The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 10, 1930, Page 1

North Dakota's ‘Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1878 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1930 The Weather Mostly fair tonight and Tuesday. Not much change in temperature, PRICE FIVE CENTS Bismarck ‘ Bo 23 3 Americans Meet eet Death in Tragedies at Sea {8DROWNED WHEN SEA WRECKS SHIP ON CALIFORNIA BAR Five Others Disappear as Barge Sinks Off East Coast of Florida WRECKAGE 'STREWS BEACH Determination of Master to Keep Schedule Held Cause of West Coast Fatalities San Francisco, Nov. 10.—()—While a waning storm tossed wreckage of the lumber schooner Brooklyn at their feet, coast guardsmen searched today for the bodies of 18 men who went down with the little wooden craft Saturday on Humboldt Bar in northern California. Meantime a determined crew of 41 refused all offers to be taken off the Creaking Richfield oil tanker Tami- ahua, aground since Thursday night on Pescadero reef, 50 miles south of San Francisco. Six wreckers aboard and three tugs waited for heavy seas to subside before beginning salvage attempts. A breeches buoy was ready to take the crew ashore in case of emergency. A third ship, caught in the same storm which wrecked the Brooklyn, was in tow of the coast guard cutter Saranac. This helpless vessel, ‘the once proud navy cruiser Missoula, with 11 men aboard, broke loose off the Oregon coast from the cable with which the tug Roosevelt was towing her to’San ‘Francisco to be scrapped. Determined to maintain his sched- ule, Captan'T. Tufvesson steamed the y Killed By Shot HOWARD NEIDEFFER VICTIM OF PELLET Corn Crop “Under Normal in Bulk, Quality, FRI ROMRME WIN MERIT AWARDS FOR ACTING Associated Press Photo George Artiss and Norma Shearer, winners of the merit awards for acting given yearly by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and EFFORT TO FIND NUMBER 0 JOBLESS SPEEDED BY WOO Most Recent Estimate Is Hoo-}/ Plans Speed Plane ver's Reference to Approx- imately 3,500,000 ‘Washington, Nov. 1 10.—(P)—Efforts lumber-laden Brooklyn out of Eureka} to calculate the number of men and for San Francisco Saturday in the face of one of the worst northern California gales in ee ie When.the of tx $0 Choe the treacher: Te Cuteide Erunibelat harbor became apparent, and before the ship could be put about, she was caught by towering waves. They tossed the 333-ton craft over on its side like @ plaything. Giant seas split the wooden craft in two as easily as a man would break a match, said Captain Ahlin, whose lumber schooner Washington was but @ quarter mile behind. A few minutes after she was caught, Ahlin said, the Brooklyn sank with ell hands on board. No boats were lowered. Shattered lifeboats, broken parts of the hull, splintered beams, the bat- terad deck house and scattered lumber of the little schooner which were hurled on the beach told mutely of the power of the storm. SEARCH FOR FLORIDA SURVIVORS FROM AIR ‘West Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 10.— (®—A_ churning, white-capped sea today hid the fate of five men, who disappeared as the barge Northern Light sank in a storm that harassed shipping along a wide expanse of the Florida east coast. Search by air was ordered continued. Beached by a raging surf the tug ‘Messenger was in a precarious posi- tion near Jupiter while two other vessels, crippled by the pounding breakers, proceeded northward at greatly reduced speeds. The Northern Light, en route from ‘Tampa, Fla., to Wilmington, N. C., with a cargo of phosphate in tow of the tug Ontario of Mobile, went down off Carys Fort Reef yesterday. The Ontario picked up only J. Stewart of the barge’s crew of six. The barge company’s office at Mo- bile gave the names of the missing as John W. Heath, master; C. B. Pitt- man, of Mobile; K. Legg, address un- known; R. 8. Watson, Mobile, and L. Bodden, Tampa. Pilot Bob Moore of Miami, flew over the area in a plane for four hours yesterday and the Ontario stood by on the chance that the miss- ing vessel had launched a lifeboat or taken refuge on a nearby key. Captain Charles Russell and a crew of six were rescued with life lines at the Jupiter lighthouse Saturday night ‘when the Messenger was tossed up on the beach. It was on its way to ald the freighter Lillian, whose propeller had fouled against a buoy chain. In the meanwhile, however, the Lillian, owned by the Baltimore and Carolina Lines, was floated with slight dam- age. Hudson Recalling 1,000 Men to Work Detroit, Nov. 10.