The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 17, 1929, Page 1

, _NORTH DAKOTA'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER THE BISMARCK TRIBUN é BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1929 PRICE FIVE CEN'IsS' 3 DROWN, 5 HURT IN NORTH DAKOTA ACCIDENTS & North Dakota Firemen Head for Bismarck!™®.wam, FLAMERS To (GENERAL BRAMWELL BOOTH, [ULTERS REEAS EVENPASRNGHS [BLASEPARIS SINGS PRAISES OF | “pe DEAD ATFHR (PEN GNVENTON WM |_PASSES AWAY QUIETLY IN HOME! yp rans pOARD | TRAPP IN PLANE | FRENCH FLIERS, aMERicaNBoy| AREDIADATFARG ESTABLISHED 1873 ‘Gone to Glory’ CAPITAL ON TUESDAY |+ Boxing Match, Dutch Lunch, Street Dancing, Truck Demonstrations Feature WILL REPRESENT 7000 MEN Veterans From Grafton Are First Arrivals; Expect Larg- est Attendance ‘The North Dakota Firemen’s asso- ciation will launch Bismarck’s hectic week of entertainment and mass ac- tivities tomorrow, when it opens its forty-fifth annual convention here for a three-day stay. dust how many firemen will be here, H. L. Reade, secretary now for 32 years, could not tell today. At noon & part of the Grafton delegation had arrived and others were expected in | beds this evening and tonight. As many asa thousand firemen may attend during the three days of the meet- ing, the secretary thought. The sessions will be held at the auditorium. The Grand Pacific will be business headquarters. Retains Some Old Glamour Something of the old glamour of firemen’s conventions will be retained by this meeting, although much of the spectacular has been discarded years ago. Two of the main features along this line will be the noon par- ade, Wednesday, and a demonstration of the latest type of American La- France fire truck at 8 o'clock, Wed- nesday evening. There also will be street dancing and a Dutch lunch at the Elks rooms, opening at 10 o'clock, Wednesday eve- ning, and continuing as long through the night as there is a speck to eat left and soniebody to rag We it. The Grafton delegation which came in this morning was led by J. H. Kelly, who retired as president of the asso- ciation in 1907, when’ the handsome gold watch which he carries was pre- sented to him by the organization at . Kelly also wears a gold pendant badge presented to him by the Grafton department for 30 years service as secretary. He today is the oldest volunteer fireman in active service in the state. He be- came a fireman in 1883, when he id During the legis! ways comes to Bismarck, to be at the beck and call of legislators who want information of matters pertaining to the fire service through the state. With Kelly were A. E. Mead and F. T. Kieley. Tonight Horace Ingle, and Henry Bernard will join these here. " LaFrance Doing Big Stunt Two representatives of the Ameri- can LaFrance fire apparatus company (Continued on page nine.) PEONY SHOW MIGHT BE STAGED FRIDAY Hot Weather Brings Flowers Into Bloom and Makes Ear- lier Show Imperative ‘ HAE ttt it cid General Bramwell Booth, head of the Salvation Army, died quietly at his home yesterday while members of his family gathered about his ide. His peaceful passing was a contrast to the stormy it few years when his family was split by leadership quarrels, PROFESSOR 10 FACE CHARGE OF SLAYING HIS CO-ED MISTRESS Agriculture Instructor Shared Apartment With Medical Student at University Columbus, Ohio, June 17.—(7)}— Jobn J. Chester, Jr., county prosecu- tor, announced today that he will lay the killing of Theora K. Hix, Ohio State university co-ed, before the county grand jury late today that he “probably would seek a first degree murder charge,” against Dr. James H. Snook, university professor, held for investigation in connection with the slaying. The prosecutor's statement was made as he started a series of inter- arges of investigation would be brought in and that all official an- progress would come from him. Police indicated they were working on the theory that the immediate cause of the crime was the belief by @ quarrel. Chester called a conference of police BE rT i f : E il = i 5 i ile if ite if Hi E i H de H fe H i _H : | li , Fi 5 i 5 Es i ele {LUMBAR SHP SNS, o |} Salvation Army Shows No Sign e of Mourning For Beloved Leader of Many Years ‘HE HAS PASSED TO GLORY’ ‘Father of the Poor’ Will Be Buried at Great Funeral Service in London London, June 17.—(?)