The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 18, 1927, Page 1

i i Showers reckenas, S and ‘hursday. BLISHED 1873 BLAST WRECKS SCHOOL, KILLING 35 -GOOLIDGE PAYS COMPLIMENT 10 cD. S. DOCTORS Says World Looks to Mem- “bers of Profession For Bringing of Regeneration HEALTH VICE ANTIDOTE Makes For Clearer Vision, More Accurate Judgment, Moral Power, He Says _— Washington, May 18—(?)—Com- plimenting the medical profession on its contribution to human welfare, President Coolidge declared last Might that the world looked largely to its members to bring about a phy- sical, mental and spiritual regenera- “when not force but reason will feway.” | “Somewhere in human nature there jociation. “We do not do as well as we know. We make many constitutions, we enact many |: laying out a course of ically above criticism, but they do not come into fyll observance and effect.” . Still Is Crime ‘ ‘ociety is still afflicted with crime, and among the nations there are still wars and rumors of ‘war: In spite of all our progress and a ous Bucci no one doubts tl ™mvw:h remains to be dong.” Mr. Coolidge looked forward to an era of “right living and, right think- ing, of good will, and of peace, in accordance with the teaching of the Great Physician” and asserted that “if humani.y could be brought to a sfate of physical well-being, n} of our social problems would disap- THE BIS His Bride His Mother-in-Law The two sons of David Boose of Lancaster, Pa., don't know whether to call him “pop” or “grandpa.” The reason is Mr. Boose (below) the other day married his mother- in-law, Mes, Levina McClune (ubove). Mrs. MeClune is 72 years old, and Mr. Boost, whose wife died several years ago, is 42, A. D. M’CANNEL, MINOT, CHOSEN effectively rid our systems of poison,” he added, “not only would our bodily vigor be strengthened but our vision would be clearer, qyr judgment more ac- curate, and our moral power in- creased.” Mr. Coolidge called attention to the spread of ccoperation and toler- ance in the profession and gave a surance that ,tha government— tional, state and municipel—regard- ed. the preservation “of health and the conservation of life public functions. “The human race is by no means young,” he said. “It has reached a state of maturity. It is the inheritor of a very wide experience. a located a great many fixed stars in the firmament of truth. . " Await Revelations “No doubt a multitude of others await the revelations of a more ex- tended . research, But because we realize that we have not yet located: them no reason for doubting the existence of those already ob- served oi disregarding the record which reveals their position. To en- gage in such a course would lead to nothing but disaster. Madea “One of the difficulties the world is not that we are lackiug in sufficient Knawipeee: but th unwilling to live in accord knowledge which we “Approbation of the mandments is almost universal. The principles which . they declare are sanctioned by the common consent. of mankind. We do not lack in knowl- edge fd id We lack in ability to EXPECT MANY NO HEAR ELKS | "BAND CONCERT : ( To Be. Presented at City Au- ditorium Tomorrow Night— Program is Pretentious » Many are expected to attend the concert to be a? ee tomorrow night | at the city a iforiam "by the ‘ band. The concert is being given for the benefit of the summer con- : ber ongde ae Foie ane welfare work. Richard &. the band, which Es ost ent Bo°siven by Bam Koate andi Joteph. Bellivas’ sy ‘North’ Dakota Knights wm Pace this morning’s session of their an: It has F TEMPLAR HEAD ‘aadiaiie George H,-Russ as Grand Commander—Baird Named Junior Warden Archibald D. 3 was selecte : Templar a nual conclave here. MeCannel was Mformerly deputy grand commander iand succeeds George Russ of Fargo. i Selection of next year’s convention city will take place this afternoon and, in accordance with the custom which members say places the con- vention in the home city of the grand commander, probably will re- sult the choice of Minot. ge H. Olmsted of Grand Forks was named deputy grand commander. He was farmerly grand generalissi- mo. ‘Sted of Jamestown, formerly grand captain general, was named grand generalissimo "\and Henry W. Wilson of New Rockford, formerly grand senior warden, was named grand captain general. Baird Is Junior Warden Theodgre S. Henry of Valley City, former grand junior warden, wa named grand. senior warden and Le- Roy Baird of