—(#)—An opti- mistic view of the business out- manager Motor Car company, as 1,000 ad- ditional employes were called back to work at the company’s plant. “Business is beginning to come back in a normal fashion,” he said. “The depression has been nothing but fear chiefly, and the returning confidence probably means better business.” One thousand more employes are to return to work next week, ‘bringing the total number en- gaged to 7,000. ‘women unemployed on. November 1 ‘were being pushed today by Col. Ar- thar We Gent's ‘emergency’ emp! mittee, who sought to speed an esti- mate on the basis of the April census and labor department and private figures. +The most recent estimate of the - was the googht reference to approximately three and one-half A relief program with an emer- my budget of beg for Chicago ‘was reported to sc spuemniyine Sete pri Gees POs general chairman son’s commission ueae Saag Getz said the commission was or- on @ state-wide basis and each community planned to meet its had started a “help wanted” and “situations want- ed” advertisements and the results “have been very encouraging.” Not All Charity “This is not wholly a charitable stand,” Bradley said, “because every publisher knows perfectly well that if more people are employed more goods will be purchased at stores with the Tesult that there would be more ad- vertising for his newspaper. Further we have found it has been one of the upon the Association of National .Ad- today to “augment and in- tensify” remedies proposed by the (Continued on page nine) Fargo Pioneer Is Dead from Wounds Fargo, N. D., Nov. 10.—(?)—William A. Roberts, 62, the first white child brought to Fargo, was found dead in the basement of his home Saturday of gunshot wounds believed self- inflicted. Besides his mother, the first white woman settier here, he is survived by two brothers, L. A. Roberts, the first white child born in Fargo and still a resident here and C. M. Roberts, Au- dubon, Minn. Roberts was born in Minneapolis, March 4, 1868, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Roberts and was eran SO/PAre? BY Ts pares Pa % a More Gloom and Cynicism Seen by Speaker in Talk to Church People “The assembly of the League ‘of Nations just closed,” he sald, ; | To Make Ocean Hop New York, Nov. 10+(#)—A erate staat will take 170 passengers the Atlantic in 2¢ hours has been been Will aren PON! T oe 260 feet. NORTH DAKOTAN MAKES NEW YORK TO PANAMA HOP Captain Ray W. Ammel Lands at France Field After Nonstop Flight France Field, Panama, Nov. 10.—() —Captain Roy W. Ammel, Chicago broker and flier, arrived at France field at 2:44 p. m. today, completing & 2,270 mile flight from New York. The American airman, making the first non-stop flight from New York to Panama was greeted by Lieut. Col. James A. Mars, commandant at the airfield. The flight took 24 hours and 34 minutes, Captain Ammel hopped from Floyd Bennett airport, the new municipal airport on Barren island near New York, at 2:10 p. m. yesterday. He had 703 gallons of gasoline and 34 gal- Jons of oil, which he calculated was sufficient for the 2,270 mile trip. His plane is a low-winged mono- Plane, omulppet. with a 500-horse- “lacked .the atmosphere ‘ snd beoyaney hat hae marked EUGENE H. SPERRY, PIONEER OF BURLEIGH COUNTY, DIES Served as Treasurer in 1889- 1900; Had Been Ill for a Year EMIGRATED FROM NEW YORK Served as Warden of State In- stitution There Before Com- ing to North Dakota Eugene H. Sperry, 80, died early Sunday morning of heart failure at his home, 824 Second street. He was @ former treasurer of Burleigh coun- ty, serving in 1899-1900. Death followed almost a year of recuperation from a major operation in which recovery at first was slow but quite pronounced later, so much so that Mr. Sperry could visit old friends without apparent strain. Heart weakness, however, never left him, and death came with unexpected suddenness. Funeral services will be held at the necttl funeral home at 2 o'clock Wed- afternoon. Rev. Floyd E. apes ceaereall officiate. During Wednes- pegs Cebeater the body will lie in state Abyssinian King Is | Planning New Palace Addix Abarba, Abyssinia, Nov. 10.