The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 20, 1928, Page 1

NORTH DAKOTA'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED 1873 FOREST AND E. J. Hughes Takes Exception to Statement of Ot AGAIN URGES DEMOCRATS TO UPHOLD PARTY Rehabilitation of Party North Dakota First Step Toward Victory SIGNERS NOW IN OFFICE This Fact Pointed to as Rea- son For Gammons-Simon- Byerly Statement Reply to the statement of mem- bers of the Democratic state execu- tive committee which - last week urged North Dakota Democrats who reviously had done so to vote the Republican ticket at- the June _pri- mary was made here today by E. J. Hughes, Fargo, chairman of the Democratic state central committee. Hughes presided at the Valley Cit convention which ur; Demo- crats to return to their own party fold for the coming election. Hughes’ statement, addressed to the Democrats of North Dakota follows: “My attention has just been di- rected to a statement recently made through the public press of the state and signed by three members out of the total of 49 members of the De: ocratic state committee. Thi: ment signed by these individuals talls upon the Democrats in the state to register and vote as Republicans In the June primaries, and further alleges. that the recent state Demo- cratic convention held in yalay: City represented the interests of the Nonpartisan lea; in North Dakota. “I wish to first state that the delegate convention held at Valley . City was duly and legally called by me in good faith and that the said convention did duly assemble pur- suant to call at Valley City on March 28, 1928, and did there func- tion as a properly constituted repre- sentative state convention of Dem- ocrats. Signers Not at Convention “It appear that Messrs. Gammons, Byerly, Simon and Halvorson, not one of ale! pitended the state con- vention at Valley City, are now pre- suming to speak for all the Demo“ srats of the state and to advise that Democrats should enroll as ib- licans and vote in the Republican primaries. With an apparent show of interest in the welfare ‘of the state, they attempt to point out that the Democratic party of North Da- kota can function completely and! still vote in the Republican June primaries. The complete fallacy of such a position is evident to all who inderstand that the basis of party organization under our statutes rests apon the election of party precinct tommitteemen who must, according 10 law, be elected in Ji “The declarat the state convention at Valley City, urg- ing Democrats to enroll and vote as Democrats in the June primaries was founded upon this very. The present sorry condition state organization is entirely due to the fact that the election of Demo- tratic precinct committee men, who (Continued on page two) if Weather Report our Temperature at 7 Highest yesterda: Lowest last night Proeinitation to 7 Uighest wind velocity ......+ aay Bil Cloud; Clear 4 0 10 8 z Temps. North Dakota— Amenia SBSRSSSSRRSERES Moorhead, fom Dako’ i 8 att i int. | das countryside eB THE BIS Wed 75 Years ij id Mrs. William Larson gath- ered about them the other day their childen and their children’s chil. dren to the fourth generation and celebrated the 75th anniversary of ¥60, their wedding. The little town of as increased in pop- ulation to 46 on that day. She’s he’s 93. EARTHQUAKES CAUSE. PANIC IN BULGARIA 100 Known Dead in Phiippopo- lis—Many More Bodies Believed in Ruins Sofia, Bulgaria, April 20.—(AP) —Death, destitution and insanit; ed through southeastern Bul-' garia today in the wake of a series of earthquakes which have devas- tated the region. More than 100 bodies were counted in nies oes and the neighbor- hood. How many were buried: be- neath the ruins was not.known. To calculate the number of injured, many of ‘whom were in a critical) condition, was impossible as the ulation fled stricken to qe was Belleved that, Philippopelis * Tt was which is the second city in size of Bul , would ii furnish the highest casualty list of the places affected. Only the higher part of the city, about a quarter of me mile’ actoss, was undamaged. Te- mainder of the city was destroyed| or too dai to occupy: Sev- eral chu and a ospital sie Prilingen i the regi I In many in the region only a few houses stood gaunt among the ruins. These places included i, Kalatchi, Baltadzi, nole, Tressil, Alibakovo, Belozem and Satybe; People Are Destitute The people were in destitution. Many were driven insane by what D- Cahkireto, | day: HUNTER, CASS COUNTY TOWN, HAS BAD FIRE Block of Business Buildings Virtually De- stroyed by Blaze LOSS PLACED AT $60,000 Fire Departments Called From Four Nearby Towns to Help Fight Flames Hunter, N. D., April 20.