr in when a potion he to be harmless in- atead of olson, Erle Erickson ant perkisted in his Fri- day the With desire to-kill_him- self and drank # corrosive poi- son which caused tis death in a hospital an hour Erickson was despondent over demextic troubles and lone of his FEDERAL AGEN Boat Crashes Into Launch in Detroit River Detroit, May 14.- 14. — @) — August Lottner, federal was held today on a charge of man slaughter in ,connection ‘with deaths of James Lee and his daugh- a patrq) boat crashed launch In the Detroit river. Jame: N. Fitzimmons, another federal agent, was released after being questioned all night by membegs of the police homicide squad, ‘he prohibition boat smashed into it in half. launch, cuttin, Lee and the girl were killed instant. Charles Stringer, 26, 2 passen The meetings are to be held at the| Fer. in the bout, was severely Injured Police said they had obtained ver- we prohibition agent, the ter Mildred, 14, killed yesterday when into their ~ NEARLY 200,000 = NOW HOMELESS TN LOUISIANA, Bocst State’s Farm Loss By Ten Million LAKE IS FORMED| VAST Situation in Mississippi Is Im- proving—New Orleans Considered Safe May 1%4.—()—Wa- New Orleans, ters from the Bayou des Glaises crevasses were hourly adding to the total square miles of submerged lands in Louisiana today, engulfing the famous “Sugar Bowl,” and the Evangeline country in their seaward march. The breaks were 150 miles northwest of here, on the west side of the Atachafalaya river. The latest collapses alone will in- crease the agricultural loss of the state by $10,000,000, and boost the |: total of the state’s homeless to near- ly 200,000. When the Bayou des Glaises waters reach the Gulf of Mexico, more than 1,000,000 acres of Louisiana will be submerged in a vast lake, 225 miles long and ranging from 50 to 100 miles in width. Moreauville Evacuated The crevasse at Moreauville was reported to be 600 fect wide, with a wave of water eight to ten feet deep sweeping through the gap. Moreau- ville was rapidly evacuated yester- day and last night while adjacent territory also was being deserted. Army engineers estimated last night that 100 square miles had been in-/ undated. Coast guardsmen in charge of res- cue work declared they believed no lives would be lost. Former Gover- |. Parker, bon dictator, made rine of levees, holding the Mississippi within nar- row bounds from Angola and Old river south, work continued with] forces concentrated at Plaquemine Point, 15 miles south of Baton Rouge, und at Torres, where the dikes were being raised hurriedly to prepare for the approaching crest. Situation Under Control anaes boils developed at Plaquemine int, but engineers believed the sit mae was under control. Planters Jcalled to, the scene last night arrived. Latest Levee se: Calta Will |: This picture gives a geaatie idea _o wrecked by the recent tornado. It the business district, where the dan Six people in the house pictured at |PACKAGE OF DYNAMITE, ADDRESSED TO GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS, 15 INTERCEPTED BY Note, Attached to Parcel, Threatens Violence if Sacco © and Vanzetti Are Executed —Letter Is Forwarded to Governor, But Explosive Is Withdrawn From Mail Boston, May 14.-(P)—A__ packaste| containing dynamite, addressed to! Governor Alvan T., Fuller, was. in-| tercepted by postal’ authorities here today. The parcel, which was accompanied | by a letter threatening violencs if ola Sacco and olomeo Van- zetti are executed, was taken f the mails by an alert employe at the | parcel post station. The letter was forwarded today to! the governor, with an accompanying | letter from Postal Inspector Park D.{ Colvin. The threatening nore vhich = tied to the pare read: “Governor of Mas s: T have | succeeded in getting one quarter! ton of this. If Sacco and Vanzetti twe.going to be murdered T am go jin evening dress from. n dance and ted taborsrs in erecting a sand ie. Teer: New Orleans continued to be_re- pared ‘as safe. The situation in Mis- pi gradually was improving, ane "than 2,000 ‘refugees, returning to their homes from the Yazoo City refugee flood vietims were returning to be: gin rebuilding farms. E Veryird TODAY Afexandria, La., May 14.— morning at Kleinwood the middle of the Big*Bend, Reports of the break were ver: by telephone message from Hamburg at 1 p.m. The location is 170 miles -| from New Orleans ‘on the opposite side of the river. rt known, other points on the B: S| territory. east of Bordelonville. The crumbling levees added to the} task of rescue workers. Much of tho} danger zone already had been evac-| uated ‘but, even with the waters eat walls, many still remained in the - | the strength of the dikes. Minot all substantially the same, ‘that the .