Dickinson and Bi k, former grand standard bear- was named grand junior warden. Wm. J. Hutcheson of Fargo was named grand prelat succeeding Ward F. Boyd of Jame: mn. George Guthrie of Fargo renamed id ewe and Walter L. Stockwell: of ,Fargo grand recorder. Appointment of a new deputy grand recorder, to: succeed Ralph L. Mil- ler of Fargo, will be announced by Stockwell. : ‘Melville H. Sprague of Grafton was elected grand standard bearer, suc- ceeding Batra, and Fred G. Callan of Wabpeton was named grand sword bearer, succeeding Sprague. John W. Lillibridge of Oakes was named grand warder, succeeding Callan, and Blanding Fisher of Devils Lake was nemed rena captain of the guard. Installation of the new officers is to take place -at.this afternoon's ses- sion, An address by Ace Webster, former grand commander of Iowa and personal representative of Com- mander George Vallery’ of ‘Denvé?, and reports of committees occupied the remainder of this morning's session, i 5 n.|dan won third pl: the an a final rehearsal bee Seen held | tai jace. the' drill teams were re of Fargo, Adolph Ertresvaag of Bottineau and Ivan Moore ‘of Fargo. : Before the drill contest, the Temp- rs paces through. the downtown district and after the contest a dress parade was held, with Grand Ci mander focrss A. Russ and P; Commander Ace Webster’ reviewing the five battalions marching. A banquet was held last evening ‘at the Grand Pacific hotel and short Fee fy given by Fons iecknel rere present. ean: et tat es es was following ce at Masonic Temple. The conclave will close this after- and finishing up of Reviewing. t coast guard and lation of officers)’ business | mat- | BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1927 YOUTHFUL BAND CHARGED WITH MURDER, THEFT Slaying of Two Men Laid to! Chicago Flapper - Youth Gang—11 Under 20 WERE IN 225 ROBBERIES One Youth Charged With 65 Robberiés in Loop—Young Girl Is Arrested Chicago, May —18.—44)—Chicago’s | youthful me trust,” as Chief of Police Hughes called it, stood today formally charged with two murders, | five assaults with intent to Kill, and 225 robberies. Eleven men, mostly under 20 jyears of age, und two young women, all arrested in a concentrated round- up lust Saturday or as a result of jinformation obtained then, were named in the warrants. The murders attributed to ga members were those of Edward K. fer and Leonard Fragassi, who were shot down in hojdups. Police say that two of the men! under arrest have confessed killing} Keefer and three others have been| identified as involved in the Fra-| gassi killing. Youth Was ‘Fagin’ Carl Lease, booked on 10 charges of conspiracy, was pictured as the} younger members of the “crime trust.” He also was charged with being an accessory tothe two mur- ders. Ignatius Strazdas, identified us! the “lone wolf,” who held up sev-| ed and captured by a policeman, was charged with 65 robberies, besides being identified in connection with the Fragassi killing. Frank Blacka, who is said to have confessed complicity in the slaying of Keefer, had 29 robbery charges laid against him. ' Kighteen-year-old| Marjorie Glynn was called the “bandit queen” of the band. She was arrested last night when she walked into a trap the po- lice had sot. Police said they found several knives and a number of revolver cartridges in her handbag when they arrested her. | OF COLONISTS | IS BROUGHT UP| May Play Important Part in Dissolution Action Against House of David St. Joseph, Mich. May 18—(}— Indication that the cause of the deaths of a number of members of the House of David colony will play {an important part in the dissolution action against the mission, was seen today in the insertion in the court record of a list of deaths officially recorded “cause unknown.” . George A. Roderick, county clerk, produced records to show that 10 in- dividuals, whom “Prosecutor George Nichols said he would later show were colonists, had died without the cause of death being given. Among them was a aister-(n- law of Bessie Woodworth, complainant in » crim- inal action dgainst Benjamin Pur- nell, head of the colony, charging assault. Most of yesterday’s seasion was taken up with an attempt by the state to show Benjamin and Mary Purnell, co-leaders, were not man| and wife. A Mary Purnell produced a license toshow she and the colony head were married in 1880. Angeline Ri- ley. Barnett of Greenup, Ky,, who claimed to be Purnell’s first wife, said he did not obtain a divorce! from her until 1882. WRECKAGE "© SEEN IN OCEAN: MAY BE PLANE ‘Government Beats to Investi- gate Report of Steamer Bellepline’s Captain Boston, May 18.