The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 10, 1929, Page 1

“ mf 4 4\ NORTH DAKOTA'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED 1873 WIBAUK LA nee | _ Young Tennis Star in Triumph RAMSAY MACDONALD PLANS VISIT WITH PRESIDENT INU. 85 Hopes for Reduction of Naval Armaments Soar as Visit Fr Is Announced CANADA TO BE REPRESENTED New Premier Will Take First Opportunity for Direct Con- tact With U. S. ‘Washington, June 10.—(?)}—New hope of effecting the reduction of naval arma‘aents which President Hoover desires was seen by observers here in the report that Prime Min- ister MacDonald may come to Wash- Angton to discuss Anglo-American re- lations with President Hoover. Although comment from the white house was lacking, it was taken for granted that such a visit from the new Labor head of the English gov- ernment would be welcomed by the American chief executive. The sug- gestions gained immediate approval in circles familiar with Anglo-Ameri- can affairs. Chairman Borah of the senate for- eign relations committee, expressed the opinion that “clos cooperation between Mr. MacDonald and Prest- dent Hoover would give exceptional assurance that progress would be made” toward solution of the great problem of lifting the burden of arm- ament from the backs of men. London, June 10.—(#)—The pos- sibility that Premier Ramsay Mac- Donald shortly woulc go te Washing- ton for private conversations with President Hoover great in- terest today. Intimations came from It was a triumph for youth. Betty flash, beat Elizabeth Ryan, American tournament women’s single finals at Sutrey, England. And here you see Miss Ryan, right, congratulating her girl opponent on her victory. They were partners in doubles play. ACTRESS AND ACTOR DIE AFTER APPARENT SUICIDE AGREEMENT Miss Margaret Lawrence and Louis Bennison Found Shot Through Breasts NOTES REVEAL DEATH PACT Dead Woman, Widow of Late Wallace Eddinger, Involved two quarters that such a trip was le. ‘The conservations, should they come would be vital Premier Mac- of the dominion prob- asked 5 was willing to take the first oppor- tunity for this direct contact with the American chief executive and prob- direct personal 19 President “foover and his advisers, who would do everything to facilitate such a meeting. Friends of the new prime minister , have known long of his keen desire TWO DROWN IN LAKE DURING SUNDAY SWIM One Sinks in Deep Water and Pulls Rescuer Down With Him to Death in Estate Case New York, June 10.—(?)—Margaret Lawrence, stage star and widow of Wallace Eddinger, was shot to death in her East 51st street apartment yes- terday. Sprawied beside the bed on whieh her body was found: wag. the body of Louis Bennison, stagé and screen actor, Both had been shot through the left breast. On the bed was a heavy calibre pistol. Police said Bennison evidently had shot Miss Lawrence, then killed him- self. A suicide agreement was hinted in two notes found in the apartment. One note pinned on a door said: “The sunset has a heart. Look for us there.” The handwriting of this note was identified as that of Miss Lawrence. It was signed “Tianna.” Mussen Is Notified ‘The other note was on one of the twin beds in the room where the bodies were found. It was unsigned and read: “Please notify Mr. Mussen at the Lambs club at once.” The bodies were found by Mrs. Gertrude Chalair, a friend of Miss Lawrence, who let herself into the apartment after no one responded to her ring. Miss Lawrence was clad in a night gown. Except for bare feet, Bennison was fully clothed. Empty liquor bottles and glasses were strewn about the attractively furnished apartment. Miss Lawrence was in her fortieth year. In 1913 she married Orson D. Munn, patent law- yer. In 1922 she was divorced from Munn and in 1927 married Wallace Eddinger, widely known comedian, in Los Angeles. Later she filed suit for divorce. The suit was pending when Eddinger died Jan. 8, in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he was acting. Wins Executrix Case Miss Lawrence's mother-in-law brought suit to have the actress re- moved as executrix of her husband's City When It Consisted of Three Log Cabins 48 hours! baux to Fargo to Bismarck! Tribune has done to get an cyewit- ness story and pictures of the dis- for cuts. Nuthall, Britain's 16-year-old tennis eteran, 7-5, 6-1, in the Flood Pictures in Tuesday’s Tribune By auto, more than 800 miles in -From Bismarck to Wi- That is what a reporter for the aster at Wibaux. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1929 Flood Sidelights More than 600 men are working day and night to repair washout damage to right-of-way and restore four bridges swept away on the Northern Pacific railwa; Because of the shortage of gravel, ten carloads of coal were dumped , the Beach yards for use as ballast. ‘The tracks were undermined from six inches to three feet in places. Wibaux residents are still numbed by the disaster. Merchants stood among the mud-covered stocks in their stores in hopeless attitudes. Three inches of mud blanketed every- thing. Malt, ordinarily selling for 15 cents per bottle, cost 25 cents in Wibaux, a memento of the pre-Volstead era. Steel rails in the Beach yards looked like serpentine while box and flat cars were turned topsy-turvy. One Wibaux resident was seen building a new garage with lumber which had been washed into his yard. ‘The click of cameras vied with the clank of shovels. Both were in great demand. Members of the Glendive Red Cross unit were busy tacking up “Drink Only City or Boiled Water. Avoid Typhoid” placards on buildings, boxes and even a baby buggy. Boulders, the size of cocoanuts, used as ballast on the N. P. right-of-way were strewn over an area of two acres near Beach. The North Dakota highway commission had its graveling done free of charge in that spot. Eighteen ton concrete slab bridge supports were tossed about creek bot- toms as carelessly as a poker player's Leaving Bismarck at 4 p. m. Sat- urday, he speeded to Wibaux. Rac- ing back to Bismarck, he developed his pictures here and left at 4 a. m. for Fargo to have them engraved This be brought back to Bismarck for use in Tuesday's issue of the Tribune. JUDGE CONKLIN DIES AT JAMESTOWN; FL. CONKLIN HERE IS SON One of Pioneer Jurists of State; Was From New York; Four Terms on Bench afternoon they will Jamestown, N. D., June 10.—()— Judge Marion Conklin, 82, well-known attorney and pioneer of Stutsman county, died here Sunday afternoon royal flush. The steel highway bridge, spanning Beaver creck in Wibaux, was tossed 100 yards down the stream. One pile of refuse on one of Wi- baux's Main Street corners had an automobile, two telephone poles, a grain separator, a mattress, three cane-bottomed chairs, several bales of hay, and a Holy Bible with the first page of Genesis exposed. “Dry cleaning and pressing.” This legend, in flaming colors, was painted on @ canvas sign on the rear end of an auto that chugged up and down the “canals.” It might have been Sunday to the rest of the world but it was just an- other Monday to Wibaux housewives. Every clothes line in the city was bur- IS SHOT UP Customs Inspector Held in Jail After Buckshot Charge Kills Minnesotan INVESTIGATION IS ORDERED Children Protected by Back Seat; 26 Dents Are Count- ed in Body of Car International Falls, Minn., June 10. —(#)—Two children were fatherless today because a United States cus- toms inspector killed Henry Virkula with a charge of buckshot when he oa to stop his car at a command to alt. ‘The inspectors were on the lookout for rum runners, particularly. No liq- uor was found in the Virkula car. E. J. White, the inspector whose shot killed Virkula, had entered the customs service May 1, one of six new men added to the force at that time. Inspector E. A. Servine, his companion, who flagged the machine to stop, was quoted as saying he “saw no reason for the shooting.” Whte In Jail ‘White was in the Koochiching jail today on a second degree manslaugh- ter charge pending outcome of an of- ficial investigation. ‘The shooting occurred Saturday night as Virkula, 41, Big Falls, Minn., restaurant proprietor, Mrs. Virkula, and their two small children, were returning home after a visit with his parents here. As the machine passed a point on Highway No. 4, near Little Fork, and about 15 miles south of the Interna- tional border, Servine flagged the machine to stop. This was followed, Police said, by a shot from the road- sidé and the automobile was riddled by slugs from a sawed-off shotgun. Shot through the neck Virkula slumped over the wheel and the car went into a ditch. Mrs. Virkula and the children were uninjured. Mrs. Virkula was said to have told County Attorney David Hurlburt that her husband was shot before he had time to stop the car. She was report- ed to have said the car traveled little (Continued on page nine.) WASHINGTON BOILS ASPARTY BANQUETS Jouett Shouse, Raskob Succes- dened with washing. Hundreds of tourists parked in their cars eating picnic lunches while scores of Wibaux residents were going hungry. Thompson, the aged man who was drowned in his bed in a livery stable, at 5 o'clock. Death was due to arter- fosclerosis. Short funcral services will be con- ducted by Prof. W. B. Thomas of Jamestown college, a long-time friend, at 7:30 p. m., ' will be given, as he requested, sun- set burial at Highland Home ceme- tery. Served in Several Offices Judge Marion Conklin, born Feb- Tuary 23, 1847, came to Jamestown in 1883 from Wolcott, N. Y. Spending a year