The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 30, 1927, Page 1

WEATHER FORECAST Cloudy and unsettled tonight and Saturday. Not much change. ESTABLISHED 1873 SUITS DEMAND | ACCOUNTING OF PRISON FUNDS State Board of Administration and Financial Officers Made Defendants 1911 LAW BASIS OF SUITS [_ Plane Crashes || YOUTH’S STORY me SAME AS MRS. LILLIENDAHL'S Claims Two Negroes Rushed From Underbrush as Doc- tor’s Car Appeared oe RR A HEARD 3 SHOTS FIRED Counsel For Missing Poultry Man, Wanted as Witness, Is Indicted Gene Tunney, with ing that million-dol! Plaintiffs Want Warden to Launch State in Farm Ma- chinery Business S Demand that the state hoard of ~ administration and state financial’ officers make an accounting of fund- accumulated by the state prison here and that $100,000 of the money be used at once in launch- ing a factory to make ‘arm ma- chinery was made in three suits filed in district court here today. Plaintiffs in each of the three actions are mostly members of the Non san League and some of them served at the last session of the legislature. Defendants, in ad- eR ge mtg of administration, are Jo Lee, penitentiary warden; C. A. Fisher, i peste Koennecke escaped un- 4 hen his e crashed at state treasurer, and John Steen, Bagdad, Tt Pp state auditor. | ” Bagdad, Irak, today as he was tak- ing off to continue his journey to Based On 1911 Law America by the eastern rot The suits are on a. law)” based passed in 1911 which required the warden of the _ penitentiary to launch the state in the farm ma- chinery business as soon as_ the Hammonton, N. J., Sept. 30.—@) —A youth who says he witnessed the slaying of Dr. A. William Lil- liendahl, and corroborated the story of the killing as related by Mrs. | Lilliendahl, was in custody today. Arrested yesterday in Hoboken and taken to Atlantic City, where he was committed to jail without bail, Albert Langbem, an 18-year-old mill hand of Egg Harbor, was reported by the police to have said that he ehad seen two negfoes hold up’ the Lilliendahl automobile on the lonely tshion road, shoot the doctor and b his wife. Stories Coincide His story is the same as that told by Mrs. Lilliendahl when she was found by two truck men, her cloth- ing torn and’her hair dishevelled, as she crawled from the underbrush near the scene of the shooting. To this story she adhered during four days of intermittent questioning at the state police barracks here. She is out on $25,000 bail as a material witness, and her home is under ard of state troopers. —--- ee Newspaper Man Describes Tor- nado as Witnessed From Point of Vantage in Street Car — Terrible Destruction Accomplished in Only a Few Minutes point of vantage in a street ci newspaper man witnessed the antics of yesterday’s tornado and described it as follows: “As I boarded the car I noticed that the huge black cloud over F' est Park had been vomiting rain. The li a yellowish Koennecke Uninjured When Plane Crashes Hic drcily atin aoe 30.—@)—| jieutena itto " Germania, in otitis irae aLteenpe! - The authorities said Langbem had ing a flight from Cologne to Amer-|told them he was walking through ica by the eastern route, crashed|the woods with a girl when he saw here today as he was taking off in|$W° negroes rush from the under- es of a omeney, ‘The| rush Stee aamerenn c ap- plane was damaj it Lieutenant u : i and force Mrs. Lilliendahl, who was | Koennecke and his companions were riving, to pull into the thicket. A ront. lifted from the if few minutes later he heard three | rails but was set back on them ee | 7 shots, A desire to shield his girl m BRIDGEPORT friend from undue publicity was to state treas x. The second Fonte demands the board render afi ace{ count of the profits o7 the prison) TE RORIST IS with scarcely 9 jar. It rocked given Langbem as his reason for}. “A tree, fell just in front of it twine plant from 1911 to June 30;; Stabbing of High School Girl side to side. the information two|the m¢ wo aU ‘Dr. _Lilliéndah! was shot| mobiles standing at ¢ 1927; that the book: of the twinc: plant be produced in court and that i Thursday Night Brings