| city commission, will deliver ghe ad- dress of weleOme and Governor A. G. Sorlie ‘is also to deliver an address, the subject of which has not yet| was visibl patrol boat circled around the wreck. age and then sped away -without a fering ‘assistance nor attemptin, recover Salvation in Officers Safe in Northern China acti Army ‘my ofticers located throughout north China are safe up to the present time, and no intima- ious anxiety respecting tion. of 8 any of them has b cording to word rect ;E. Aasende of thi mn received, ac: quarters at Far, MH officers throughout the mnnptey ieee ordered to Pekin by the fo: ich are acting togethe: ing northward Bat may cut off o! ficers at aay of i posts from the capital Conditions town—Clear, 48; road fair, ‘Hibbing—Snowing hard, 32; roads aoft, =e of. | "Winona Cloudy, 4B; roads fair Load bod ar, 86; roads Mien Cel Hyco og rough. conclode ie body ofthe girl wi ich le fom the shore, clinging ed by Ensign ¢ Bismarck Army ‘corps through - the divisional head- nonsChltinss Salvation Army have reign ys Army's out Temperature and Road Bpere PY hear 4; ugh. “Cloud joud—Raining, 40; ven, tai, Mankato Clouly, a3 Toads Mate to ee | han :| WILL BE GUEST Mrs. Alberta V. Droelle of Michigan to Attend Ses- sions Here Next Week Members of the Women’s Benefit Association of the state of North Dakota, meeting in Bismarck Mon- r mp, while from other areas, | office on May 10, bound to a parcel 4P)—The | Bayou Des Ginises c broke this) A. Sullivan, the parcel was found to plantation in] contain dynamite, The size of the crevasse was not! reported to the state house contained Levee workers at Hamburg} no mention of any method of detonat- said the break, will give tellet at ing the explosive. a The crevasse will fiod ditional | ing *steadily through the protecting! | section, having placed their faith in] ATW.B.A. MEET | | $90,000 Fire Damage | night swept the McCarthy hotel and signed) “A Citizen ot the World.’ | { Inspector's Report Inspector Colvin said in his report to the governor: “The enclosed threatening commun-; ication was found at the Buriington | avenue parcel post station of this with wire “From its appearance an employe} handling the parcel suspected that it contained unmailable matter. It was’ | withdrawn from the mail. “On examination by Inspector J. E.! which has been} 1) disposed of. This office has no clue! {to the identity of the person whoj | mailed the parcel and we are unable to determine in what section of the city the mailing took plac The description of the package as It wag thought that it was intended | solely as a threat of more dangerous} | things to come. — \King Stanley, ley, Indian | Fighter, Dies at 73! New York, May 14.--(4)—Colonel ister! Stanley, Indian fighter and trail blazer, is dead here today. He was | 73 yeurs old. H | “Vor years school boys were thrilled | by, ithe picture of “King Stanl scout,” in the o!d McGuffey | fifth reader. He was born in a prairie schooner. Shooting his way to safety when} ‘founded Knee Creek, won him ite sobriquet of “Dead Shot,” whi | stuck to him for life. 1 In 1923 he was married to Grace “Brooklyn | Raymond, newspaper | woman," iDetroit Lakes Has | ‘Detroit, Lakes, Minn Minn., May 14.—@); 3s in the fire which late last other buildings here was set at $! 000 today as owners of property et mi- | pleted a check-up. Lester Kohler, hotel employe, was cut during the fire, but is not ser- fously injured. Wife of Film ‘Bad Man Seeks Damages| ae Angeles, May May 14.—(?)—Mrs. Estelle Campeau, wife of Frank au, film ‘bad man, has filed mit. against her husband for $75,000 damages chargine he carried his sereen roles into his home. She al- leges that her spine was permanently injured when he kicked her. SALOON IN TREE STUMP Blandford, .Eng. — California may have trees o large that people can live in -the hollow tunks, but this town boasts the only stump that ever | housed. a. Kee It is “Damory’s | & Oak,” p 36 feet in, circumfe: ened. with & hollow space 18 feet wide and ” feet high inside. For many years it served as an ale Bouse. ——_—_——_ number of the more than 80 fatalities near vetlel eel poliee with minor ‘dictment Friday in Isunti county for ‘off.from his party at the Battle & L==-] THE BISMARCK TRIBUN f the way Poplar Bluff, Mo., was shows Broadway, in the heart of ge Was most extensive. A large rred in this neighborhood, the right, the home of Tom Snell, injuries. POSTAL EMPLOYES “110 Above Zero in. Imperial Valley of California Friday || ow Lox Angeles, May 14.