The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 12, 1929, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1929 Fair tonight and Wednesday. Colder tonight. PRICE FIVE CENTS PHILADELPHIA GIRL LEAPS 2,000 FEET 8 Persons Die in Gale Lashing British Isles } 90-Mile Wind Disrupts Trans- portation and Communi- 1» Cation of Continent RIVERS FLOODED BY DELUGE People Take Refuge on House- | tops and Raging Waters | Sweep Down Valleys London, Nov, 12—(4)—Eight per- | sons were killed through accidents ‘and drowning, many were injured, and enormous rty damage in- flicted in @ gale British Lendl and surrounding seas last. night and today. | The wind blew at speed varying i i i Hi i Ht il i i 5.858? Ho H ( ] ass Interstate Commerce Commis- 1 sion Okays Change to Cen- tral Zone West of River i aft i Ff ! é j $8 gfe7 Fess ef fie ALT HH Eek i f NORTHWEST'S ARMISTICE DAY ACCIDENTS CLAIM FIVE LIVES Winona Collision and Hit-and- jaay accidents claimed five lives in Run Driver Take Toll of Three Persons BICYCLE RIDER IS KILLED Rock Crusher Kills Wisconsin- ite; Moorhead Men Serious- ly Injured in Crash St. Paul, Nov. 12—(—Armistice the northwest, four of the deaths be- ing due to mishaps in which motor vehicles were involved. ‘Three of the deaths occurred in and near Winona, where five Chat- field men were taken into custody pending investigation of two deaths and a hit and run driver is sought in connection with the third. ‘The dead are: Lester Fleming and Donald Ehmke, ‘Winona, killed when their automobile collided with one containing five Chatfield men on Trunk highway No. 3 near Winona. derson, a meat cutter, and Charles Schumacher, a cattle buyer, were in- seriously Ff dent Hoover to his first annual of the ;wnton which to congress three weeks from or the day after the opening of the regular ses- sion on December 2. Aside from that which usually at- taches to the first regular message to congress of a new chief executive, terest in this one is heightenend on Lie, CAEN See, of Decne at the end of this special session. Still Has Tariff Hepes the widespread split be- i iy gece ae tn E i i i | i I hi i HH i E i ef iol rH | rf j if Fit lit 3 i i id | rill rst tt La Es E E tt HY Hi it ‘-| SEQUEL IN $135,000 DAMAGE SUIT| FFE eEE sil it ef ust | Two Kidder County Commis-| sioners Suing Wine Steele | Taxpayers in Action | INSTITUTED ARMISTICE DAY! - | Court Resort Grows Out of Ob- jection of Defendants to Paying Deputy Sheriff Steele, N. D. Nov. 12.—Squabble over payment of a $309 check to a Kidder county deputy sheriff early year has culminated in @ suit for damages totaling $135,000 brought by two county commissioners against i 4 Halvorson, |C. A. Kolstad, Olaf Lindseth, J. C. ;Carleon, D. A. Ritchie. and John E.' fil; i 4 call hs Ha E ei & 2 i te Pit FORMER COLLEGE STUDENT IS HELD FOR FIVE BANK LOOTINGS. Accused of Robbing Indiana In- stitutions Since Parole From Reformatory IS ARRESTED AFTER CHASE, Police Sergeant's Daughter, | Wife of Youth, ‘Sick to See Her Mother’ Jeffersonville, Ind., Nov. 12.—(a)— Accused of looting five central In- diana banks since his release on par- ole from the state reformatory last May, Gene Alger, 25 year old former college student s held in the Clark | county jail toda: io Alger was captured by Sheriff Hal | K. Hughes Inte yesterday in the state | forest preserve near Henryville, Ind., after an automobile chase in which several shots were fired. With him, were his wife, Josephine, 23; his | brother. Gail, 17, and Gail's wife, | Burnette, 17. The chase started when the four 4 ger, red headed daugh- ter of a Jeffersonville police sergeant. explained they had come to this city bank robbery charges. H the state bureau of criminal identifi- use she was “sick to sec her! . ———_— | Why Leave the \ Farm, Boys? ii — Siete TO DEATH | SUICIDE NOTE SAY Life After Death ASKED PILOT TO FLY HIG | | Valley Stream, N. ¥., Nov. 12.