To- tal Victims to 24 green color and there was a shai line of demareation between the blackness and the ap- parent coming of brighter skies. “Foyr women sitting in a group in the car were chatting carelessly. Two men boarded the car and noth- seemed amiss but the rain. ‘Suddenly the car staggered un- der the impact of the wind from be- hind. The fi prison revolving fund reachec $100,- fund now totals about 000, $500,000 and hax been more than $1€0,000 for years but nothing was done to carry out the mandate of the old law. Last winter the legislature ap- propriated $115,000 from. the fund to purchase land anc ‘erect various buildings at the penitentiary. The work was begun this summer and most of it is nearing completion. One action demands tha’ -$40,- yee already paid out be returned weeks, September 15. backing away alarmingly; one of “Attorney Is Indicted them turned neatly across the north This development in the case came|curb of the street to come to rest i shortly after indictment of: Edieon|in a front yard. The other traveled one-fourth of the profits be set’ Hedges, counsel for Willis Beach,|half a block and stopped. A big aside into a revolving fund to be} a South Vinland poul man and/|truck crashed in the hear end of the ued 8 ie constenetion of Deed friend Lt - Salen Toa dis-| street car.” © make farm machinery and tha‘ appeat ter being rel ‘on the defendants be enjoined from $5.00 bail, as a material witness in PE ces 3 ee eee: bes using the money for any other pur. | the case. Beach vanished Tuesday van 7 pose. A specific injunction is asked ! to prevent expenditure of the money as directed by the last legislature. Demand to Show Cause it. 30.—) gan to have its effect upon the when state troopers went to his . ‘i home to bring hini here Yor further | 20% I was. busy looking questioning. A fugitive warrant charging him with aiding -in the The third action demands that the, —The “phantom stabber,” for two slags sot he physician was then ts show cause why their and a half years the terror of girls The indict ye ann Hed, in paying ous ons saoney ied young ene walking through ekaces tiie perriie soreling recip for improvements ordered »v the, the streets of Bridgeport in lat 4 4 last legislature should not be re-|ernoon or at night, has brought the|™aterial witvess, and » ing away, viewed in court. total number of his victims to 24, The list of plaintiffs, who began and continued today to elude the po- their action ee taxpayers and cn /lice. behalf of all others similarly situ-| His latest attack came early last ated follows: W. E. Martin, C. J.'night when Ruth Stillings, 14-year- Olson, John E. Fleckten, Elmer W.jold high school tennis star, on her Cart, J, H. McCay, R. J. Siverson,'way home with a friend from the A. Vogel, 0. Erickson, Frank | Beardsley park courty, was stabbed Carlson, Elmer Larson, Palmer ‘in the chest. Fifteen minutes after Bjur, Christ Flegel, Daniel Potzer,'the stabbing police began a search V. A. Fleckten, W. J. Jiras, C. D. of the district, but the assailant had Anderson, John O. Quinn, A. McG. escaped, as he had after the 23 other Beede, Matt Hager, Adolf Herme, stabbings. i William Kjelland, Ole Kjelland, S.| Stillings said her assailant land, young feet five inches, Hhatlas Girone EA Splinter man, about ‘five’ son, E. A. Tr, id wearing dark grey trousers, the uest of Chicago authoritie: cap and a blue Josue with fark ea from jail late yester- al when a wail from the eldest and fattest of the women indicated that she feared the end was com- ing. Her three friends seemed in little better shape. We rushed to reassure the women, and soon the wer quietd down. Bridgeport, Conn., @ man wanted for a crime. Detectives continued their search for Beach today. Assistant Prose- cuter Kinckle announced that the Powerful bellows the wind god was wo! the destruction he had in mind. case woubd be placed hefore the grand jury whether Beach was ar- rested or not. Charges Against Girl Held at St. Paul Are Dropped St: Paul, Sept. 30. — (?) —- Celia Haw: naa rath .ce Sunday at I could not believe that such in so short a