—(— After getting the assistance from the fire departments of four nearby towns, the fire which virtually de- stroyed an entire block of buildings here was brought under control late sterday with damage estimated at 000. Several small buildings had to be wrecked to prevent the district. e believed to have started in the attic of the Ford Hardware company building, which is a double two-story frame CK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1928 f fet Triplets born to Mr. and Mrs. Mary named after the flyers who piloted America. GRASS FIRES CAU Plut in Chic&go the other day were the Bremen from Ireland to North Left to right they are James, Herman and Ehrentried, with nurse Estelle Gill. TRANSATLANTIC FLYERS PLANNING TO FLY PLANE BACK TO GERMANY Capt. Hermann Koehl Tells Canadian Press Reporter That Crew of Bremen Hope to Be First to Make Round Trip Across the Atlantic BY JAMES STANTON lian Press Correspondent Lake Ste. Agnes, Murray Bay, April 20-(Canadisn Prese}—The today |German-Irish crew of the transat- control. Dami are estimated at $60,000. re OWEN YOUNG, GRAND FORKS _ PIONEER, DIBS Succumbs to Iliness at Rock- ford, Mich., Where He Had Gone Reeently Grand Forks, N.:D., April: 20.— (AP)—Owen Young, vy ture dealer and ca; city, died Thi hor 8 ago after taking treatment in Kansas City, ncaa to word re- ceived by friends here. farm | circling the airport, they have witnessed in the last few|lic school 8. ills were moved. Their coun- tours were altered. Underground reservoirs broke through in places Be Pape and anes elgg Piao nole, ures were |. Water 8] ed irom the tiedis ta the height of three feet. The ruins and the were flooded. ridges were shattered. The rail- way tracks in places were twisted. spots. Population Leaves Sofia LY The population of Sofia continued capital overnight with thelr bedding cay overn and slept in the try. Others vehicles which they used as sleep- rs. 4 damage in the quake area was estimated at several Bundred million levas (the leva at par is worth about 19 cents). a. ment and charitable insti- ations SmaEO€ 0 Ie order out of chaos. ing Boris’ ally ical the devastated di in at Vale Cit; niet i é E ae ae Ninh Be eek reps sfiSte H 5 et) & 3 bh a Hi tz he £ Fs = iq | Hy by i #t mE Essex ‘al hie A 32 iit by HF 3 Roadbeds sunk six feet in| Y | years when he came to North With his brother Orison Young, -he embarked upon farming ition on a farm west of » Young and his brother -also ny a furniture store in Grand 01 of his attention to the farm, Owen ‘oung remained in manager the store. Successful in Business Mr. Young's business career was 8 n acquired large real estate and Brsinese holdings. He was a pecul. Sroee eran me tive church affiliations. Shortly after ‘ing his furniture Mr. ‘Young added henley ae int disposed of his retained business he Ctsiness and his musi- PET 4 furni- | diti Dakota, and while Orison gave most Grand Forks to and he gradu- lantic monoplane Bremen hope to their plane back to Germany it is repaired, Captain Her- mann: Koehl told the first re; regener to reach Greenly Island. is re] » who flew to the island with the first news reel cam- erman tc make the last Wednesday, returned ho “As soon as our machine paired,” Captain Koehl told the re- porter, “we will fly to New York as first intended. En route we shall likely call at Murray Bay and lontreal. After-that we hope to ight from New "ART FOR-MURRAY BAY serying’ the hope ef the stsensed 8 Garatentte ge faye an an early getaway from isi reenly Island, a ne Ford by Bernt Balchen and Floyd Bennett, took ott at ty a a ‘bog oo airport today for Murray Bay, Que., on the first leg of the relief expe- ion. The relief plane was escorted over the Canadian border by a irene, of 15 Selfridge field planes. e take- off was without incident, Balchen pilotis the huge three motored vat a the runway and lifting it slowly from the ground. After the plane headed fe ble weather Bennett telegram Se "Agnes, stating that the weather . stating that weather in that vicinity was fa’ a5 an occl-| DETROIT Lake: Ste. Raves. ie April a —@)—Major james maurice to- y awaited the trimotored relief fen and the repairs. for the trans” im lor rans- atlantic mot Bremen back to Greenly Island. <5 A bli which swept down over night, ewever, brought fears. that 0 fears at a Ford all-metal plane might Bae De able ta. Wits Saeaneh the. 200 lane comes through on the Trish Bennett and ief ship’ he to take off for Greecly inland Satur- SIPFE ae E° 4 Hi rEg Fe i s é Pi rss § > 1; air liner, piloted} commandant and Bernt Balchen, | of DAUGHTER OF SOLDIER MAY GET FORTUNE Drawings Left by Father When He Went to World War Prove Valuable Chicago, April 20.