The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 20, 1929, Page 1

ay 4 j ( \ day. Slightly warmer Wednesday. ESTABLISHED 1873 ‘ BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1929 PRICE FIVE CENTS WOMEN'S AIR DERBY PILOT FALLS TO DEATH Storms Cause $50,000 Damage Near Bismarck wi. cuss LIVESTOCK SURFERS | MISS MARVEL }|FRESH FIRES GREET | TARIFF SCHEDULES IN HAIL AND WIND; BUILDINGS GO DOWN Strip Six Miles Wide and Fifty Long Is Swept by Tor- rential Rains WOMAN SUFFERS SHOCK Telephone Lines Are Destroyed, Breaking Down Communi- cation to North ‘Two violent wind storms, accompa- nied by hail and torrential rains, which struck the vicinity of Bismarck about 6 p. m. Monday are believed to have caused approximately $50,000 damage to livestock Nodal Sau farm machinery, crops ai lephone. ‘Missouri lines. Sweeping out of the river valley about 6 p. m. one storm swooped down over a stretch about six miles wide and 50 miles long roar- CROSSON FIGHTERS IN WEST: | COME OUTINOPEN; HUGE FOREST BURNS) CRITICISM IS HOT i Eastern Oregon Is New Sector |About 360 Changes Are Re- Reported in the Battle ported in Rates; Democrats Against Flames Prepare for Debate ARE CAUSED BY LIGHTNING) INCREASE FARM PRODUCTS Idaho Flames Threaten 400 Mil-| Bourbon Attack Begins Prompt- lion Feet of White Pine; ly; Shouse Sees Nothing Rangers Safe Y but Avarice Seattle, Aug. 20.—()—While west-| Washington, Aug. 20—(4)—The rate ern Washington had been momentar- | schedules tentatively approved by the ily freed from forest fires by rains | Republican tariff framers of the sen- over the week-end eastern Oregon | ate finance committee were out in the today became a new sector in the|open for the first time today, and northwest fire menace, were promptly made the subject of A few major fires in eastern Wash- | sharp criticism from both Democratic ington and several in Idaho and|and Republican independent quar- Montana still were out of control. In | ters. British Columbia, though the gen-| Showing about 360 changes the eral situation appeared improved, sev- | schedules were turned over to the | if All ts Well VICTIM OF ACCIDENT FOG SHROUDS NORTH ATLANTIC; FEAR FOR SAFETY OF AVIATORS| N ARIZONA DESERT f ~ Insull Is Silent || Plane Was Wrecked, Parachute *) Released but Not Opened; Apparently Jumped Swiss Flyers Should Be Near Shores of United States WAS A WELL-KNOWN FLYER | |Held Women's Altitude Record of 23,996 Feet; Learned in Army Plane Douglas, Ariz. Aug. 20.—(P}— With eight of the 15 flyers land- ed here following thelr take-off at Phoenix on the third lap of the Santa Monica-to-Clevelan@ women’s air derby, Mrs. Louise Thaden of Pittsburgh and Pheebe Omlie of Memphis, Tenn., took temporary leads over the two classes competing. HAVE’ SLIGHT KNOWLEDGE | | Are Forced to Fly Blind After Leaving Azores; May Ex- haust Fuel Supply. Horta, Azores, Aug. beth Having passed the Azores flying! from Lisbon, Portugal, two young Swiss aviators today were near the North American coast, if all went well. Oscar Kaesar and Kurt Luescher passed over the village of Praia, Vic- toria atl ee Terceira, Movs 5 miles from lorta at 6 p. m. Green- Phoenix, Ariz, Aug. 20. wich time yesterday (1 p. m. E. S, With the shadow of death shroud- T.) and continnued in a northward ing their trail, 15 entries of the direction, apparently heading for the! Martin J. Insull. president of the| women’s Santa Monica-to-Cleve- northeastern Atlantic _ seaboard. | Middle West Utilities company, which | land alr derby took off from here There was no indication of any|controls the Bismarck power and| today for Douglas, Aris., 200 miles’ eral conflagarations continued to eat | Democratic members of the commit- trouble. light plant through recent acquisi-| away, on the third their through