time. Houses Badly Wrecked the top stories. In many instances roofs and walls were gone and one could see beds and furniture stand- Joh) Modin, son, es ers + J. Jaco! mastadies, Ernest|stripes. He a to be about|day and left for her home in Spo- Bartz, E. Hf. Knudtson,”. Alfred|21, years old. kane. : Be calnily in Sinie nepeiaed Diack, Kjelland and John A. Johns.n. | he stabber's method in the latest) | She was accused of having taken |ner in a back room was still cooking He Perabo against the en as he| Cleveland, who told C Police bed. ae anaes. Shick rig “ . | . Weather Report | Fan past her, Whe be, ieapoeared he had won $6,000 on the iz,.|bad been swept, his hands holding 4 cee nh| Teen AE Ane Dempsey fight and that it hed dis; this head, battled and looking about Temperature at 7 a.m. .....--.. 35] The phantom slashed in ch — along with the Hawalilhim as though he did not realize Highest yesterday : 52|and public buildings as She” what had happened.” : Lowest last night a the day Precipitation to 7 « Olas at night. Most of his Highest wind velo +++ 10/have been between the ages of al 4 . n city . Put Under Control After Demonstration Paris, Sept. 30.—(?)—One hun- ded prisoners tation. Inches bay o! at Toulon last the communist song, smuggled tools, smashed the walls of cells and then liberated the Most of the furniture in prison was broken before the risoners were brought under con- : Soecocopoozece For Bismarck and vicinity 0 Saturday. Not much change tem- Pittsburgh, Sept. 30.— (AP) —A pei . , For North Dakota: Cloudy United Mine Workers from at- somewhat unsettled tonight aca ser | tempting to retain wrsay Not much change in state miners houses owned by the Y temper-| minal Coal ae in Bed tn federal court GENERAL WEATHER CONDI- here tolay by dodge FP. vale i sf =P ae = = ightning was being followed by di he curb a Boy Says He Witnessed Murder'| With a Million, Who Wouldn’t Smile? Va yor Bill Thompson (center) of Chicago and Tex Rickard, promoter (right), is wear- smile. Why shouldn't he? This picture was taken after Geno was guest of honor at dinner following Rickard’s presentation of a check to the champion for $1,000,000, Tunney'’s share for Louisans Recount Personal Experiences During BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1927 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE FINAL EDITION fighting Dempsey. St. Louis, Sept. 30.—)—From a| Supreme Court Holds Action to Quiet Title on Armory Prop- ri el cl ‘ing was ee HF to effect all] on the resignation of a trial judge,| miss this on “Tumbling forth into the down- | ceeding trial judge cannot decide or ie pouring rain, I headed down Laced | make findings in the case without|of the Shrine avenue, struggling through debris} a trial de novo on all the issues.| hospital on King’s high of trees, wires from telephone| Plaintiff appeals. poles, slats and tiles, amid desola- | new trial ordered.” a destruction could be accomplished i . Jd. Ei V: roof: was torn off the boys’ . Tepes see wl Enea valley: on the north wing of the buildi di Houses in many places had their | Englert and walls completely hiown away from | inson sitting in their stead. GARY SCHOOL ta cat 1100 Prisoners Are Agree to Return to Classes » When Council Votes to Build broke their cells|son high school’s student strike has the interior of the|ended with virtuall; tor »” SAYE w anreteh. to ame ele night when the - |e eve 1 Bours with. appropriate $15,000 for immediate const to accommodate negro tudents now on at Emerson. It was the enrollment of these pearly 1,200 * students* on’ a° strike The 6 conference a> committee and Mayor Floyd was drawn uw immediate construction . . of school, the si to to a WILL HAVE NEW TRIAL OF SUIT istrict court, a new trial of the only gre k,” Company “A” vs, C. B, Little, et al. eer eaud Aneoued hataly case has been ordered by the su-|<cee where I going, but I had to Ppreme court. property has been continuously in the courts since 1921, armory, and H. T. Murphy to C. Edmond A. Hughes, was invalid, but, did not rule on the point of whether the - plaintiffs had were prevented