—The funeral ‘of General Bramwell Booth, who died yesterday at the age of 73, will be held June 26 with full Salvation Army ‘The burial will take place in Abney Park cemetery in London. A great funeral service before Gen- eral Booth’s burial will be held in Albert Hall Sunday night. General Higgins will conduct the service, as- sisted by international commissioners. General Booth will be buried in the family vault at Abney Park cemetery beside his father and mother. Covered with a Salvation Army banner, the body of General Booth lay in his pleasant subur- ban house here today. His pass- ing last night was unrecognized by any outward sign of mourning either officially or among the rank and file of the Salvation Army, which he headed so long until deposed re- cently. Not a flag was lowered at the in- head said a high offi- cial, “for General Booth is not dead —he has passed to glory.” But though the army tradition does not admit loss there was in evidence everywhere among the Salvationists @ deep sense of personal loss that they felt at the 72-year-old general's death, so quietly and suddenly last night after final months of life which had been filled with the agony of ill health, distasteful conflict, and de- feat. Didn't See Death ‘The general spoke to his family yesterday afternoon before he lapsed into unconsciousness. What his words, however, has not been re- vealed to the public, bit one who and|was near ‘o him said today, “He didn’t know the end was so near.” The peace of the tree shaded street in Hadley Wood where he lived was broken today only by the opening and shutting of the gate as m Booth and her children from all (Continued on aaa SAVED, ONE LOST 24 ico eae esse! Breaks in Two After Striking Columbia River Sand Spit in Storm Portland, Ore., June 17.—(#)—The zs FATAL MNNEDPOLS AUTO GRASH PROBED x isky cunt at i OF ADMINISTRATION) DROWN IN CHANNEL Alumni Association Asks That Every Effort Be Made to Retain College Head MINARD IS RECOMMENDED Has Not Definitely Accepted Federal Position But Sees Chance For Service Members of the state board of ad- ministration were to meet today to consider the formal resignation of Dr. John Lee Coulter as president of the state agricultural college, Fargo. At the same time an effort was being made by the alumni association of the college to sce if Dr. Coulter could not be induced to remain in North Dakota. . A telegram received today by the board and signed by A. R. Wiji, prest- dent, and T. W. Thordarson, secretary of the alumni cssociation, the board to “make every possible effort which will retain the services 7 Coulter for the best interests of the institution and the state.” It asserted “We have reasons to believe he will stay if offered terms similar to those prevailing with the president of the University.” . ° Compared With Kane As president of the state agricnl- tural college, Dr. Coulter draws $7,800 a year, the second by the state. The president of the university gets $8,000 a year and in addition his house is furnished by the state. In his letter of resignation, Coulter suggested to the board that he be permitted to designate Dean A. E. Minard to act for him in his absence from the college. He said he expects to spend some time in Ws this summer. The resignation was dated June 13 and is to become effec- tive August 31, at which time Dr. Coulter will have completed his eighth year as president of the col- In his letter of resignation, how- ever, Coulter indicated that he has not definitely accepted the appoint- + |ment as chief cvonomist to the fed- eral tariff commission which has been offered him. That job pays $9,000 a year. Can Render Service What he says is: “I feel that in transmitting this resignation, I should state the indications are that I shall the position of chief economist. with the federal tariff commission. believe in ‘this capacity I will be able to render as great, and many people feel very much greater, serv- ice to agriculture of the northwest, and therefore, I may aid in the up- building of a prosperity such as we hope to see in this country.” his appreciation of the support given him by the board and various public and private agencies, Coulter said: “I shoud be glad to respond to any invitation of the board to aid further in the upbuilding and development of Nerth Dakota's great- est ion of direct service to the state.” S. D. College President's Car Rams Into Rear of Truck, Killing Man Behind urged Mr. of Dr.|_ Mrs. salary paid fashington | Four Travelers, Pilot and Me- chanic Escape Death in Crash Off Folkestone ONE AMERICAN ON FLIGHT Cause of Crash and Identifica- tion of Dead Await Investi- gation at Croydon London, June 17.