The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 16, 1929, Page 1

{ Motor AMERICAN WOMAN IS * PASSENGER ABOARD * ~ ONSECOND JOURNEY Forty Air Sailors, 18 Travelers and ‘Susi,’ Female Gorilla, \ 7 i ‘ ‘NORTH DAKOTA'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED 1878 Make Up Live Cargo i70 PASS OVER GIBRALTAR Great Circle Course to South Will Make Route 7,500 Miles to Lakehurst Friedrichshafen, Germany, May transatlantic air liner Graf Zeppelin, which left Friedrichshafen this morning, de- veloped motor trouble and was re- turning to her home port late to- day. The last previous definite re- port received at Friedrichshafen regarding the hv?,c ship was when she passed over Barcelona, at 2:35 p. m. (8:35 eastern standard At this time she had been in the air more than cight hours and had covered about 650 miles, maintaining = good average of 16.—(P)}—The time). 75 miles an hour. Friedrichshafen, Germany, May 16. -—(®)—The dirigible Graf Zeppelin, mighty mistress of the air, traced westward with the sun today above southwestern Europe on its second trip across the Atlantic to America. It_made a previous trip last October. Before it lay a variable course above Gibraltar, probably the Azores and Bermuda, to Lakehurst, N. which the dirigible’s master, Dr. Eckener, did not expect to reach fore lage morning. of her hi and . Among the men was Captain Sir George Hu- bert Wilkins, arctic explorer. Leaves in Drizzle The ship was trundied from hangar at 5:45 a. m., and at the pi- Saturday night, or Bunday Aboard the ship were 40 of the crew, 18 passengers, and a female gorilla, “Susi.” The only woman pas- senger was Mrs. Mary Pierce, wife of a@ New York utilities broker, who made the tripdespiteurgent pleadings usband mother. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1929 124 Killed; 40 Wait for Death CLEVELAND THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION AS FIRE SPREADS Admiral Sims’ Daughter to Wed North Dakota Town Helpless as Flames in Elevator Jump to Nearby Buildings > | i ° ESTIMATED LOSS IS $50,000 1 Citizens Fight Desperately to Save Second Elevator With Bucket Lines Twenty-four: hours after fire in a Cleveland, O., l.ospital had caused 124 deaths and one of the greatest dis- asters in history, fire broke out in Cleveland, N. Dak., at 11 a. m. tody, leveled an elevator, and caused $50,- 000 damage before it was brought under control about 1 p. m. Cleveland, having a population of 300, is located in Stutsman county, 18 miles west of Jamestown. A spark from the engine of a pas- senger train is believed responsible for the fire by Cleveland residents, according to James Snyder, manager of the Farmers Cooperative clevator, which was razed. The blaze was first noticed by Snyder and his brother, C. E. Snyder, in the roof of the ele- vator. The two men were working outside the building. Entire Town Threatened With a strong south wind blowing between 11 a. m. and 12:30 p. m. and keeping the air full of sparks, the entire eastern part of Cleveland was threatened with destruction as citi- zens stood helpless without fire or fire-fighting apparatus. After appeals were sent. to the fire departments at Medina and James- town, the Medina fire department of 15 men rushed to Cleveland with hose cart and chemicals, arriving there about 11:30 a.m. The Jamestown department did not arrive until the fire was under control. A special train from Jamestown brought a tank car of water and special hose. At noon it seemed probable that the Occident Elevator, managed by W. H. Draffehn, would be razed also fecaiise of the spark barrage light- ing on its roof and coal sheds. Fire- fighters succeeded in protecting the building however as men, women, and Miss Margaret Hitchcock Sims, daughter of Rear Admiral and Mrs. William 8. Sims of Boston, is to wed Robert H. Hopkins, Boston attorney, it has just been announced. Miss Sims, above, was graduated from ek a sar in 1927. The bridegroom Harvard man. The wedding is to take Place in the early fall. CHICAGO DETECTIVE FATALLY WOUNDED BY EXTORTION GANG: Attempted to Trap Kidnapers by Disguising Himself as Victim of Demands J, be- Chicago, May 16.—(7)—A police de- tective was fatally wounded late ycs- its a gang of extortionists | Alice—How Paulina’s Growing! | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNEL lot's command was released for its’ long voyage at 5:57 a. m. (11:57 p. 4 m., eastern standard time Wednes- day). (Continued on page 13). DEMPSEY OFFERED New York, ‘World says that Jack TO PIECES ON ROGKS Sault St. Maric, ag? May 16.