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

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper . ESTABLISHED 1878 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1930 Two North Dakota Men Killed in Airplane Fall ATTACKERS SHOW ‘COLOSSAL - TRAGEDY BERALLS "MOTT YOUTHS OUT ——ONPLBASURE TRIP Were en Route to Dickinson to Participate in State Elks’ Convention FORCED LANDING IS FATAL , + Men Working Near the Wreck Thought Flyers Were Stunt- ing; Later Find Wreckage D., June 21—)—A Clifford Paranto, 23, pilot and own- er of the monocoup plane, and ‘Thomas Kapacinski, 21, were instant- ly killed when the ship struck the From Paranto'’s farm five miles south of Mott the plane or off after Men working near the scene of the ‘wreck first believed the were “stunting,” and paid little attention. A short time afterward, farmer dis- covered the wreckage near here. Both ™ men were dead. Their bodies badly mutilated. of the plane made a deep earth. Indicatipns z i i i i i ters. clear body. Ant aa i E 8 Gi : Ht g i i 3 ‘ E g I i it i zs. i a i : 1 2 Ba EB fe = 8 8 ge A the two men dead and the demolished. ‘The accident occurred about’1 p. m. ‘The bodies were brought to an un- estab ee Four Attempts to End Own Life ee Heads N. P. Veterans| 2 GEQRGE R. MERRITT George R. Merritt, St. Paul, agent, refrigerator service T. R. Sloan, St. Paul, secretary-treas- ; M. H, McGowan, St. Paul, his- torian; and W. T. Dickinson, N. D,, engineer on the Yellowstone division, director. TINKHAM REPLIES T0 CANNON CHALLENGE, REPEATING CHARGES Washington Awaiting Prosecu-|!"s tion of Representative by STUPIDITY,’ Cites Facts to Show Falsity of Charges Made by Politi- cal Opponents COMPARES PRINTING BILLS Shows Cost in 1928 Was Same as Charged by Complain- ants in 1923 Assertion that persons who have attempted to defame his record as a member of the state printing com- mission have displayed both “colossal nerve and stupidity” Was made by C. ‘W. McDonnell in a radio address Fri- , | day night. McDonnell is seeking renomination as the Republican candidate for state railroad commissioner. As chairman of the railroad board he is an ex- officio member of the printing com- mission. The “stupidity” of the Independent Voters association and others who are circulating false charges against him, is apparent, McDonnell said, from the fact that they chose a bill passed while he was not a member of the printing commission with which to make an attempt to prove thetr case him. against He asked the voters to judge the accuracy of other statements made ‘by the accuracy of that one. Defending the accuracy of the bill, however, McDonnell pointed to an- other for the same work, paid by the state printing commission to The Knight Printing company, Fargo, in 1923, in which. approximately the same prices were paid for state print- ‘The Knight Printing company, he said, recently was one of the unsuc- cessful bidders for state printing and an employe of the Knight Printing of. the men who less of the num- printed ‘and this ac- iting n “ (Continued on ‘page fifteen) Big Hail Damage Done Near Braddock; 3-Inch Rainfall Along Soo A heavy fall of hail was reported from three miles north of Braddock, Friday evening. The path of the storm was northeast by southwest and @ stretch of farmland five long by two and a half wide, in acres under cultiva- inches of precipitation. Sargent County Old Settlers Hold Meet SAYS M’DONNELL Tune in on the Primary Election Tune in on the Bismarck Trib- une-KFYR election party Wed- nesday night and learn the re- sults of the primary election. The returns will be brought to The Tribune office by a special leased wire. They will be broad- cast over KFYR, Bismarck radio station. A loud-speaker will be installed at the Hoskins -Meyer store for the benefit of Bismarck residents who have no radios. The broadcast will begin at about 9 o'clock Wednesday night and will continue until early in the thorning. Returns from all parts of the state will be compiled by the As- sociated Press and the daily newspapers of the state. BISMARCK SELECTED FOR’31 CONVENTION BY STATE SHERIFRS Warden of State Penitentiary, Former Sheriff, Tells of Work at Prison Dickinson, N. D., June, 21—)— Bismarck was chosen for the next convention city of the North Dakota Sheriffs Association at