The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 22, 1929, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather Generally fair tonight and Friday. Warmer. ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1929 PRICE FIVE CENTS First National Bank of Bismarck Unites | With Twin City and Montana Institutions Soviet and Chinese Troops in Battle Line RUTH NICHOLS FIRST TO REACH FIRE PATROLS WAGE DESPERATE BATTLE FOR MONTANA TOWN Great Northern Railroad and! Delegates Adjourn to Take Up Forestry Service Mobilize All Available Men RUSSIANS EXPECTED TOMAKE ATTACK ON RAILROAD TERMINUS Enemies Are Rushing Reinforce- ments Into Position, Wait- ing for Battle REDS KIDNAP MERCHANTS Orientals Fear Widespread Plan for World Revolution and Assassinations Peiping, China, Aug. 22—(/?)—Chi- nese authorities in Manchuria ap- pear to have undertaken heavy troop concentration to prevent Russian troops from crossing the frontiers of Manchuria. Manchurian railways today were crowded with troop trains moving up toward the border. A military conference in Mukden called today by Governor Chang Hsueh-Liang of Manchuria decided that all Chinese troops along the border should be instructed, to re- main strictly on the defensive. They were ordered, however, to repel any Russian invasion or Three brigades of cavalry and two of infantry now in the Shan Hai- Kuan region were sent to the border. One division of troops left Kirin City yesterday for Harbin, followed @ few hours later by a machine gun corps, and several batteries of ar- tillery. ‘These troops were understood to be destined to the northeastern section of the frontier, in the neighborhood of Pogranichnaya. Mukden moved 50,000 soldiers from Feng-Tien province through Taonan toward Manchuri on the northwest- Liang, but really the strong man of Manchuria, will direct the Chinese military operations, PROMOTE SECRET PLANS TO NULLIFY UNIFICATION Washington, Aug. 22.—(?)—Russian soviet authorities are accused of ac- tivities to “bring about a world-wide revolution” in the latest Chinese note dealing with the Manchurian contro- versy. The Nanking officials found evi- dence, they said, that the Russians were promoting “secret plans to nulli- fy China's unification, to overthrow the Chinese government, to organize secret forces for destroying the Chi- nese Eastern railway, and to carry out a policy of wholesale assassina- tions and thereby bring about a world-wide revolution.” RAIDS EXPECTED DAILY ACROSS CHINESE FRONTIER Has Approved $2,000,000 for Carrying on Work PECOS IN WOMEN’S AIR DERBY! * LOUISE THADEN 4| amet Earhart Leds Off, but | xd E i Drops Behind; Others at | 2-Minute Intervals ; ' FORT WORTH IS THEIR Goat! Louise Thaden Holds Lead in’ Heavy Plane Class, Mrs. Om- lie in the Light Division Pecos, Texas, Aug. 22.— (?) — Nichols of Rye, N. Y., was the first of | jthe national women’s aerial derby! flyers to reach Pecos, a refueling| jpoint. She arrived at 7:38 a. m.,' (mountain time) from El Paso./| Weather conditions «cre idcal. i i SEVENTEEN CONTESTANTS i TOLD TO HUNT CEILING El Paso, Texas, Aug. 22.—(?)}—The Mrs. Thaden is leading the heavier | sir derby from Santa Monica, Calif. plane class in the women’; air derby. |to caress, took off here this; AGE POSTPONES HS zen RADIO NOT IN ORDER 2. Sete tate flying at a minimum altitude of 6,000 feet and a maximum of 10,000 feet. Fort Worth. Amelia Earhart of Boston led the flyers in her orange lane at 6:10 o'clock followed at two minute Coste Does Not Say Where He Intends to Go, but Atlan- tic Trip Is Rumored Pittsburgh held her lead in the heavy plane class with an elapsed time of 6 hours, 48 minutes and 31 seconds. In the light plane division Mrs. Phoebe Omlie of Memphis, Tenn. was in first place. Her elapsed time was 8 hours, 35 minutes and 24 sec- this | onds. BLAST OF DYNAMITE WRECKS STREET CAR Ten Stunned When Steel Rail Goes Through Roof pressure of — friends. It is understood that they| New Orleans, Aug. 22.