—(, {| Miss Ruth Rockwell, 18, Philadelphia, eS Officials of! why boys leave the farm is a puzzl- ing question when one considers cation, however, said that the girl Sat in Alger's car ready for a get- away while he robbed banks at Paris Crossing, Summitville, Gaston, Mat- theys and La Fontaine, all small In- Alger, former university student, met his wife while he was on trial at Danville, Ind.. for the murder of an Indianapolis traffic policeman in yyio He was sentenced to two to lourteen years at the reformatory, and was paroled after serving 3 months more than the minimum. ‘9 BANKS MERGED IN STOCK CORPORATION Rolla and Lidgerwood Institu- tions Are Latest North Dakota Members Minneapolis, Nov. 12.—(/P)—Nine nounced % Five of the nine banks are in Min- pes ts f im i ir, i { | l if ain ul E Lucille Newell, above, 17-year-old farmerette of Wakefield, Kan., w ner of a state-wide contest for beaut; | and brains among 4-H clubs of Kan- sas. She can cook and sew and is an expert judge of grain crops—and {4s she pretty? Well. we leave that i to you! ‘CHRIS MARTINESON _ AND JOHN KENNEL _ MADE INDIAN CHIEFS i 1 Former | Eagle, While Latter Is | Chief Red Horse is Named Charging | eaeee Christopher J. Martineson, Bis- ;marck chief of police, and John K. Kennelly, Mandan. new chiefs in Stoux Indian tribes, yesterday re- ‘turned nesota, two in North Dakota and two |iliary, Martineson was adopted into the tribe as Wambli Watakpe or ii 7 4 Ee i- d i if it i Biss oY “28 id ea ¥ Promises to Communicate With? Relatives if She Finds ~ |Coolly Steps Through Cabingg i | Door; Pilot Sees Her Hur- ‘| tle Through Space committed suicide by leaping 2,000 feet from an airplane which she hired with a pilot at the Curtiss airport yesterday. which was found in her purse in the cabin of the plane. The note read: “Most people end their lives because ‘something sad has happened to them. She explained her act in a note j Tend mine because it seems not only {4 (futile, but wrong to go on existing. I° blame no one and feel I have no ene- mies. I will probably be considered insane as any one taking his life t2 © supposed to be slightly insane. Looks After Burial “I would like tu send my regards te { Miss Sheers in Drew seminary at jj Carmel, N. Y. My check for $175 in the suitcase in the closet at home ‘may help pay my burial expenses. I am very happy now. “Everything has been discord when I long for harmony. Maybe yet I will find it, maybe sweet music? “If I find any sort of life or corre | ; sponding time after death, I will try to communicate with my immediate relatives at 9 o'clock some evening for a while.” Miss Rockwell went to the airport , from the home of her brother, Don- | ald Rockwell, in Yonkers, N. ¥., where | she had been living recently. | In the operations office of the Curtiss-Wright flying service she told d ; William B. White, traffic manager, fj that she wanted to fly high. | Edward F. Booth, the pilot who was assigned to fly the small cabin {plane placed at the girl's disposal, ‘told how she questioned him regard- ling the operation of the doors before ‘they took off. Wanted To Go Higher “When at about 1,500 feet,” said Booth, “I looked back and saw the J passenger had her eyes tightly closed. As I turned the second time sho opened her eyes and asked for our al- titude. I said we were about 1,500 {feet. She then indicated that she wished to go higher. “At about 2,000 feet I felt the ship rise as if caused by rough air. I looked back to see the open door and caught a glimpse of the passenger feet away.” the other. pate if [ falling through space about 20 or 30 | spirits vacillated from one extreme to