here, he moved to La Moure. He returned to Jamestown four vears later, however, and it remained his Permanent home. In the earliest days of North Da- kota’s statehood, Judge Conkiin served two erms as state's attorney of Stutsman county. This was fol- lowed. by four terms as judge of the several Bis- | Beach, Epp ie of the state and county bar associa- Conklin leaves two sont, Fred secretary of u Bismarcl., 9; 8 lin died in . YELLOW BIRD AND He | from the flood that engulfed him. 5 ee an Driver, Blinded by Lights of On- was only 25 feet from safety. That was the distance between his bed and a high bank outside of the building on which he would have been safe A farm woman was rumored to have given birth to a baby boy atop a barn. ‘The only access to Wibaux from the east was a series of 10-inch planks, laid end to end, across the sagging suspended ties of the railway bridge. The ties hung like sticks lashed to- gether with steel wire 25 feet above the surface of Beaver Creek. Very little damage was done to highways. Small washouts, a few loosened crowns, guard posts, and less than a score of mudholes were to be found between Medora and Wibaux. sor, Honored by Nation- al Leaders Washington, June 10.—(?)}—Demo- cratic politics boiled and bubbled to- day in the political pot that is Wash- ington. For tonight the Democratic organization of the District of Colum- bia will give a dinner in honor of Jouett Shouse, recently chosen as the lieutenant o: Chairman John J. Raskob of the national committee, to have charge of the new party headquarters here, and opinions dif- fer as to its significance. Given National Color On the one hand, some reports hi given the dinner the color of a na: tional affair. These reports have been chiefly to the effect that prom- inent members of the party who op- posed leadership of Alfred E. Smith and Raskob in the last campaign, | would make .t the occasion to express publicly to their constituents, partic- ularly those in the south, their dis- one continuation Ca rship by conspicuously absent. ones hand, the official re- insisted the dinner is One of the few buildings to escape damage on Wibaux's main street was the First National Bank. Built above the street level, all records and vaults escaped water damage. The interior of the Dunham Lum- ber company’s yard looked like a heap of dead matches in an ash tray. \ An automobic block signal tower on the N. right-of-way, just east of was picked off its concrete foundation and carried 75 yards down a gully. : $1,000,000 and more! That is con- servative estimate of the damage to IN AUTO OVERTURN coming Car, Loses Controf, Overturns in Ditch Crookston, Minn., June 10.—(@)— dead and Que momen, ieee seriously injured result of an autoutobile. accident north of Bel affair at which Raskob |, naturally enough, be . Furthermore, , president of the Democratic association DEMOCRATIC CHIEF UNCHES RECONSTRUCTION WORK TWO KIDDIES LOSE FATHER AS LIQUORLESS AUTO Indiana Furnace Tender Wins Fortune on British Derby Arthur Court (above), Indianapolis furnace tender, won $84,750 on the British Derby on an investment of $1. He bought a ticket in a Quebec lot- tery on the derby and then drew Trigo, winner of the race. Court is now in Quebec to collect his money, having made the trip with a bodyguard be- cause of the large number who immediately tried to tell him how to invest his fortune. Court is the father of eight children. PRICE FIVE CENTS NEIGHBORS SWARM TO STRICKEN TOWN TO OFFER SERVICES Damage in City Over Quarter Million; Area Damage Runs in Millions ONLY THREE KNOWN DEAD Through Railroad Traffic Will Not Be Resumed Until Fri day, Lantry Says ey ‘Wibaux buzzed like a hive of yesterday as citizens of southenseaen Montana and southwestern North Dakota gathered there to begin recon- structing a flood-wrecked city—work which will occupy them for many days. Though only three persons were known as definitely dead after the storm, rumors circulating throughout. the section yesterday stated that families of Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Acker- man, 14 miles southeast of Wibaux, and Mr. and Mrs, Frank Mesioloski, 16 miles southeast, were missing. Both families had several children, the ex- act number not being known. A wrecked livery barn and parson- age left on the side of a railroad bank id mute reminders of the death of ree. Hundreds Lend Hand Hundreds of visitors swarmed to Wibaux from neighboring towns and sections to lend a hand to their af- flicted neighbors. Automobiles from east of the flooded city, unable to en- SWEDISH PLANE FORCED DOWN IN ICELAND, JUST MISSES SEA Captain Albin Ahrenberg Forces Plane to Limit of Its Endurance IS SHORT OF DESTINATION Wibaux Monument Endures Calamity Many have seen the monument of Pierre Wibaux that stands on a hill to the west of the eity that bears his name but few have seen another monument to the east that is equal- ly as enduring. More than 30 years ago, Pierre! Original Plans Called for Stop ‘ibaux, owner of one of Montana’s acai great ranches, foresaw calamity if & at Reykjavik and Hop lood ever swept down on the town that bears his name. to New York Wibaux, capitol of the cattle coun- had been founded on the sandy sluggish its way Reykjavik, Iceland, June 10.