—(#)-LExplo- have been pointing out it might seem | sion of dynamite under the wheels of ungracious to Dr. Hugo Eckener, and |® street car here last night blew an to Germany to inaugurate a race | 18-inch piece of steel rail through the around the world and might be in- | floor and roof of the car, injuring one terpreted as an attempt of the|Passenger and stunning ten others. French flyer to detract from the| The explosion was characterized by honor: . Eckener is receiv- | police as the most serious affair of a ree re i "" |the Kind since the beginning of th ht induce Coste not to pursue the | Police were forced to use tear gas Zeppelin and to head insteed for New bombs to disperse crowds from the cetaceans! BY ALABAMA MANIAC’ LARGE GREASE mee VALLIATIO ORDERED He Committed Crime Instruments Come Under Order of Commission Increase of 50 per cent in the valua- tion of household and mu- today’ “I don't .know myself what I will do.” Fy Hae coiteg 8 5 s Ie Wool Output of State To 4 Million Pounds Tries Her Wings | ° = e Hickey, x Aug. (AP) —Mrs. is progressing in aviation. In four ty of ras og tion she- has often glided a plane all by herself and alone je some bat-| landings. Her husband was up with ‘arrested. aged in a duel centro! craft, which BUILDINGS ARE IN PATH Glacier Park, Mont., Aug. (Py—Gilacier Park today seemed safe from the menace of the great Half-Moon forest five. Five hun- dred men fighting flames within the park appeared to have bested blazc, Superintendent J. BR. Eakin said. Columbia Falls, Mont., Aug. 22.—(P) i of a point on today’s 600 mile flight to! Every available man of the Great,}® meeting of the six powers this Northern railway and States forestry service were fighting a desperate battle today to save the town of Belton, on the border of Gla- cier national park two miles east of |to be done in private conversations. here, from being destroyed by a for- the est fire. Park administration buildings lo- cated in the town were in the imme- diate path of the flames. All equip- 5 ment was removed from the uae % M>hetridge Thaden of! and loaded on freight cars to Sanus moved if the fire continues its ad- vance on the town. Tank cars of the Great Northern were pressed into service to carry 40,000 gallons of water from Coram, near here, to supplement the water supply. winenidents of the town except those ‘break off the conference so that it were taken from the fire zone on its special trains. Regular traffic on the | Permitting hope of success, Great Northern was suspended. A number of logging camps homesteads have been destroyed. NAVY KEEPS WATCH Only Barest Hope Remains |stead of the Dawes plan after Sep-; That Youthful Adventurers Survived Attempt New York, Aug. 22. | Tank Cars of Water Are Rushed to Aid Fighters; Regular Traffic Suspended monoplane early Tuesday. Hin is g j 2 i lh RF BSEBE Hin fists: g i [ ie "Tex Rickard’s Widow Is Penniless; Has to Step Out and Go to Work [ if i ‘g the United), and (#)}—With only |ber 1 gave rise to reports that the the barest hope that the young Swiss/British and French had come to- flyers, Oscar Kacsar and Kurt Lues-| gether. ,jcher, survived their westward trans- atlantic flight attempt, crews of naval|of the cxchequer, denied these re- and merchant vessels today scanned | ports sayii the north Atlantic for trace of them.|were against abrogation of the Admiral Charles F. Hughes, chief | Dawes plan was simply incidental. \of naval operations, has ordered ———— {naval vessels to maintain a sharp watch for the Swiss airmen and has requested merchant ships to do the same. At Roosevelt field, aviators | | clung to a faint hope that the white| “Jungschweitzerland” might yet appear on the eastern hori- zon, but the hope grew dimmer with|—From the Trent each passing hour. The youthful flyers, one 21 and the other 22 years old, were last seen fly-|with the fish in his bathhouse last ing westward over a village in the|year; it waited for him this year. Azores on Monday afternoon. They|Jumps out of the water for worms should have reached American shores| which he dangles, but takes food i a eee jusband i | 3 ii He H &3 E Bs E g g c i 3 a g #2 4 i REPARATIONS PACT STILL UP IN THE AlR; SNOWDEN OBSTINATE' Private Conversations to Reach Agreement THREE PRINCIPAL OBJECTS Will Attempt to Meet British De- mands on Annuities; Con- ference Not Dead The Hague, Aug. 22.