The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 21, 1930, Page 1

Oldest Newspaper VOLUME 4 Mandan Area Flooded By River as ol” BRING OUT BODIES OF ARCTIC AIR VICTIMS ra American, Canadian and Rus- sian Pilots Will Carry He- ae roes to Alaska GREATEST SEARCH ENDED ‘More Than Quarter Million Dol- lars Spent to Find Remain of Lost Aviators Nome, Alaska, Feb. 21—(P)—The Yong period of suspense over, the northland today awaited the arrival here of the squadron of planes bear- ing the bodies of Pilot Carl Ben ret hanic Earl Borland a tape, Siberia, to the Alaskan mainland. ‘The flyers were lost when their plane crashed in a lagoon 90 miles southeast of North Cape on November 9, while they were attempting a flight to the fur-trading ship Nanuk, ice- bound at North Cape. Wreckage of the plane was discov- ered January 25, and a searching party posed largely of Russians from the Soviet ship Stavropol, ice: bound near the Nanuk, finally re- covered the bodies, which will be brought to the Nanuk from the la- goon and from there to Nome as soon as weather conditions permit. Russian Pilots Join 8 uquoronto | Camille Chautemps, radical leader, was a prime In addition to the American and Canadian pilots whose planes will form the aerial funeral procession, It is expected that the Russian pilots Slipenov and Gladyshev also will make the flight. The United States government has granted them permis- | . sion to land here in anticipation that they will accompany other and sent to Seward to be taken to the states by steamer. Ole Eielson, father of the pilot, is in Fairbanks and will take the body of his son to the family home in Hatton, N. D,, for burial. Borland will prob- ably be buried in Seattle, the home of his parents. His widow and two small tons, who are now at Bairbanks, in- ‘tend to accompany Borland’s body to Seattle, Search Cost Thousands The finding of the bodies of the fly- ersended one of the greatest searches inthe history of aviation, Alfred Lo- men, who directed rescue operations, said the aviation corporation of which Eielson was vice president, alone (Continue on page seven) BIYMARCK MASONS PLAN CELEBRATION +L. Bell Compiling History for Presentation at Fiftieth An- niversary Meeting Members of the Bismarck Lodge No.5, A. F. and A. M., are now pre- Daring for the celebration of the Soth nes 9 ADELE TII GEES SEAL mes cr THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE PIONEERS ELECT READE HEAD; CONTINUE MEMORIAL PROJECT | Overthrew Tardieu ||Have Funds for 35 Acres on —_—_—___—__—_———_« socialist, mover of the left wing opposition that overthrew Pre- mier Tardieu. NEW CABINET WITH FIVE TARDIEU MEN} Ministry Must Count on Social- ist Support, Due to Former Premier's Refusal | SHOWN MONUMENT DESIGN Collection of Historical Gossip dent of the Burleigh County Pioneers association at the annual dinner, ‘Thursday evening, being promoted! from the place of first vice president, and the suggestion was made that hereafter selection of president be} made in that way. As P. E. Byrne) was chosen first vice president last nth po nese ee ome netic eter The Weather Mostly cloudy tonight, followed tj generally fair Saturday. Much colder, ‘BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1930 Ward Farm, but Desire at Least 60 Acres Drags; Old Days Limned by Mrs. Burgum Henry L. Reade was elected presi- tion. The association continued its me- morial projects, one for a park on the ‘Ward farm, the other for a monu- "ziA. OF C. IS OPPOSED sip, which was started last year, lit- CHAUTEMPS FORMS = ae ee Back to Tribal Times A gathering that filled Elks hall Camille|Deadly Drug Discovered on Ee ity sabe! Says Sanita: Conditions Are In Bottlers’ Speech free 7(l ke , member of, the | Further Examination-of Vis- cera of Canines Cyanide poisoning was responsible for the deaths of two Fargo dogs the viscera of which were examined at the state regulatory department lab- oratory here, it became known today. ii gee NUMBER 28 World Awaits Aerial Funeral OY Canadian Senator o_ POISON SLAYER WILL NOT OPPOSE RETURN | New York Authorities Doubt Whether They Can Indict | Baker for Mudrer DOES NOT CARE FOR LIQUOR; — | Farm House Companion ‘Sitting | on Keg of Dynamite and Didn't Know It’ Warren, Ohio, Feb. 21—(7)— j Mrs. Teresa Parks, of Warren, etep-mother of James Baker, now held in Detroit on his confession i of killing nine persons, said to- day she believes her step-son is ~ | insane, Canada’s firsc woman senuor 1s wfrs./ Norman F. Wilson of Ottawa, mother of eight children. She was appointed by Premier Mackenzie King. Detroit, Mich., Feb. 21.