The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 30, 1929, Page 1

\ A NAAN SEs a Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather Generally fair tonight and Wednese day.. Cooler tonight. ESTABLISHED 1873 GOVERNMENT URGED TO DRASTIC ACTION IN BATTLING FIRES National Catastrophe Threat- ens Unless Forests Are Pro- tected, Pratt Asserts 8,000 ACRES ARE BURNED Little Relief Is in Sight Follow- ing Prolonged Period of Dry Weather in the West ‘Washington, July 30.—(#)—Charac- terizing the present forest fire situa- tion as “the most critical the nation has known in many years,” Georeg D. Pratt, president of ‘the American Forestry association, today urged government, state and private agen- cies to drastic action to prevent what might become a national catastrophe. Mr. Pratt said present means for prevention and protection are “hope- lessly inadequate,” and pointed to fires sweeping over thousands of “acres in California and the Pacific northwest with little relief in sight. He cited that in the Modoc national forest in California more than 50,- 000,000 board feet of lumber have been burned and more than 8,000 acres of forest land burned over. An- | other fire is raging in Minnesota. SHIFT OF THE WIND THREATENS VILLAGE ‘Wabeno, Wis., July 30.— (7) — A shift of the wind to the southeast early today caused some concern for the village of Carter, Wis, with a population of 200, now is in the path of a forest fire. alt nothing more than & | Looks as if Dale “Red” Jackson, | -breaking refueling endurance once and if they stay aloft 450 hours, slight breeze blowing this morn- | ¢@—{——$—$$$—_____——- ing, the fact that it was in Geer | Pajama Clad Man _ |! blow would send the flames toward|| Not Even Noticed | village. o « Otherwise, those fight the blaze ui are confident sny-com-coiode Marae fy duly mppapesm remedy dress reform for men, it seems, can by in the big town. W. 0. unders, who was arrested in his started |home town of Elizabeth, N. J., for wearing pajamas on the street, tried them on avenue without at- tracting much attention except from days. With the wind down, the fire fight- ifiotoeraphers. The police ignored DR. SHOOK SURFERS FROM SPINAL TEST No JURY SELACTED BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1929 oT. LOUIS ROBIN | Flames Threa | Twice Round World Without Stop May Be New Record | as they route around the St. Louis airport to have circled Letters Following His Of- ficial investigation <;|PROMINENT FAMILY KILLED Social Position of Victims of Plot and Lack of Motive Seize Interest London, July 30.—(AP)—London poles threw a guard today about the me of Coroner Doctor Jackson of Croydon after the coroner and his wife received letters threatening them for his investigation of the death of Vera Sidney, one:of three of a prominent Croydon family to die by. poison. While some of the police conceded e letters might be the work of some insane individual they were determined to take no chances in what is regarded now as the most mysterious major crime in England in recent years. While * was the Hae at ie coroner's jury yesterday that Vera pieeey. es been murdered wilfully b: inistration of poison, prob- al in her soup, inquests over the ney died of poison administered in a medicine which she alone of the ers for the first time were able to 2 jan Aceus: jurder it six miles south * oe Wabene ‘Wis. a i Girl Slows: Trial Townsend, Wis. with 118 inhabit- ; = aie gine ie Jo the note of the Comet. ; communicat with Courthouse, Columbus, Ohio, July was disrupted yesterday when |39,—(#)— The physical condition of the fire destroyed wires to the village.| nr. James H. Snook again today Forty men went to the fire line |siowed up the already lagging proc- from the camp of the Connor Lumber | ess of selecting a jury in his trial Wakono, ‘They were Joined Ear tne [£2 the murder of poe fr Ey lipmegiran who left thelr nore to fight “ts | yea Smaak, ne suttering moce se: Late last night word of additional |to assist determination stands jones company the Holt Lumber company of Oconto |, OP, he uterupted the examine: had been reached by the flames. The |was taken to an ante-room for medi- ‘camp of the Thompson Lumber com: /eing to relieve 8 severe pain in his Bene, Carat, Wie. Sets Ale eenrTae back and the court the reg> On lular mid-morning recess to 20 min- psa Me calha NS to eed DUTY ON ARMY sheriff's office where he relaxed from Washington, July 30.— (#— Pres-|the strain of the court room. sioilty upon the army ast 00 cane rying forwards study as to what |POlice economies may be effected in military GLIDER HITS BUILDING St. Paul, July 30.