—(AP)— Delegates to the reparations con- ference, still stubbornly trying to reach some sort of agreement today turned to private conversations aft- er deciding there was no longer any use trying to settle their differences in committee or groups. Premier Jaspar, of Belgium, at , intervened when he saw the discussion was making no progress whatever. He proposed the delegates adjourn for the present leaving the rest of the work of the conference This was readily agreed to. These conversations, which will probably go on this afternoon and tomorrow morning, will have three principal objects: To Take Away Army Agreement of the other two cred- itors with the British as to the dis- tribution of annuities. Agreement between the French, Belgians and Germans as to the date for final liberation of the Rhineland from military occupation, And, in case the two others fail, how to can be resumed under conditions During today’s meeting, Premier Briand of France, ‘showéd some op- timism, saying: “This conference is not dead, we must do all we can to save it.” Stresemann Alone The premier was replying to a suggestion by Foreign Minister corded Germany which would permit her to pay under the Young plan in- mber 1, The fact that all the allies were lined up against Stresemann on the question of reparations payments under the Young plan after Septem- Philip Snowden, British chancellor ing the fact that the allies a ' One-Man Fish Is Found in Ontario ° (AP) district amely ainted Peterboro, Ont., Aug. rbert Rose got irom nobody else. Heavy Suit Won’t Hamper Williams $341,000,000 in Resources Controlled in Big Merger Bismarck’s Oldest Financial Institution Joins Largest Banking Group Ever Constituted In Northwest History WILL FORM GIANT HOLDING COMPANY, Lieutenant Alford Williams, pilot of the Flying Mercury, American entry for the Schneider Cup races, has adopted a new kind of aviation ggrb. You see him above in scant “shorts” and thin shirt, which will handicap him less, he believes, in case of an accident. His ship is pictured below taxiing at a 120-mile clip in a test at Annapolis, Md. TEPPELIN PUTS OFF 10 ANGELES TRIP BECAUSE OF WINDS Flight Will Not Take Place Un- til Tomorrow; Would - Be Stowaway Arrested Kasumigaura, Japan, Aug. 22—(4)— The departure of the dirigible Graf Zeppelin for her transpacific flight to America was postponed shortly be- fore midnight tonight because of un- favorable winds. At the same time it was announced that the dirigible might leave early in the morning. The Graf Zeppelin’s first oriental stowaway took his chance and lost today as mechanics worked to get the big dirigible ready for her start across the Pacific tonight. Police announced they had arrested a Tokyo lad of 18 named Mitsukichi Harakawa, who had become infected with the prevailing Zeppelin en- thusiasm in Japan and stolen 300 yen (about $138) from his father in de- termination to see the world from the air. Mitsukich! slipped away from his home and got out to Kasumiguara airfield, where the police had no dif- ficulty in spotting him and returned him to his father's custody. Two broken struts on rear gon- dola originally delayed start of the Graf. Two struts were broken before dawn today as the Zeppelin was be- Los Angeles. Three minutes later and the Graf would have been in the air, on its way across the Pacific. Passengers disembarked and left by automobile for Tokyo while workmen at the naval airport im mediately began to repair the dam. ——_—_———___—_* | MRS.RICKARD | is age. TWO LABORERS ROB AND ATTACK WOMAN New York, Aug. 22.—(AP)—With some it is postage stamps, with oth- it Mrs. Mar- saret Moser, 22-year-old wife of a al EP, collects tickets for speeding. She paid $25 in traffic court for|ment of one when a friend, Carl Disch, of jing with Switzerland, was haled in for speed-'er interests on the ers first editions, but ing in her car. She asked to retain the ticket ex- from {means & Ger- | western finance and planing she already had them pain, Switzerlan: France, tria and ing taken from the hangar prepara-| the tory to beginning the long flight to; With @ sound basis for public confi- tin the up ts coon Strengthens and Stabilizes Financial Structure In Territory; Will Aid In Development of Natural Resources Partnership affiliation of the First National Bank of Bit marck with the First National banks of Minneapolis and St. Paul and four leading Montana banks in a $260,000,000 bank holding company, was announced here today by Colonel C. B. Little, president of Bismarck’s oldest financial institution. Through an exchange of stock, the new holding company which is to be known as “The First Bank Stock Corporation” will acquire the ownership of the two oldest and largest banks | in the Twin Cities, the second oldest bank in North Dakota, the four Montana banks and the banks controlled