The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 18, 1929, Page 1

ee s a “ “ESTABLISHED 1873 14 KILLED IN N ALABAMA HARDEST “AIT, DELUGE MOVES DOWN INTO FLORIDA Army of Relief Concentrates on Holding Down Disease in Refuge Camps FLOOD*SITUATION IS ACUTE Looting at Elba and Geneva Causes Declaration of Mili- tary Law by Guard ‘waters. ‘The deluge that submerged villages in southeastern Alabama, hardest hit of all the flooded areas, were receding today, and the waters were moving down on northwestern Florida. Sixteen of: the known deaths were in Alabama, three were dead in and one in Floride. Elba had the greatest toll with 10 deaths listed. Two were dead in Genéva, two at Flomaton and two at Pollard. All three of those drowned in Georgia were swept from a highway bridge, while the Florida casualty was an aged man who died ¢f exposure. ‘Meanwhile, an army of relief work- Y ers,:made up-of the Re@‘Cross, Aje-|” ate citizens, ’ brests on holding down. disease, in the refuge. camps established: when residents of Elba, Geneva ‘and other Alabaria communities fled from their homes. , Pneumonia Breaks Out Sixteen cases of pneumonia were (Continued on page nine) —————————— RIVER BREAKUP HE EXPECTED IN 2 DAYS b'_ The -Blasonur\ river at Binoanes ts expected to break up two days, according to . W. Roberts, federal meteorologist. stage of 1 The river reached Yellowstone river in Mon! 55. iy ° feet here today as wat 5a 7 bey ng thick, Roberts said. in the Missouri in North Dakota. Water in-the ri reached = ae g NORTH DAKOTA'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER HE i THE BIS FORMER MISSOURI SLOPE GIRL _ STAR SINGER FOR RADIO CHAIN North Dakota Star Astrid Fjelde, Raised Near Washburn, Sings for Mil- Jions From New York COWBOYS HEARD HER FIRST Still Mimics Meadow Larks, Whose Notes Thrilled Her on North Dakota Prairies ‘ashburn, Dakota, an Suele and a back- Here's i i F E j i i : ih Hi g38 FIVE SHPS, BARGES PLUNGE PRLL-MELL =" DO DANES in 1925. She is a sister to Paul Fjelde, Min- neapolis sculptor, and Dr. J. H. Fjelde, Jacob Fielde, the artist's father, was a sculptor, while the mother was Astrid could Danube here’ today rs an experi- ence yesterday frightened oe ot ee Oldest riverfront -resi- ‘Thirty-two .huge barges. and. other ships, suddenly released by the spring thaw from -bound mooring, f ; ui i aE lf nH g and barges lay: at the bottonr of i if 5 i i a Sek. E il &g LE | i i i z i H MINNEAPOLIS PLOTS SET NATIONS MARKS Individual Speed. and Time in Air Records Established by Mail Plane Flyers kota Political and.Social Circles Flu Victim iis i i ATION'S WORST PLANE CRAS .Southern Floods’ Death Toll Stands at 20 {LOUISE M'PHETRIDGE CK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1929 PILOT ALONE LIVES © ARTER CRAFT RAMS. INTO FREIGHT CAR All-Metal Monoplane’s Motors Stop at 200-Foot Altitude, Sending Ship Down UNABLE TO CLEAR TRACKS Eagle Breaks Neck | REBELS VICTORIOUS etl TN FIRST SKIRMISH WITH CALLES’ ARMY The Junkers aeroplane works.an- nounced teday that one of the reg- ular air betwee: Insurrectionists Prepare to De- fend Torreon on All Sides as Federals Advance AIR RAIDS TAKE DEATH TOLL Aerial Attacks Cause Conster- nation; One War Bird Is Shot Down by Rebels Heroic Cameraman’s Film Shows Death Car’s Charge . 1 | | Lemberg the found to be deeply dented. wing Was RS Passengers Crushed and Im. paled on Torn Metal; Two Catapulted Through Roof Newark, N. J., March 18—(AP— Thirteen sightseers were killed in- stantly yesterday and a fourteenth died today in the worst air- plane wreck there ever has been in the United States. The pilot and one passenger, the only persons aboard to escape death, were seriously injured. A huge Ford all-metal tri-motored monoplane operated by the Colonial Airways crashed into a freight car loaded with sand while attempting a forced landing a mile from the New- ark airport after its motors had stopped. Lou Foote, the pilot, and Delmont Parsons, a friend riding in the cockpit beside him, were hurled 50 feet from the plane by the impact. Foote is in a critical condition. Those in the cabin were flung into a heap in the forward end of the fuselage. Many were impaled on pieces of torr. metal. Witnesses said the plane appeared. to be in trouble from the time it took off from the airport with its load of passengers for a trip over New York HASENDURANCE AND ALTITUDE HOP HARK Former. Coed Breaks Bobby Trout’s Air Record By Fly- ing More Than 22 Hours Mexico City, March 18—(4)— The government announces that the rebels are panic stricken and have evacuated Torreen in full flight. The rebels were fleeing apparently toward Chihushua City, it was sald at Chapultepec castle. Federal cavalry under General Beniono Serrato expect- ed to occupy Torreon at 5 p. m. Oakland, Calif. March 18.—(AP)— Juarer, Mexico, March 18—() Confirmation of Mexico City re- Ports that federal contingents op- erating in the rear of the army of General Jose Gonzalo Escabor had cut the rail line by which the rebel forces at Torreon kept in contact with Juarez was received at revolutionary headquarters here today. well as the women’s altitude mark, Miss McPhetridge ended her @n- durance flight at the Municipal air- Port here at 1:54:47 p. m., yesterday after staying aloft nearly five houts longer than the previous record, held by Miss Bobby Trout, of Los Angeles, who made a flight of 17 hours, 5 min- utes and 37 seconds February 11. Miss McPhetridge set the altitude record mo 7, when she reached 20,270 feet. The young aviatrix began the en- durance flight at 3:51 p. m., Saturday, with 196 gallons of gasoline in the tanks of her Travelair plane. She came down with only 12 gallons left, saying she could have stayed up an- other hour but landed because she found it hard to keep awake. She taxied to a hangar where of- ficers: of the Oakland chapter of the Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico, March 18—(#)—Victorious in the first skirm- ish with federal troops advancing on the city, but fearing air raids which already have taken their toll, revolu- tionary forces prepared today to de- fend the city on all sides. Troops which rebels claimed routed two federal columns at San Pedro less dead. The plane was not more than 200 feet above the ground. Foote apparently was attempting bring the ship down on a clear space between two railroad lines, bul Plane, buffeted by a high, gusty lost altitude too rapidly string of cars on a siding of the Cen- tral Railroad of New Jersey... ~ The crash equals in the num- ber of. victims one - other: accident in the history of: heavier- than-air operation. That“ was the wreck of the Doriner-Wal plane at Rio Janeiro last December in whic’) (Continued on page six) (Continued on page six) National Aeronautic association: were ee See ee2 <|(099 WHEAT SUPPLY See cores ORUATER THAN 1008 Washington, March 18—()—The department of agriculture estimated today that on March 1 there were 78,411,000 bushels of wheat in country mills and elevators compared with 75,428,000 bushels.a year ago and 85,938,000 bushels in 1927. “Well, I made it. rest and a lot of it.” CAPTAIN EAKER HOPS Death rode in Lee BibJe’s automobile as it, shot over the sands of Daytona Beach, Fla., at 202 miles an hour—and Death cranked the camera that made the last pictorial record of the speeding car. At the top you see Bible, mechanic-driver of the Triplex, just before starting his mad dash in quest of @ new world’s speed record. The next three views are from the movie film of Charles Traub, Pathe Newsreel camera! who was killed while picturing the scene. In these you see Bible's car approaching one of the markers that lined the course, next coming alongside the marker, and then —the grim finale, when the monster machine swerved crazily ng the edge of the surf and took its death-dealing