—(AP)—Draw- ings left by Neville B. Welsh, when he started for the front in 1917, today carried the promise of a for- tune to Elizabeth Hildegrade Welsh, his 11-year-old daughter. fore he went overseas, where re-|he was killed in action, her father several drawings with 3 cousin, 1 O'Neill McCullough of San isco. In the meantime. El beth’s mother = marri: William Brasky, a Chicago baker. Recently McCullough appealed to police here to find Elizabeth to sign patent pa- eed of ae eset ee which would pay her $500,000. McCullough said a pump ine de- signed by Welsh has been sold to the General Motors corporation. Eliaabeth, a golden-haired girl, is now recovering from an attack of Mrs. Brack ted the girl rasky presen girl’s claims. She said that a year after the daughter's birth, her father left home and that she had heard little about him, except that he had been killed during. the war. While no confirmation of the girl's = fortune has reaehed the Brasky jousehold from the west, the mother said that the money, if there were any, would be used to give the girl the best education possible. Martell Organizes Entertainers For Meetings in County 20.—(Special Tribune)—Carson county, through the efforts of Theo. Martell, county extension agent, here, has a group of entertainers which has done a great deal the past winter to furnish programs for various community gatherings throughout the county. Members of the organization are County Agent Martel, as the man- ager and speaker; P. P. Schlosser, register of deeds, who plays the violin and accordion; Chas. R. Emch, county auditor, whd plays the har- monica and at the same time chords on the piano; B. E. Stith, deputy county auditor, who plays the vio- lin; Eric Kraft, mail carrier, who plays the violin; Wm. Peterson, lo- cal bi ‘ith, who plays the man- dolin and guitar; J. C. Bell, editor Teadings, and Judge Fletcher, Saige al ge Fletcher, ju of the probate court, readings. ‘i This e..groue will broadcast over the- io at either Bismarck or Mandan in the very near future. SIGHTSEEING BY PLANE New York — Visitors to the me- tropolis will soon be able to see the “sights” from the clouds. In addi- tion to the pilot and passengers, has|provision will be made for the pro- verbial ballyhoo man who will point out interesting sky views to the cus- rs. Today in Congress Naval appropriations bill still before senate, while house takes up flood control bill under five- minute rule for offering amend- MILLIONAIRES BID FAREWELL TOW. C. DURANT Every Attempt Made to Keep Informal Affair Secret, But News Leaks Out DURANT OFF FOR EUROPE Friendly Gathering of Market Leaders Marks Change From the Past New York, April 20.—(?)—An elaborate dinner of men made mil lionaires by the stock market was disclosed by the New York Times today. A group of the biggest operators in the present record activity of the market gathered last night at a rivate farewell at the Biltmore for . C. Durant, automobile manufac- turer, who sails for Europe tomor- row, Durant has been credited with an impor‘ant part in the spectacular rises of a number of stocks, includ- ing General Motors, Anaconda Cop- per, International Nickel and Unit- ed States Cast Iron Pipe. Every guest at’ the dinner, the Times said, was a millionaire, many by virtue of the market. Reporters were barred and every attempt made to keep the elaborate but informal affair secret, While the dinner in reality was a farewell to Mr. Durant, said the Times, it more than that was a gathering of men who are leaders of board speculative activity in the stock market and have all becom« close friends during the last year or so, all of them working in the stock market and many times in the same stocks, This, the times pointed out, marked a change from the past. Frequently in the past the biggest operators in the street have been at each other’s throats, with ruinous results. In the present market they have all been on one side, the bullish side, and they have profited. 73 INSURGENTS ARE KILLED IN 4 ENGAGEMENTS): Jose Trinidad Guillen and 2t Followers Fall in Battle at Las Habillas Mexico City, April 20—(AP)— Seventy-three insurgents have been slain by federal forces in four en- gagements in the state of Jalisco. Dispatches from Guadalajara to- day announced the death of 55 and military reports told of the death of 18 others, General Ascenscion Escalante overtook a band of insurgents under Jose Trinidad Guillen at Las Habil- las. Guillen and 26 followers fell in battle, the dispatches said. Nine- teen others were captured. After a drum court-martial, they were exe- cuted. Nine of One Band Slain Pursuing the fleeing insurgents, the government forces came upon another band at Ojo de Agua. Nine of them were slain. A large quantity of arms and some horses were captured. Military advices stated that 15 in- surgents fell in onc battle in the Los Altos ion and three in angther. El Universal Grafico said Presi- dent Calles had been asked to extend clemency to a Catholic priest and a number of laymen about to be sent to the Island in the Pacific because of al- leged seditious activities. Unless the president intervenes they will go with a up of 100 criminals now being held in Mexico City Bis Law Violations Charg The paper also stated that Mar- tinus tehler, archbishop of Yu- catan, and Carlos Menendez, direc- tor of the newspaper El Diario de Yucatan, had been charged by the vernment with violation of the re- igious laws. The newspaper of Senor Menendez published a pas- toral letter written by the arch- dishes and the government consid- ered it an incitement to revolution. The archbishop is in Havana and Senor Menendez is understood to have gone on a vacation trip to the United States. The newspaper El Sol said that the government had converted 142 pieces of church property to its uses within a year. These were mostly annexes and the property was con- verted into schools. One Degree Below at Crosby This Morning One North Dakota point again reported sub-zero temperatures for the 24-hour period ending at eight ovek this morning. It was Cros- by where the minimum was one de- gree zero. The next coldest [ee ‘was seven above at Bottineau. ‘essenden had ight above. Williston was the warmest spot in the state with a minimum tem- y of 28 above zero. Minot japoleon. en 25. much of the state the weather was cloudy or ey so and reported it it was snowing. al colony on Tres Marias | h f Aids Governor Promotions resulting from the ap- pointment of Cyrus Locher, Direc- tor of Commerce for the State of Ohio, to the United States Senate, bring to William G. Pickrel (above), a Dayton lawyer, the post of licu- tenant-governor. U.S, AND JAPAN WILL PROTECT THEIR PEOPLE U. S. Subjects in Tsinan Urged to Leave—Japan Lands Troops in China Peking, April 20.—(7)—Two na- tions moved today to protect their subjects in Shantung as the Na- tionalists advanced and the Shan- ee! defense collapsed. dwin F, Stanton, American con- sul, advised his countrymen to leave Tainan the Nationalists in con- trol of Yenchowfu, 75 miles to the south. Japan sent three companies of in- fantry from Tientsin to Tsinan to rotect Japanese lives and property in the Shantung province. A force of 550 marines were landed at Tsingtao to protect lives and prop- erty in the province of Shantung. The northern armies which are ar- rayed against the Nationalists were driven back on all fronts. Tsinan, just southwest of Yen- chowfu, was also occupied after a northern army of 20,000 men under, General Sun Chuan-Fang, governor of Shantung, was destroyed by N: tionalist troops under Feng Y Hsiang, once known as the Chri tian general. General Sun had hoped to cut the Lunghai Railway at Kweiteh, about 100 miles southwest of Yenchowfu in Honan province. He thus ex- pected to turn the left flank of Chiang Kai-Shek, Nationalist com- mander in chief. SHANTUNG DEFENSE ARMY IS WIPED OUT Shanghai, China, April 20.