The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 17, 1928, Page 1

NORTH DAKOTA'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED 1873 VESTRIS PORTS NOT INSPECTED OFFICER AVERS Chief Officer Testifies Clos- ing Port Holes Was His Responsibility MET WITH LINE LAWYERS States That Cargo Shifted and That Water Was Pouring Into Vessel New York, Nov. 17.—()—Frank Johnson, a wind-browned wisp ofa man who was promoted to be first officer of the steamer Vestris just before it sailed on its fatal voyage, testified today that he had not in- spected the coal » although their condition was his responsibility. Other survivors of the Vestris dis- aster have charged that coal ports just above the water line were im- properly closed and that water poured into the ship through them, at least contributing to the sinking with the loss of more than 100 lives. Johnson, who took the stand at the federal inquiry today after de- partment of justice agents had sought him for two days, said he had ordered the ship's carpenter to close the ports, but had not himself looked to see if the work was prop- erly done. He said he never had examined the ports. Describes Door Closing Tuttle asked Johnson to describe in detail how the doors were closed. He said each door had 12 or 16 bolts. “How were the bolts fastened?” “The bolts were screwed into the hull of the ship. There was a thread in the hull and a thread on the bolt.” “How soon after you sailed did the officers discover something out of order on the ship?” “Seven p.m. Sunday.” “Your radio operator yesterday said he noticed a 10-degree list Sat- urday night. He’s wrong?” “Yes.” “Passengers here have said they observed the list long before Sunday night. They are wrong, are they?” Wind Caused List “There was a slight list caused by wind and sea on the port side Sunday.” “You say there was no list Satur- day night?” “Yes.” > or “Then your radio operator doesn’t know what he’s talking about?” “I don’t say anything about the radio operators.” “When did you first discover any- thing wrong?” “Seven-thirty Sunday night.” “Don’t you know Captain Carey sent a radio that the ship had hove to since Sunday -noon?” “That was because of bad weather ——” “Capt. Carey said the sea was only moderately rough. He was wrong, was he?” “It was more than moderately rough.” Contradicts Captain “You contradict your captain, do you?” ‘ “When did you land here?” “Tuesday.” “Where have you been then?” “At the Holley hotel.” “With what representatives of the line have you talked?” “Mr. Clark, one of the lawyers of since member his name.” “When did you talk to them?” “Tuesday evening.” “Talk to anybody else represent- ing the line?” “Capt. Heasley, the marine taper. intendent of the line.” “Anybody else? “Captain Regan.” “Did you talk to any of these men Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday?” Saw Lawyers } “I went to the lawyers’ office } Thursday evening.” } “Whom did you meet there?” “Mr. Clark.” “Did you put in a written report after landing?” “No.” eer ae “You've made no written report yet?” ig “No,” “Who told you Sunday night that something was wrong?” “The ship took a heavy lurch, and I went around to see what, if any, had been done. I was anx- ious al ee the prod oan. They 8 ported me cargo shifted—that bulkheads had broken down and that the cargo was in the fo'castle.” Johnson said he made @n inspec- tion and found the half-door was making quite a lot of water. The half-door, he said, was aft of the coal ports and about the same dis- tance from the water. It was fast- soe ite about ten bolts from the inside. “How much water was coming in there?” “About like a two-inch pipe.” Six Indictments Are Made by Grand Jury eas sa sd the line, another lawyer—I don’t re- | The THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1928 | They Swam 18 Hours _ | Pluckiest. . . “At 7:30 steamed through wreckage. Found man and wom- an in water. Launched boat and picked up two of [ncedgat people ever met. Eighteen hours in water.” ... There, in a radiogram from Captain Cummings, of the American Shipper, you have the outline of a grim epic of struggle and survival, the figures in which are here shown—Mrs, Clara G. Ball, a stewardess on the S. S. Vestris, and Paul Dana, a passenger. The photo was taken upon their arrival in New York. Mrs. Ball was partially paralyzed, her companion bruised and cut by tossing wreckage. Racketeers’ Guns Pump Death Into Union Leader 104 CANDIDATES GIVEN DEGREES BY CONSISTORY Great Plains Council, Knights Boss of Cleaners, Dyers, Chauf- feurs Target of Stealthy Gangsters Chicago, Nov. 17.