—(#)—Seven per- sons were killed, one of them be- lieved to be an American, in the crash of an Imperial Airways Liner today off Dungeness, England. Three of the victims were women, two bodies were recovered. Among the known dead was a Mrs. Ickerson, a relative of Mr. and Mrs. Fleming, two of the survivors. The body of a man also was re- covered and taken go Dungeness where his identification had not been The following rescued were suffer- ing from shock: Mr. and Mrs. Felm- ing. Miss M. Smith, Homer V. Tat- ham, Pilot Brailli and Mechanic Bar- nett, filght engineer. ‘The trawler was drifting with the half submerged plane at 5 p.m. It was expected to make an attempt to beach the plane at high tide this evening. The number and identity of the bodies in the cabin may not be known before that time. The advices indicated the plane, which was not equipped with special floats, was waterlogged. Second American Listed treatment, but was detained there and | Lotti his address was not learned. The bodies taken to Dungeness were those of two men, one about sixty and the other forty. Those sent to hospitals here includ- ed Mrs. Marjorie Fleming, R. B. Smith and Tatham. Advices from Folkestone said five of the survivors were landed there, two women, two men passengers and One body, that of a woman, was brought ashore, but her identity had not been ascertained at a late hour. ‘The pilot, who was injured, re- mained on a trawler near the plane to sal\ The E H agsegEe Pa § 5 J PEE Eira | i =| THREE FOUND BEAT 10 DEATH IN HOME Detroit, June 17.—()—Mrs. Anna Podolski and f rlaehi if ‘Little Rascal? | ° > o Stowaway’s First Thoughts Are | | to ‘Spruce Up’ Before Round of Receptions 5,000 GREET YELLOW BIRD Schrieber Cries ‘Vive La France’; Offered $20,000 For Story of Stolen Ride Paris, June 17.—(?)—Three French transatlantic birdmen were plunged today into a long program of recep-! tions, dinners and celebrations. Al- though Paris seemed blase to ocean | flights there was no disposition any- where to let the feat of Jean Assolant. grinning, garrulous stowaway of the Yellow Bird, Arthur Schreiber, sre of a harvest of greenbacks for the story of his free stolen ride over the | Introducing 22-year-old Arthur , Whose home is in Portland, Me., said quite plainly that |“Yellow Bird.” Jean A: he wanted “some presentable clothes.” |of the ship which made the 16th Long before the aviators had arisen |crossing of the Atlantic ocean by & crowd gathered outside of theirjair, called the American lad “the hotel. Wha they arrived at se eomillars Spe speeet pees Bourget from Comillas, Spain, yester-|Comillas, Spain. nd so he is day at 8:47 p. m. (2:47 p. m. . 7.) “Little Rascal” to an admiring worl » pi 1 Id. bers of the crowd put them on (CHES T0 RACE ogi co pea crmarta rta el i cas ram tem | AND LAY EGGS FOR The first f¢ reception for the three aviators was that of the Aero Club of France, set for this afternoon, with other festivities to follow which le ec org ab esc ic ys. It is doubtful whether the city of and Are Looming as Lead- ing Novelty of Card . Pticd racing ostriches which are to French Minister the here for Mrs. C. K. Bryan's speed flyers last night at Le Bourget in the | 4 signa ooh ne a Erg tues cence GUataennie eee ise to be a big attraction, exploit vi = Following announcement urs= Giseiplisied Reehores ut alte eeatt” | aay’s Tribune that the birds would be able since you achieved your | on the race card, afternoons and eve- With a smile Assolant replied, “Un- }» residents running into hun- nings, iplined been. dreds visited the grounds in the hope chief ont we er seeing the birds. But they had not Be g pate i 8 z E s i “Injured in Fall Off Carnival « Riding Device MANDAN FARM GIRL HURT Red River Valley Auto Crashes Cause Severe Injuries to Woman and Two Men Three persons were drowned and five injured in accidents in North Da- kota and adjacent territory over the week-end. ‘The dead and injured are: John Gaare, 34, farmer south of Fargo, drowned in Red river. Raymond Jack Potts, member Cuban House of David baseball team, drowned in reservoir at Dilworth, Minn. Paul Jones, Dickinson traveling salesman, seriously injured Saturday night in carnival riding device at Mandan. Louise Unkenholz, 13, daughter of farmer near Mandan, severely lacer- ated about head in automobile col- lision. Mrs. Fred O. Trepp, Fargo, se- riously cut about head and may lose sight of one eye after automobile ac- cident near Oriska yesterday. Cc. B. Young and James Murray, Fargo, were injured early this morn- ing in an automobile accident three miles east of Thompson. CROWDS AT BIG FAIR sco = Gawky Birds Have Speedy Heels | 11. ,. When Paul Jones braced himself in the car of a carnival riding d vice against it: ling in Mand: arated a the = went the of r a - : may. rowing Seer ae and He is in @ Mandan hospital with nearly all of his teeth out, a broken (Continut six) | g¢51 S00 000 VOTED FARM RELIEF BOARD Agricultural Legislation Now Goes to President Hoover for Approval Washington, June 17.—(#)—Con- he | Hoover. ‘ After the house had acted favorably recommended on the appropriation it | ss expected to be attached to the reso- 2 BREFLE 82 [tse Hi gE ste ie 2 é > fr He Fe ite i lution without delay. sisi Bt is i 3 rf 8 * 3 Hid eebe