by the First Bank Stock Investment company, the present subsidiary holding com- pany owned by the two Twin City banks. Approximately $70,000,000 of stock of the First Bank Stock corporation will be issued in exchange for the stock of the or- ganizing banks, the remainder of the authorized capital being held in reserve for further expansion. | The Montana banks included in the merger are: Metals Bank and Trust company of Butte with resources of $23,000,000; | First National Bank of Great Falls with resources of $14,500,- 000; Western Montana National Bank of Missoula with re- sources of $5,000,000; and the Midland National Bank of Bill- a si geal in excess of $4,500,000, e First National Bank of Bismarck h CCR. as resources in excess s oH seek Not Named iF iieatset iia xecutives of thi lation of the bai forming part- announced today follow! ae nership constitutes ‘© Trane for Chairman of the board of directors,|the operations of a C. T. Jaffray, Minneapolis, former |strong financial group, capable of president of the First National bank | forwarding the economic development in Minneapolis and now president of | Of the entire northwest. the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste.| “There is a Marie railway; president, George H. Prince, St. Paul, chairman of the First National Bank of St. Paul; vice Presidents, Lyman E. Wakefield and Richard C. Lilly, presidents respec- tively of the First National *.nk in Minneapolis and the First Na ional ; bank of St. Paul; vice presiden. and general manager, Paul J. Leeman vice president of the First National bank of Minneapolis. Under the new arrangement, 34 banks, 18 of which are in Minnesota, will be under the control of the hold- ing company. Included in this total are the 17 banks controlled by The First Bank Stock Investment com- pany. corporation and the mut ation of North Dakota and Montan: interests with those of the Cities will mean much to the - tory served by banks in the group.” Nation Watches Northwest George H. Prince, president of First Bank Stock Corporation issued the following statement in Tegard to the plans announced today: “The formation of this new group with North Dakota, Montana and Twin City banks in partnership: certain to focus on the northwest attention of the financial world. banks forming the group and already controlled by the First Stock Investment company are th splendid shape financially, clean and healthy, supplied with adequate ital, ably managed and located. As the operations of the new company are extended and banks are added to the corporation will be in a assist industry, agriculture and pibeatge aa the ninth federal ct ‘&@ compelling Prominence. eaiiecs “Residents of this country are more and to realize the obvious one part of our territory long unless all the too. It is belief that this present ip. ing effort will be a vital factor strengthening the financial Largest In Northwest Resources in excess of $3¢1,000,000 will be controlled by The First Bank Stock Corporation which constitutes the largest financial group in the northwest, Colonel Little said today in an- nouncing the plens, “The formation of The First Bank Stock Corporation is a further and important develop- ment of the policy of group banking which has spread so rapidly in the northwest in the past six months. “The joint action of the North Da- kota and Montana banks with the Twin City banks in forming this cor- Poration will make for closer coopera- tion than has ever before existed be- tween the financial interests of the {ninth federal reserve district. Will Meet Every Need “From a purely banking standpoint jthe move means the creation of an | organization capable of meeting every legitimate financial northwest. ward need of the It is a further step to- irengthening and stabilizing king structure of the territory {dence. It means expeditious financial service and ample credit and deposit facilit! at points where they are most needed. All the indications point to distinct advantages in the up- building of this territory and the con- tructive employment of its extra- ordinary natural resources. “Directors of all banks affiliating with the group will retain qualifying shares of stock of their respective f 5 Hi HT 1 tae i and common problems and their Ulead | re: Se. seemeente $9 She I i ? : Dy i i hi i ! | | {ie biel g° a8 ihe ts it} t 3 &) tion between all the Fe t |