—(#)—Nigh broke after spend- ing most of his fortune on his coronation, the emperor is plan- ning a palace to cost $1,000,000. He expects to raise the money largely by selling concessions to foreigners. BISMARCK PROGRAM FOR: ARMISTICE DAY HAS FOUR FEATURES City Is Ready for Parade, Me- morial Meeting, Dinner and Dance in Evening A stretch of 12 years since peace halted the most frightful war of all history will find Bismarck again cele- brating the event around the historic hour of 11 tomorrow forenoon. One funeral home. Interment will na ine “ot Mary's cemetery. Mr. Sperry was a native of May- ville,county seat of Chautauqua coun- ty, New York, where he was born three or four years managed a factory in his home community. January 7, 1874, he was married to Mary L. Aylesworth. In 1876 he be- came warden of the Chautauqua in- at the time of his death. Although he had a heart ailment, his general health was good until about a year ago, Then, on Decem- ber 29, he underwent a major opera- tion at a local hospital, where his condition remained more or less critical for 8 month, when he began to gain, and except for his heart weakness, seemed thereafter to be in better health than he had been up to the time of the operation. Mr. Sperry leaves his widow, a son, State Senator Lynn W. Sperry, a daughter, Mrs. Walter Sellens, all of Bismarck; two sisters, Mrs. Augusta Haskins and Mrs. Lola Stratton, both of Denver; a brother, Elmer S. Sper- ry, of Malta, Montana; and four grandchildren. He was a member of Bismarck lodge of Elks, Active pallbearers will be Martin Burgois, Victor Moynier, Joseph Kel- ly, Milan Ward, William Couch and J. P. McGarvey. Honoray pallbearers will be W. E. Breen, Frank Paris, M. Lenhart, W. A. Falconer, E. L. Faunce and Joseph Dietrich. President of Big Soap Company Dies Orange, N. J., Nov. 10.—(7)—Sidney Morse Colgate, 68, chairman of the board of Colgate-Palm Olive-Peet Co., died today at his-home. He was one of the founders of the Colgate com- pany. A genius for organization placed Colgate at the head of the World- wide organization which in recent years grew out of the original cor- poration bearing his name, Armistice Holiday to Be Given P. O. Staff hour earlier the city’s military and veterans organizations will parade in | pared observance of the day. public will assemble at the city audi- torlum and mark the occasion in ap- propriate song, speech and other exercises. In the evening at 6:30 the annual dinner will be held at the istomary will follow at the Dome. Business will more or less suspend during the parade and memorial agreement among the merchants and professional men to close shop. The f John W. Carr, of Jamestown, leu- tenant governor, will be the speaker at the auditorium, where A. D. Mc- Kinnon, commander of Lloyd Spetz post, American Legion, will preside. Major Harold Sorenson will be chtef | 200. marshal of the parade and will have as aides Capt. H. A. Brocopp, Lieut. Ferris Cordner and Lieut. G. W. Cass. All organizations taking part in the parade must be in line by 9:45, the committee has announced, as the parade must be prepared to move at 10 o'clock. Cars will be ready at 9:30 at the Grand Pacific for those who need to ride in them, such as Civil war veterans and the women of the G. A. R. Relief corps. ‘The line of march will be: Starting at intersection of Second to cong at Leebeigy oa thence north on Fourth street to ‘Thayer avenue; thence east on They. er avenue to Sixth street; thence north on Sixth street to Rosser ave- -/ nue; thence east on Rosser avenue to (Continued on page nine) South Dakotans Kill Alleged Ca Cattle Thief Belle Fourche, 8. D. 8. D., Nov. 10.—(?)