the annual meeting here yesterday. ‘Warden C. C. Turner of the state penitentiary at Bismarck described prison conditions. He stated that prison life was not “easy” for “Three purposes of a prison are to punish a man for breaking laws, to remove a law breaker from society, and to call attention of the people to the fact that laws are not to be Me discussed the output of the pri- son twine plant. and other methods used to keep prisoners occupied. Mis- taken public opinion, he said, is a great rrobler with which to contend in operating a prison. Sheriffs wete urged to follow the letter of the law creating an identifi- cation bureay, ani to take ‘finger prints of every person arrested for felony. T. F. Murtha, Stark County state's attorney, and A. J. Gronna, Williams county state attorney, emphasized the need of cooperation between state attorneys and sheriffs. Gronna told of the results in his county from close cooperation between county authorities. This has facilitated prosecution, he said, and has resulted in many pleas of guilty instead of trial of cases, especially in liquor law violations. 17-year-old Bride Seeks to Be Rid of 70-year-old Spouse Chicago, June 21.—(P)—A _ seven- teen-year-old bride, seeking to divorce her 70-year-old husband, told Super- for Judge Williams yesterday that she was married without ever seeing her intended husband in advance. Mapes Youth Regains Consciousness Friday Grand Forks, N. D., June 21—(7)— Donald Cash, 14-year-old Mapes “lyouth, injured two weeks ago when For Official Newspaper The Bismarck Tribune, Burleigh county’s home- home-managed - owned, hom election June 25. newspapér, is a candidate ‘for election as official newspaper at the primary Bur! county’s interests are The Tribune's in- tever benefits Burleigh county benefits terests. The Tribune, This ne ently in mind in its per has kept that consist- operations ‘at all times. Service to its community and to its great army of ‘readers will: continue to be its aim. Legal notices of vital interest to residents and f waniiene > ple are best Burleigh county are published in the of- . We believe the interests.of the peo- served by printing these in The Tribun the newspaper of the largest and most general circula- tion. It. is lesa costly to the county because, under the law, many notices and legal items must be published in the daily newspaper anyway, if one is printed in ‘s the county. The Tribune asks. your consideration and will ap- thrown from a horse and unconscious since June 6, Friday regained con- sciousness, hospital authorities here The boy ‘spoke for the first time Thursday. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Cash, farmers. in Egypt to Join Ranks Of Dictator Nations Cario, Egypt, June, 21.—(#)—Egypt pee t fc ihe _ t five ths: nt for the nex! mont tinder virtual dictatorship headed by Ismail Sidky Pasha. Chosen. te form a new government by King Fuad, the premier at once began @ royal decree for in- aoe ‘until November. the, A tense ~ituation i today. ‘There was much bitterness, even in- cluding threats against the King. Grand Forks Named Airport of Entry partment of commerce day. . Action of the department of com- merce will facilitate aerial travel be- Forks and Canadian BLACK DOT IS BUCKY Hoylake, England, June, 21—(P)}— Black is lucky for King Bobby. In tournaments he uses a ball marked with a black dot. Starts New York—Mexico City Hop COL. ROBERT FIERRO, AND HIS PLANE Roosevelt Field, N. Y., June 21—(AP)—With Mexico City—2,200 miles away—as their goal, Colonel berto Fierro, one of Mexico’s fore- most aviators, and his mechanic, Arnulfo Cortes, took off at 1:30:15 a. m. lay on an attempted non-stop flight. They hoped to reach the the first non-stop flight between New York and Mexico Colonel Fierro planned to follow the trail blazed by lexican capital-in 16 hours, thus achieving City. Goionel Charles A. Lindbergh in 1922 on his non-stop flight from Washington to the Mexican capital. Colonel Fierro’s plane carried 475 gallons of gasoline and 27% gallons of oil. Late News VOTE TO MOVE COLLEGE Crete, Neb. June 21—(?)—The The plane Island. Search is continuing for the missing bodies, DROWNS DEFECTIVE SON Jacksonville, Fla., June 21.