—(AP)—Guns of the racketeers, mute since they dealt death to Big Tim Murphy in midsummer, pumped eight bullets last night into the body of John G. lay, boss of the laundry and dye- aah chauffeurs’ rivera Kadosh, Instituted at illers never a, better tary on ‘ that The 89: yeut-old sécretarytreasct o*~Reunton urer of the chauffeurs’ union. He was seated at his desk, facing a! ‘The Fa: consistory, Knights front window of’ the Union’s head- quarters on South Ashland avenue. Bathed in the bright light of his of- fice, Clay was a perfect mark for the gunmen who crept up on the porch which runs by the window and sent the fire of a machine gun and @ shotgun blazing through the glass. The sound of running feet, the roar of a motor, the red tail light of a curtained automobile vanishing down the street, and the slayers had escaped. Kadosh, conferred de; from the nineteenth to and including the thir- tieth on a class of 104 candidates yesterday as a feature of the last. day of the fall reunion of the first three bodies of Scottish. Rite Ma- sonry held here. The Great Plains council, Knights Kadosh, was instituted here _yes- terday morning by Walter R. Reed, Fargo, sovereign grand ins nen a ee oe work for [01 akota. ie degrees were ,, Seven stewards of the Union were! conferred after the institution of in a room adjoining Clay’s when| the Great Plains council of the body shots were fired. They ran into the| here. street too late to catch more than a| The fall reunion, which opened fleeting glimpse of the machine in| here Wednesday morning, was un- der immediate charge of Mr. Reed. which the slayers fled. Clay, according to police investi-| J. L. Lyngstad, master of the Lodge Perfection, George F. Dullam, ators, held the key position in the| of hicago cleaning and dyeing “rack-| Wise Master of the c! apter of Rose et” as they call it. Croix, and Gilbert Haugen, sec The “cleaning racket” is reputed! tary, were in charge of local by police and by other investigating, rangements. The convention end business groups to have taken mil-| last night. lions of dollars from Chicagoans.| A banquet was held at the Ma- sonic Temple at 6:30 p. m. yester- day. Speakers at the function were: G. W. Stewart, Mandan, speaking for the class which re- ceived degrees; George F. Dullam, speaking for the Scottish Rite bod- ies; Judge A. B. Guptill, Fargo, speaking for Fargo pe nights Kadosh; and 4 e warfare between rival groups seeking to control the business has been marked with many bombs and sluggings. It has always been the police theory that Big Tim Murphy’s as- sassination was attributable to his efforts to “muscle in” on the clean- ing and dyeing “racket.” Following the speaking program, Frank L. Gage, Bismarck, deputy in- spector general for this district in Scottish Rite work and in direct charge of the organization of the bodies in this district, was presented with a ring by the Scottish | Rite bodies in suprecielion of his WITH DRUG RING Dead Gambler Thought lanned for. th <Brains’ of $4,000,000 Thefts | Parsce™™ *" WOK Planned for. the x in 1920 Major A. B. Welch, Mandan, and W. S. Ayers, Bismarck, cooperated resenting the ring to Mr. Gage. lusic during the three-day meet was furnished by a vocal quartette made up of George Humphreys, A. J. A and Henry Halvorson, Bis- marck, and Rev. G. W. Stewart, Mandan. Walter Tostevin, Mandan, was accompanist. ones of the Great Plains Coun- cil, elected last night, follow: L. F. Smith, Mandan, command B. Parsons, Mandan, first _lieuten- ant; Alfred B, Welch, Ma lieutenant; 4 in _ New York, Nov. 17.—(AP)—Po- lice today, pursued new leads to the slayer of Arnold Rothstein after the name of the slain gambler had been linked with a $4,000,000 Wall Street bond theft and an international narcotic ring. Announcement that new clues had been found was made by Police Com- missioner Warren, who, however, refused to ages their nature. ea ee ee, londay layor Walker to pro- duce “Further facts” in the case or Mandan, chancellor; Otto Baue be threatened he would “take ac- Mandan, orator; Alfred 0. Hender. In surrogate’s court an al om F tags Fran A, ttorney ‘ai for Alger Gildersleeve, referee in 5 Bismarck, secretary; Frank A. ul ings r, Bismarck, treasurer; John “Nicky” Arnstein, filed an Thomas McKane Bima uate vit saying Rothatein was sus-|" “Other reunions here of the first Bee ee Fee sapeorsuntain head” | three ‘bodies of ‘Scottish Rite ‘Ma- oa Teceieee 4 fs missing somry are planned for February, at wi time the 3st and 82nd° de- will be’ conf and in Mi iis cae Wife Saturates Self With Gasoline, Fires Clothes, to Suicide — Edgewater Pte! Miss., Nov. ! P)— E. Smith, of Knights Kadosh, who were|sedan, ler; Harry|mond CHICAGO OUSTS MACHINE THAT DISGRACED CITY Aroused Voters Smash Strong Thompson-Crowe Clan by Huge Majority ELECT LAW-ORDER MEN Dr. Bundesen Seen as Candi- date to Oppose ‘Big Bill’ in 1931 Chicago, Nov. 17.