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

WEATHER FORECASTS "Partly cloudy tonight and F: Not much change in temperature. ESTABLISHED 1873 \ SMITH TA jay. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | awon BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, JULY 1 ES OFF FOR FLIGHT TO HONOLULU FIGURES GIVEN “ONDEATH TOLL EXAGGERATED: ‘ Later Reports Tend to Die-| ‘count Stories of 1,000 Dead in Holy Land MANY HOUSES DAMAGED Communication Disrupted— Reliable Story of Disaster Not Available London, July 14.—(#) — Reports fran the Holy Land earthquake zone differ widely as to the number of persons killed and injured. The latest tend to discount the large fig- ures given in some earlier dispatches from Cairo of more than 1,000 dead. A Jerusalem report received by gives the following official At Amman, nine killed, injured; ‘at Es Salt, seriously 35 ROCK RUINS PICTURE OF FORMER GERMAN EMPEROR Jerusalem, Palestine, July 14. -Examination of the wreck: | age of Government House, badly damaged in Monday's earthquake, rev@aied that a stone from a partially wrecked tower hurtled through the roof of the chapel, destroying a picture of the for- mer German emperor in biblical robe. Vijled. 34° seriously iniured. and in thé remainder of Transjordania, 20 | Kieu, seriously imjured. his report says that previous figures as to casualties at Es Salt were ex- aggerated. > 500 Reported Killed he Haif (Syri correspondent of the Daily Mail says that in Pales- tine and Transjordania 500 persons were killed und that Jerusalem and the surrounding districts more than’ 700 houses were damaged, The damage in Jerusalem is estimated in this dispatch at about $500,000. News from the stricken at on- tinues fragmentary and: no reliable | Brooklyn Has Murder Mystery Ludwig Halverson Lee (right), caretaker of the Brooklyn rooming | Great Disaster Occurred July Floods Cause Thousand Deaths in China PLANE LEAVES APPRAISFOR |Fancher Expected Here | OAKLAND FIELD AID ARRIVE | From Glendive at 4 p. m, THIS MORNING AT SHANGHAI Civilian Flyer Is Accompan- Smith Starts Manager of National, Air Der-| by to Be Greeted By City and A. C. Officials — to, Make Arrangements For’ Landing of Planes Here on! Cross-continent Race | ied on Trip By Navigator Emory B. Bronte | | Hope of Finding French Aviators Again Renewed Chicoutimi, Quebec, July 14 (AP)--Another suggestion that the missinf French air men, Nungesser and Coli, may have landed somewhere in this north country has come through a story told by A. Gobeil, secretary of the Chicoutimi county agri- cultural society Mr. Gobeil d that two Indians he encountered in e woods a few days ago that they had not only s white airplane, but aetually touched i woods. These Indi. res lane" lay y R || about a week's Caused the death of" more thane! i9Qtaiheyttlegean, fram Jue Gaz: || This would ‘place the wreckane, thousand persons, It was only yes-!wereral clahy said that Fanche and |] if such it is, anywhere between terday that the first news of the! mercial club, sai ; ie a ber 2 ld 150 and 200 miles north of Chi- Boop Ea of the hig mechanic were delayed and wo ‘Goutinit: ing of the lower reaches of arrive at Glend.-> in time for lunch, H 6, But First News Is Re- ; i MAY MAKE. ROUND TRIP ceived Yesterday THOUSANDS HOMELESS !Army Will Operate Radio Beacon System — Ships Warned to Keep Watch Soaring eastward after leaving} Glendive this noon, Major John T./ Fancher, in charge of the National | Air Derby, was expected to avrive| here this afternoon at about 4 o'clock, | A telegram received this morning, from Major Fancher, at Billines. said that he expecjed to arrive here s " cl th el Shanghai, July 14.—()—Urgent ap-" Sbgut 2 Ocloet, No ort ene merce : 3 2 ind Association of Commerce of- peals for aid were received in Shank- ficigls for Yacilities for planes which | hai today from the southern part! sveNo {5 VA Of Aahewi. provinee, the scontvepval semen, 204 Mere tn: the National Air great flood disaster on July 6 which Vast Amount of cvihandl Damage Done When Yangtze Overflows pal Airport, Oakiand, Calif. 14.