The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 29, 1929, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1929 The Weather Mostly fair tonight and Sunday, Cooler Tonight, PRICE FIVE CENTS Spanish Plane, Crew Found BROKEN VALVE ENDS FLIGHT Hoover Names 3 to Farm Board ‘ISS HINEAPOUS' | FORCED DOWN SHORT | o8 HOURS OF MARK Flyers Battling Against Crank- case Leak Meet Disaster From Second Source SIT DOWN IN WHEAT FIELD Haughland ‘Broke,’ According to Story Told War Veteran Bodies Before Start Minneapolis, June 29.—(7)—"Miss Minneapolis” piloted by Thorwald “Thunder” Johnson and Owen Haughland, failed today in the at- -tempt to break the world’s endurance flight record after 149% hours con- tinuous flying. The record is 172 hours, 32 minutes, 1 second. Motor trouble forced the little Cessna monoplane to land in a wheat field one mile south of Langdon, which is 15 miles south of the Twin Cities, at 10:35 a. m The plane was in the air 140% hours, having taken off ‘Wold: Chamberlain field here at 5 a. m., last Sunday. The time was 23 hours Jess than the record. A broken valve was blamed for the failure in first reports, although the flyers previously had been battling against a leak in the motor which threatened the oil supply as @ bolt in the crank case was believed to have given way. A note for more oil was dropped from the plane at 5 a.m. today and the refueling ship immediately took off with a five gallon tin while the ground crew made preparations to send up an additfonal supply when- needed. 3 ever ; ‘Think Rolt Lost - A bolt in the crank case is believed to have fallen out. Ground observers confidence that if no furth- hour Johnson cont! the record of 172 hours, 32 minutes, and one second, set by the Fort Worth. Only one day stands between them and a new. mark, They have to re- main sloft until 10:35 a. m. Sunday to beat the old record by the required one hour. Haughland and Johnson plan to stay up as long as their single motor functions. “Oil Trouble ————_. Davis, Knudson, Netcher Named _\pryWAsT BOARD To Positions by Governor Shafer WEMBER APPOINTEE Memorial Building Burning Fire broke out in the upper por- tion of the memorial building at the state capitol at 3:15 this after- LINEMAN IS RESCUED AS 2300 VOLTS HOLD HIM IN GRIP ON POLE Telephone and Power Crews Save Harry Cosgriff From High Tension Contact Cosgriff was on a 110-volt. line and had neglected to put on his rubber gloves. As ke his connectors tipped over Report When the difficulties in the oit|"S supply were first reported to the ground crew, Haughland, who wrote the note, said the motor was working perfectly. and it was believed that if no more leaks developed the flyers could: safely continue their drive for record. Ege highly favorable. Then came intere (Continued on page eleven) Fleck Motor Company — To Pay Trimble $500 z pil i g § HF gE iy i Hat Ni Head on Way to Exile af i Hay | | i E g i oe Michigan Man Appointed State Grain Storage Commission- er Under New Law DAVIS TO SUCCEED DIEHL Fessenden Attorney Takes Sev- ertson’s Post on Guaranty Fund Commission Appointment of Oliver Knudson, Michigan, Nelson county, as state grain storage commissioner, and J. E. Davis, Goodrich, as a member of the state board of administration was an- George nounced today by Governor F. Shafer. A. L. Netcher, Fessenden, was named a member of the state guarany fund commission. Knudson is well known throughout been state bank is On Farm Board CARL WILLIAMS The name of Carl Williams of Okla- homa has been synonymous with farm relief for the past 20 years. Williams was trained as a newspaper man and later became the human dynamo be- hind many of the southwest’s leading cooperative marketing movements. He to |is intimate with the livestock grower, from it. appointed ty fund commission, succeed. shown gineering Shoals as Major Problem FEE i 48 i if | il H t I 4 | 2) E ist i ; small farmer and the cotton magnate. PRESIDENT HOOVE URGED BY FRAZIER TO USE JADWIN PLAN North Dakota Senator Calls Present Mississippi Flood Relief Unworkable Washington, D. C., June 29.—(F)— Urging President Hoover to give per: sonal attention to the Jadwin plan, Senator Frazier, Republican, North Dakota, expressed the opinion that jon th- board as t. put on a man of the $300,000,000 plan for flood relief |general interest. If this view is cor- in the Mississippi valley was unwork- | rect, an out-and-out cotton man still . is to be named, and there have been Senator Frazier quoted a letter from | reports the president hag.in mind a neither the Mississippi river commis- sion nor any other body of individuals any intelligent comprehensive to curb its floods or to turn its vast potential power to the use and benefit of our people could be formu- also quoted the report of a spe- cial committee of the American cn- economic phases the Mississippi river has not been made to justify the federal govern- ment in adopting any plan therefore.” CAPONE APPLICATION IS DISMISSED IN COURT Chicago Gangster Fails fo Se- cure His Release From Jail on Writ of Error , dune 29.—()—The vision of the municipal today dismissed the application mare ee of zee soaking Hi seen Alphonse “Scarface Al” Capone,| Chicago gang leader, now serving & in the county prison for carry IS STILL UNSELECTED ‘Border States’ Represented by Tobacco, Livestock and Cotton Experts 2 POSTS FOR MIDDLE WEST President Expects Relief-Gov- erning Organization to Be Functioning by August Washington, June 29.—(?}— President Hoover has offered position on the federal farm board to W. S. Moscrip of Lake Elmo, Minn., and C. C. Teague, of Los Angeles. Moscrip and Teague are con- sidering the offers and no def- inite arrangement has yet been Moscrip is _secretary-treasurer Hoover and Secretary Hyde. Teague is connected with a California fruit growers’ co- operative association. Washington, June 29.—()—The designation by President Hoover of three of the eight men he will name for membership on the federal farm board left agricultural leaders specu- lating today on the be ited from mn farming principally The first three members announced come from the “border states,”—agri- culturally speaking—of Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Missouri. One of them, James C. Stone of Lexington, try; another, C. B. Denman of Farm: ington, Missouri, is identified with livestock, and the third, Carl Williams of Oklahoma City, has for years been identified with the American Cotton Growers exchange. Williams, however, also has had @ variety of experience with wheat as- and cooperative marketing tions, and some leaders felt his appointment was not intended so much to give cotton a representative gene who will Georgian for this purpose. Rice Representative Seen hhas been supposed in authorita- (Continued en eleven) WCRARY TAKES LEAD OVER MAYTAG Scotchman Shoots Nea Golf and Loses Only One Hole in First Six Omaha Field Club, Oma of the Twin City Milk Producers , fuselage.. Hawks was uninjured, erfect Capt. F. M. Hawks Uninjured and Happy as Crash Ends Two-Way Continental Trip TOOK 19 HOURS 10 MINUTES Pilot Is Completely Deaf When He Emerges From Open Cockpit of Machine Roosevelt Field, N. Y., June 29.— (®)—His weariness forgotten in the {Joy of success, Captain Frank M. | Hawks completed a non-stop flight from Los Angeles at 1:16:03 a. m. daylight time today, establishing @ one-stop round trip coast - to- coast | record of 36 hours 46 minutes 48 sec- onds flying time. Spectators were given a momentary alarm when in landing his plane darted across the field and struck a fence, damaging its undercarriage and climbed out of the plane to be cheered by a crowd of admirers. He was kissed by his wife. He had taken off from Roosevelt field on Thursday in an attempt to establish three records and succeeded in each case. Broke West Record He made the flight to the Pacific coast in 19 hours 10 minutes and 32 seconds, the record of 24 hours and 51 minutes established last year by the late Captain C. B. D. Collyer and Harry Tucker. Although he had planned to remain in LosAngeles only long enough to re- fuel, he was detained seven hours and 14 minutes by needed repairs to the plane's stabilizer and carburetor. Taking off from Los Angeles at 7 a. m. (Pacific time) yesterday morning, he brought his plane down again on Roosevelt field 17 hours, 28 minutes and 16 seconds later to break the record of 18 hours, 21 minutes and 59 seconds, he established last year. Headwinds Spoil Aim He had hoped to make the round trip in 36 hours of actual flying but ‘gs delayed on the west-to-east trip by headwinds. His elapsed time for the round trip was 44 hours and 48 seconds. He was completely deaf when he emerged from the open cockpit of his plane and looked |. He said he had suffered no ill effects on the trip, but after landing a reaction set in and he departed immediately for his home in New York to spend the rest of the night in sleep. It was estimated the route he fol- lowed was 2,800 miles one way, which would give him an estimated for the round trip of slightly more than 152 miles an hour. Sits Down on Fence A thousand or more persons were at the field awaiting his arrival when the plane appeared overhead. circled the field twice and then dropped slowly, barely skimming the . After the wheels had touched the ground he speeded up the motor and taxied ceveral hundred feet. Seeing that he was too far down the field and heading for a wire fence, he speeded up in an attempt to jump, but the plane came down ud | Straddling the fence. Ee a3 5 AG il Hawks clambered out of the plane smiling and appeared undisturbed by his narrow escape. “It’s just too bad,” he said. Te. DAMPER TS CAST ON Ba Eg gg : i i 5 Sag it sft i i ae i i i i : g & if i i 3 i i [ 3 i Base i i i za zz i LE 5 & i ape i British Premier Indicates Long Work Is Ahead Before Par- ley Will Be Called London, June 29.—(#)—A damper tions of ht DISARMAMENT HOPE = Fence Stops Airplane After Non-Stop Flight Across U. S. Captain Frank M. Hawkes is shown above in New York as he prepared | for his attempt to set an east-west, round-trip nonstop flight across the United States. He flew from New Yor. to Loe Angeles and back to shatter all transcon- tinental:speed records. Capt. Hawkes west-east, and is a former Minneapolis resident. PICKED UP AT SBA BY ENGLISH SHIP ARTER FLOATING FOR WEEK Aircraft Carrier Finds Major Franco and Three Compan- ions Alive and Well 100 MILES FROM ISLANDS @ | Discovered Near Position Where | Sets New Records | Vessel Reported Hearing Motors Week Ago Madrid, June 29.—(7)—After being missing for more than a week, the Spanish transatlantic aviators, Major Ramon Franco and three companions, have been picked up at sea by the British airplane carrier Eagle, and today were being brought to Gi- braltar. An airplane from the le spotte them floating in their vias hae Dornier Wal seacraft, near the Azores, They were picked up, all alive and well. Besides Major Franco there wers Major Gonzales Gallarza, Captain Ruiz de Alda, and the mechanic, Ser= Seant Pedro Madariaga. Th? four men left Alcazares aire drome, Cartagena, Spain, at 4:50 p. ms Friday of last week. They passed over. Cadiz, and last were heard from about midnight Friday in a radio message recht deh a ees pass-d Cape San incert, Pc-tugal, and were heading out to sea. Th eerryendyatiy en missing more e a n than 24 hours before it was generally acknow! they had failed to reach the Azores, first stop on their pro- Jected flight to New York. This was the result of an announcement early last Saturday by General Primo BUREAU HEAD URGES (==s==s sees COOPERATION AMONG WAR VET BRANCHES Hines and McNutt Speak on Fargo Hospital's Dedica- tory Program hunt by the British admiralty at the request of the Spanish government. Plane Slightly Damaged The aviator’s pren the carrier. se Eagle gave their they were found as Fargo, N. D., June 29.—)—Co- {north longitude 2414 west. This wi ‘d re (Continued on page eleven) ~ ROBERT TYRE JONES ordination of government activities dealing with war veterans was urged by General Frank T. Hines of Wash- ington, D. C., director of the Uni- ted States veterans bureau, as he dedicated the newly completed vet- erans hospital today. He urged consolidation of the vet- erans bureau, the board for soldiers’ j homes, and the pension bureau under @ single directorship. “The next congress must decide whether the government is to care for disabled veterans whose disability is not due directly to war service,” General Hines said. “It is possible that additional hos- pital facilities will be provided here and elsewhere in order that veterans who cannot show their disability is not due directly to war service,” Gen- eral Hines said. “It is possible that additional hos- pital facilities will be provided here HEN Hes i ni SHOOTS 218 70 LEAD a * \ Plucky Georgian Scores 71, Ong Under Par, to Retain Pin- nacle in Tourney Wingfoot Club, Mamarorieck, N. Y, June 29.—)—Bobby Jones the lead in the third round of the nae tional open golf championship today by scoring 71, one under par. 54-hole total of 215 put him strokes ahead of Gene Sarazen, tis slipped back from the top with 76 for *——_+ A i Hy i g ian