from asserting their Should Have Heard All ‘Testimony Judge C. M. Cooley, taking up the a where two former judges left o! be made only by a judge who- had Herts all the testimony, the court eld. case after Judge Nuessle, who had] looked white like snow. Then came previously been hearing it, had re-|the furious bl signed to take his place on the su- preme court bench. ‘ Judge Nuessle had made a finding on the case but against the east wall of the room. had suggested that additional evi-| 4 dence on one point be given. point was tried by Judge Cooley,| through my window, but m: who found that the price paid for the pro] ‘he whole thing. was over in less| and held the title should be quieted} but she was unhurt. than a minute. One blast from the| in Mr. Little and Mr. Hughes. . Windst , in S orm: iMan Crawls Under Auto For Safety, But Is Struck by Scantling — Railway Postai Clerk Describes Storm as He Saw It—Two Women Run From Auto Into Death's Path OF COMPANY ‘A’ —(P)—Per- recounted saw the of the s wer many who performances twister of yesterday. ‘| Edward Steinhauer was collect- ing bills on Sarah strect when the} rsing the Burleigh county teenidio broke. “Thi erty Must Be Retried ‘o keep from being go some pla gz walls or hit by crushed by flying bricks or Crawls Under C “L saw a big automobile parked | at the curb, and I made a dive for it. I threw myself down on my stomach and crawled under the car, where I thought I'd be fairly safe. But in a few seconds a 2x4 scant- ling came whizzing under the car and struck me square across the face... “[ was dazed for a little while, but not very badly damaged. When the storm passed over I got up and helped to carry three bodies from ruins of houses.” William H. Buren, a railway stal clerk, was in his room on indell boulevard when the tornado came. “First came a dash of rain that The litigation affecting sale of the The court held that a deed to the granted by L. Sperry Little and slept on their ights to such an extent that they aim. Reason for the reversal was that ued an order ‘disposing of the Such an order could rightfully Judge Cooley had taken up the of wind.” he said. I saw things flying through the outside and backed myself up west wall of the ho next door The| was blown down and a br “A girl rooming above rty was all it was worth| piano which was turned ‘ just four utes, but I The court decision reads: “Where,| missed the Poplar Bluff tornado. by cause is left undetermined, a suc- Hospital Is Damaged Miss Ariel superintendent. yay, SB “I saw a_funnel-shaped cloud coming over Forest Park and knew The opinion of the court was by|that it was going to hit tee re Reversed, and id not parscinale, District Judges|but none of the children was ick-| jured. The larger ones were fri cman Engen of Dick ened avhen they realized the sev of the storm, but the younger ones were very quiet. All the children were very well behaved during the storm.” In an attempt to flee from the storm, Mrs. Agnes Straumann and Mrs, Elsie Voelker ran directly into the path of death and lost their lives. 5 They were riding in their motor car on west Bell avenue. They saw the storm approaching and, aban. doning their motor car, sought ref- uge in a house. Hardly had they STRIKERS WIN FULL VICTORY DEBRIS St. Fargo, N. D., Sept. 30.—@)—Two children are dead,and a third is not expected to recover frem burns re- ceived when had kindled Pickardville Toledo Beats Buffalo in Fi Toledo, American a: falo title holders, of the junio: field this af 10,000 in th Both side: first inning, the third. inning, and eighth inning. he score Buffalo crossed the threshold when the house collapsed, killing them both. Negro School Gary, Ind., Sept. 30.—(4)—Emer- ly a complete vic- for the strikers. final act leading to settlement city coun- Wet, .Pressing Proposal For to final reading 2 bill to ig) J Referendum Merely to Keep :-Palse: and Misleading Wet Propaganda Before People,’ ‘Mrs. Elizabeth Preston An- derson Says in Speech at Grand Forks of a temporary. school Negro students that started action followed a the student council’s between illiams, at .which a petition requesting the a) Grand Forks, N. D., Sept. 30.