—2)i— Soaring thermometers in south- ern California yesterday shat- tered records of 30 years stana- ing. In Los Angeles, the mercury and Destruction OIL IS FOUND AT ment eRe RT 9 it yy ine ‘CENTS OCEAN FLIGHT MAY BE THREE-CORNERED RACE Oi Where Tornado Spreads Death BAD WEATHER DELAYS START OVER WEEK-END | Idea of Getting Away Same Time as Others (SQUALL IN MID-OCEAN i 'Chamberlin and Bertaud and Lindbergh Are Awaiting Favorable Weather New York, May 14.-4)—A tri |cornered air race to Paris loomed as a greater possibility as ad |verse weather cond caused |further postponment in the take-off of the two foremost contenders. The weather bureau’s dictum fhgt \3 squally condition existed beyond mid ocean caused Clarence Chamber. lin and Lloyd Bertaud to postpone their flight, set for-early today. | Meanwhile, ‘Commander Richard E. Byrd seemed to be rushing his plans jfor a hop-off. Captain Charles Lindbergh, spectacular Lochinvar out of the west, is rarin’ to go and is awaiting better weather. Byrd Hastens Preparations Byrd, with a bandaged arm, carried nce the Fokker monoplane America crashed in a test flight a month ago, had not been expected to hop off for several days at least. But he made arrangements for the sling to be-re- moved from his injured timb today. There came news too that the Amer- ica would be turned over today to the | American Trans-oceanie company, | backer of the flight, and that Byrd's climbed up to 93, breaking all pilot would be announced. — Bert May heat records since 1898. iavaias it was generally believed, Redlands and San Bernardino would supplant to injured Floyd Ben- topped the list of surrounding nett as pilot, Lieutenant George cities with a temperature of 105. . Noville will be the third member of ‘The Imperial Valiey jumped 1.00 | mid-summer form. with a peak | temperature for the day of 110 | degrees, j \ MEN WANTED | "ROR MURDER - NOW IN PRISON Confessed Slayers of Wheel-| ock Banker Plead Guilty to Charge in Minnesota Grand Forks, (AP)—A. was skeptical > ins quantity determine “eame in. amestow! ruck body tory by Warden J. J. Sullivan, fol-| the lowing their sentence Friday to life} imprisonment for the murder of | !€ Frank Dahlin, Isanti village ma Within a few hours after the: first degree murder, the men were on their way to prison, arriving here last night. ‘Both pleaded guilty after | expressing a desire to “get it over with.” The two men were wanted in North | Dakota for the murder of a bank} cashier, but developments of Friday will prevent their return. SCOTS TO SNUB KING Glasgow—-Labor members of the Glasgow city council have decid that when King George and Mary visit this city next July th nor Yue f the Robi announced. It ds of message y the found. Pembina . .20-P Cldy.| 2,000 foot Williston i 01 Clear Moorkead.’ Minn. 0 Cid, ‘WEATHER ‘PORECAST For*'Bismarck and vicinity: tonight and Sunday. change in temperature. For North Dakota: Fair tonight | face with oi end Not tuch change in | tire surfac porapeeatore pFrebaply frost east | out tha po: CENERAL THER CONDITIONS The low pressure area is ‘centered over the lower bees ponies and preci ‘red’from the Mi ippi Valley ¢ cast ward. A coud i by level. Fair pressure area, accom- ‘ir weather. is centered sy ‘Mountain region. ade Aro Ly falley to the Spon Pi ocae yes region some had Phonan yd eastern North Da- have been vand pera. a | eee Fone. es Sagi ion: is ex; tn charge. at have ee: Sends Message From Jamestown; Big Meet- ing Planned Tomorrow | | { C. Townley’s | strike” at Robinson. | out that there | | i | { | could be sige Maddock, f North Palnis, Senator ‘Kford a to G. Leonard, pt today was no et Townley to some two or Stillwater, Minn, May t.—()—j dred friends from James Jack Northrup of Williston, N. D.,| night d Frank Gibson of Minneapolis to-| pais Townlers ai CLAS aman polis to-| patterson of D. jday were assigned to the twine fac- | Johns: H the plan of opera public at the meeting to- lie that There Friends | ., May M.— way pree town HAS. BEEN DONE THIS SPRING ‘were of geology at the University of North Dakota and state geologist, regard nr reported He pointed which the presence of oil in pay- definitely until-a well actually hun- y with Dell persons will be attracted | has been broject this spring and that nothing e dences of oil as the night wore on and after a shot run the drill was drawn from the hole and was found to be heavily coated with crude oil. Not. much | It was cleaned off and let back into! ‘| the hole and again came to the sur- listening from its en- There was no question fownley had found, an oil rizon.” The “several months ago” (Conti wed on page three) taton seer | Noah Beery,:Screen |, Star, and ‘Wife Part Los Angeles. . | act Sa "ay ry, screen ane wife Toarteds Although negotiations earriedon Spreunn oe the at- torneys for. Seid red thn geam a the Byrd party. These developments, with a weath- er bureau prediction that a change in weather should not be expected over the week-end, led to the opinion yrd might catch up with Lindbergh and the Chamberlin-Bertaud combin- ation in preparations. | Lindbergh Ready to Go There was a teeling that Lir | bergh jof Little Falls, Minn,, the 25-year-old debonair flier: from the Miss tional guard, might do the unexpec' ed. Stirring aviation circles Tata by landing here from San Diego, if., in two hops and record time, he soon had his single seated Ryan imonoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis, groomed to continue eastward with- out notice His plane is at Curtis Field, Long Island, with the Bellanca monoplane -| Columbia of Bertaud and Chamber- lin. Bertaud intimated that the ‘| Spirit of St. Louis would not sneak jaw into the sky unaccompanied. LINDBERGH'S "MOTHER VISITING HIM TODAY Curtis Field, N. Y., May 14.—()— A flying mother of a flying son came today to see her boy before he Captain Charles. ak Lindbergh's Ryan monoplane suffered a minor casualty | today as the mail pilot was testing it. In landing, the tail skid was broken as he successfully attempted ‘to avoid a group of photographers | snapping his return to earth after a |test flight, Repair was said to be will be no official honor accorded es enat| # matter of only a few hours. them. ‘The Socialists hold the waajor-| ,,CQpstanbly, recurring rumors that | ity “in the council und no one can Townley drilling, project ‘ne Buin: | prere the AnUL. son. apparently current. throughout | the state, were ained ai be} ©) without apparent foundation tod | Weather Report + |“'relepnone: advices "from Robinson! 1 . | say that drilling on the site, aba : doned last year, has not been 1 Weather conditions at North Da-| sumed although a number of men are kota points for the 24 hours ending] said to be preparing to resume drill- at 7 a. m. today: ing there. Seer shrouds the in- Temperature at 7 a. m + 48) tention of Townley and his repre. Highest yesterday - 59] sentatives, it was said, and this fact Lowest last bag 4l}is believed responsible for the con- ‘recipitation to a. Mm, 0} stant recurrence of the rumors. 1 cr . ~ Highest wind velocity 3s| “Information. that_ no drilling has| Professor of Nanking School, Temps. been done on the Townley-Robinson Now in Frisco, Tells of is known there concerning reports ‘BS. that oil has been struck, was ob-| Narrow Escape 3 tained by the Assoc ee Press tiem the manager of the Robinson tele- a + z Amenia Ad phone exchange. Sin Eraneisco, May 14—(—Dr. BISMARCK 4 Townley representatives at Robin-| Frank Price, professor of the Nan- | Bottine son have been. very secretive, he said,| King theological seminary, escape eau 0 although rumors have been. eur! decapitation at the hands of Chinese he 4 there regarding . “something big’| because he refused to kneel, he de: Dickinson e scheduled to occur within the next|<lared on his arrival here aboard J fen base? the liner Korea Maru, Dunn Genter . 0 The Chinese love of ceremony was Ellendale . 0 O:1 News Announces “Strike” | declared by Dr. Price to be the only Fessenden 0 In a@ special issue today the North| reason he escaped death at the ex- | Grand Forks . ry Cloudy Dakota Oil News, a weekly paper) ccutioner’s axe. He said that when Jamestown 0 Cle; published here, states that it re- soldiers and mobs entered Langdon }. 0 ceived word at midnight Friday that | Nanking, Mrs. Price and her children Lisbon .... 0 | oi had been struck at Robinson, The! escaped to an American gunboat, Dr. Minot oc paper declares that “several months | Price remained in the city, however, Napoleon’. 0 Clear | ago the drill was, churning near the|and was one of a group of Americans captured by the invaders, robbed and brutally treated. “I was a prisoner eight hours,” the professor said. “On seven dif- ferent occasions my captors thre: ened to kill me, ordering me to get down on my knees my head on the ground so that ther, old bel me. This is the correct pésition executions in China, and rarely de- viated from. “Each time I refused. captors highly it starts on an air line for Paris. Mrs. Evangeline L, Lindbergh, who has twice flown from St. Louis to Chicago: with her son on his mail route, arrived here from Detroit, aft- er a trip to St. Louis where’ she .|found Charles gone when she got there. : | PLANE SLIGHTLY DAMAGED DURING TEST, TRIP TODAY Curtis Field,'N. ¥., May 14.) Tt made my” ‘inally