—()—Hope was revived hore today that the enigma of the disappearance of Captains Nungesser and Coli, trans-Atlantic flyers, might be solved ad a fleet of overnment patrol boats was dispatched to investigate ‘a bit of wreckage reported 100 miles at sea yesterday. . Captain 8. F. Ing, of the United States shipping board steamer Belle Tighting’s opren@ of maturel colored ri ey natural: wood, 20 teat long and 5. feet le, with cross and ing, about dusk kage in Was" soon mornings «. .- eS plage was 40, miles ‘sauth of ‘I ie And hei i> he ca Oe gn ene | Fagin who trained and directed the | _ \ eral downtown ‘stores before wound- |, raverse ribs similar| th | War Enemies Are Pals Now ] | i} | In the’closing days of the world war at Passchendaele, two men poured bullets at one another at 50 yards. They were Harry Ratcliffe (left), | then a lieutenant in the “Little Black Devils,” a Canadian machine gun battalion, and William Seligman (right), then a private in‘ the Imperial German infantry. Now they are fellow engineers for an electric company in Chicago. Parishes Now. -by Floods’ MAN QUIZZED ABOUT WOMAN'S FATAL PLUNGE {St. Paul Woman Dies of In-! juries Received in 65-foot Fall Over Cliff 20 Covered Greatest Flood in Louisiana’s History Moves Toward; Gulf cf Mexico as Men Work Frantically, Day and Night? to Save Levees— One Man Credited With Saving 163 Persons New Orleans, La, May 18— —Cemplete evacuation of an area 15 to 20 miles wide between jae west bank of the Atchafa- mx the western boundary of St. Martin parish ‘was advised today by the weather bureau in a flood bulletin charting the course of the flood down the Atchafalaya basin, rf — cliff at Mounds Park last night, New Orleans, May 18—()—-With! Blakely told police that he left 8,000 square miles inundated and Mrs. Ellingsworth sleeping near the the waters from the breaks sin the 2° Of tha cliff while he went to z ¢. breaks sin the ‘call a gab ffom a store near the park. Atchafalaya river and Bayou des}When'he and the taxicab driver Glaises levees constantly covering teached the park they found M more territory, residents of south|Fllingsworth fatally hurt with ‘ crowd of people about her. central Louisiana today hetplessly| “Shy Mad been brought. to: the :top watched the greatest flood in the hie of the clifffafter a 65-foot plunge. tory of the state as it moved toward! a the Gulf of Mexico, *CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE An undetermined number of lives GIVEN AS DEATH CAUSE have been lost and prospects are that t. Paul, May 18-—()—Cerebral many more will perish before the, hemorrhage, induced by apoplexy, waters finally fall. At Melville, 130 was held by the coroner's office to- miles northwest of New Orleans on day as the cause of the ‘death of the Atchafalaya river, where the most Mrs. Charles Ellingsworth, who was serious break occurred yesterday, 10 found dying at the foot of a 65-foot egroes were unofficially reported cliff at Mounds Park here last night. drow! At Rosa Plantation, near; Melville, the fate of 40 persons was not known here. They were thought to have been trapped tn the lowlands where a 15 to 20 mile an hour current was flowing. | Aviators who flew over that section ¢- today believed the people had been! able to reach high land or levees. | The state’s flood headquarters said | today no official confirmation had been received of any deaths in the flood area. Adjutant General Tooms wired from Marksville that he had found Mrs. Dupre and her eight chil- dren who had been reported crowned at Plaucheville, Man and Two Sons Drowned W. T. Clark, a rescue worker of! Alexandria, who is credited with! saving 163 persons in the Bayou de: Glaises section, reported the drown-) ing of a man and his two sons yes-| terday. Clark said he remowed the mother from the roof of a floating Amenia ... house, and, before he could reach the BISMARCK others, the house careened and they Bottineau . were swept away. The bodies were’ Crosby. not found. ' Devils Lak Army engineers said that 20 par- Dickinson. . ishes were covered in whole or in part; Dunn Cent by the flood waters and that: ap-| Ellendale proximately 5,200,000 acres had sbeen'.Iessenden . inundated. ‘To the north of Bayou (rand+ Forks des Glaises, flood