turn toward Camera ‘Traub. At the bottom is shown the wreckage of the car after it had crushed the heroic photographer, seamed eaves aaa dune and hurled Bible to is deat! SCRATCH ON FENDER SOLVES MAIL THEFT Alert Policeman Traps One of| ta Three Men Who Stole 17 Pouches From Truck Chicago, March 18—(#)—A fender scratch hardly worth noticing has trapped one of the three men who robbed a mail truck of 17 pouches of mail Friday night. James Horton of Waukegan, who was arrested, con- fessed and named his confederates. There was approximately $1,900 in cash in the 17 pouches. ‘The rob- bers used a rented automobile for their escape. In returning the ma- chine to the garage, it scraped against another car, and Horton, who had rented it under an assumed name, pA offered to pay the small cost for re- Brock! Mass., March 18.—(4—| Pairs. A anne whieh hhurtied harmlessly | Policeman Edward Shwimmel who happened to be in the garage insisted through a window and a rain of peb- that Horton give a more complete bles which rattled off the sides of his identification than he had supplied Mmousine greeted Senator Heflin of | when renting the car, and it was thus Alabama, on his appearance as & St. that Horton's real name and address Patrick's day speaker before the May-|Were learned. Later, when Schwim- flower. Klan No. 2, realm of Massa- IMENBERS OF BYRD PARTY ARE MISSING Balchen, June and Gould Fail to Return From Flight Over Antarctic Ice Unable to Keep Schedule on Southward Jump Due to Huge Cloud Formations Guatemala City, Guatemala, March 18.—(?)—Captain Ira C. Thousands Spent to Keep Highways Open Eau Claire, Wis., March 18.—(#)—So far this winter it has cost Eau Claire county $23,000 to keep state and county highways open. Last winter the cost to the county was $8,000. The city of Eau Claire has expended more than $12,000 to open streets and for snow removal. Last winter the cost did not reach $6,000. KLANSMEN PROTECT HELIN ARTER TALK Georgia Senator Delivers St. Patrick’s Day Speech De- spite Rain of Pebbles New York, March 18—()—No word has been received for three days from _ Larry Gould, geologist, and his two companions, Bernt Balchen and Har- old June, aviation pilots and members of the Byrd Antarctic expedition, who by taking poison, the coroner's ver- dict set forth following the young woman's death Saturday. Miss Livesay suffered a nervous breakdown as a result of an automo- bile accident last summer. She was & graduate of Jamestown college and had taught at Bathgate, Larimore, and Cavalier schools. She returned home several Brownsville before dusk, arrived here at 11:15 o'clock this morning from Managua and fifteen min- utes later took off again towards Brownsville. Colon, Panama, March 18.—(AP)— Captain Ira ©. Eaker, pilot of the record breaking plane, the “Question Mark,” took off from France field at 4: , eastern standard time, on a dawn dusk flight to Brownsville, On the trip south Captain Eaker Plane Leaves England on Australian Flight “Eympne, Kent, England, March 18. POW-WOW POISON IS BLAMED FOR DEATH Believe Pennsylvania Young Woman Murdered; Linked With Voodoo Rites Owen. The two men hope to reach their 13,000 miles away, in 12 days, breaking Bert Hinkler’s record which figured out 15% days. Shafer Is Director Of Waterways Group Milwaukee, Wis, March 18.—(?)— | Former Governor Henry G. Allen of Kansas was elected president of the | senator of states of the Great Lakes- Lawrence Tidewater association at of the executive commit- at noon today. He Governor W. L. Harding of who has served the last two mel heard of the robbery, his sus- picions were aroused, and he notified federal officers. -|1,000 Albanians Dead The pebbles were thrown by small from Intestinal Flu boys in @ crowd of men and youths — who awaited the senator's A Hite i He ag i Man’s Lifetime Devotion and Care Of Crippled Wife Ends in Tragedy ; an iF i i rf ie ft Hi hg j i E ll : ; H d