valuable timber stands, tee to enable them to make their pre-! ‘The plane, known as the tion of the North Dakota Power and . The first preheater at liminary study in preparation for the! s-hweizerland” or “Young Light company, today had failed to} 8:12 a.m. mountain debate in the senate after it is re- land,” took off from Juncal, near |@nswer the telegram of protest sent; time, and all had cleared the air- were said to have been started by {ported September 4. Lisbon, at 7:30 a. m. Portuguese|him by the Bismarck Association of| port at 8:40, lightning and all aided by winds. The} The Republican committeemen, time (1:30 a. m. E. S. T.) intending |Commerce. The Bismarck A. C. pro- most serious was reported near Day- | meanwhile, turned their attention to/¢, pass over here en route to Hali-| tested the rumored transfer of execu-| Phoenix, Ar ville, Ore., in the Malheur reserve in|the controversial’ administrative pro- fax and New York. itive offices here to Huron, 8. Dak. The aviators covered the less than ing straight east through Burleigh county between Bismarck and Bald- win. ‘A second storm originating in the southwestern section of the state swept up through the southern part of Morton county and traveled across the Missouri river into the southern part of Burleigh county. 7., Aug. 20.—(AP)— The body of Miss Marvel Crosson San Diego, flier reported missing which 600 acres had been burnea. | visions of the house bill, which con- Two other serious fires were burning |tain the flexible tariff and other —_ = 1,000 miles between here and Lisbon last night when other entrants of ieee nines Lines Down The body of Miss Crosson was found near Wellton, Ariz., this morning. Ap- eo bated hase forests eed nde causes that are likely to encounter! in 11 1.2 hours, indicating a sveed| NOOK iN SENTENCED |the women’s air derby from Santa Parently, her parachute had refused to open. She was an expert filer, and ee ate of approximately 90 miles an hour, | Monica, Californi Cl of Bismarck and south of Mandan - . Ore. Nine fires, however, in the Um: The changes disclosed in the rate P| : + California, to Cleveland, making it almost impossible to get an recently had set a new altitude record for women. achebules tick considerably less than 405 miles per | |landed here, was found early today ee a ee ae were 30 schedules include both increases and| four" ofywhich: their, ‘pure wie 10 RLECTRIC CH AIR |six miles north of Wellton, Aris. storm sections. { Vic Johnson, Slocan Lake lumber-| reductions in any schedule is pro-|F@rman monoplane with its 230 The body was found some distance Mrs. Anton Nelson, Bistharck, had man, his wife and two daughters and | posed in that affecting chemicals,|%°tsepower motor is capable. jfrom her wrecked plane, her para- narrow escape from death when 20 lodgers, feared lost in the Evans oils, and paints, and the greatest/,After passing Terceira Island the | fee released but unopened. The lightning struck the farm home of INC ING B RD creek fire, near Slocan Lake, British number of increases in the agricul-| ‘fliers faced a trip of about 2,400; | Searching party which found the Oscar Magnuson near Wing; knocking Columbia, were reported safe. ture schedule. In the chemical sched-|™iles to New York, and of about} body said it was apparent trouble Mrs. Nelson unconscious about 7 p. m. : Conditions in that section, re-jule, the senate committee Republi-| 1,350 miles to Cape Race, the eastern! |had developed and that she had yesterday. mained unchanged with the Evans|cans favor 67 changes, including| ‘iP of Newfoundland, the first land} anaes jleaped in an attempt to save her life, Brought to a Bismarck hospital q.; ooo | creek fire burning within a mile of incre: -| of their course. They hope to reach ’ ji about 1 