waters still ¢: Hettinger parishes “betWeen “the Jamestown. . Arkansas line and Old river. Approxi-' Langdon . mately 8,000 square miles remained! Larimore inundated in, that area, it was esti in’. mated. Below Bayou des Glaises, an} Minot area ‘of miles has been flood-! Napoleon ed. Backwaters on the east bank of | Pembina the Atchafalaya have covered 250, Williston square miles in dberville parish, | St. Paul, May 18,—()—Police here |today questioned Charles Blakely in |conneetion with the death of Mrs. Charles Ellingsworth, who was fa- tally injured when she fell over a a release Charles Blakely, a companion of Mrs. Ellingsworth, as the verdict indicated he was in no way responsi- ble for her death. —__________¢ Weather Report Weather conditiors at North Da- kota points for the 24 hours ending at 7 a, m, today: : Temperature at a | Highest yesterday + 5a! | Lowest last night + 404 i Precipitation to 7 i 0 | Highest wind velocity 18 Lemp . 40 in incl ‘State of | i | | | i 5 Precipitati — Weather S: ¢ iy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy | Cloudy | P Cldy. Cloudy | Rai | Cloudy | Cloudy | P Clady. Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy ow i P Clay. 56 Cloudy Moorhead, Minn. 58 O1 Cloudy | Men Work Long Shifts . WEATHER FORECAST Two thousand men, working in two, For Bismarck und vicinity: Show- 12-hour ghifts, were fighting to save ers probable tonight and Thursday. the levee at McCray, .on the east bank! Continued coo! | of the Atchafalaya opposite Woodside| For North Dakota: Showers prob-| and 160 miles northwest of New Or-| able tonight and Thursday. Continued leans. Two concrete meres manne | COO y ts were en route to the s 2! GENERAL WEATHER CONDITIONS oe thought that, with the aid ot; The pressure is low over the south- Bish eens $n Masri ers ed eee 8 miles lountain region while ressure New Orlean: the west bank of the{ are meee vor northern Mississippi, and at Plaquemine point,! Saskaichewan and over Idaho and 18 miles below on the; Oregon, Precipitation occurred least side, were’ din better most places in reat Lal candle to, aoe PP choc B2eerau mbocotce 5B = Be: - 42 freezing red in any section, OBERTS, 1 in" charge. | Stanton Wooster, killed Police said they probably would |’ j him guilty of murder in the first de- + When Bomb Explodes CHANGE MAY BE MADE IN CREW OF COLUMBIA’ Owner of Plane Endeavors to! Get Navigator to Supplant Lloyd Bertaud CHAMBERLIN SURE TO 40! Fly ing Conditions Over Ocean Still Unfavorable, Al- | though Improved nfined to t ached a point change in the crew of the Bell plane Columbia. Charles A, Levine, ch board of the Colum poration, which owns the pl. deavored to obtain navi supplant Lloyd) Bertaud, a.r pilot, with whom ‘he has been in dis pute for several days. Waives All Financial Reward Bertaud, however, announced — his determination to gn the flight if! at all possible. Qn a telegram to Levine, who was staying at the same | hotel in Garden City, Bertaud offered | to waive all financial reward and | donate his share of the prize money | to the families ‘of Noel Davis and | in a | rman of the} JAMESTOWN AVIATORS MAY TRY OCEAN Jamestown, N. D., May (M)—Two Jamestown ia will attempt the trans-Atlantic flight if the three planes now ready to hop off at New York should fail, is the announce- ment made ‘today by Russell D. Joos, secretary rer of the Inter a Jamest: “Axel Swanson, who is an in- ternationally licensed pilot, has selected one of his own country- men, Ole Anderson, to make the trip’ with him,” Mr. Joos. said. “Andetgon was an aviation me- chanie in Sweden when Axel was flying there uad Axel taught him to fly. We have made all arrangements for the flight and can start within 48 hours if the other three fliers fail to get across.” | of their plane, American Legion. | Should this be not satisfactory, he said, he ‘would be wiling to give the prize money to Levine, rather than; forego making the flight. Levine refused to comment on the telegram, but said no matter what oceurred, Clarence Chamberlin, pilot of the plane, would remain a.mem-| ber of its crew. { Lieutenant Bernt Bulchen, a Nor- wegian aviator, who accompanied! Commander Richard E. Byrd on his flight to the North Pole, was offered Bertaud’s plage, but deciined to force Bertaud out of ‘the fiight. Wants to Buy Piane Bertaud in his telegram also of- fered to purchase the Columbia, make the trip and then return the plane