—@)—The silver winged monoplane “City of Oakland.” man- ned by Pilot Ernest L. Smith and Navigator Emory B. Bronte, took off here at 10:10 a. m. for a 2.400-mile flight to Hawaii. The plane left the runway about 4.000 feet trom the starting point on lits second take off attempt, the first having gone amiss when Smith halt- ed after veering toward a crowd of spectators. ans said the in the brush, ( i march distant, ‘ . \ ‘ the in house kept by Miss Sarah Brownell the brutal murder of Miss Brcwnell nett. story covering the whole disaster is available. A big casualty list is reported from Ramleh, apparently due to the col- lapse of a mosque full of . wor- shippers. Details of this have not been-received. Relief committees. ure |. operating in each district, and the Near East Relief has offered to help. Hiyuses in some places are continu- ing to collapse. SCENES ARE SIMILAR TO THOSE OF BATTLEFIELD New York, soly. patches from Jerusalem to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency say that figures compiled up to the present show 670 persons killed and 3, wounded in the earthquake in Palestine and Transjordania, The damage is esti- mated: at $2,000,000. The stricken is are described as presenting scenes similar to those of a battlefield. Thousands of tents have been raised to care for families made homeless, while transports of fuel are being sent from Jerusalem to Tel-Aviv for the suff 5 Wreckage May Be * That of White Bird St. Johns, N. F., July 18:94)— Wreckagé believed to be that’ of the . airplane White Bird, flown by Nun- geqser and Coli, from France to New York, has been found'in the interior, two hunters rey av ‘| The two hunters who live in Flat Bay, on the west coast, brought out the report that about 40 miles in- land in the wilderness they had sighted what looked like a la white boat. Railway officials at St. Georges, to whom they reported their find, believing this might be the fuse! of the transatlantic plane, immediately sent Track Superintend- ent Keefe with Major ©. Sidney Cot- ton by special car to question the men further and to determine what ‘was actually seen. It was believed p. ieionel intermatl nm ‘questioning by ohe the design of the Frencltnen, as is has been. en identifi id thi ible that with be gained liar with lane flown by the Major Cotton, who din a search for tion might be ma at in the fore: they saw ject. MUTSCHLER IS ACQUITTED ON jury wi . N. Dy duly 14—UP— CHT intackier “of Gsodrioh cas acquitted by a ‘jury. here last night aa See cestuesly nd heel ges: us Sherida: -14. 4) —Dis. eg /| penter who , is shown as he was arrested for and a neighbor, Mrs. Alfred Ben- The bodies of the two wemen were chcpped up and portions were found in different parts of the city. ; ¥ Hese,is pictured the ovedu reporters outside the Brooklyn rooming house formerly kept by m*ready t> take away mell.and her neighbor, Mrs. B were ‘scattered Bi ‘BROOKLYN POLICE B HELD PRISONER Friend of Miss Brownell Says; | He Called Twice at Her Home and Found Lee There} Both Times — Believes| Spinster Was Locked. Up in Basement Room |New York, July 14.—UP)—Evidence indicating that Miss Sarah Elizabeth Brownell, one of Brooklyn's two axe- murder victims, had been held pris- oner for a time prior to her death, was in the hands of police today. John K. Sheffield, friend of the 69-year-old spinster, told police he gone to her house one day late in June and was met by Ludwig Halver- son Lee, the 38-yéar-oM shin’s car- rved her as jJanjier and is now her and Mrs. 56. Lee, he said, told him Miss Brownell was out of town. Calling again July 2; Sheffield said he found the door’ open, walked in and tried the cellar door, which he found locked. said he loitered near i¢ for a while. Then he said, it suddenly opened and Lee, ap) ing very ill at ease, emerged explained that Miss Brownell was away ope trip, The witness. clared Re thought he heard noises behind ‘the refocked door. Among Lee’s effects police found clippings relating Row police obtained confessions from Henry Judd Gray and Mrs. Ruth Snyder to the murder of the woman’s husband. Trade Unionists Seek Recognition of Russia By U.S. New. Yi July 14,—(P)—William Green, president of the American Faleration ‘of Labor, today charged that te ‘aim of the delegation of the tradé ‘unjomists sailing this month lor pais is to bring about recoghi- tion of Russia by the United States and asserted’ his organiaztion had no connection with the movement, a ion, be said, is com- S unionists and a Miss Brownell. remaining parts of tl de- > To the Tint is the morgue fe bodies of Miss ennett. Other pafts of the bodies over the cit; ELIEVE ONE 0) AXE-MURDER VICTIMS MAY HAVE PRIOR TO He | N. Y. Swelters in | | Severe Heat Wave | —_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—-e New York, July 14.