—(®)— ‘The Swedish transoceanic plane Sver- ige, which started on a flight to New York from Stockholm yestérday, was safely moored at Skaptaros, southeast Iceland, in good condition today. ‘The steamer Erja from Reykjavik reached Skaptaros this morning and reported that the Sverige only lacked asoline. The Danish government vessel Fyllia was expected this after- noon with fuel and the Swedish air- men hoped that their machine would be ready for the 150-mile hop to Reykjavik later in the day. Weather conditions were reported good. Pushed to Limit Pushing his transoceanic plane, the Sverige, to the last inch of its en- durance, Captain Albin Ahrenberg landed just before midnight at Skap- taros, southeast Iceland, just missing alighting in the wave tossed Green- tr; bai of Beaver creck, trickle of water feeling down a sandy creek bed. Spring freshets transformed the brooklet into a torrent that raged and gnawed at the cluster of saloons, shacl nd general stores in its path, To divert these annual rampages, the baron of the ranges constructed a concrete dike. The dike served its purpose for many years keeping the stream within its channel. It wasn’t a massive dike. It was puny compared to the great grade of gravel and rock that the railway constructed just north of it, and at right angles. ierre Wibaux never dreamed of a seven inch rainfall. When it came night and Friday, it re- leased a wall of water that rose 10 feet above Wibaux’s rampart. It tore huge 18 ton concrete slabs from beneath the railway bridge. It ed yawning holes through the|land sea. lway embankment. Nobody ex-| The forced landing put him down - | 150 miles short of his destination, this was |city, which was to have been his sec- monument I almost buried in will continue to protect the sprawling town from normal overflow: CALLED ON-T0 PILOT PLANE ON FIRST RIDE Sister of Aviator Navigates It as He Dangles Below, Re- . pairing Broken Strut thing Beauties Fain In Hot-Day Parade as 55,000. View Pageant Galveston, Tex. June 10.—()— ‘Thirty-four beai.ties will tonight. aie an? tf after ve ter the city limits except by a detou to the south, were parked by the hun: dreds east of the city, giving the im- pression that a giant celebration was about to take place. Highways east and west were pkey 8 ie hours by a continuous parade which refused to be exhat until nightfall. ne Wibaux's street was packed all day long by visitors eager to take snapshots of debris, workmen man- ning water pumps and gasoline and steam engines which brought water in torrents from basements. Engines were chugging, trucks loaded with de- bris were speeding about, men, wom- en, and children alike were employed in moving wrecked automobiles, fur- niture, and articles of all descrip- tions. Appointed managers of the re- construction work were hoarse from barking orders and driving the work- ers to the limit. Health Drive Outlined Behind closed doors, Dr. George E. Keller, city health officer, was plan- ning a barrier against disease. Signs warning residents from drinking any- thing but boiled or city water were Posted about the city. An appeal to outside health officials was answered by five experts, who were expected to arrive today. Two are from the Mon- health department at ind two are from national American Red Cross headquarters at Washington, D.C. The fifth isa Red Cross relief official from St. Louis. Damage to property within the city limits of Wibaux alone is placed at more than a quarter million dollars. Damage to the Northern Pacific Rail- way company’s roadbed, bridges, anc general property will approach $1,- 000,000, it is believed. caused by the nine inch deluge last week will run into the millions. Unlike previous years, the greatest damage suffered by the railroad is in torn out and damaged bridges rather than roadbed washouts, according to T. H. Lantry, general superintendent, who is directing reconstruction work east of Glendive from his headquar- ters at Medora. He would make no estimate on the actual damage saf- fered by the railroad, saying that no pa is in a position to know at pres- ent. No Trains For Dayé Through traffic will not be resumed until Friday at the earliest, Lantry jef | said. 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