a. m. today, examination | Oriental: Defenders and Soviet}! Game Expedition Slocan City. Unless winds change the ‘tural schedule’ 10, includiog a fow| Halifax, Nova Scotia, 550 miles fur-| Former Ohio Professor's Motion Searchers Out showed that she was suffe only | settlement was believed safe. In . ther, before stopping to refuel. for New Trial Is Overruled; Miss Crosson, holder of the from shock. Today perce Moped Cavalry Engage in Fierce | Leaders Engaged || cher parts of British Columbia, saw soacmeene or ictinewinn If the flyers negotiated the west- 4 * |woman's altitude record, 23,096 feet, yeported that she.had completely re- | mills were closed and Zn the other schedules, 36 changes| Ward crossing and. maintained their to Die November 29 was flying from San--Bernerdino to covered ‘and would suffer no aftcr.et=, seera-struggle for Town New York, Aug. 20.—()—There was | mustered into fighting forces. The jup or down are proposed affecting|Peed of 90 miles an hour they |Phoenix. Fear for her safety had . | Hall creek blaze, near Nelson, was |earths, earthenware ;| Should have reached the vicinity of »,been expressed upon her failure to. Farm Hit — Trannnce in recent big game expedi-| sti raging but not ao flereely, re- |s1 affecting metals: eight, “teod arei| Cape Race, Newfoundland, by 4 a.|. Court House, Columbus, ©., Aug. arrive and searching parties were’ Alfred Ryberg, pioneer farmer in 2 ports said. manufactures of wood; nine, ‘sugar;|™. E. T., and Halifax. ix | 20.—(AP)—Dr. James H. Snook was} sent out when residents of the Well- Frances township, suffered the great-|WHITE GUARDS IN ATTACK |Denire ce New Orleanm coclescers sng Fates ATI oe rie in ZONE. tobacco: one, spueits; 20 cotton | hours later, Ie would be six hours| sentenced to be electrocuted on No-|ton area reported seeing an air- est loss, according to the meagre sur- pees 4 Rainier national forest manufactures; seven, flax, hei ind|more for their plane from Halifax} 2 ini a .|Plane plunge into a heavy cotton. vey that The Tribune was able to of the expedition, are engaged to be wi , vovering 2,000 acres, /jute: 33, wool: one. al es econ: to New York. | vember 29 for the killing of his co. wood growth along the Gila river. make over disrupted telephone lines|Reds Resist as Moscow Pro- continued last night to defy 300 men. |53, papers and books, and 34, sundries.| Although the aviators had good'¢d sweetheart, Theora Hix, by Judge) Miss Crosson, 25 years old, was married. today. Fighters were still being sent into the| The reductions include the 2.20| weather from Lisbon to the Azores,}Henry L. Scarlett today after a mo-jone of the most colorful of woman Ryberg lost two barns, a chicken} tests Against Firing on Wenatchee and Colville forests and | coat ® pound rate on Cuban raw/fog and westerly winds faced them|tion for a new trial had been over-|Pilots who took off from Clover coop, milk house, machine shed. and Chelan sectors of this state to battle |sugar, on which the house voted 2.40| from h jfield Sunday to compete in the $25,- 30 acres of grain. He estimated his Undefended Civilians major conflagrations. Chief District |cents’ and the Fordney - McCumber | gether * reais the judge in the eye, the | ped racer gqrtom, carly girlhood she loss at $4,000, partially covered by in- ces Forester C. M. Granger, Portland, re- |iaw provides 1.16. The proposed in-] The westward crossi - former professor heard. the ‘pro: | ha. been fascinated by aviation. She surance. London, Aug. 20.