to Levine, bat the - latter said the shin was not for sule. Meanwhile Captain Charles Lind- bergh is eagerly awaiting favorable weather for a hop off in his Ryan monoplane and Commander Richard Byrd and his two fiying companions, Lieut. George Noville and Bert Acos- ta, continue to bring their giant Fokker plane to a point of perfec- tion. Slight improvement in flying con- ditions over the Atlantic was reported by the. weather bureuu, but condi- tions were said to be still unfavorable for a trans-oceanic flight. POLICEMAN IS CONVICTED ON MURDER COUNT Floyd Streitenberger Third Man to Be Found Guilty in Mellett Slaying Canton, Ohio, May 18,—(4)—Floyd Str itenberger, angster-policeman | of Canton’s jungle and detective! force, stands convicted of first de- gree murder and must join his com- rades. Patrick McDermott and Ben Rudner. Nfe imprisonment for the murder of Don R. Mellett, Canton editor. With his head bowed in his hands, Streitenberger sat in -court las night and heard the\ury pronounce gree, with & recommendation of mercy. The conviction automatically i poses life imprisonment. lellett’s death followed an edi- torial campaign against members of the underworld, Streitenberger ap- peared as the apex of a triangular lot against crusading editor. MeDermott first was convicted as the hired gunman. Rudner was next convicted as the “pay off man” who aid McDermott ,to do the actual The polic n ” get away and promi police protection for Mellett’s * layers. Three Are Unharmed Caleats, May 18.—()}—Members ‘of th: families escaped harm eat: today when a black vowder bom! d In the third floor hall west building. Windows wore. ere — @ portion of the irway dest ‘Labor, trouble are blamed, .|dian, was reported today in a tele- MARCK TRIBUNE Treasurer of Nevada | Jailed - | | embezzlement of Nevada or Kd. Mall asurer; ite controller, and! miner hier of the | ed and held for ex Malley is pictured above. amination MEDICAL MEN IN SESSION AT WASHINGTON President of A. M. A. Urges Endcwment of Hospitals For ‘Middle Class’ Washington, May 18— The house of delegates of the American Medical association adopted a resolution today authorizing the framing of a hill for the amendment of the Volstead law as it relates to limitations on the amount of medical liquor prescribed by | physicians. Washington, May 18—()--The ever-absorbing problems of how to keep well, how to put down disease and how ‘to prolong the span of a normal life were opened to discus- sion today by the American Medicai Association, whose annual con tion was formally inaugurated last night with a speech by President Coolidge. The delegates had heard Mr. Cool- idge say there was “no finer page in the history of civilization than that which rds the advance in| medical science,” and today turned to some of their association's best known members for explanations of recent discoveries calculated to overcome in a measure what the president described as “the enormous | economic loss in sickness. Sharing the platform with Mr. Coolidge, Dr. Jubez N. Jackson of Kansas ‘City, president of the as- sociation, urged endowment of hos- pitals for “middle ¢lass Americans” | who, he said, often “were too proud” | to take advantage of charity institu- | tions and who yet were unable to | meet the easing expense of private hospitals. Publicity Discussed question of to what extent publicity should be, sought by prac- ticing and research physicians, raised by Dr. Wendell C. Phillips, past president, and long a serious point | of contention in the medical pro- | fession, reached its first conflict in| the convention when Dr Bulson, Jr. ef Indian: physicians who “advertise ploit the: vi Dr. Phillips contended that a reasonable amount of carefully pre: pared publicity would be beneficial to the public health in that it woutd acquaint the layman along lines of prevention and cure, but Dr, Bulson said he believed publicity by the medical profession should be con- demned in no uncertain terms.” SAM BERNARD DIES ABOARD OCEAN LINER | | | tacked und ex- | Famous Comedian Succumbs | to Attack of Apoplexy—. Ship Sailed Tuesday New York, May 18--(4)—Death at sea of Sam Bernard, famous come- gram from the liner Columbus to the North German Lloyd offices here. The message contained no details beyond the information that Ber- nard had died on board last night of apoplexy. He was 64 years old. The Columbus sailed from New York yesterday for Plymouth, Cher- bourg and Bremen. Only two months ag 1,200 members of the theatrical profession and others paid tribute at a dinner to Bernard in celebration of his 50th anniversary on the stage. -d,was born in England and lebut at Henderson’s Mu- si in Coney Island. He was highly successful in. German char- te: in musical comedies. na half million young jin Lansin; {Miss L tl men in the United States are said to have adopted the feminine habit using cosmetics and face lotions for their complexions. * 2 a The. avi English family of five versons drinks $5 pounds of tea annually, PRICE FIVE CENTS DEMENTED MAN FIRES CHARGE OF DYNAMITE Man Blamed For Explosion Killed, as Are Teachers and Two Bystanders MANY PUPILS INJURED Investigation Shows Base- ment Contained 500 Pounds of Dynamite y the north wi trict school at least 35 c! y yek, 0} standers, a of a consolidated dis- this morning, killed Idren, the principal, E, teacher and two by- ing to the estimate of state police and members of the ansing fire department who were pting to recover bodies in the w wo bodies had been re- cove shortly after noon. A short time before the explosions wrecked the school house, the farm home and n of Andrew Kehoe, nearby, were blown up and destroyed by fire body of Keho the school district and who recently suffered financial reverses, was found in front of the school build- ing. Sticks of dynamite found near the school house and on the Kehoe farm y state police led the officers to believe that Kehoe was implicated in the disaster. Walls Crumble The teacher, M Hazel Weather- bee of Howard C vas in charge of the third grade. e first, third, fourth, fifth and sixth grades suf- fered the greatest loss when the walls crumbled, letting the ceilings on the upper floors crash down on the lower | floors. 8 As the bodies were removed from the wreckage they were placed in a temporary morgue .set up in the school yard while ambulanees carried the injured, the number of wi has not been estimated, to hosp 10 miels away. The bystanders who were killed were Glen Smith, postmaster, and Nelson MeFarren,’ a, resident of Bath, who were passing the school. McFarren was killed instantly and Smith died in a Lansing hospital from injuries received when both jlers were blown off. Teacher Injured Among the injured was Miss Nina Matson of Ignace, one of the teachers, who received a double frac- ture of the leg and internal injuries. a Gutkunest of Ann Ar- or, a second grade teacher, escaped uninjured. The school building, a three-story brick structure, was ‘erected three years ago and was regarded as one of the most modern district schools in the stute. The normal attendance of the school, which has pupils rang ing from the kindergarten , through the tenth grade, is 500. The pupils re picked up by busses and taken to the school each day. The entire north end of the struc- ture was leveled by the blast. The boiler for the heating system was located in that part of the buildi Student Describes Tragedy Clare Gates, 12-year-old student, described between sobs how he was hurled through a rear window in the school room where he was sitting. The lad’s younger sister was believed to be buried beneath the ruins. State police, probing through the ruins of the structure this afternoon, found several exploded. charges of dynamite concealed under boxes and in corner: explosives, if entire building, the of wide distribution of ¢ state police believe, probably resuit- ed in saving the lives of those who esenped, : W. G. Conklin, Bath deputy sheriff, (Continued on page three); DEPOSITORS IN» > CITY NATIONAL GET PAYMENTS More Than 300 Receive Divi- dend Checks Last Night —Work Continues Dividend cheeks for 60 per cent of the amount ‘on deposit in ‘the City National bank when it closed last fall were given out at the office of the receiver to more than 300 deposi- tors last night, end the payment of claims will continue daily until’ all checks have been placed in the de- Ppositors’ hands. The receiver's office was open from 7 until 9 o'clock last night, and it required until almo; 10 o’clock to wait on those who had gathered before the doors were closed for the evening. : The Fi last evening elso, ceived their dividend checks went to, that bank where they were given de- posits of a similar kind for ,the amount of their checks. The re- ceiver's office in the City National bank building will ‘be mn Erte ee m, Natio will be open PUPILS |