—The good peo- ple of Chicago, having started a big job at the primaries last April, are congratulating themselves upon having brought it to a successful conclusion at the recent election. Chicago is ffo longer in the grip of the machine that disgraced it. The Crowe-Thompson machine, which ruled—or misruled, if you prefer — America’s second city for nearly two years, has been com- pletely and everlastingly smashed. In all the columns of election day figures, there is not one grain of comfort for the machine leaders. Not one candidate backed by the Crowe-Thompson outfit survived. New Figures Arise Out of the wreckage which lit- ters Chicago’s political field today, two figures emer; triumphant, rising in a way that leads many Chi- cagoans to believe that they will become nationally known in a few more years. One is Judge John A. Swanson, elected to succeed Robert Crowe as state’s attorney—the man on whose shoulders will fall the major part of the responsibility for making Chi- ‘cago a clean, law-abiding town. The other is Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, former health commis- sioner. Dr. Bundesen was elected to the comparatively unimportant office of coroner; but the thing that draws attention to him is the unheard-of size of the .vote he polled. Running against the in- cumbent, Oscar Wolff, who had the Crowe-Thompson backing, Dr. Bundesen won more votes than Cook county ever gave any candi- date in its history—1,074,985. Hie plurality over Wolff was 716,534, more than 250,000 above the record - breaking Coolidge plurality f four years ago. ae Dr. Bundesen is a Democrat, and already the local wiseacres are claiming that he is the logical man to run against Mayor William Hale Thompson in 1931, when Thompson comes up for reelection. Party Labels Meaningless Party labels meant nothing at all; Bundesen is a Democrat, Judge Swanson is a Republican. The voters apparently concentrated on defeating the candidates known to be favorable to Thompson and Crowe. T1In the race for state’s attorney, both Judge Swanson and his Democratic opponent, Judge William J. Lindsay, pledged themselves to drive gun- men, racketeers anc gangsters out of Chicago and break the under- world’s grip on government, and both were recognized as men of in- tegrity and ability; but Crowe cen- tered fire on Swanson, who had beat him in the April primaries, and that fact seemed enough to win for Swanson. Never before did Chicago see such same voters who gave Dr. Bundesen his unparalleled majority of 716,534 votes turned around and elected a (Continued on page two) 2 ARRESTED ON SWINDLE COUNT Said to Have Defrauded in Diamond ‘Racket;’ Have More Than $3,500 J. E. Gerhart and W. R. Johnson, who say they reside in Detroit, Mich., are being held in Bismarck jai) on charges of fraud, accord- to Chris J. Martineson, chief of police, The two men are said to have swindled persons in the Bismarck district out of hundreds of dollars in a “diamond selling market.” had over $3,000 in cure sales upon exhibiting good stones = sam] ee, collected stones in place of diamonds. men had in their several diamond possession when ar- neh Preliminary hearing has not yet Granville Man Killed as Train Hits Truck Mi N. D., Nov. 17.