—(AP)—Charles ? Murphy, 7 s bal Lie was slightly injured Monday night when a inj he ile h- ™ na 8 Eieer. was piloting cras! it 1 ! i ie ail his bride, in to the is take encient E He ETE: I H i if Fe H was the the family who the forefront of lish i rf i I : I i $a: i ln are: making @ merry-go-round of the earth in their ready to have gone around the earth globe twice. MYSTERIOUS BRITISH POISON MURDER CASE BAFFLES DETECTIVES OF SCOTLAND YARD Coroner Received ialincianine, {Nickels Too Big; Rattle in Plate Ottawa, Ont: July » 80—4AP)—| On this theory church collections in the U. S. A. ought to be bigger. An Ottawa churchman blames the government for decreases in offer- ings of his congregation. New and larger five cent pieces were put into ‘circulation recently. They are dropped into the’ plate, the minister |says, with flourishes that belong to nothing less than a quarter. MINNESOTA'S GRASH TAKES SECOND LIFE AS HAUGLAND DIES Endurance Flight Jinx Finally Gets Pilot After His Sixth Try for Record — r. them. urder mystery suddenly has and mortgaged station propert; Buffalo to equip the ainnesote, in which he fell, the "Ace High,” the refueling plane. Crichton Hl gee oped Hi i ee z 32 PATROL TIGHTENED POLLOWING BATTLE ON CANADA BORDER Presence of Armored Rum-Run- hing Boats on Lake Causes a Change in Policy MAY USE MACHINE GUNS Niagara Frontier Is New Battle- ground Following Closure of Detroit District Bridgeburg, Ont., July 30—(4)—A stronger blockade along the lower lakes in an effort to check United States rum runners was predicted to- day by Commander Martin W. Ras- mussen, head of the Buffalo coast guerd patro! divisions. Plans are in the making, he said, for the maneu- vering of the coact guard patrol along lines never tried in this area before. The presence of armored United |’ States rum-running boats in Lake Ontario, one of which elected to fight is out last week with a coast guard vessel, has caused the coast guard to devise new methods to offset the added handicap. All available coast guard boats, in- cluding a fleet of ten new high-speed chasers arm d with machine guns and one-pounders, will be used in the blockade, he said. ‘The eyes of the coast guard, he added, will be fastened on the Ni- agara frontier, which has t-come the battleground of the bootleggers and smugglers shunted from the Detroit district. GUARD UNLOADS LIQUOR CAPTURED FROM VESSEL Fernandina, Fla., July 30.—(%) — Coast guardsmen today set about un- loading 2,500 cases of liquor, valued at $150,000, from the 75-foot British Betty and Billie, seized Friday south of Fer andina bar. will be placed under seal boat turned over to customs here. IN HULL OF BOAT IN LAKE OKOBOJI Rescue Workers Devise Means of Raising Hull of Craft Sunk in Collision : Park, Iowa, July 30.—(7)— of three who Sunday sought and relief from the heat by a boat ride today lay: locked in shattered hull of the rebuilt sub- , Miss Thriller, 90 feet below of Lake Okoboji. including nine dead who aboard the Miss Thriller Zipper when they crashed, accounted for by Coroner 2s s fa workers today were devising of raising the boat, which fif- the crash, sank, many of the 14 n able to secure tions were getting the cause blame for the accident, Attorney F. B. Welty, cel ie cet i LESSENS IN ORIENT; SOVIET HOLDS FIRM Chinese Want Russia to Realize Her Mistake; Experts See ————— 3 ORDERED 10 COME DOWN ten Nation’s Supply of Timber | This Cost Little Girl's Life Virginia Plummer, 10, lost her life Sunday afternoon when the automobile, Pictured in. two. Wews.above, plunged backward down a 40+foot embank- ment and turned &@ somersault backward over a 35-foot cliff five miles west of Mandan. She died on the way to a Mandan hospital. Margaret Veeder, the driver, lost control of machine as the car was climbing a steep hill. Six other young persons were in the auto when it started the plunge, four jumping clear of the car before it jumped over the cliff and a fifth jumping from the machine while. it was in the air. Lillian Veeder, who jumped from the car as it somersaulted, fell on the electric wires which show up plainly in the lower picture. The hs show to what extent the auto was damaged. The ttle Plummer girl's death was the forty-first caused by automobile accidents in North Dakota since Jan. 1. PRICE FIVE CENTS SPONSOR OF FLIGHT SENDS UP MESSAGE | FOR LANDING TODAY [Pilots on Eighteenth Day Are in Good Spirits Despite Trouble With Motor | GASKETS ARE LEAKING OIL Jackson and O'Brine Feign Landing to Watch Crowd on Ground Get Ready St. Louis, July 30.—)—Major Wil- jliam B. Robertson, president of the Curtiss-Robertson Airplane Manu- facturing company which is sponsor- ing the record-breaking endurance flight of Dale (Red) Jackson and Forest O'Brine in ‘he monoplane “St. Louis Robin,” this morning sent the flyers a message ordering them to land sometime tod: The Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor company, which offered the St. Louis endurance flyers $100 for every hour they stayed up beyond the previous record, decided today to pay them more money if they would come down. “St. Louis Robin” had been up 415 hours at 2: 17 p. m. (C. 8. T.) today. At that hour the pilots, Dale (Red) Jackson and Forest O'Brine, had made no reply to a note sent to them this morning by Major William B. | Robertson, sponsor of the flight, call- ing them down today. That the flyers are still in good spirits even though the motor might be weary, was indicated by their “little joke.” “Everybody, get reauy; we are going to land,” read a note written in a heavy hand by Jackson and tossed from the plane as it swooped low over the field at 6:30 a. m. Major C. Ray Wassall, chief of their ground organization, leaped into action; his assistants scurried to their Prescribed posts; movie men shoul- dered their heavy cameras and ran to “location” and the crowd gathered to watch the morning refueling became tense as word that the flyers were about to land spread rapidly. News- paper reporters dashed to telephones and radio announcers cleared their throats to describe the long awaited landing. Barely Miss Camera ‘While all this activity was taking Place, Jackson, at the controls of the Robin, circled low and one swoop WEST COAST IS COMFORTABLE; EAST LIES UNDER PALL OF HEAT Baltimore Is Hottest Point With! a Temperature of 98 De- | grees; Washington 96 STREET CAR HIT BY BOLT! Fires Caused by Lightning Cause Serious Damage in Pennsylvania Points New York, July 30.—(AP)—With | the exception of the Pacific coast, | the entire country today lay un-) der a pall of torrid temperatures. The highest temperature for Mon-| day 98 at Baltimore and Okla-) hom: City. Other high readings were: Washington, 96; les In contrast to these figures, were temperatures of 64 degrees at San Francisco, 70 at San Diego and 78) at Los Angeles, Thundershowers, bringing tem-; porary relief to wilting city dwell- ers but only aggravation to farmers watching their crops rapidly st cumb to the drought, occurred | various points in the east. New York) City, where the mercury stood t 91 at noon, a short rain storm, ac- companied by lightning, drove the down 10 degrees in f He Did His Turn; , | 180 Holes in Day ° Anderson, Ind., July 30.—(AP)— Having played ten rounds of golf in a day, Donald Hunter thinks he holds a record. He started on the | municipal course at 4:05 a. m., and sank the last putt on the 180th hole at 6:55 p. m. CITIZENS OF OAKES SUBDUE HOBO GANG Control of Freight Train; Five Placed in Jail Oakes, N. July 30.—(AP)— Arming themselves with revolvers, shotguns and rifles, male residents of Oakes yesterday boarded a Chi- cago and Northwestern freight tr: here to subdue a group of hoboes | who had “taken charge” of the train. ive of the men were placed in il, while five others were released. The men, alleged members of the I. W. W., were reported to have thrown off all those not members’ of the organization. One of them carried a revolver Alleged |. W. W. Band Takes, pemperntase sligt tly less than a minute. ‘ourteen persons were injured 4 flying glass when lightning struc! and another is to be wanted b: authorities of Brown county, Sout! Dakota. barely missed a movie ccmeraman standing on top of a truck. Then somcone read a second mes- sage in the tube that had been dropped. It read: “Don't forget to {read on the bottom of the first one. wea going to land some time, ha, ‘Wassall looked more closely at the first message and saw the word “sometime” written 'n a fold in the | paper. *'FRANCO DISMISSED | FROM AIR SERVICE; | DISOBEYED ORDERS Rivera Objects to Pilot's Re- } ceiving French Weather | Reports on Flight i De Madrid, July Ramon Franco, Sp: vi- tor and transatlantic air hero, has. | been dismissed from the Spanish air service for offenses considered derogatory to Spain's air prestige. His dismissal was not the result j8° much of undertaking a trans- joceanic flight in defian ported government opposition, as undertaking that flight in an Italian built plane, and in aecepting French weather reports rather than those obtained by a Spanish observatory. Both phases of the aviator's re- cent attempt to reach New York from Alcazares, Cartagena, which |ended in a forced landing near the Aone mee dinieateray ag General imo ivera, Spanish premier, | who had counted on a flight achieve- |ment in which every enterit pat should be Spanish, ‘ore! ele- none a Brooklyn street car bearing rush hour crowd of more than 40 passengers. Two heat deaths and 11 prostrations occurred in the city. Two deaths in Philadelphia were attributed to the heat. Fires, started by lightning, oc- red at various points in Penn- At. Westchester, 55 head lightning horses and many hogs and chickens were killed in fires that destroyed two barns at Boyertown. Four Hundred Fifty Acres of Boys Arrowe Park, England, July 30.— (AP)—Four hundred and fifty acres of boys, their enthusiasm undam; ened by rainy skies, are waiting afi intl i FFs sft if ize Await Opening of World Jamboree ito be excellent eaters judomt: He Fi | fi be Eg é ‘4 a i i i i : a il i all i RRS