—(P) —Louis Weiss, a retired merchant, drowned his 16-year-old defective son, Francis, in a bath tub today and then committed suicide by shooting himself. MEXICAN FLYER IN TEXAS Victoria, Tex., June 21.—(#)— An airplane believed to be that of Colonel Roberto Fierro, Mexi- can army aviator, on a non-stop light from Roosevelt Field, N. Y., to Mexico City, passed over Vic- toria at 12:05 p.m. today. The plane was flying high in a south- easterly direction. CONVICT LIQUOR ‘REBELS’ Couer d'Alene, Idaho, June 21. —(@)—The 32 defendants in the Wallace, Idaho, “rum rebellion” case were convicted today by ‘a fury in federal court. The prin- cipal defendants were Mayor Herman J. Rossi, former W. 8. Herrick, gnd Police Chief W. J. Bailey, all of Wallace. SENTENCED FOR MURDER Rochester, Minn., June 21.—(7) —Dougas Petersen, 24-year-old farm hand, pleaded guilty to first degree murder in today and was sentenced by Judge Vernon Gates to life im- prisonment at hard labor in Stillwater. Petersen shot and killed Miss Margaret Wegman, 20-year-old rural school teacher, on May 28, after she had re- pulsed his attentions. WIN BRIDGE TITLE Niagara -Falls, Ont., June 21.— (®—Baron Waldemar Von Dedt- witz and Mrs. P. H. Sims, both of New York city, won the all- American contract bridge pair championship last night in com- petition with 125 players from all parts of the United States and Canada at the. joint congress of the American Whist league and the Women’s Whist league. WANT DRY LAW PROBE Washington, June 21.—(>)— President Hoover's law enforce- ment commission would be given @ $50,000 appropriation with a specific limitation of its investiga- tion to the subject of prohibition under an amendment written in- to the house deficiency bill today by a subcommittee of the senate appropriations committee. By a vote of nine to one the committee in executive session, adopted an amendment by Senator Glass, Democrat, Virginia, carrying the Provigion. a low-winged monoplane with an open cockpit. GUN BECOMES CLUE IN CHICAGO SEARCH ss Police Ascertain Weapon With Which Lingle Was Killed Was Owned by Gangster June 21—(7)—The gun to slay Jake Lingle, Tribune re- —_——_________ Good ‘Five-center’ Still Held Needed ee New York, June 21,—(?)—This country, in the humble opinion of one Charlie Brown, a celestial, still needs a good five cent cigar. After a five-year fast from smoking, Charlie took three puffs from a black five-center and woke up in a hospi- tal with a gashed scalp and a possi- ble fracture of the skull. The cigar made him so dizzy that he fell against the stoop of an east 14th street house. FAST'TRACK GREETS AUTOMOBILE RACES AT BISMARCK FAIR Friday's Program Canceled; Management to Collect Rain Insurance Bismarck’s Fair and Race Meet will close tonight. Decision to suspend racing activi- ties for the year with completion of the automobile race program this aft- ernoon was reached definitely this forenoon at a meeting of directors of the event. The management had considered staging either the canceled Friday horse race program or a repetition of the auto races Sunday afternoon, but dropped this idea in the conference today. The fair management will collect approximately $600 on insurance against rain, which caused cancella- tion of the harness events Friday aft- ernoon, but the policy did not protect the management against financial losses suffered last evening when the night program also was called off be- cause of the rain-soaked track. A lightning-quick, dustless track was in prospect for the auto race pro- gram this afternoon, according to Berney Sullivan, manager. The rain served only to pack the speedway down and give it & smooth coat which teed good traction, Sullivan said. He said the dust menace, which usually is so great on dry days, would be nil for grandstand watchers today. Horse owners and their animals and auto racers and their machines will leave Bismarck tomorrow. The carnival will tear down its ride fea- tures and shows late tonight and the Midway will have vanished by tomor- row noon. used porter, had become today a vital clue the hunt for his assassin. Frank Foster was the original own- of the pistol, police revealed today ind Foster has disappeared. Efforts made with a file to destroy the serial number on the weapon were thwarted by acid, microscopes and police patience. ‘The weapon, police have establish- ed, was originally in the sporting goods store of Peter von Frantzius, who has been involved in the investi- gation of the St. Valentine's day massacre of last year. Von Frantzius’ records show the weapon was sold to Foster several months ago. But Foster, the police believe, dis- posed of the gun prior to the Lingle murder June 9. They want to know to whom; and they have started a countrywide hunt for Foster to that end. Foster, they said, was formerly a leader in the north side yang banded together under the joint chieftaincy of George (Bugs) Moran and the Aiellos. But Foster deserted the Moran-Aiello outfit and enrolled un- der the Capone banner. Police believe Foster learned it was his gun that killed Lingle and that he figured the town would be “too hot” for him, even though he had no part in the killing. So he fled. Discovery that ‘Foster originally owned the gun led to a new police theory; that the killer, or killers, planned not only to kill Lingle but to involve Foster as well. ROTARIANS GATHERING Chicago, Juné 21.—(?)—Thousands of Rotarians from the four corners of the earth began trekking into Chi- cago today for the tenth internation- al convention, which opens Monday. SINCLAIR LEWIS IS DADDY New York, June, 21.—()—Sincl Lewis, author, is a daddy. A son has been born to the former Dorothy ‘Thompson, whom he married in Lon- don two years ago. lair | a new endurance refueling flig] Mrs. Harry Homan, Bismarck, was presented with an expensive wrist watch last evening by the fair man- ‘agement. The watch was presented to her because she held the grand- stand ticket bearing the lucky num- ber, 50965, which was decided through a drawing at 9 o'clock conducted un- der the supervision of a group of Bis- marck residents. Announcement that the mark made by Markfast Thursday afternoon, 2:09 for the mile, is a new state trot- ting record was made yesterday by Mrs, C. K. Byran, secretary and man- ager of the fair. The old record was 2:09%, made by John Belwin, owned by Paul Webster, Minneapolis, at the Northwest Fair at Minot four years ago. Markfast is owned by J. W. Holmes, Montford, Wis. , The Bismarck Fair and Race Meet has been staged only three times, and each time it has been dogged by rain. ‘This year was the first time that the management had taken out insurance against cancellations caused by down- pours. Julius Caesar To Pay $75 Alimony Belleville, Ills, June 21—(7)—Be- cause Julius Caesar permitted a cow to stand upon his wife, and also be- cause he “hammered her at will” Mrs. Julius Caesar and her three children will enjoy-$75 2 month in a separate domicile hereafter. Julius Caesar was charged with those cruelties in a divorce action here which the court saw fit to en- tertain and rule in favor of the wom- an, the money being given for sup- port of the little Caesars. IN AIR 230 HOURS Chicago, June 21.—(?)—Another night behind them in their suet for it rec- ord, Kenneth and John Hunter, pilots, and their plane “The City of Chi- cago” had completed 230 hours in the air at 6:40 a. m. today. Physicist Looks Inside the Atom; Finds Tiny Electrons Are Diffused : Ithaca, N. Y., June 21.—()}—Dis- covery of a method of “look” inside hitherto invisible atoms was an- nounced today by “Dr. Arthur H. Compton, of the University of Chi- cago, American Nobel prize winner in physics. What he “saw” was the arrange- ment of electrons, the negative bits of electricty, that seem to compose all tangible substance. He found them diffused somewhat like raindrops in a cloud. This dif- fers sharply from the old idea that electrons revolve, in fixed orbits like miniature planets about a central, sun-like nucleus. Recently daring scientific: prophets have hazarded that the electrons are scattered and Dr. Compton’s work backs up this new idea. Addressing the American Physical society at Cornell said: beautiful halo around the moon. an hour later the halo was vis- ly smaller and rain began to fall. Int ition of such halos, as due to diffraction of the moonlight by droplets of water suspended in the gir, is well known. The larger the droplets the smaller the angle of dif- . So by observing the di- ameter of the halo we. can estimate the size of the water drops which cause it. A shrinking halo means & growing drop, and hence probable A method similar to observing this halo was used to “see” the electrons. For moonlight Dr. Compton substi- tuted X-rays and for vapor used heli- um gas. The X-rays made diffrac- | tion halos jn the gas and from these the positions of electrons was esti- mated. ‘Dr. Compton did not origi- nate the halo study method. His dis- The Weather Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday. Not must change in temperature, PRICE FIVE CENTS ac Kills Wife, 4 Children HURLS FAMILY OVER CLIFR, THEN JUNPS TOHIS OWN DEAT: Tragedy Occurs in New Haven. Conn., Park; Group Had Started on Outing THREE BODIES RECOVERED War Veteran, Recently Released From Naval Hospital, Lived in Nearby Town New Haven, Conn., June 21.—()— Ray C. Spang of Ansonia, mentally unbalanced, today threw his wife and all four of their children to their deaths over the edge of West Rock a high cliff in this city’s park system. and later jumped to his own death The dead are: Ray C. Spang, 36, father; his wife 33; Helen, aged 10; Lorraine, aged 1; Raymond, aged 5; Donald, aged 3. Spang was a war veteran and re- cently returned home from the Brook- lyn naval hospital. He had been em- ployed by a manufacturing concern in Seymour, the adjoining town to An- sonia. Three bodies were recovered from the base of the cliff early this after- noon. Ansonia police reported § and his family left home this mornite for a day's outing, and apparently came Hea and went to the rock for a pic-. nic. An eye witness of she tragedy was found in Maurry Bogranof!, who was playing ball with other boys on the diamond in the little park. He said he was looking up at 2 man who was standing on the ecge of the cliff, when he saw the nan drop a child over the edge. He said he was frightened and ran to @ telephone and called the Grace hospital. The. hospital had an ambu- lance on the way to the rock before the police had started. Man Talks Rationally Ernest Berube, -ne fireman whe swung. Spang said the man talk- ed'rationally to himself but he would answer few questions. Spang would not’ consent t@ crawl over and take hold of the and be hauled up. Martin and James Carey, brothers of Mrs. Spang, said Spang was released from a soldiers hospital in New York yesterday. Mrs. Spang and the children were so happy upon the return of husband and father that it was proposed they all go on a picnic today. The brothers (Continued on page fifteen) ERSTROM FUNERAL ATTENDED BY 300 Prominent Farmer and Commu- nity Leader Given Church and Elk Lodge Rites With the dual rites of the church and of the Elks fraternity, Albin Erstrom, 47, pzominent farmer of Glenview township, who died here Tuesday following a critical operation the previous Friday, was laid to rest in Rose Hill cemetery, 20 miles north of Bismarck. The funeral was at- tended by 300 friends and neigh- bors of Mr. Estrom. The main service was at the First Presbyterian church at 2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon. Rev. Gilbert W. Stewart, of Mandan, officiated. There was -special music, Henry Halverson and Mrs. John A. Larson singing “Beautiful Isle of Somewhere” and “Nearer my God to Thee,” to the accompaniment of Mrs. Grace Duryee Morris, church organist. After the services at the church the body was taken to Rose Hill cemetery, where Elks rites were conducted by Exalted Ruler A. W. Melon, assisted by Chaplain Josep! Kelly, Charles » esteemed loyal knight. and A. L. Brink, esteemed leading knight, and J. 8. Febold, acting lecturing knight. ‘The pallbearers were Walter Sim- ing three miles west of Baldwin anc @ half mile north. The family for several generations has been among the pioneers of Burleigh county, Mr Erstrom being the first white per- son born in Glenview township Sep- tember 5, 1832. He was a leader in his community, serving on the township and school boards. The father and mother of: Mr. Erstrom died some time ago, but his stepmother, Mrs. Mattie Erstrom still is living in this city. On October 18, 1905, Mr. Erstrom was united in marriage to Miss Elsie Laubach at Wilton and the couple would have celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary this fall had Mr. Erstrom lived. Besides his widow Mr. Erstrom leaves five children. The four daughters are Maxine, 22; Vivien 18; Marjorie, 15; and Betty, 10. The covery is a way to find out what the ui aA J teas tn vt ry daughter.