—(AP)— kK. B'Finstad” of Granville, near Minot, was instantly killed at 8:45 down “fake” ie was driving was sorock by Great was Northern: _ No. 4 at the main a ae after the crash, the oil in the truck which Lad been i ti i an orgy of ballot scratching. The! Deg 10 DIE, SCORES HURT AS GALES STRIKE EUROPE Enormous Damage to Property Occurs in England, Wales and France SHIPS CANCEL SAILINGS Ramsey MacDonald, Princess Marie, Near Death from Wreck and Glass London, Nov. 17—(AP)—The death toll of a southwesterly gale that swept over Wales, England, France and Belgium yesterday stood at 10 today with several scores of Persons injured. : Princess Marie, sister of former King Constantine of Greece who died in Exile, was cut by flying glass while walking in Paris. Former Premier Ramsey McDon- ald and Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, minister of labor, had narrow es- capes when trains on which they were riding in England ran into fallen trees. Damage to property in England and Wales was enormous and wide- spread. Thirty families were hame- less today, their dwellings having been wrecked by the gale. Roofs were swept off several large build- ings. ‘two hundred and eighty trunk telephone and telegraph lines out of London were down. As a result 80 towns were either cut off from com- munication or were able to commun- icate only by roundabut routes. Sev- enteen broadcasting stations were isolated. There were several narrow escapes from disaster on railroads owing to fallen trees. A train on which the labor minister was travel- ing from London to Birmingham escaped derailment because it was Ler | slowly when it bumped into a fallen tree. The engine was dam- aged and the train stalled. Mr. MacDonald traveled from London to Ipswich on a train which was held up by fallen trees three times. One of the trees stretching across the rails nearly proved dis- astrous, A passenger steamer from Calais to Dover took four hours for .the creasing: which normally lasts .an hour. The passengers were roughly up: Most -channel- steamers: suspended service, Many fishing boats were sunk along the shore and several lifeboats had a terrific time in answering calls of distress. The big Cunard liner Alaunia post- poned her departure from South- ampton. The coasting steamer Edith crawled into Liverpool with her fun- nel missing. The funnel had been eer overboard during a battering by heavy seas on a voyage from Creetown, Ireland. The crew had been without food for two days and was forced to crouch in the stoke- hold because cabins and galleys were awash, A man was killed at Bethune, France, by a falling chimney, Prin cess Marie was saved from serious injury in Paris by an umbrella. She was walking in the Place Vendome when a huge plate glass window was shattered by the wind. Pieces of lass fell all around her but only a few went through her umbrella and she escaped with slight cuts. A plane which left Le Bourget for London was forced to alight at uvis and overturned. It was wrecked but the passengers escaped injury. All other air service from Le Bourget was suspended. The harbors of Brest, L’Orient, St. Nazaire and Cherbourg were filled with craft which sought shelter from the gale. One person was killed at Antwerp, Belgium, and numerous others were injured. Chimney and tiles were blown down and much damage done in the countryside. Red Cross Chapters _ Active in 53 Counties For the first time since the World war, every one of North Da- kota’s 53 counties has an active chap- ter of the American Red Cross, ac- cording to J. P. Hardy, Fargo, field representative of the organization for the state. festerday, checking yes ay, cl in up on Red Cross work and the ed bership drive now being conducted. Membership in the North Dakota chapters will reach 29,000 or 30,000 lardy Mandan visito: ted | 8fter the 1928 drive is completed, is Hardy's belief. Ha: id that only | ceed: 4, nrolled fast year. ee - 24,000 had The public’s realization of the ;| necessity of the American Red Cross work in peace as well as in war time is advanced by Hardy as the reason for the expected increase in the en- rollment this year. The Mississippi flood and the recent Florida storm disasters have proved the need pro- nouncedly, he said. bership in 1927 was 50 r than that of 1926, lardy left Bismarck last night for points in Ki $ he will continue hi oe Mounted Police Deny Killing Two Robbers Regina, Sask. Nov. 17—(AP)— that. two would | tion with a raid made b: COOLIDGE URGES CO-OPS FOR FARMERS’ | __ The Life-Savers at Work | Rescuers and Rescued—Snapped at the scene of their rescue vigil, the S. S. American Shipper (top) and the French freighter Myriam (center) are shown enga; in their life-saving roles. The tiny white line, shown near the Shipper’s prow, is a lifeboat putting alongside. Below are members of the rescued crew being fed, after they had been taken aboard the American Shipper. Nine-Inch Rainfall Kills Three, Floods 3 States Railroads Paralyzed, Dams Threatened by Tremendous ) - -____..—- —_4 ° Crime Career Ends | | for Pencil Bandit | ° Downpour Chicago, Nov. 17.—(P)—Frank sith : | Swarthout came from .Detroit}—Xansas City, -Nov. 17—(P)— yesterday, and one of the first things | he did was to borrow a pencil from Detective Sergeant Dan Kenny. With the pencil he wrote: “Dear Sir or Madame: This is to inform you that you are being robbed. Don’t holler, and give me | the money.” Still carrying the sergeant’s pen- cil, Swarthout entered a candy store at Wabash and Lake streets and presented the note to the cashier, producing a revolver to show he meant what he wrote. Sergeant Kenny took the gun away from him. ‘You crook!” Kenny said, snap- ping onthe handcuffs. “Give me my pencil!” ‘ BROKEN HEART Colder weather today followed 36 hours of nearly continuous rainfall in Kansas, Missouri and northern Oklahoma to add to the suffering of many persons threat-ne! | creasingly menacing floods in the tri-state area. While the drenching torren' tinued unabated, the th ter slipped downward into the 30s here as fresh reports of inundations, washouts and marooned persons were received. Many persons, especially in southeast Kansas lowlands and in west central Missouri, were prepar- ing for or experiencing the worst floods in local distory following the unprecedented November down- pours, ranging in places up to nine inches. Rain Blinds Motorists Three deaths already have result- ed froni the storm, while two per- The Weather Fair tonight and Sunday. : Calder tonights is PRICE FIVE CENTS ILLS PRINCIPLE WILL. SOLVE TROUBLE IN AGRICULTURE Thinks Government Could Pro. vide Board for Experimental Stages MUST LEARN MARKETING Says Cooperative Idea Is Seund in Theory; Offers Best Solution Washngton, Nov. 17.—(AP)— Widespread adoption of the cooper: tive pi iple by the agricultural in- dustry is advocated by President Coolidge as the most effective means of solving the farmer’s marketing problems. Speaking last night before the nual convention of the National Grange, the chief executive defined the cooperative system as a “move- ment to unify all agencies of pro- duction, distribution and consump- tion, that they can function as a ited whole which will sell at ight place and at the To help in the advancement of the movement, the president said that the government might well pro- * e administrative board quipped with sufficient funds to demonstrate the soundness of the principle in its experimental stage. In addition, Mr. Coolidge reviewed the development of Americ i- culture, citing two great peri of depression, in the wake of the civil war and the world war, detailed the steps that the government has taken. to relieve the latter and again ex- pressed his opposition to any at- tempt at governmental ing of farm produce prices or the estab- lishment of a governmental subsidy. Declaring that the farmer aj - ently had become well schooled in the art of production, President Coolidge asserted that the lesson of marketing had not been so well sel a e of the greatest handicaps of agriculture is overproduction,” he said. “The world is hungry to consume all that the farmer ever raises, His difficulty arises from attempting to sell at the wrong time or the wrong place. The most suc- cessful method. of . meeting. th “ ficult: s been through cooperative associations. They have enabled agriculture in a large way to take | better advantage of all agencies of | distribution, the bankers, the car- ‘riers, the commission merchants, the packers and the millers.” Mr. Coolidge said that cooperative marketing sometimes had failed through lack of management, but added that it was “sound in theory ind when conducted in a business- like way offers the most promising solution” for the farmer’s market- ing problems. ‘It avoids any attempt at price: fixing or put 3 the government in« to business, both of which would be fatal to the independence of the farmer and in the end would bring ster,” he said. WOUNDED MAN sons were seriously injured here by rain-blinded motorists. An unidenti- fied motorist drowned when his automobile was swept into a flooded stream at Paola, Kan., yesterday. The body was not recovered. C. E. King, a ler, was electrocuted at Mulberry, Kan., when he slipped on wet planking. Hugh Reave was killed here last night when his stalled car was struck from behind by an- other automobile during a downpour. CAUSES WOMAN TO SHOOT SELF Created Sensation by ‘Con- fessing’ Murder of Husband, Wwe Ten feet of water stood over three = railroad lines entering Kansas City today, and train service was par- Philadelphia, Nov. 17.