The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 31, 1929, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper , ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1929 The Weather 4 Fair tonight. Sunda: petted. Rot much change eon in toll PRICE FIVE CENTS . 74. Perished In Rammed Ship ARABS HARASS BRITISH ARMY Death Cheats Plane Pilot PREPARE ZEPPELIN Of Honeymoon as He Sleeps Falls Asleep at Controls of Ship After Establishing Record for Solo Endurance Flights; Died Earning Hourly PLANES AND TROOPS DISPATCHED T0 STOP _ PALESTINE INVASION 70 Jews Killed or Wounded, | City Looted and De- F _ stroyed by Flames TWO GIRLS BURNED ALIVE dlerusalem Street Fighting Re- sumed Despite Soldiers’ Fixed Bayonets Jerusalem, Aug. 31.—(7)—Rab- bi Samuel Cohen and his wife, believed to be Americans, were killed in the attack by Arab Mos- lems Thursday night on ancient Safed, northern Galileean city. Jerusalem, Aug. 31.—(®)—The number of known dead in Thurs- day’s Arab attack on the Jewish quarter of Safed, Galileean town, was increased today to 20 and the wounded to 30, and it is feared others also perished. Twenty- five scrolls of law, some of them 600 years old, were burned in the synagogues. Jerusalem, Aug. 31.—(4)—British military in Palestine, harassed by disorders within the mandated ter- ritory itself, moved today to check a full-fledged although disorganized invasion by Syrian and Transjordan- jan Arabs. “Considerable forces” of the Mus- sulmans were said officially to be en- tering Palestine from Syria and air- planes and troops were dispatched to intercept and ascertain their strength. Incursions of Arabs from Trans- jordania have been checked so that they are not getting across the bor- cans, was near the Syrian frontier on an outing and an appeal was made to the American consul for protection for them in view of the Arab ad- vance. Jew Colonies Endangered ‘The position of isolated Jewish col- onies in the Jordan valley greatly alarmed authorities. The Jordan val- ley Arabs were greatly excited over that several of their fellow the neighboring colony of Kinereth, the neighboring colony . They were said to be gathering at Semakh from all surrounding villages. Reports reaching here from Safed indicated that city, which lies to the f2823 He é i i F t i [ etl Hy £ | Named Assistant Attorney Gen- j fective, and will go at once to Wash- , in_ November. Babe Smacks No. 38 With Two on Bases New York, Aug. 31.—()—Babe Ruth increased his home run margin by smashing out his 38th of the season in the first inning of the second Yankee- Washington game here today. Two mates were on base and Bob Burke was in the box when Ruth’s blow fell. The Babe recently reached Burke for a homer with the bases filled. AUBREY LAWRENCE, FARGO, APPOINTED 10. FEDERAL POST eral by Old Friend, Wil- liam D. Mitchell Fargo, N. D., Aug. 31.—()}—Notice that he has been named assistant at- torney general of the United States by William D. Mitchell, United States attorney general, was received today by Aubrey Lawrence, prominent Far- go attorney. Lawrence is to take the oath of office in Fargo, September.6, the day the appointment will be ef- ington to make his future home. Lawrence will be a special assistant attorney general with all the powers of an assistant attorney general, the | notification states. His work is to be | “largely in connection with the fed- eral farm board and the new federal | Power commission and such general matters as shall be designated by the attorney general.” Lawrence's appointment comes as the result of a long personal acquaint- ance with Mitchell and the record he has made as one of the outstanding lawyers in the northwest. Lawrence came to Fargo in 1908 from South Dakota. Lawrence, who was president of the state bar asso- ciation in 1927, was recently honored with a membership in. the “Order of the Coif” for distinguished service to the bar in North Dakota. Lawrence is the second Fargo at- | torney to-be mamed assistant United States attorney general this year, Seth w. named earlier ADMITS ENBEZZLING $75 INHILSBORO Carl Skarns, Former Traill| County ‘Treasurer, Con- ses Peculations Hillsboro, N. D., Aug. 31.—()}—Con- fessions of charges of embezzling about $7,500 from the Traill county MINARD WILL ACT AS N.D.A., PRESIDENT WAITING SUCCESSOR Board of Administration Seeks Man With Practical Knowl- edge of Farming DOCTOR’S DEGREE NO HELP Reinoehl, Swain and Stevens Among Candidates for Chair From State Indications are that the state agri- cultural college at Fargo will open the school year with Dean A. E. Mi- nard as acting president. Dean Minard was left in charge by Dr. John Lee Coulter, whose resigna- tion as president becomes effective Sept. 1, and there appears to be no disposition on the part of the state board of administration to make any change in this arrangement until a permanent president is selected. Although board members cannot guess when a decision will be reached on this question they are agreed that it will not be soon. As yet the hunt for a successor has consisted of ob- taining the names of men who might be acceptable for the place and get- ting some data on their qualifications. States from which the new president may come, according to J. E. Davis, chairman of the board, are the Dako- tas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Towa, Nebraska, Missouri, Washing- ton, Oregon, California, Idaho, Utah and Montana. He indicated that ap- Plications or inquiries have been re- ceived from men in all of these states. Begin Sifting Process The next step after getting appli- cations from men who may prove de- sirable, Davis said, will be to begin sifting down the panes, until only ‘one is left. When the sifting process will begin or how Jong it will take In stating their ideas of the quali- fications which a man must have members of the board agree that they want @ good administrator, one who direct the work of the institu- jon, develop it along proper lines, (Continued on page seven) HARVEY BOY DROWNS AS ‘BOAT? CAPSIZES Harvey, N. D., Aug. 31.—Panic- stricken when an improvised boat in which he and two companions were crossing the Sreyenne river capsized, in | cannot’ be estimated. he said. | Kenneth Edgerton, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Edgerton, was drowned » | here Friday. Skarns was arrested and waived Preliminary examination last night, following an audit of his books. He was released in custody of the sheriff, and will probably be brought to trial Skarns told county authorities the Mi at i i i i z Hl if i itt fa | | | | The three boys were tumbled out in deep water near the bank of the river. All of them could swim, but young Edgerton apparently became trightened and was unable to swim to shore. The two other boys made it efforts to save their compan- ion, but their attempts were futile. More than 30 minutes was spent in before the body of the boy was recovered. He is survived in addition to his parents by two sisters. His father operates @ dray line here. Velva Woman Killed By Auto; Hold Rites valiant search Velva, Aug. 31.—()—Funeral serv- ices were held here Friday for Mrs. Martha M. Swenson, 80, who mn Fe Bonuses for Cleveland, O., Aug. 31.—(?)—Flying in solitary resistance to the demands of a wearled body for rest, Pilot Thomas Reid fell asleep at the con- trols of his plane after establishing @ record for solo endurance flights early today and crashed. He died earning hourly bonuses for a honeymoon with his bride of a few days. Reid took off shortly after 11 o'clock Thursday morning. For thir- ty-seven hours he droned on a mono- tonous course above the airport. A few seconds after one a. m. today he made a new record of 37 hours, 56 minutes and 36 seconds, constant fly- ing, without refueling. Then he set out to fly as long as fuel, motor and man-power would keep him aloft. A bonus of $100 an hour for his bride in Downey, Calif., urged him on. For two hours more the cruising TRAGEDY AND COMEDY MIXED WITH DEATH IN SHIPS’ CRASH Whirlpool Created by Sinking Craft Threw Lifeboat Into the Air; One Saved iMAN LOSES FALSE TEETH Mother Tosses Son on Prow of Tanker, Then Goes Down With Sinking Vessel an Francisco, Aug. 31.—(?) Scenes of tragedy and horror accom: 'panying the sinking of the passenger vessel San Juan were reviewed by the 42 survivors today as some of them recuperated from the shock and in- juries and others sought reunion with anxious relatives and friends. An account of the sinking by Harry was on his way to Los Angeles to become chief engineer of another ship, was typical. “At the danger whistles I im- mediately assisted in marshaling a lifeboat off the davits and entered the water with a woman and a child and two men,” said Wade, “we rode 10 yards from the sinking ship when jit plunged. The whirlpool threw the lifeboat in the air and we all fell into the water. : “I started swimming and looked for ‘find no trace of them. One person floated close to me. I made a grab | for him but he sank. “swimming around there I could hear the last screams of the terror- stricken people as they were pulled down into the vortex created by the sinking ship.” Wade was picked up by a Munami lifeboat. His story contradicted re- ports that no lifeboats were launched from the San Juan. A thin vein of comedy ran through some of the stories, Alex Cowie, a Passenger, said he was carried down by the suction of the sinking ship, but was heaved back to the surface when the San Juan’s boilers exploded. He said the concussion which forced him up and probably saved his life caused him to lose his new set of false teeth which had cost him $120. They were shouting, crying, calling for life preservers,” said George H. Houghton, Los Angeles business man. “Some were praying, someone was swearing. There must have been lots of persons in the water, because TI could hear many screams. Then it became deathly still. A thousand things ran through my mind. I must have lived an eternity in six or sev- en minutes. It reminded me of Dante's ‘Inferno. A. Wade, a San Juan passenger who | ,, |the woman and the child but could | Nuptial Trip lights of his plane circled the airport. Timers stood below, clocking his min- utes in the darkness. Then the sound of his motor faded away. “He's going for a ride,” the watch- ers said, Two hours passed and the lights had not been seen. Pilots Bill But- ters and Dale Dryer climbed into their planes. Two miles rway they saw the wreckage of a plane, wrapped around the trunk of a tree. Twenty- five feet away lay Reid's body. One of his fuel tanks was full. “He was asleep,” Dryer said, “he | came down in a dive, dead to the / world right after leaving the airport.” Reid will not be credited with breaking the world’s solo flight record | as rules of the American Aeronautical | association require that a flyer land Lana same field from which he took off. st a Lauder to Sing | The bonnie songs of Scotland, sung as only Sir Harry Lauder can sing them, are to be heard over the io by United States and Canadian is for the first time. The world- | famous Scotchman will sing three of his favorites, “I Love a Lassie.” “Wee Hoose ‘Mang the Heather,” and “Roamin’ in the Gloamin’,” on Sun- day evening, Sept. 1, over a network of NBC stations and three Canadian stations originating at Winnipeg. WARPETON MAN DIES FROM CRASH HURTS | Al Harmon, 25, Struck on High- | way by Another Car While Repairing a Tire Fargo, N. D., Aug. 31.—(4)—Al Har- mon, 25, Wahpeton salesman, died of injuries received last night when a car in which four sisters were riding struck him on a road near Wynd- mere. Harmon was reported to have been repairing a punctured tire and was standing on the edge of a road when struck down. The girls—Catherine, Josephine, Ce- cilla and Clara Haas, .Lidgerwood— told police they were blinded by head- lights on an approaching machine. ‘Harmon was en route to Valley City visit his wife and children, to NORTHWOOD DOCTOR | SOMEWHAT BETTER Grand Forks, N. D., Aug. 31—(?)— | pleted. FOR FIFTH VENTURE ACROSS ATLANTIC Globe-Circling Dirigible to Soar Away at Midnight for Germany ECKENER TO REMAIN BEHIND Widow of American Surgeon Takes Lady Grace Drum- mond's Place on Craft Lakehurst, N. J., Aug. 31.—(?)— Two youthful stowaways were dis- covered on the Graf Zeppelin this afternoon by marines who searched the ship after refueling operations had been com; The boys gave their names as James Wilson, 17, and Rudolph Powers, 16, both of Philadelphia. They were turned over to state police. The youths told their captors they wanted to go to Germany and the Graf was the “quickest way.” Lakehurst, N. J.. Aug. 31—(P)— Preparations went forward today to send the globe-circling dirigible, Graf Zeppelin into the air at midnight, bound for her home port, Friedrichs- hafen, Germany, and the end of her historic cruise. Seventeen passengers, 3.300 pounds of freight and a quantity of mail will \be aboard the great airship on her fifth crossing of the Atlantic. When she reaches her station she will have traveled approximately 27,000 miles since she left on her first crossing to Lakehurst a month ago. Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of | the Zeppelin, who was feted as a hero | in New York yesterday, will see his beloved ship point her nose for home without him, He has arranged to re- main in this country for two weeks. Captain Ernst Lehmann will have charge of the airship on the flight. Repairs to a rudder, crumpled when. the airship struck the ground while leaving Los Angeles, have been com- Into the cells have been pumped 850.000 cubic feet of ethane fuel gas and 450,000 cubic feet of hy- drogen. Although Lady Grace Drummond Hay left the ship here, the Graf has a woman on the passenger list for the trip home. She is Mrs. Charles B. Parker, of Cleveland, widow of Dr. C. B. Parker, surgeon and member of the faculty of Western Reserve uni- versity. Freight which the Graf Zeppelin will carry consists of 113 packages, in- cluding lawn mowers, women's pa- jamas, machine castings, oils, shoes, scientific instruments, dental instru- ments and a radio set to be presented | the king of Spain. These goods were sent by the Philadelphia Business Progress association. SHP WRECKED GREW RESCUED BY CUTTE Washington, Aug. 31.—)—Coast land that she had picked up the en- tire crew of the Norwegian ship Elisis, wrecked off Cape Billinds, Siberia, August 10. The crew of 15 men was found on Dionided island, off Alaska, which guard, but headquarters here said they believed Northland had found the shipwrecked men by acci- dent. Northern Pacific Bus Hits Car; Man Killed Detroit Lakes, Minn., Aug. 31—(?)— George Kohler, 65, former street com- missioner of Detroit Lakes, was in- stantly killed shortly before 10:45 a. m. today when a grain truck he was driving was struck by a Northern Pa- cific gasoline-electric bus near here. Kohler, a pioneer resident of Beck- er county, leaves his widow and six SCHOOL OPENING AND SPORT PROGRAM ARE LABOR DAY FEATURE Trapshooting, Tennis and Base- ball on Capital City-Man- dan Fun List Bismarck today was making prep- aration for two consecutive holidays, Sunday and Monday, Labor Day. Probably the most important fea- ture of Labor Day will be the opening of the city and St. Mary's schools, while those persons not connected with school will be diverted by various forms of entertainment and rest. Featuring the athletic program Monday will be a trapshooting tour- nament, two baseball games, and a tennis tournament at Mandan. Chil- dren will play in the children’s play- ground south of the city athletic field ind picnickers will make use of the arious city parks or picnicking havens in the vicinity of the city. Many members of the Bismarck Country club have left for Glendive, Mont., Wilton, or Fargo to compete | in invitational golf tournaments over the week-end. Business Houses Close Bismarck and Mandan business houses will be closed Monday it is | announced by J. Henry Kling, sec- 'retary of the Bismarck-Mandan | Credit Bureau, while drug stores will observe regular Sunday hours | throughout the day. More than 70 teachers and 2,500 \children are prepared for school's \oOpening. City high school students will report at 8:30 a. m. while all city grade schools and St. Mary's students will answer the roll call at 9 a. m. Monday. Registration and gencral organization fre on the morning school program and it is probable j that no children will be required to attend school Monday afternoon, | school authorities have announced. Stage Trapshoot Tourney The trapshooting tournament, | which is a registered shoot under the | | will open promptly at 9 a. m. Monday jand is expected to continue until about 3 p.m. More than 30 visiting sharpshooters are expected to enter the tourney. Washburn's baseball nine will at- | tempt to defeat the Grove Giants at the state penitentiary diamond at 1:30 Monday afternoon while at 3 o'clock Fort Lincoln and the Bis- marck A. O. U. W. meet at the city athletic field. The annual Missouri Slope tennis tournament being conducted in Man- dan over the week-end will be run- |ning continuously Sunday and Mon- day on the Mandan city, state train- jing school, and U. 8. Great Plains Experimental station courts. This is ‘announced by Milton K. Higgins, club | official, who says that 32 singles con- |testants and 16 doubles teams have | entered the play. INGAR CRASH TS DEAD Minot, N. D., Aug. 31.—(?)—William Sandry, 20, of Granville, died early today in a local hospital from inter- nal injuries received in a collision of automobiles near Granville Friday. The other machine was driven by Louis Migler of Rugby who was ac- companied by @ young woman. Neither was hurt. Sandry, a sister of the | Navigation comp: auspices of the Bismarck Gun club, | GRANVILLE BOY HURT SAN JUAN CARRYING {16 PERSONS, CHECK OF LISTS DISCLOSES Crash Occurred as Each Ship Adopted Same Tactics to Avoid Collision START SUIT FOR $1,500,000 Oil-Coated Surface Clogged the Throats of Those Thrown Free of Wreckage San Francisco, Aug. 31.—()—The Possibility that the coastwise passen- ger steamer San Juan carried 116 Persons instead of 110 as previously reported indicated today the loss of life in its sinking 55 miles south of here early yesterday may have been as high as 74 persons. Albert E. Gillespie, manager of the Los Angeles and San Francisco Navi- gation company, owners of the San Juan, admitted there may have been as many as 66 passengers aboard and that the crew may have numbered as high as 50. Gillespie declared the list of 65 passengers, the only one available in the records of the company here, was. based upon bookings made several hours before the ship sailed and that the crew list of 45 was as of last month. t The company’s manager said tickets sometimes were sold aboard the ship by the purser and that half a dozen Persons may have paid their fares after sailing. 42 Persons Rescued The list of rescued persons res mained at 42. Marine officials hav- ing only an inaccurate passenger list with which to work, undertook an- other checkup in an effort to ferret out the exact number and names of the missing. As the search for the bodies in the sea off Pigeon Point, Calif., continued, the question arose as to the responsi- bility for the collision, Eye-witnesses accounts of the disaster indicated the ships sighted each other about the same time about midnight Thursday night and that the cofiision occurred’ as each adoptea the same tactics in an effort to avoid the crash. The Los Angeles and San Francisco » owners of the San Juan, yesterday filed in United States district court suits for $1,500,- (Continued on page seven) DIPHTHERIA EPIDEMIC SETS IN AT WISHEK Jungman Orders Cultures Taken and Vaccination of All School Children In an effort to check a diphtheria epidemic at Wishek, Dr. J. D. Junge man, director of the department of Preventable diseases of the state health board, this morning wired the health officer of that town to take cultures of all children of school age and administer toxin anti-toxin. While the situation at Wishek, the doctor said, is not regarded as critical, it will serve as warning to people over , the sjate to be on the alert for an outbreak of the disease. Over a six- week period, four deaths resulted from diphtheria in Wishek. “When we consider that toxin antie toxin is regarded as a positive prevene diphtheria break out in North Dae tive of diphtheria, more cases of kota than are necessary,” Dr. Junge man said. In campaigns carried on throughe out the state last year, thousands of children in the state were treated with toxin anti-toxin. In Minot and Fargo all children received the vace cine, in Jamestown 70 per cent, and in Bismarck 60 per cent. All ¢hil- dren over six months ‘age should be © vaccinated, the doctor said. 3 William Green Talks Monday Over Hook-up ; New York, Aug. 31.—(%)—The voices liam Green, president of the