—(AP)— New York’s millions sweltered again today for the third succes- sive day under the blast of the heat wave that has gripped the but the weather man prom: some relief in showers. At 9 a. m., the ear ther- mometer _registerd degrees, the same figure tor the same hour as yesterday when the ~er- cury later climbed to 91, d¢grees in the later afteragon, Many thousands. spent the nignt on the beaches and in parks. Five deaths and numerous prostrations were ROY W. CLARK, NP. OFFICIAL, ‘18 PROMOTED Assistant to President Chas. Donnelly Made General Traffic Manager Paul, July 34—@)—Roy W. who has been assistant to nt Charles. Deni Northern Pacific railway, made hee ies traffic manager of that read, it-was announced today. In his new por which has been ereated, Mr. mediate charge 3 senger business under J. worth, vice president in “charge of traffic. Mr. Clark, who is one of the most widely known rarer’ xecutive the northwe has 1 Northern Pacific for 25 Mr. Clark ‘will me duties Saturday, July ‘16. St. ar! le- | nelly hi cessor as egelok! It was on March: ET Clark entered ee Yangtze river was received Shanghai, and the reports were still meager today. Endugh has been learned, however, to indicate that jtens of thousands of persons are homeless and destitute and that vast damage to property has been done, Floods have vied with earthquakes in taking a large toll of life in China through the years, hardly a season passing without .a catastrophe due to the overflowing of rivers. Last year £00 persons were drowned} and $4,000,000 damage was done by| floods in the Canton district, while! 3,000 persons were drowned in Hupeh| province when the Yangtze dikes gave way. In 1926, nearly 4,000 Chinese lost their lives when 900 villages, were submerged. This disastrous flood covered a large part of nine! provinces, destroying crops threatening 10 million persons with famine. The year, 1925, also saw one of the worst typhoons ever experienced: in oriental waters, nearly 2,000 per-! sons losing their lives on’ the Chin- ese const near Hong Kong. An earthquake, followed by a ter- rible fire. brought death to 5,000 in March, 1926, when the town of Talifu, in northwest Yunnan, was destroyed. Sheep Distributed to Burleigh Farmers| Over 2,000 head of sheep were distributed to Burleigh county farm- | ers July 5 at Driscoll, Sterling ‘and McKenzie, it was arlnounced today by | County Agent A. R. Miesen, ’ | The sheep were brought in under the auspices of the Agricultural | Credit corporation from Idaho. They | were all yearlings, Mr. Knutson of SHERIDAN (0. leaving shortly after noon to make | the hop to Bismarck and then going | on to Fargo, where they planned to| d the night. Taylor said he had ecked the matter through Missoula and Billings. | Officials To Greet Him | At the local aviation Tield to greet | Major Funcher were to be Mayor A. P. Lenhart; Myron Atkinson, city au tor; Henry Duemeland, president of | the Association of Commerce; H. P. Goddard, secretary, and 0. W. Roberts, chairman’ of the Associa-| tion's acroncutical committee. ‘An Associated Press dispatch from Billings, Mont. said that Fancher spent the night there, leaving early | this morning on their trip eastward. Engaged in blazing an air trial aieoes th» continent for the derby flyers, Major Fancher said he was eluted over flying conditions found Between Spokane and Billines Only | for 10 minutes, while crossing the | continental divide at un altitude of 7,00 feet. were they out of range; of a landing spot,” he said. al Development of coast-to-coast mail | and passenger service along a north- ern route is the aim of the derby, Major Fancher told Billings, peopte COURT UPHELD Appeal By Corporation From | ich Awards to. Injured Boy Is Denied Driscoll, H. E. Wildfane of Sterling, and representatives of the Northern | Pacific railway'were instrumental in| placing the sheep. - Nearly 1,400 more are to be shipped here in about a week for pasture. Othet mers who want some of these sheep should see Mr. Miesen, Mr. Wildfang or Mr, Knut son. 1 Former U. S. Senator Weds Russian Lady) Paris, July 14—(#)—Former United | States Senator Joseph France of Maryland and Mile, Tatiana Viadim- irovna Dechtereva were married at) Orthodox church in: The had known ter of a form of appeals, Moscow, and has living in Paris for some tim plans fot the. honeymoon were an-| nounced. p | ' Weather Report : ————<—<—<_______.__—_—__+ Weather conditions at North Da- kota paints for the 24 hours ending at 7 a, hh yt Temperature at 7 a. m. . Highest yesterday Lowest last night . Precipitation to 7 a. Highest wind velocity Temps. | in inches Amenia ....... BISMARCK ... Bottineau ... Crosby Devils Lake Dickinson .. Dunn Center Ellendale .. coosee ©cPrecipitation te E Fessenden 84 Grand Forks .. KSRSESRSSALIAss SEE Slowest w) Fer Biamire/on vicinity Partly clou ni al le chai id in ter bed ice one 3 cloudy change o his feet and hands. fy.|fty. of, the veters of the school ‘dis- tCldy. | t : to Holding that sincere power com- panies ‘are charged with the respon- sibility of making their equipment safo for the public, the supreme court | has upheld the Sheridan county dis- trict court in two cases involving | an injury to Jack Mayer, 10-year-old McClusky boy. The Central Light | and Power company appealed from two verdicts, one giving the boy| damages for his injury and the other | reimbursing his mother for money! spent in the lad’s care. | ‘The coggt found that the boy and | companioM were returning from a| New York, screen news men, sought out the Indians and im- mediately left on an expedition .o where they say they saw the plane. GIRL CAUGHT IN. ATTEMPT T0 ROB BANK Demanded $5,000 From Teller of Saginaw, Michigan, Institution Saginaw, Mich., Blonde, bed a 19-year-old girl is being held today following her unsuccessful at- tempt yesterday to get $5,000 from the paying teller at the Peoples Sav- ings Bank, d Coolly ‘pointing a decrepit revolver into the face of &. KE, Speckhardt, teller atthe bank, the girl showed $5,000: cheek” ‘signed “Make It Snappy,” through the windo' id airily commanded the teller to “g me $5,000, and make it snappy.” Speckhardt dropped to his knees ind the counter and pressed the licated burglar alarm : several hundred pedestrians flocking at his heels, rushed into the bank! She fell into t- and disarmed the girl. the patrolman’s arms, und took re: uge in tears, The young woman ve her name as Viola Harris, of Flint. TITLE TO LAND NOW IN DOUBT Kositzky Must Decide Dis- swimming hole near McClusky and passed a transformer station erected by the defendant along the road to! henge the voltage of its current. / Young Mayer had a piece of iron his hand and rattled it along the | pickets in the fence which guarded | the transformers from the public. | He received an electrical shock which knocked him down and burned both | The fact that the protective devices | installed by the company failed to work is of no importance, the court held, the responsibility of protecting | the public from injury being placed Sauntels upon it. 2 : Reversing the Sheridan county district court in another case, that of the First National Bank of Me- Clusky vs. R. C. and Pearl Oliver and others, the court reaffirmed pre- vious decisions holding that a debtor may exercise preference among creditors if he so desires. ¢ The bank had been given a judg- ment in a garnishment action, in- stituted by it. Upon a showing by the defendants that the property garnished had been pledged to other creditors and thus was exempt from execution when the garnishment sum- served, the supreme court decision. passed. by court ae gird the ta Lindla and others vi: rai school. district No. 14, Renville igg the case was co by statute passed at the last legislative sensioh which now is in effect. ‘The ‘enactment in question is on which makes “it illegal to close a sehool if a town or village located ‘a railroad, even though a mgjor- do so in order pute ‘Over Ownership of Foster Co. Property Decision of a dispute’ as to the title of 40 acres of land in Foster county near the village of Melville is being sought Wy Carl R. Kositzky, state land commissioner, after an ar- gument which has been carried on intermittently for a score of years. Title to the property is claimed by George M. Forman and company, Chicago, under foreclosure from J. Bowers in’ 1925... The Forman |company bases jts title on a Sioux half-breed crip, issued by the land offic ii . Ss. at Fargo in 1882. The ed by A. P. Thayer, f ‘k of the land office, sean Bruguier, who apparently jold the land, basing her. title on_the land office scrip. -The state land department found that the land in question was pre- sumed by the government to have been given to the state of North Da- kota and asscore of years ago tried to obtain title to it. The effort failed and the state tried to induce the government to grant the state dditional land in lieu of the 40 acres claimed under the scrip. The government refused, that the scrip was not a patent to the land and that the chief clerk of the land office never had authority to jue ‘anything which even re- motely resembled a title to the land. _ The Forman company now is rent- ing the property, along with some other land in the vicinity, but Kos- iteky plans to refuse to recognize its title and make an attempt to collect rent for the state. in this manner he hopes to get the case finally settled, As further proof of the state's title to the Innd Kositzky points out that when the Northern Pacific. rail- road built # line across the Property it refused to recognize the title of holding I'/the then owners and purchased right of way from the state. —— Lignite Shipments Reach High Point ite coal main- level during the dune 25 than was tained a highe ‘thy weeks endin state board, “ : ina tons ship intrastate traf- For Braet i rerio @ year ago Seetand 18,150. . Smith and L. O'Reilly of or r, { ‘ive | ree recorded . for” same last | Puget Sound yaar. Second , to data. Bnmpitea by |t norn- | and,” | nf Oakla i He! nation, d tuning up! iately attempt | a return { | &—-— — ey |Smith’s Honolulu | Flight at Glance | (By The Associated Press) Object—-To be first civilian to fly from California aii, 2,400 miles, sucee negotiated — by Lieutenant Maitland and Albert Heggenb of the army Sune 28 and Pilot rnest old of Sausalito, flyer. Navigator -Emory Fronte, 29, of Hollywood, Calif, a native of New York, rated as a master mariner, au- thor of a text book on navigation but | nursing a desire to be a lawyer. |. Plane — Travel air monoplane, Wright r 200 horsepower motor maximum! speed 120 miles per hour; | carries 370 gallons of gasoline; cruis-! jing-range 3,200 miles; wing spread’ 4 feet; weight ‘loaded 4,800, pounds; cost $10,000. { Equipment—Radio transmitter and receiving apparatus; mignetic com-! pass; altimeter, chronometer, —sex-! tant, thermometer, drift indicator, bank and turn ' indicator, | ts, signal rockets, tachometer,! i] pressume gauge, gasoline gauge, ir speed indicator, rate and climb] jindicator, octant and penumatic life raft. ' 4 Rations—Six pounds hard tack, 24 jounces canned tomatoes, one pound) dried apricots, half pound tea, 30! ounces | le J. eer L. Smith, 3. = Calif, free, lance; B. ? nal | ja founces seeded chocolate, one po three ounces mailt half pound butter, a dozen and three gallons water. up |by a dietitian and said to be enough for 10 day | Backer — Anthony Parents, San! | Francisco | | This is Smith's second attempt. | He took off about two hours behind; | Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and | Albert Heggenberger here June 28, | but was forced to return because of a defect in the plane and the sub-| sequent refusal of his navigator, Charles Carter, to consent to a sec- Jond tal i Two Are Injured in Crash Near Driscoll Donald Apland and Alvin Lewis,i | G_| both cf Driscoll, were injured this morning when a car in which they were riding ran into a difch and, turned over, :} ! The youths were driving to work on a road construction crew north; cf Driscoll when the wheels of the! car locked and the machine ran in-; to the ditch and turned over. ! Apland, who was badiy cut b: flying glass, is in a local hospital.’ Lewis had only minor injuries. OPIUMRAIDIN SEATTLE NETS | FIVE ARRESTS $3,000,000 Worth of Drug; Confiscated — Climax of 2-year Investigation Seattle, July 14.—()—Five men were held in Seattle and San Fran: cisco today in connection with the seizure of smoking opium declared to be worth $3,000,000 at “street ped- The a two-year in. vestigation by federal’ narcotic of- ficers who described the case aso} of the largest in the history of their efforts to suppress smuggling on the Pacific coast of the men admit used to recover opium rietor; J diver; and Haro! brother-in-law ~and~ The identity of. a: fourth. (eyated in Beatle, ee As it arose slowly from the ground, the escort planes that had been cir- cling about during the delay after the first. hpp-off, fell in behind, The plane appeared near the field »{#gain but Captain Royle explained = SMITH’S NAVIGATOR NEPHEW OF LOCAL MAN At least one Bismarck man ‘has more than the usual amount of interest in the flight of Ernest L. Smith and Emory Bronte from Oakland, Calif, to Honolulu, which started this morning. This man is O. C, Brannen, an employe of the Bismarck Tribune. Bronte, who is Smith's navigator on the transpacific flight, is Mr. Bran- nen’s nephew. Mr. Brannen said the youth had attended a navigation school in New York and after that en- tered the service of a shipping company. He was in line for the captainey of one of the large vessels when he became of age, but about two years ago he went to San Francisco to work in the office of a shipping company, giving up his life on the sea. Mr. Brannen never saw his nephew, he said. The youth was born in New York, where his father, Mr. Brannen's brother, was an actor, calling himself by the name of Emory B. Bronte. The father has been in motion picture work. that Smith was not going to land, that he was merely gaining altitude. Cireles Over Ci Smith was circling above the city of Oakland, after which the plane was named, gaining height and as a farewell to the city. : Finally the monoplane straightened out and headed straight for the Golden Gate. 2 The Smith plane headed due west and disappeared in the low fog over San Francisco Bay. Spectators who watched the ship through field glasses expressed as- ;tonishment when Smith apparently spurted up and passed one of the, es- jcort planes. As ‘Smith took off the crowd cheered with a mighty roar and there was much waving of arms and leaping into the air by mechanics who had worked hours, night and day, to make the little plane ready for its flight. Final preparations for the flight began «shortly after midnight, when the weather chart showed’ the pros- pect of low clouds and fog with north and northwest winds prevalent from here to the halfway mark. Fueling and final grooming of the plane for the. 2,400-mile flight was completed early today, Smith’s Second Start The hop-off today is Smiths second effort to fly to Honolulu. He first attempted to race Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert Heg- enberger on June 28, when they took off, but was forced back because of a minor defect in the plane. Dispatches from Honolulu to the effect that army officials considered it impossible to hop-off on a return trip from Wheeler field, where the flyers intend to make their Honolulu landing, because the 1,200-foot run- way is too short for a heavily laden plane to get up headway enough to leave the earth, left Smith’s’ plan for an immediate return flight in doubt. The engine is a Wright Radial, which develops 200 horsepower. The cruising speed is rated at 120 miles an hour, and Smith expects to hit the pace on the second half of his flight, when his fuel is lightened. Food Enough for 1@ Days Mrs, Samuel H. Green, expert diet- itian, ‘who supervised the provision- (Continued on page three) Cloudy Weather | Due Tonight, Tomorrow . Cloudy weather-is our due; That doesn’t cause much sorzow. All of us with sunburn Are waiting for tomorrow. ung pay fly oe oy nt is stat ent whic! ir. oberts makes about, there not being mach change in temperature. If a straw vote were to be taken, it would bly be id -publi KA ie Nie, the es in state peratures of The agents announced that. three ted "divers seers)