—(F)— Both Chi- aoe tee ag ee ane. Idaho and |crease to $1.50 from $1.1215 a ton inj tempted by the two Mi nouncement of death without a tre. |*O°k UP active flying with her broth- Walter Dietzman, Frances town-| nese and bgp castern Washington, where no rain |the rate on pig iron is another item|made successfully but once, by the; mor Ne turned as ine judge finished | ©", Je, in 1922 at San Diego, Calif., ship, is searching, without much fell, were being fanned by high winds. |iikely to arouse considerable discus-|German-Irish trio, Baron | Von with a plane purchased from surplus hope, for a 1,000 bushel steel gran-| Ported warlike activities and prep- DEMAND OF BRITISH Sparks were being hurled into un- |sion, together with the 3-cent reduc-|Huehnfeld, Captain’ Herman Koehl, | th¢ Sentence and started to resumelarmy stocks. In the spring of 1928 his chair at the defense counsel table. 1 9 ary which has disappeared leaving|@rations along the Manchurian bor- burned areas, he said. tion in the house rate on raw wool,|and Major James Fitzmaurice, in the vg{She made her first solo flight, and only a few pieces of twisted steel|der, with an increasing number of At Lewiston, Idaho, rescue of three {restoring it to the present duty of 31 ai plane Bremen, from Baidonnel een te aopet nian, ne ooctor's | developing. rapidly as an expert. pi- as evidence of the furious wind and| border clashes and incursions by the id. men, thought to have been caught in |cents a pound, and various changes| field, Ireland, to Grecnicy Island, off : lot, entered the commercial aviation hail that hit his farm, Two hun-| opposing armies. a fire trap in the Musselshell zone of lin the wood schedule. tho Labrador coast. ray Reperedgienatgprced pean baggy (TATE dred acres of wheat, which he es- Two Sets of Figures Do Not| ‘Be Selway forests was rei A “ ° The two flyers are the most youth-| him the marvel of a crowded court} Miss Crosson’s most __ recent hanes ai gee gee fetely Png ed ee eae ee Agree; setae Is Up wast The Fre ere the Re-| ful yet to attempt such an ambitious | room during the three weeks of his|®chievement was the establishment uushels per acre, was comp! od * j= ' flight project, Kacsar being but 22,! trial that ended last Wednesday when|0f the woman’s altitude record of ¢ million feet ine ber, |Publican committee! tes y n leveled by the threshing hail. He|3,000 Soviet cavalry invaders from held by Exchequer | fighters pede phage ren Haas: prompty. Ree wine or Utah|2N"d Luescher, 21. They have had/a jury found him guilty of murder in| 23.966 feet over Los Angeles last placed his loss at $2,000. Nikolsk yesterday engaged in a fierce said were “as unsatisfactory as less than three years flying experi-|the first degree without a recom-|June 28, John Salter is reported to have! struggle for the village of ‘Tungnin- Sabotage Feared ” ‘Jouett , | ence. Luescher is the navigator and | mendation of mercy. lost a barn valued at $2,000. while Jouett Shouse, ies ra lisclaims any deep knowledge of the ———_—_—— She was born in Wi: Ind. " sien, south of Pogranichnaya, in which| The Hague, Aug. 20.—(AP)—The chairman.of the Democratic national |" ‘ i in Warsaw, is Damage is also known to have oc-! a ‘4 ee € committee's cuti , de- | Science, claiming only to have han- April 27, 1904. curred on the farms of Charles John-| the settlement changed hands sev- ereeations cnoents sien un , |Glared. they ‘showed the “mstivating dled a sextant and made enough cal- 18 SOLDIERS KILLED Mrs. Claire Fahy, of Los Angeles, son, Harry Small, Owen Flanagan, | eral times but finally was retained by | ti r midnight in an e! rec- principle” behind them was ‘‘a simple | culations to make him believe he can ‘who was forced down at Calexico, and others in the area northeast of Chinese. (Continuéd on page nine.) - " MRS, WILLEBRANDT |= oncile the conflicting estimates of ‘|determination to enable _special| Keep their course right. ‘Calif, by motor trouble, declared the yield in money of the four-power —_———— groups of industrialists to cash in on ” jthe center section wires of her plane offer to Great Britain were hard at their last year's campaign contribu-| DISTANCE IS GREAT |snapped as she swooped down to- jwark on thele labors. agsin. today SEAP LANE MERCURY 7 e ecumucaelcnn| HEE Cee ee 2 tAP) Roa, i es ee What has developed thus far in- mypticness sie rae ge and, Herbert Fahy, Los Angeles chiefly to agricultural prod-{Dense fog shrouded the north At- . revision 8 |test pilot, who flew to h " dicates there will be two reports on ucts was emphasized by Senators|lantic coast today over the route! Bucharest, Aug. 20.—(P—At least jance, declared the wires ‘had “been Soviet sa and civilians this problem. The experts of the four Thomas, Democrat, Oklahoma, and {mapped out by the youthful flyers on | 18 soldiers were killed and 10 wound- | weakened by acid. Mrs. Fahy said UU Vicinity of Lake Hanks, nea powers will support the contention ceretnee ecan Idaho, | Thomas oe and anes Plane “Young Swit-leq when an immense amount of jhe hed urged her not to continue in pi lages of Grodenko and ler a lu ie race and tl greed ed Reds resisted energetically. of France, Italy, Belgium, and Ja- to eliminate all schedules in the com-| The fog bank extended from Hali-|@™munition in the old Fort Momesti, |, ani ane pbeaei cc Gus Nations, Former Chief of | ,,.The Moscow the St. Louis Prohibition Unit, Charges Libel pan that they offered 60 per cent| Williams Will Not Be Allowed to |mittee bill not relating to agriculture|fax to Cape Race and beyond, Dr.| near here blew up last night. Inas-| Thea Rasche, German ayia! there, | at least of the amount demanded by which, if adopted, would require the|James H. Kimball, meteorologist of | much as there were many workmen |was forced down at Holtville, in Philip Snowden, Bri eH Enter Race Unless He sponsors of c in the building it was believed the |east of Calexico. Blaming her mis- of oi prac nah. chaneelier Tests His Plane |easualty list might be much larger. {fortune on “dirty gasoline,” Miss rr. Rasche showed net x The British treasury men, on the ee newspapermen a tele. case” for them on the floor. : ° ° gram from a friend warning her to ; Dae es other hand, will uphold the chancel-| Washington, Aug. 20.—(#—Assist-|SMOOT SEES INCREASE S kan S God Ov ck “peware of sabotage.” ate Cait AG aisbracdt. former| Chinese troops prevented lor’s claim that the offer amounted] ant Secretary Ingalls, in charge of UNDER NEW SCHEDULE po! e SUN Flies er Bismar would sepals the Incding Sane eee aasnant, United | States, sttorne | etary. Gat hes oth tr, et anon ot ete eure! In Attempt to Set New Distance Mark nce c> 0 cewist'sss Sone def boirciy tanks, were made Lieutenant Al Williams’ |committee today estimated the total empt to ew cea © leveland as a non-con- would not {revenue likely to be Serres from the Amelia Earhart, of Boston, was leading the field at the Yuma con- Fangements to go home Saturday be-| Schneider speed races. tee with Sun God” endar. trol station but damaged her pto- fore leaving league of nations some has Peller in landing, and lost 30 min- assembly while Arthur Henderson, 3 . utes in repairs. The delay did not British foreign minister, must| it! ni gd the EEE : affect her elapsed time standing, called Rd tied Ge Beet re as Y 3 | upon to re! Sun B _ a 4 Neither had had experience in flying Pe Teles a probit et eee tp | Annapolis yesterday thet he would i retatueling ahip tut Mamer, "ana | Y 2DANese Is Ordered - | To Armament Parley iblic under- sere % ment. * Miles Nations charges the ieee a miata otelee” had bean ‘ hg Ad Tokyo, Aug. 20. . i C 15 a. m, _ ilty of official misconduct. Na- today. presumably 7 from two of Mrs. Wille- to substantiate his Ba- i rates bani! Dil hi Broere 5 a I ti sl i i Hh : Fil o over | inauspiciously and at | i t is iH