The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 14, 1929, Page 9

‘THURSDAY, MARCH ‘TROOPS REPORT FOR DUTY NEAR BORDER . American Detachment Rein- forces Guard Placed Over Bisbee Water Supply ob ch airy. Conditions across the border from Naco, according to latest reports, in- dicated the possibility of a battle be- tween Mexican federal and rebel troops at that place. With the new detachment, a total of 300 American cavalrymen and 100 infantrymen are now concentrated at the border point. CORPORATIONS SHOW INCREASED EARNINGS Northwestern Bell, Fox Film, American Radiator Among Large Leaders New York, March 14—(?)—The 1928 record of improved corporate |- earnings compared with 1927 was en- hanced further today as several large corporations’ issued annual reports. Fox Film Corporation and sub- sidiaries reported net profit of $5,- 957,218, equivalent to $6.47 a share. This compares with $3,120,556, or $6.24 a share on fewer shares, in 1927. Net income of the Northwestern Bell Telephone company, subsidiary of the American Telephone and Tele- graph company, increased to $7, 226 from $6,973,995 in 1927. The repor. of the American Radia- tor company and subsidiaries showed net profit of $12,413,742, equal to $9.09 a share, against $12,057,314, or $8.75 a share, in 1927. National Supply company of Dela- ware and subsidiaries, producer of oil company equipment, earned net in- come of $3,371,739, equal to $9.59 a share. This compares with $2,781,- 555, or $8.59 a share on fewer shares in 1927, In contrast to the generally better earnings record, Peerless Motor Car corporation, Cleveland, reported a. net Jos; of $1,243,724 compared with a loss of $725,734 in 1927. The annual statement of L. Bam- berger & Co., Newark, N. J., and sub- sidiaries, disclosed net profit of $2,- 234,691 against $2,674,969 in 1927. ‘Raleigh By W. B. DORWARD The annual meeting of the Lark, Brisbane and Raleigh Telephone com- tye: Pany was held at No. 3 school house & in. Lark township, . Those elected to office for enguing year aré Wm. Vo- “= gel, -president; Chas. Cotner,~ vice president; R. C. Christensen, secre- tary, and treasurer. Robert Fransen and L. Jepsen, together with the other otfipers compose the board of direc- ors, || _ Miss Olga Litvinenko was called to Bismarck, Monday, because of the ill- {i ness of her mother who ls in the Bis- j Male hospital. She returned Wed- ap i 5 3 14; 1929 raga HE 4 ¢ § ba oe By MYRTLE CHRISTENSEN Mrs. Harold Hargrave and sister Miss Vivian Shaffer, also Bill and and Mrs, F. B. Paslay Wednesday evening in honor of their thirty- fifth anniversary. A lsrge number of their neighbors and friends were present. The evening was spent in playing cards and:social: chat. At night: refreshments were served. Before departing Mr. and Mrs. Paslay Aah owt with money as a token ocgasion. Mr. ahd ‘Mrs. Ben Orne and F. B. | !n8. Paslay spent Friday evening with Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Smith. Mr. and Mrs, Ole Newland enter- tained a number of their friends Sat- |urday evening to a whist party. Mr. atid Mrs. Nels Dronen visited with Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Smith Sat- Mr. and Mrs. Christ Sthoon and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Hansen. Mrs. Carl Beyer and baby of Sterl- ing spent the week-end with Mr. Beyer’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Beyer. ‘Migs Lollie Olson stopped for a few moments with her uncle, L. B. Olson, »”'| Saturday evening on her return from Bismarck. Mrs. Ann Erickson spent the week- end with Mrs. Nellie Olson. Mrs. Edward Thomas and son Don- nie, Miss Helen and Evelyn Thomas of Bismarck and Joe Erickson called at the Albert Christensen home Sun- day. and Mrs. Roy Smith called on Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hagsted Sun- Miss Verna Sleight, teacher _of Clear Lake School No. 1, spent the week-end with her parents at Tappen. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Orne called on several friends near Driscoll: Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Olson called on relatives at Driscoll Sunday. H. A. Smith motored to Steele Tues- day to bring back his daughter, Mrs. Mable Carlson and children to visit fora ‘few days before going to the northern/part of the state where ‘| drs. Carlson has accepted a position. : : *| Lindbergh Flying Mail Plane to Brownsville Mexico City, March 14.—(}—West- ern Union advices from. Tampico to- day -atated“that Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, who is en-route to the United States, left. at 12:10 p..m. for Brownsville after a stop at the Mex- ican port of only eight minutes. MINOT CANDIDATES FILE Minot, March 14-()—TRere are 19 candidates for five offices'te be filled at the-Minot city election April 2. The oldest known manuscript of the Bible is in the Vatican, at Rome. “Tt ts: » ledrly Mi'the season at this = -price.. Coa ~ twill fot-sports oceasions and bo og satin coats, beauti- COLORADO, MONTANA AND WYOMING FIGHT WORST SNOW STORM Heaviest Fall in Several Years Paralyzes All Traffic, , Inundates Towns Denver, March 14.—(7}—The snow storm which has claimed one life. paralyzed highway traffic and delayed trains and th? airmail in the Rocky Mountain region, continued in Wyom- ing today although it had subsided in Colorado and Montana. 4. dozen towns in Wyoming, where the storm was most severe, were snowbound by the heaviest fall in |several years. Sheridan, near the ‘Wyoming: -Montana boundary, report- ed that a three day snowfall left a blanket 30 inches deep on level ground. The remainder of the state ‘was covered by 20 to 24 inches. At Greybull if was feared the snow, when melted, would cause a repetition of last Sunday’s flood that resulted in damage of a half million dollars. Streams in that vicinity were re- ported to be almost out of their banks again. ‘ High winds drifted the snow over the highways making them impass- able. Railroads kept their tracks clear with snow plows but all trains were Teported delayed. Air mail service hampered but the flyers con- tinued to carry the mail behind schedule. RE ,One fatality was reported in Wyom- .” Henry Folster,. 38, of Laramie, died of exposure on a passenger train where he found refuge after strug- gling through the snow for about ten miles after he abandoned his stalled motor truck near Virginia Dale. In Colorado ‘and Montana, the storm had abated and warm weather was fast melting the snow. : Ice Gorges Causing Rivers to Rampage, Flooding Highways (Continued from page one) 80 gorged with ice. and threatening to overflow. Nebraska Town Threatened Valley, Neb., residents were pre- pared early today for the second time within 24 hours to abandon their homes as a huge ice gorge was form- ing six miles above the town. Two telephone linemen were ma- ied for more than six hours on island in the Platte river, west of Valley. Near Lowell, Neb., the Platte was eating into the land at the rate of one foot an hour and threatening to change its course. If it does, a new Two Trains Wrecked Flood conditions in the south cen- tral portion of Alabama and in Georgia today resulted in two train wrecks; inundation of four communi- a and in a general tying up of traf- ic. While the stricken communities were warned that the rain is likely to continue for another 24 hours, official predictions at Memphis were that’ the conditions along the Mississippi river, the south’s most dreadful foe in flood times, are not alarming. United States engineers, however, have ordered careful patrolling of lev The most spectacular river rise re- Ported in the south was of the Black Warrior river at Tuscaloosa, Ala., which went up 31.6 feet'in 24 hours. Thousands of acres were covered wij backwater, while the town was with- out utility service and traffic was im- Mobile reported backwater in sev- eral streets, with hundreds marooned in their homes. ° The towns of Bowling, Chapman and Garland, Ala., were under one foot of water, and Townsend, Ga., was inundated. di ‘The first train wreck, which ‘oc- TOUT surprising: that such ts can be offered so © its. of tweed 4 fur trimmed for the C ‘of spring. $Q50 | | = FY i S curred at 4 o'clock .thie morning in the flooded district of Alabama nea Evergreen, threatened for a time end in an unusual tragedy. Gne foot of Bostick Hamn, engineer on & Louisville and. Nashville freight train was caught under the tende: of his locomotive. when it plung:d into a washout, Although ‘he. cculd not move, Hamn talked with the rescue workers as the water rose about his body. After six hours a wrecking crew got him out, his body in the meanwhile having been tied up so that he might have a better chance of escaping drotyning. Ala., John Young, engineer, and John Smith, fireman, were seriously hurt when the locomotive, tender and mail car of’ a Central of Georgia train went into a washout. The floods came to Dixie a day af- ter another portion of the section had counted nine dead in the wake of a tornado. They were killed last night at Six Mile Community, 27 miles from Greenville, 8. ©. Two other.persons were believed dying to- day, while several others were hurt. highway bridge will be left high and dry. Thousands of acres of farm land are.in the path of the flood waters. Damage to bridges between Schuy- ler and Yutan, Neb., a distance of 35 miles, was estimated at $16,000. Train service between Ashland and Schuyler was suspended. Several hours after all Galena, Iil., city hall employes had left the build- ing it.was remembered that 11 va- grants who had spent the night in jail -were still locked up. ‘They were released before the water reached them. Mason. City Blasts Ice Families along the banks of two creeks near Mason City, Iowa, were being moved to higher ground. today. High water, caused by ice jams, was overflowing the banks of the creek in the southwest part of the city. Police last night received a call for help from a family whose basement rapidly was filling. Today several business houses suspended operation. City officials were blasting the ice jam above the southern part of the city. Three bridges were reported in danger. ACTRESS’ SLAYER IS SENTENCED 10 CHAIR New York, March 14.—(AP)—Fred- erick W. Edel, 39-year-old electrician convicted of the murder of Mrs, Emeline O. Harrington, actress, was sentenced today to die in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison in the week of April 22. Mrs, Harrington was killed in her New York apartment on December 23, 1927. Edel offered no defense at his trial. He was cap- tured in St. Paul, Minn. The United States is the greatest purchaser of diamonds in the world. UAUNEUNSROUNGNESAUUOORONOOONEES = Beautifully tailored of the = season's loveliest fabrics. In the newest light tones, as well as the always fash- ionable black. pausnccnnansusnccsaacactsites. SMARTHATS Decidedly New THE RISMARCK TRIBUNE In the seoond wreck, at Brantley. | $|DBERE IMPLEMENT MEN MERTING HERE | Slope Farm Machinery Dealers Have Two Feasts, Pic- tures and Talks About 75 distributors and salesmen of John Decre farm machinery are meeting here today. They are from points in the Slope country. At noon a luncheon was held at the Ijons den under the Grand Pa- cific and a banquet. will be served there this evening. During the afternoon the visitors met at the local Deere salesrooms and heard talks on sales methods and on features of the company's prod- ucts. Thomas Cooper, the local man- ager, presided. The conference had as guests four representatives from the Minueapolis branch of Deere and Webber. | They are George P. Schutz, J. 5. Molstad, R. W. Kimball and John McGiaw. At this evening's banquet moving Pictures will be shown. Their theme will be “The Building of the Great development of this territory from the days of the covered wagon to those of the combine. SELECT REPRESENTATIVE PROF Grand Forks, Mareh 14.—(?)—Ten faculty members at the University day as the most representative men poll in which more than 900 votes were cast, The vote was conducted by the Dakota Student Campus news- paper. BOTTINEAU TOURNEY HELD Bottineau, March 14—(4)—The Bot- tineau school of forestry and the Bot- tineau legion basketball teams will play Friday night in the finals of an inter-city tournament which is being Northwest,” which will feature the |[j of North Dakota will be selected to- || on the professorial staff in a student |] held by In ti the legion quint preliminary gates. defeated the Botti- school of forestry eliminated Bottir jneau high schoo! 28 to 26. | tae : Lein Ve sic By OLGA M. RISE Harrison Rodgers spent the week- erid at Wing. Hans Hanson dreve to Arena Sat- urday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Christianson and Mrs, Herbic Gunderson visited at the Mike Brenden home one day last week. Mr. and Mrs. Ole Spilde, sons Knut and Einar. visited at the B. N. Lein home Wednesday evening. Joseph and Clarence Rise who are employed at che Patterson ranch near Sterling spent Sunday ufternoon and evening at thelr parental home. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Helgeson and Mrs. Heibie Gunderson were dinner _ SPRING neau Independents 14:0 13 and the| huéets at the Ceo. Christiatsen home i. Saiurday. Alfred Arneson and Stuart Swen- bt malaga Bigmarck last week, Rev. Lars fous was & dinner gutst at the J. O. Rise home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Arneson spent © | Friday afternoon at the Dallas Bark- man home. . Clara Rise spent Friday with her friend Alice Arneson. Olive .tise who is employed near Wing is spending a few days at her home. Arnold Christianson and Eddie Arneson played for the dance at Driscoll Friday evening. Alfred Arneson, Stuart Swenson, ard J. O. Rise, motored to Regan Monday. The Luther League met at J. ©. Rise’s Sunday, March 10. Friends and neighbors gathered at the home of J. O. Rise Sunday after- noon, the occasion being Mt. and ‘Mrs. J. O. 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