— Wayne Kelley, alleged cattle rustler and fugitive from justice, was shot and killed by a sheriff's posse Sat- urday when he resisted arrest at the Bill Esler ranch in Butte county, it was learned today. Kelley, described as a notorious out- law, was shot by ‘William Short, state deputy sheriff, as the culmination of @ several months’ search that had ex- tended throughout the Black Hills and Montana. Predicts Losses for German Bondholders ‘Washington, Nov. 10.—(P)—James ‘W. Gerard, former ambassador to Germany and now treasurer of the Democratic national committee, pre- dicted today Germany probably would repudiate the Young plan for repara- tions payments within 18 months. Expressing doubt that the German people would carry on the payments much longer, Mr. Gerard said the people who bought German bonds would never see their money again. Senate’s Dry Spy Denied by Curtis Washington, “Nov. _10.- (Vice President Curtis said today his part in the stationing of an under-cover prohibition agent in the seaate office building several months ago was a minor one, but he thought “the right thing was done.” “Several complaints were made a bootlegger was using the senate office building,” Curtis said. “I was told about it and said I thought the thing to do, if he was violating the law, was to catch him. My op:nion was asked about placing him in ths building ard I also said I thought that was ali rignt if it was absolutely ncezessary to stop the law violations.” Mr. Curtis said he did not sigh an order to place the agent in the build- ing TORALL(9PER GENT BELOW THAT OF °29, ESTIMATE INDICATES Harvest of 2,094,481,000 Bush- els Is Forecast by Govern- ment Department FLAX, POTATOES INCREASE Rice, Beans,. Apples, Grapes, Sugar Beets and Broom Army Veteran Dies i _— Corn Crops Heavier Washington, Nov. 10—(?)—The pre- liminary estimate of this year’s corn crop was placed today at 2,094,481,000 bushels by the department of agri- culture. A month ago 2,046,716,000 bushels were forecast. Last year production totaled 2,614,307,000 bushels. ‘The quality of corn this year was Duct GEN. TASKER H. BLISS” General Tasker H. Bliss, once chief of staff of the United States army and one of America’s most distinguished soldiers, died Sunday at Washington, D.C. placed at 78.6 per cent compared with 80.2 per cent last year and 80.5 per cent, the 10-year average. Corn remaining on ee bead 1 es estimated at 72,349,000 2.77 per cent of the 1929 bees oon with 76,359,000 bushels a year ago and 102,165,000 bushels, the five year average. ‘The preilrainary estimate ef proauc- tion of other crops, wita last year’s comparative production in bushels ex- cept where indicated follow: Buckwheat 9,400,000 bushels, and 11,520,000 last year. Flaxseed 24,200,000 and 16,844,000. Rice 41,000,000 and 40,217,000. Grain sorghums 84,800,000 and 100,- meeting, but there is no general | 845,000. Beans (dry edible) 21,000,000 and 19,693,000. Boy beans 12,100,000 and 11,400,000. Peanuts (pounds) 759,000,000" and 928,915,000. Apples 162,000,000 and 142,078,000. Oa (tons) 2,370,000 and 2,100,- Potatoes 368,000,000 and 359,796,000. Sweet potatoes 72,600,000 and 84,- 661,000. Tobacco (pounds) 1,519,000,000 and 1,519,081,000, Sugar beets (tons) 8,950,000 and 7,- 320,000. Broom corn (tons) 48,000 and 47,- NORTH DAKOTAN HELD IN MONTANA MURDER RELEASED ON BONDS Steve Kope, Grant County, Will Be Given His Formal Hear- ing December 9 Butte, Mont., Nov. 10.—(?)—Steve Kope, or Kopestensky, 27, North Da- kotan held since August 23 in con- nection with the murder of Steve Choliaga in October a year ago, has been released under a $2,500 bond signed by two Butte men. Kope will be given a hearing De- cember 9 on a first-degree murder charge. Counsel for the defendant was obtained by a sister, Mrs. F. Panko of McIntosh, S. D., and a brother Frank. GEN. TASKER BLISS, WARTIME CHIER OF U.S. ARMY, ISDEAD Served as Head of Staff During Conflict; Gave Distin- guished Service Washington, Nov. 10.—()—Gener- al Tasker Howard Bliss, war time chief of staff, is dead, ending more than half a century of service to his country, ‘he soldier-statesman succumbed early Sunday morning to an intestinal illness, several days after the physi- cians attending him at Walter Reed hospital had given up hope of saving him. He was within six weeks of his seventy-seventh birthday. He will be buried Wednesday at Arlington, escorted to the grave by a group of distinguished soldiers and sailors whose names with his were on every lip during the World war. General John J. Pershing, Admiral W. 8. Benson, Admiral Hugh Rod- man, Major Generals Hugh L. Scott, | william Crozier and Brigadier Gen- eral Stanley D, Embrick together with Newton D. Baker, Former Sec- retary of war and Colonel E. M. House, will be his honorary pallbear- ers. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Eleanora Emma Bliss, a son, Colonel Edward Goring Bliss, and a daughter, Mrs. Adolph Knopf, New Haven, Conn. He was born Dec. 31, 1853, at Lewisburg, Pa., the son of George R. and Mary Raymond Bliss. Was Active Officer General Bliss was one of the most active officers in the United States army during the more than 42 years he served the military establishment. He passed through four campaigns; rose to be Chief of Staff and Com- manding General of the Army, and served in many important positions in, this country and abroad. At the close of the World war he was dec- orated with the Distinguished Service Medal, with the impressive citation: “For most exceptional services as Assistant Chief of Staff, Acting Chief of Staff, and Chief of Staff of the United States Army, in which im- portant positions his administrative ability and professional attainment Choliaga, a French war veteran, was} were of great value to our armies. As shot to death while protesting an au-| Chief of the American section of the tomobile collision. Kope was brought | Supreme War Council, he has taken here after he had written a letter to; an important part in the shaping of the county attorney saying: I believe|the policies that have brought vic- I am the man you want in connec- | tory to our cause.” tion with the murder of Steve Cho-] When President Wilson, in 1918, Maga.” When questioned about his| made public the list of those he had letter and connection with Choliaga’s| selected to surround him as advisers death, Kope said: “People said I am| and assistants during the memorable @ murderer behind my back.” Kope| Versailles Peace Conference, the name demands he be cleared of any connec-} cf General Bliss was prominent as tion with the death. military advisers to the delegation. He Physicians said Kope is highly| was a strong supporter of Mr. Wil- nervous and subject to hallucinations. | son’s views on armaments and as a Kope’s home is near Raleigh in Grant | member of the Supreme War Council county, N. D. (Continued on page nine) Thickest Swarm of Meteors Known To Science Will Visit Earth Soon Philadelphia, Nov. 10—(?)}— numbers seen may indicate Coasting earthward down a 17 whether the Leonids are likely to degree slope in space the thickest put on another great fireworks swarm of meteors known to display in 1933, or to throw a dud, science is nearing this planet. as they have done more than once So vast are its numbers that in the past. although its main section is still A call for volunteers to assist three years distant its advance in watching both Saturday and guards to the number of a dozen Sunday morning was issued here or an hour are expected to today—volunteers from the Wy public, hardy ns willing to spend the night out in the cold, to strain their eyes for hours to see perhaps a few dozen meteors, and to spend their own money for a two cent stamp to inform science of the results. The count may enable astron- omers to calculate whether the center of the big shower is headed just right to hit earth. Its main concentration is estimated as not more than 120,000 miles wide and is new several hundred million miles distant. teors, known for 1,000 years past, visiting earth three times a cen- tury, and occasionally filling the sky with a rain of fire. Figuratively they are coming from above earth because their orbit is inclined 17 degrees to the plane of the earth's orbit. Astronomers plan te count the outriders of this meteoric host from Nov. 11 to 17, because the Death cone Ween. When Younger Brother Shoots Post and Bullet Ricochets WERE HUNTING RABBITS Post Mortem Shows Bullet Peri etrated Lung, Causing Fa- tal Hemorrhage Howard Neideffer, 13, was killed by @ ricocheting bullet fired from a 22- calibre rifle by his 10-year-old broth- er Glenn, about 1:30 Sunday after- noon, as a party of boys were hunt- ing rabbits on the Seventh street road to the Will nurseries. Glen fired at a fence post, he says, but the bullet went low and struck a rock, turned backward and pene- trated the chest of Howard on the left side a few inches below the col- larbone. A post-mortem examina. tion located the bullet in the chest in a flattened condition, corroborat- ing the boys’ story of striking a rock and glancing off. The bullet passed between two rib: and cut the left lung. A hemorrhage ensued and filled the chest cavity, literally drowning the boy in his own blood. He took three steps wher struck, his companions said, then dropped in his path. The brother who had fired the fata! shot ran to the Neideffer home, at 218 West Broadway, and the father, Isaac Neideffer, and the mother hur- tied to the scene of the accident in the Lucas company truck, of which the father is the driver. They picked up the lad and hurried to a rs re where a surgeon said the boy was dead. His mother still held him in her arms when the decision was reached. Coroner Gobel made an investiga- tion of the tragedy and Glenn Neid- effer and Johnnie Dahl, another member of the party, told him the circumstances including a descriptior. indicating that the elder Neideffer « boy was about three rods {n advarice of the younger when the latter shot at the post. The coroner and family felt that an investigation sufficed and no inquest was held. A fateful coincidence about the ac- cident was that the boys had lost their cartridges around the Northern Pacific depot on their way down to the bottoms. Discovering this after getting down south of town, they re- traced their steps and found the lost ammunition. Had they not found this, the tragedy could not have oc- curred. The family had not made definite Plans for the funeral services at noon today, but interment is to be in Fair- view cemetery. TWO MORE PLANES MISSING IN NORTH Pilots Hunting for Friends Fail to Return to Base, Say - Advices Prince Rupert, B. C., Nov. 10—(7)— Two airplanes sent out Saturday to hunt for Captain Pat Renahan and two other airmen who vanishe@ Oct. 28, were themselves missing today. Flight Lieutenant Phinney and Fly- ing Officer Dunlap failed to report after a take-off from Comox, Van- couver Island, Saturday noon. AVIATORS JOIN TO CONTINUE SEARCH Seattle, Nov. 10.—()—Northwest aviation interests joined hands today in a new effort to wrest from the north the secret of the disappearance of two fliers and their four passen- gers in northern British Columbia. A meeting in Seattle last night of 15 men prominent in northwest avia- tion circles resulted in the decision of Capt. Zeno E. Briggs, acting com- mandant of the Bremerton navy yard, to telegraph for naval aid. The navy department in Washing- ton, D. C., was requested to send a squadron of amphibian planes from the San Diego base to search for Robin Renahan and E. J. A. Burke, pilots, and their four companions. At the same time Senator ©. C. Dill of Washington dispatched a message to Secretary Adams asking the navy’s cooperation. The Canadian government was asked to permit American naval fliers to enter and leave Canadian territory during the search without the usual formalities. Giant German Plane | Arrives in England pean, Sm. aoe ata, flight to the landing at the Calshot airport at 3:37 p, m. (10:37 a. m. E. 8. T.). The huge passenger ship came doW_ on the waters off Calshot after mak- ing a four-hour trip from Amster- dam where it had been waiting fou favorable weather conditions for the | Past week, | Visibility was good and wind was moderate as the great ship, carrying |17 crew members and 23 passengers ‘ descended on the water, i <