—(?) of the money for the ‘iation the| the state are pressing the proposal to submi the liquor question to a referendum vote trerely to keep “false. and mfsleading wet propa- ganda before the people,” Mrs. Elizabeth Preston’ Anderson Thurs- da, night said that rtate W. C. T. U. is stronger than ever. Her review tle. of the prohibition enforcement situ- ation in the state was presented in her annual address to the W. C. T. three | U. convention, in session here. ‘Hundreds of ¢ tudents in turn return to classes pending last night fourth va fare dar its con- ju the last year, Mrs. Anderson said. Revival of intersst in the built, ig the work of some departments and in- $1,000,000. “all-negro” school, |creased cooperation with prohibition Toledo W.C.T.U. HEAD SCORES EFFORTS OF out warning in.the vicinity of TWO CHILDREN DIE FROM BURNS Girl Throws Kerosene on Fire —Third Child Not Ex- pected to Recover kerosene on a fire her older sister Toledo’s Mudhens, champions of the Bisons, runs in the second and three more in Buffalo scored once in the fourth PRICE FIVE CENTS Storm Takes Huge Death Toll 81 Known Dead In St.Louis--5000 Homes W recked Four-minute Tornado Does Damage Estimated at From $10, 000,000 to $100,000,000 in Missouri City’s Residential Section—More Than 600 People Injured BEING RCHED FOR ADDITIONAL BODIES Storm Second in City’s History—First Struck 31 Years Ago and Claimed 300 Lives—Students Killed and Injured When Storm Hits School Louis, Mo., Sept. 30. the Post-Dispatch estima’ —(AP)—The death list in yesterday's tornado in St. Louis and vicinity mounted to 81 today as addi- tional bodies were found and injured victims died. Of these, all but four were identified. 18 persons reported missing, many injured in a critical ind portions of the dev: tated area unsearched for ted the total dead might reach 140, the number killed in the city's historic tornado of 1896. Hundreds of families, left without a roof, or with sides of their homes laid open by the storm, slept last night in the national guard armory and other improvised quarters, and were fed today from field kitchens, placed in service by relief forces. ilitiamen of the 138th infantry, St. Louis national guard nt, today patrolled the streets west of Grand Boulevard, directing motorists through a maze of fallen trees, shattered roofing and broken glass. All of the city’s 1,500 policemen, called out when the storm broke at 1 p. m. yesterday, remained on duty today, regardless of their regular hours. The body of a third girl was found in the ruins of the Central high school and it was feared two others were buried The fourth body, that of an unidentified girl, was found this afternoon in ruins of the Central high school, to search for a fifth body believed to be buried there. St. Louis, Sept. 30.—(AP)—St. Louis awoke early today ta full realization of the appalling toll of the four-minute passage of yesterday's tornado—81 known dead, 641 treated for injuries, 5,000 homes and business structures destroyed or damaged over a devastated area of six square miles and offigial estimates of the damage running from $10,000,000 to $100,000,000. The tabulation of deaths, injuries and damage mounted steadily throughout the night, and it was feared that further exploration today might increase the first two figures. Red Cross disaster there. Police continue Finest Homes Are Destroyed Viola Schaefer, 7, threw at the farm home near in S n county. rst Series Game| Ohio, Sept. 30.