—(#)—Un- less James Baker, talkative young man who says he killed eight men with poison and shot another to death, changes his mind, New York authorities can have him whenever they come for him. Baker, who today remained in the TOBAN KE "| county jail, declared he would not; 5 fight extradition to the city where TAV 5 | N DIRE R he says he _poiso! Henry Gaw, med watchman in the Guggenheim labora- Special Committee Passes on tory on Dec. 28, 1928. The Gaw murder was the only one of the nine Reserve System Referen- dum of C. of C. of which a definite record was found yesterday after Baker had made his confession to Detroit police. While doubt was expressed in New! York as to whether Baker could be indicted for murder on available evi- dence he had been sought as a sus- pect and is under indictment for theft of $20 from the laboratory safe. Talks Freely of Crimes Baker last night continued to talk freely and affably with reporters about the crimes. which he says he committed in New York, Houston, Texas; Warren, Ohio; Hamburg, Ger- many; Bombay, India, and other Places. In connection with his story of placing poison in a keg of beer on the tanker “Gulfport” in 1927, caus- ing the death of three men, Baker was asked if any of the men were his enemies. He said they were not but “some of the boys didn’t like me because I wouldn't drink.” He made a wry face when asked if he ever takes a drink of alcoholic beverage. Had Rivalry Over Girl A man who lived in the same farm house where Baker had been stay- ing in seclusion near Detroit for a year was referred to by the prisoner as “sitting on a keg of dynamite and not knowing it.” He made this re- mark when detectives hinted that there had been some rivalry between A. R.. Tavis was appointed a mem- ber of the board of directors of the Association of Commerce at the meet- ing Thursday to fill the vacancy caused by the removal of O. W. Mat- sisting of J. L. Bell, J. E. Davis and {Col. C. F. Mudgett. They approved 18 of the suggestions and turned down {the proposal for further legislation, thereby opposing any tinkering with the system at this time. ‘The matter of the city appointing a an was discussed and a resolution was adopted leaving the proposal to the judgment of the city commission. This resolution was, in effect, “that the city commission should be advised that it is the sense of this board that, on account of is cocnitions 2 ee believe | Baker and the other m: over & that the city commission is qualified} Young woman who also lived at the to act with intelligence and good | Pl: Judgment on the matter of the pe- titions for the appointment of a po- licewoman for Bismarck and that this board will approve such action ag it may see fit to take.” ‘The city improvement committee of the association has been considering lace. Baker himself had been in a pre- carious position during a part of his hiding out, since police knew that a recluse with some of the habits of a “wanted” man was in the house. A remark to a visiting New York de- tective eventually led to the capture. CALL TARTS PAMLY T0 CAPITAL BEDSIDE Washington, Feb. 21—(#)—Failure of William Howard Taft to gain ground during the last week today Prompted those who are at his bed- side to summon members of the fam- ily who are out of the city to come to Washington. Export Revival Aids Grain Prices Upward After Slump Period | FOIL PLOT TO CHEAT GIBBET Sings ‘| Don’t Know Where I’m Children, Pays With Life for Killing Rancher Going, but I'm on My Way’ Near Gallows Florence, Ariz., Feb. 21.