—(®)' ‘Transit The steamer Ralph Eudd, Lakes ALMARUBENS TAKEN |EATERS OF BIRTHDAY TO ‘VIOLENT’ WARD| CAKE ESCAPE DEATH = 5 z 5 It rose slowly in an inter- FORTUNES 10 FiGHT May 16—(P)}—In a “i copyrighted story today, the Evening NORTH DAKOTA LAND Sun | ARPECTED BY RUULING Secretary Wilbur today issued an order instructing the general land of- fice to consult the geological survey before issuing patents or entry per: mits on certain lands in various states now listed as non-mineral unless such entry is subject to reservation of oil and gas by the United States under appropriate law, according to an Associated Press dispatch ‘from Washington. Certain countics in the western states were listed as coming under the order, inclutiing: North Dakota — Billings, Bowman, Burleigh, Divide, Dunn, Golden Val- ley, Grant, McKenzie, McLean, Mer- cer, Morton, Mountrail, Pierce, Sheri- dan, Sioux, Slope, Williams. Michael Meyer, partner of Philip Blumenthal, notified police. secs” TEMPERATURES RISE creecoer aeet_e| APTERHEAVY FROST & telephone message mi the kidnappers, intended for Blumenthal, Clear, cold weather prevailed , directing him to meet them at a west side street intersec- throughout North Dakota today, ul- though temperatures were rising. Re- Ports to the federal weather bureau by | Said that killing frosts were general it North Dakota and Min- nesota last night. je North Dakota, Doneyes, At did ttle damage, many garden vegetables and other growing things having been (Continued on page 13). by whom he had attempted to trap by disguising by policemen hidden nearby. Immediately after the shooting, po- lice ordered the arrest of Martin O'Leary, west side gang character, night. it in the state with 19 degrees. ‘Temperatures reported to the fed- eral weather bureat. from various points were: Amenia 22; Bottineau 23; Jamestown, Minot, Napoleon and ; Dickinson and Max, 25; cacy Eight Persons Are Taken Seriously Ili BE: ; E a é. :- i Ee i [ is i fi i | i i 448 ii iy hf : the the}. the Alice Roosevelt. Longworth, playing an important part in Washington's lime- light right now by virtue of the ‘Gann social warfarc, is shown in this a plone with her daughter, and my, how Paulina’s growing! Paulina’s daddy is Nick Longworth of wemeny Sheaker. of the House of Represent- atives. NORTH DAKOTA’S ONLY PRIVATE ESTATE PLANNED IN BISMARCK GOVERNOR SHAFER, HAZELTON SPEAKER North Dakota Executive to De- liver Address at Emmons County Play Day S. W. Corwin Landscaping 15 Acres Overlooking Missouri River Near Country Club TO HAVE HISTORIC SETTING 3,000 Forest and Ornamental Plant Units Laid Out on Coteaus Above River Governor George F. Shafer will give an address at 2:30 p. m. tomor- * |row at Hazelton as @ feature of the rck soon will have what is| annual Emmons county play day. sald 10 be the only private estate of| Boys, divided into four classes ac- its kind in North Dakota. cording,to age, will compete in ath- It will be known as Valley View| tetic contests from 10:30 a. m. until estate and will overlook the trail of|5 p,m, Medals will be awarded to Lewis and Clark and the water path- | winners by the Hazelton community way of pioneers. club organization. 3 Valley View is a 15-acre plot in the} Individual high point winners in hills in northern Bismarck immed- | two classes under and over 13 years iately west of the Bismarck Country club. It 1s owned by S. W. Corwin. Landscape architects and horticul- turists for. the last 10 days have been busy on the estate planting 3,000 for- est and ornamental plant units, the plant units alone representing an in- grounds, will go to the stock grounds. vestment of $2,500. It will be led by the Hazelton come Has Commanding Vistas munity band. A home, the style of which has not | A dance will conclude the program. yet been decided, will be constructed in two or three years on the highest hill peak in the estate facing south. Windows and porches of the house and the landscape layout will insure vistas of the city of Bis- Curtis Jenkins, county superintendent of schools, who is in charge of arrangements. “Baseball Results | LATIONAL LEAGUE i 2 iz. being reserved The Weather Increasing cloudiness tonight and Friday. Warmer tonight PRICE FIVE CENTS Troubles Force Graf Zeppelin’s Return X-RAY ROOM'S FIRE DOOR LEFT OPEN PRIOR T ‘Cleveland Disaster Might Have | Been Averted if voor Was Closed,’ Says Warden | 6 INVESTIGATIONS STARTED, Blast Cause May Never Be Known, as Persons in X-Ray Room Are Believed Dead Cleveland, fire door leading from the X-ray room in the Cleveland clinic where