—(AP)—| tially paralyzed, following five With two self-inflicted bullet wounds near her heart, Dr. Virginia Alvarez Hussey, who last July created a sensation Py “confessing” that she had slain her husband, Lind- ee M. Hussey, novelist, and “the other woman,” was in a critical con- en today at the Misercordia hos- After the police had found Hussey and “the other woman,” Mrs. Grace Tetlow Sauveu:, wealthy divorcee, alive at an artist’s colony near Sergeantsville, N. J., Dr. Husse was pronounced mentally unbal- anced and committed to the Norris- town state hospital. She was re- leased two months ago and friends said she and her husband had be- come reconciled, although they were not living together. At legal pro- ings closing the incident Mrs. Sauveur denied having been friend- ly with Hussey. Dr. Hussey, a luate of the women’s medical college of this city and a daughter of a former minister of war of Venezuela, was found un- conscious in her room last night by Mrs. M. Cherriere, who conducts the tment house. Two bullets had lerced her breast and a 32-caliber istol was tightly grasped in her Band On a desk nearby was this inches of rain. A railroad bridge was washed out. Many persons along flooded sections of the Blue river were driven to higher ground. A cavein of a clay bluff here cov- ered 100 feet of street car track. 30 Persons Marooned Thirty persons who fled their homes in low sections of Augusta, Kan., were marooned knee-deep in water in the Santa Fe freight depot there early today. The water was rising steadily, and there was little hope of an early rescue use rowboats could not navigate in the swirling flood current. El Dorado, Kan., residents, follow- ing nine inches of rainfall in that vicinity, fled to the uplands after the town was flood Nearly 50 families were driven from their homes about Ottawa, Kan., by steadily rising waters of the Marais des Cygnes river. A hundred volunteers battled last night to save a dam at Harrisonville, Mo., which impounds Lake Luna, source of the city’s water supply. Great damage to the town and pos- sible loss of loss was threatened if the dam Lee Spends Restless Night; Is Unchanged which be had ery Hille alecne 3. Lee, warden at the state peniten- tiary, was as unc! wie ot was signed “Virginia k sitcins be that thin two ——— Serene te Gar Pte oe 16 Chinese Pirates den’s illness. Executed for Raid eration, for hernia ie fol an operation for is lowing =e overs Hankow, China, Nov. 17.—(P)— Sixteen Chinese arrested i note: “To whom it may concern: “Nobody is responsible for my death. lussey has been nice and ie to me, so he is not responsible for my death. I am just broken- hearted and do not want to live the cause of Lee’s critical innea| lov. 17.—()—Move to make Mi lis a leading fi- the steamer Shasi on November 3|nancial market was started when a were executed last night at Chinese Ae tad members of the military headquarters. . ‘of mmerce The Chinese authorities are con-|ment to & stock tinuing their efforts to capture the | and add in stocks remainder of the pirate hand. as well as grain. SEIZED, HUNG BY THREE MEN Alleged Woman Attacker Dragged from Hospital and Lynched Farmington, M., Nov. 17.—() —Lynch law, formerly an effective deterrent of thievery in western states, yesterday was practiced by three masked men on Rafael Bena- vides, a Mexican sheep herder, who was kidnaped from a local hosiptal where he lay critically wounded. His body was found a few hours later swingin, posse Thursday, would have caused his death within 24 hours, The Mexican was believed by po- lice to have been the man who early Wednesday attacked and seriously injured Mrs. Charles Lewis, wife of /& prominent sheep man of Aztec, N. M., then left her unclothed in @ canoe, near ae nome: lpon regaining consciousness Mrs. Lewis red back to her husband’s ranch and notified au- thorities. A sheriff’s posse was or- ganized and Thursday came upon Benavides, who resisted arrest and as shot down. He was brought to hospital here. al cal pica te tee eaeatees in Stterward the three ppeared, has' a] to a truck and that a large original trio on an abandoned ‘was found by a chaser of the ing an inspection erty. abundance manage-| nesday, Nov. 21, at a Pasa ee