—(7)— All reports received in Shanghai in- dicate that the Shantung defense army of 50,000 men under the Northern General Sun Chuan-Fang, has been wiped out in bitter fight- ing with the Nationalists during the last. week. The Nationalist occupation of Yenchowfu in_ Southern Shantung has cut Sun Chuan-Fang off from the forces of Marshal Chang Tsung- Chang, chief northern general in the field, who also has suffered received in Shanghai say that corruption is rife in the noi ern ranks and that the seventh army of the northerners has gone over en masse to the Nationalists while there have been other defections. JAPAN GIVES REASONS FOR SENDING TROOPS Tokyo, April 20.—(AP)—The gov- ernment today issued a statement on its reasons for sending troops into China, recalling that when Japan withdrew from Shantung last year China was warned that Japan was ready to take steps and to send a further exepdition to protect Jap- anese lives and property if peace and order in the locality should be disturbed again. It was stated that troops would be withdrawn as soon as the danger to aca lives and property was past Singers Must Sound Vowels Correctly The Weather Mostly cl tonight and Sats urday, with 4 ay. tenia rain or snow, PRICE FIVE CENTS SE TWO DEATHS her Democrats RESIDENTS 0F N. J. TOWN ARE READY TO FLEE Flames Spread by Winds Which Reach Velocity of 60 Miles an Hour 100 HOMES DESTROYED One Man Burned in His Home —Another Killed in Fall From Fire Track New York, April 20.—(AP)—The toll of forest and grass fires today reached two lives, thousands of acres of woodlands and close to a hundred homes in central New York, Long Island, eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and northern Delaware. The flames were spread by winds which at times attained a velocity of 60 miles an hour, Many of the residents at Barne- gat, N.J.. loaded their valuables inte boats on Barnegat Bay as the fire circle closed in on the town, ready to flee if the hundreds of volunteer workers were unable to check the flames. The deaths occurred in fighting the fire about Barnegat. Frank Eayres of Waretown was burned to death when his home was destroyed, and Vincint Clayton, a member of the United States coast guard at Spring Lake, was fatally injured when he fell from a fire truck. _ Teachers Are Heroines Miss Annie Wilson, a school teach- er at Nanticoke Crossing near Endi- cott, N. Y., dismissed her charges when she saw the fire closing in on the home of Charles Ross nearby, and she rescued five children from the house just as its walls started to blaze. Miss Ella Brennan led her 100 Pupils to safety when a forest fire closed in on her school at Yatesville, near Pottsville, Pa. The most serious fires in Pennsyl- vania were in the Lee Hh moun- tains near Allentown, where scores of homes were abandoned to the flames. On Long Island near Bayshore, the pine forest belt of approximate- ly 30 square mites of timber was burned over. Another 30 square miles of timber were burned over in . the Mossic mountains near Home- dale, Pa. KIKUL FUNERAL WILL BE SUNDAY 1:30 at Residence and 2:30 at Baldwin Church — Elks Lodge in Charge Funeral services for Gottfried Kikul, 70, pioneer resident of Bur- leigh county who dropped dead Wednesday as the result of a cere- bral hemorrhage, will be held Sun- day afternoon, it was announced to- day. The Bismarck Elks lodge, of which Mr. Kikul was a member, will have charge of the services and the Rev. F. H. Dayenport will officiate, Short services will be held at the Kikul home, 718 Main avenue, at 1:30 p. m., after which the funeral cortege will go to Baldwin, where services will be held in the Presby- terian church. Interment will be in the Baldwin cemetery. Mr. Kikul came to Burleigh coun- ty from Minnesota in 1901, settling on a farm east of Baldwin, where he resided until 1910 when he re- tired from active farm work and moved to Bismarck. Honorary pall bearers will in. clude Henry Schunert, Carl Brady, Louis Garske, G. W. Peterson, M. Lenhart, Wesley Baker and George Robidou. Active pall bearers have been selected from among the Elks membership and_ include Chris Bertsch, R. G. Hall, Theodore Quan. - rud, Walter Sather, Charles Liess- man and I. C. Davies, The body will lie in state at the Webb funeral parlors until Sunday morning. BUGLERS MEET TONIGHT Members of the recently organized American Legion bugle and drum corps who have agreed to bugles will meet for their first re- hearsal tonight at 7:30 in the base- ment of the Will school. S, woll, director of the bugle section, will give the instruction and all buglers are urged to be present.