—()— ssociation, and the Buf- International league , opened their first game rr world series in Swayne ‘ternoon, with a crowd of e stands. s were scoreless in the , but Toledo scored two added another in the by innings follows: 00100010—% WETS TO BRING DRY LAW TO VOTE enforcement, noted. Summer Schools Reached Carrying liquor into tl legislature, Mrs. Andczson said, rep- resentatives reached all state with instructior. tific teachin; publi Ley Mrs. F. M. state vice president of the W. C. T. U., Mrs. Anderson said, and praised —Charges that the wet forces of|her work. Mrs. B: Although tremendous ‘dod their n small. schools. ive work was handled by officials also were their crusade against he schools anc the state of the organization had summer schools of the t+ the scien- ig 22 temperance in the W.nner of Jamestown, med as excellent work for vear. the wets have mad> a noise throughout the accomilishments ‘ay: Mrs. Anderson said, since Montana was the only state to 1 code. repeal her enforcement she charged, was not due to the the wets bu. to the neg- age: of lect of the dry: to cast their votes. Citing ihe change North failure of to laws at the .{the appearance This, | b! ay Downtown St. Louis escaped virtually unscathed, but some of the city’s finest -homes. along Lindell Boulevard from New- stead avenue to Grand Boulevard were laid waste. The area of greatest destruction lay roughly southeast to northeast, bounded by Forest Park boulevard, Sarah street, Pendalton avenue and Hehert street. The black, swirling funnel seemed ot have appeared with- Forest Park, to have pursued a zigzag course for six miles to leap the Mississippi river and dissipate its fury with a last twist in the Illinois _tri-cities, Venice, Granite City and Madison, in which six per- sons were killed and 20 injured. Militia Called Out Every St. Louis policeman and fireman was called out on special duty but their numbers were inade- quate to patrol the stricken area and a regiment of state militiamen was ordered on duty. Orders to shodt looters were issued. A citizens’ relief committee of 38, with Mayor Victor Miller as chair- man, hurriedly was organized to di- rect relief work, The Red Cross placed a relief station in the center of the stricken area and 100 auto- mobiles were impressed. for use as ambulances. Mayor Miller issued an appeal for funds. The damage estimate of from $10,000,000 to $100,000,000 came from E. E. Christopher, building commissioner. Insurance men made a flat estimate of $75,000,000 dam- age. Second in City’: History The tornado was the second in St. Louis’ history, The first struck 31 years ago and claimed 140 lives in St. Louis and 160 in the vicinity. The two tornadoes followed gen ally the same course. The cstimat- ed area of the twister of 1896 was eight miles in length and from one- quarter to a mile and a quarter wide. Throughout the wilderness of crumpled houses, fallen trees, wrecked factories and business buildings and twisted wires, men dug frantically in. the darkn all night. Shortly before 4 o'clock this morning explorers, seeking the bodies of five missing children in the recently remodele? Central high school, found the bodies of two little girls. Seven school buildings, housing 500 school children, were in the tornado swept area, but only at Central high was there a report of fatalities. Eighteen other pupils i1 that school were injured when a huge tower was sent crashing down o. the auditoriu, That the death list did not soar higher into the nundreds was at- tributed to the heavy construction of the buildings in the devastated area. Here and there the debris of what had been a wooden structure gave mute evidence of what might have happened. Brick Houses Crumpled Old brick houses were crumpled like egg shells in cne part of the area, however. The newer homes were not spared and gaping holes, where the wind wrenched off a wing or li the roof, gave the district of a #:.""l torn city. workers rushing into the zone found pathetic sights of men, ind children standing dazed and helpless, while others dug into the ‘eaps of brick and wood for loved ones.~ : ts tornado played no favorites. Hy of classic design, the hum- structures, stores, pooner buildings, police stations, re see and torn equally, For an hour before struck, the air was heavy and last legislative session, Mrs Ander-|tentous with storm. son called attention to formation of |low rumblii the “Better Citizenship Association” |tuated with made} the day after the session snded. We Ni ‘ould Change Name Calling it the “Wetter Citizenship Assoriatign ,” Mrs, Anderson said its ued on page seven) ‘louds appeared s In a twinkii (Continued