the first explosion occurred yesterday had been left open, state fire wardens investigating the tragedy announced today. The warden’s statement read: “The fire door leading to the room where the celluloid X-ray plates were stored and where the first explosion occurred, had been left open. door had been closed the disaster might have been averted.” Coroner A. J. Pearse announced that blood tests of victims of Cleveland clinic explosion showed that death was caused by inhalation of hydrocyanic acid gas and bromine gas, both of which were present in large quantities. Six investigations of the explosion and fire at the Cleveland clinic yes- terday were under way today with the cause of the blast still a mystery. Gov. Cooper marshaled the state's entire investigation agencies late last night after he came here intending to attend a horse show, and five local groups of officials began their own inquiries. All investigations centered on the unknown mishaps which touched off & supply of X-ray films in the base- ment storage room and cngulfed the building in a penetrating cloud of poisonous gas and flames. Has Officials were attempting to ascer- tait whether all precautions were taken.by ‘the clinievin the handling of its films; how and why. the films exploded; what pases were liberated and just how the struggling men and women fighting for air met their death. State officials were told by the governor to delve completely into the Chief P. J. Devine, Medical Director W. E. Obetz, and Safety Di- rector H. G. Eepret of the state di- vision of safety and hygiene were working with Deputy State Fire Mar- shals Joseph Andrews and Max Gross in an effort to solve the mystery. City Fire Warden Patrick Ferrie declared he was centering his inquiry on the condition of the storage room at the time of the blast. he is trying to determine whether the room fire proof door was left open negligence or was blown It was the opening of this door, said Ferrie, that permitted the gases to shoot up through the build-| blast. through open. ing. Doctors Defend Clinic ©. May 16—(7)—The | If this the Different Angles Ferrie said OGAS EXPLOSION Major Disasters (By The Associated Press) The explosion and fire at the Cleveland Clinic hospital yester- asters in institutions, public buildings and factories that have taken a heavy toll of life in the United States in the last 75 years. Among these disasters were: Iroquois Theatre fire, Chicago, December 30, 1903, 575 dead. Conway's Theatre fire, Brook- lyn, N. ¥., December 5, 1876, 295 dead. Rhodes Opera House fire, Boy- ertona, Pa., January 13, 1908, 170 dead. Triangle factory fire, New York, May 25, 1911, 148 dead. Knickerbocker Theatre collapse, Washington, January 28, 1922, 97 dead. Exeter Theatre fire, New York, September 5, 1887, 75 dead. Theatre panic, Calumet, Mich., December 74, 1913, 72 dead. Frayer's Opera House fire, Se- attle, 1889, 30 dead. Front Strect Theatre fire, Bal- timore, December 27, 1895, 27 dead. Naval arsenal explosion, Lake Denmark, N. J., July 10, 1926, 23 dead. 5, 1898, 15 dead. Grand Central Theatre fire, Philadelphia, April 27, 1892, 14 dead. Powder factory explosion, Pompton Lakes, N. J., December 6, 1918, 12 dead. HELPLESS TO EVADE SUFFOCATING GASES Fighting, Screaming Persons Die in Convulsions as Dead- ly Smudge Envelops Them Cleveland, O, May 16—(7)—A ghastly yellow smudge snuffed out the lives of the victims of the Cleveland Clinic hospital disaster. On the walls, the sheets of cots, on blanks once white which lay on doc- tors’ desks, the windows—everywhere in the interior of the building—was the yellowish blot left by the deadly gas which enveloped its victims and left them choking screaming and fighting for air. Many persons were sitting by the dental room near the elevator when the yellow clouds of poison came bil- Drs. George W. Crile and William E. Lower, directors of the clinic, said they had “no exaci knowledge of how the disaster occurred.” Dr. Lower, who said that probably the victims were “suffocated by nitrous pc-oxide gas,” defended the clinic, and said that every precaution which the clinic could have taken to prevent lowing toward them. Find Piled Bodies They clutched their throats and gasped for air, but there was only the suffocating odor. Fighting, screaming. they reeled and pounded on the ele- vator door. But there was no one to answer their call. Their bodies were found piled against the elevator door. As if mad, the tragedy “had been taken. Police Inspector Gt . Mato- eorge witz, chief investigator under Safety they had beaten and kicked at the door. Many of them died in convul- sions, helpless to escape from the yel- (Continued on page tifteen) Clarence occurrence COUNTY CONSTABLE SBEKS $10,000 BOND} Hanson, Bismarck, Asks Damages From Cass County Sheriff Andrews Claim for $10,000 on the bond of ing department by Clarence Hanson, Burleigh county constable. The claim is an aftermath of an «n Cass county sev . | the low gas. Others—16 of them—got as far as the landing on the third floor before they met the walls of fumes which seeped into every corner of the build- ing. Firemen found them, too, sprawled in grotesque positions and carried them out, some of them over the roof. Water Turns Yellow The stairs were littered with wom- en's hats and shoes. Firemen and po- licemen, every available man, carried the victims out over the roofs, through windows and down ladders, in any way they could. They shot streams of water inside, and the water turned a dirty yellowish brown as it sloshed on the floors. Many of the gassed—who, physi- cians said, experienced similar condi- tions to gas attacks in the World war ere carried out alive, only to die when the pure air of outdoors or oxygen artificially administered at hospitals es to rid their lungs of “Believe it or not,” said Frank Kil- rain, one-of the scores of taxicab day ranks high in the list of dis- |} Chemical plant explosion, near || Pittsburgh, May 8, 1918, 100 dead. | Theatre fire, Detroit, November || ‘DEADLY GAS SLOWLY (EATING CORPUSCLES OF BLAST SURVIVORS Apparently Well, Victims Fall Over Dead, Like Gassed Soldiers of World War BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS FAIL Co-Founder of Clinic Dies as Colleague Vainly Battles Inevitable Death Cleveland, ©.,-May 16.—(%™— With another death late this afternoon the list of fatalities of the Cleveland Clinic disaster | reached 124. More of the injured are expected to die tonight, doc- tors said. Cleveland, O., May 16.—@)— The explosion that i through Cleveland clini generated gas fumes that killed 122 persons, was caused by spontancous combustion that ignited celluloid X-ray plates in a sub-basement store room. This was the official report of deputy fire wardens Max Gross and P. T. Ferrice to their superior, Chief Warden Thomas Connell, this afternoon. They said the spontancous combustion was induced by overheating of the store room from a Icaking steam pipe. Cleveland, Q., May 16.—)—The noxious brownish gas which shat- jtered the Cleveland clinic hospital |and dropped patients, doctors and nurses in their tracks as they fought for escape, continued its insidious work today, driving the death total | toward the 150 mark. | The two terrific explosions and {the fire which followed ignition of X-ray films in the basement yester- day and which took scores of lives did not do all the damage. The poisonous fumes continued to act on the blood of the victims throughout the night and resulted in hourly re- ports of additional deaths. The great majority of the 122 dead reported before 2 p. m. were residents of this city, a score being from cities outside Ohio and a dozen or more from other cities in the state, Door Left Open Disaster might have been averted, ‘state fire wardens announced, if the door to the vault containing the films had been closed. Examination of the door, which was intact on its hinges and only blistered by heat, showed it had been left open. Although the cause of the fire in the X-ray films remained a mystery, (Continued on page fifteen) PLEADS NOT GUILTY - OF SHOOTING WOMAN Great Falls, Mont., May 16.—(P)— Robert Ward, 27, accused of shooting his wife fatally on April 22, pleaded not guilty today in district court and was remanded to the custody of the sheriff without bail. Mrs. Ward died a few days ago. Ward, who also attempted to kill himself has recovered from the ef- fects of a shot which glanced off his ribs. In statements at the hospital both said Ward's jealousy of his wife {prompted the shooting. They had come here recently from North Da- kota. Mrs. Ward was buried in St. Mary's cemetery in Bismarck today a story of which will be found on page eight. DIEGEL AND TURNESA ONLY YANKEES LEFT Moortown, Eng. May 16—(@%)— Walter Hagen and three of his stal- wart compatriots were defeated in the first two rounds of the Yorkshire Evening News thousand guineas pro- fessional golf tournament, leaving the task of upholding American golfing prestige in the capable hands of Lec Diegel and Joe Turnesa. Only these two invaders survived the blows dealt by British veterans, their own comrades, too. < i