—()—Mrs. ' Eva Dugan, 52-year-old housekeeper and mother of two children, the first woman to be legally executed in Ari-| zona paid with her life on the gallows | today for the slaying in 1927 of A. J.} Mathis, Tucson rancher. The trap was i sprung at 5:11 a. m. | As the trap clanged and she/ dropped more than six feet, the noose | tightened, severing her head, and the; body catapulted to the floor. Dr. L.| j A. Love, prison physician, pronounced | her dead immediately. > Warden Lorenzo Wright immedi- | ately cleared the gallows room, and turned the body over to the prison physician and an undertaker. Six Mrs. Dugan, unshaken. climbed the 13 steps to the gallows and smiled as the black hood was ad- justed over her head. She said she had no statement to make. Warden Wright clasped her hand and said “God bless you. Eva. Mrs. Dugan smiled and said “good bye, Daddy Wright.” A few seconds later the steel trap was sprung. Uncover Suicide Plot Warden Wright a few minutes be- fore the hanging revealed to news- paper men the discovery of what he believed was a plot by Mrs. Dugan to cheat the gallows by taking poison before she was removed to the death chamber. Acting on a tip that the woman had procured poison, Wright said he transferred her from her prison cell to the condemned chamber about 1 a.m. A search of the abandoned cell, the warden said, led to the dis- covery beneath a mattress of a 2- (Continued on page three) WILL BE EXPLORED | Eleven Men Will Penetrate Un- derground World Never Be- fore Seen by Humans Roswell, N. M., Feb. 21.—(P)— Equipped with balloons, rubber boats, radio and much scientific apparatus which will be used in exploring the giant underground caverns at Carls- bad, N. M., the Frank Earnest Nich- olson party of 11 persons arrived yes- terday from New York. “We may be sure of one thing at least,” Mr. Nicholson said, “we are going where no man has gone before. ‘We are expecting to find great and unusual things, and I am positive we will not be disappointed.” The collapsible rubber boats will be used in exploring an wl river which Mr. Nicholson believes will carry them to the second en- trance of the caverns if such a place really exists. The balloons will be used in lowering men from precipiti- ous cliffs a thousand feet under- ground to determine what lies at the ‘bottom. ‘The party also will carry a short wave radio outfit with which it ex- pects to keep in contact with the out- side world from the depths of the caverns. Shell Shocked World there was nothing to indi- Chicago, Feb. 21—(7)—The trend P condition had taken a sud- puted upward today for the former president and chief justice felt some appre- ‘a lack of improvement. bulletin said the ill about the same.” It no further comment. ined oe ‘just Crisler and Wieman Endorsed by ‘M’ Men Feb. 21—(P)—Appoint- ment of Frits Crisler as director of War Vet Shoots Two Sidney, Neb., Feb. 21—(?)—Sheriff James Nelson of Cheyenne county and Richard Carlson. a deputized cit- izen, hovered near death in a hospi- tal today after having been shot yes- terday by Thomas V. Tompeett, 32, Shell shocked World war veteran, when they tried to arrest him. Tomp- sett escaped from the state hospital for the insane six months ago. After the shooting Tompsett took to the wild hilly country north of here and was captured by a posse of women witnessed the execution. | calmly ; i CARLSBAD CAVERNS |" it tS «om ———— Sets Speed Marks | a | 10 SCENE OF CRIME! Mrs. Eva Dugan, Mother of Two| | | Procession una ARIZONA NOOSE SEVERSHEAD OFF FIRST WOMAN EXECUTED BY ROAD INUNDATION / TRAFFIC SUSPENDED | Bismarck-Mandan High School Basketball Game Is Post- poned Until Tuesday ' YELLOWSTONE BREAKING UP Missouri Reported Open at Fort | Benton but Solid in North and South Dakota Victimized by the stubborness of the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers, ‘which refuse to break up, Mandan and Miles City, Mont., were flooded ,this morning. South Mandan pulled on its rubber ‘boots and took to row-boats this morning as the Heart river, choked with a tremendous volume of ice and water following its breakup yesterday, ;overflowed its banks to flood scores of basements and hundreds of acres of improved property, isolate build- jings, cut channels through all roads _ —— leading south from the city, and mak- Lee Schoenhair. Akron, Ohio, pilot,/ing traffic between Bismarck and set a new world’s record of 185.452/Mandan by automobile impossible. miles per hour for passenger planes| State highway commission officials ‘at Jacksonville Beach, Fla. He also|Shortly before noon blocked the Bis- broke other records. |marck-Mandan memorial highway at {both ends as flood waters from the Heart flowed over the pavement and made through traffic impossible. | Under similar circumstances, parts of Miles City became flooded by the Tongue river about 9 p. m. last night. With the Yellowstone, into which the , Tongue flows, refusing to break up, the tributary has been choked in A telegram from Miles City to O. W. Roberts, Bismarck federal meteor> Father of Disturber of Tut-/logist, at noon today follows: “Mod- ; jerate flood conditions prevail over ankh-amen’s Tomb Leaps [island section of Miles City. Since 9 Seven Floors to Death ip. m. yesterday. Yellowstone jammed {from mouth of Tongue downstream London, Feb. 21.—()—His mind harried by thoughts of the pharaohs’ curse and the recent death of his son, 78 year old Lord Westbury today fell} or threw himself to death from his bathroom window on the seventh} veranda ceiling 100 feet below, and j knocked over a woman there. She; was so badly cut by broken glass and so affected by shock it was necessary | to take her to a hospital. Lord West- bury was dead when he was picked up. An inquest into the death was held | \for one and one-half miles. No seri- ous damage as yet.” Miles City suffered a similar flood last spring. Huge masses of ice and the great volume of water were backed up in the Heart river as the 30-inch coat of ice on the Missouri river, inte which the Heart empties a short dis- tance south of Mandan, refused tc give way and relieve congestion in the tributary. The rapid rise forced scores of fam- ilies in Syndicate and “Dogtown” sections in southern Mandan to the upper floors of their houses, isolated the Riverside Inn, and completely covered the municipal golf course and the Missouri Slope fair grounds in the | tendered. The dead man, had been @ few hours afterward and a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was holding fast at Glendive, Mont., ac- (Continued on page nine) GENERAL SHEAFE, 86, DIES AT WATERTOWN Commanded Territorial Mili- tary Forces; Pioneered in Steamboat Traffic in ill health for some time. Lord Westbury for months has worried over the strange circum- stances of the death of his son, Rich- ard Bethell, 46, who was secretary to Howard Carter, whose investigations in Egypt disclosed the treasures of ; Ancient Tut-Ankh-Amen. Bethell's death, while apparently from natural causes, revived discus- sion of the superstition of a curse resting upon meddlers with the tombs of the Pharaohs. His was the| tenth death among people concerned with the exploration of Tut-Ankh-/| Amen's sepulchre. Carter, chief dis- turber of the tomb, is still alive. - Watertown, S. D., Feb. 21.—(®)}— War Veterans Invited | cenerat mark w. sheate, 96, one of To Kettell Dinner by | neers, died at nis home here Paes + 4 iday. Infirmities incident to advanced Bismarck Legion Post 22; ciiminatea in a stroke of paraly —_— sis, abcist Hikee, Sneha aeo SRE renee All veterans of United States armies |4eath. of any war have been invited by the|, General Sheafe was commissioned Bismarck post of the American Le- |t© the rank of Brigadier General gior. to attend the banquet that will |during the Spanish-American war by be tendered National Chaplain |President McKinley, and assigned George F. Kettell here, February 25,;COmmand of the first brigade, second Carl Knudtson, post commander an- | division, second army corps, at Camp nounced today. Alger, Virginia. Members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Spanish-American war and other organizations have been invited, Commander Knudtson said. While the public is invited to at-'during the last years of Dakota terri- tend the program to be given in the . il iif Li: