The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 29, 1930, Page 1

North Dakota's Y Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1878 OFFICIALS DIRECT ‘SALVAGE AGTIITY AS HUNDREDS HELP Insurance On Property Was. . $728,000 But Losses Ex- EXPLOSION IN WING: HEARD Cornerstone of Main Wing Was Laid In Territorial Days I 47 Years Ago ‘was discovered shortly before 8 loss had mounted to millions of dol- lars. 00. These costs do not include equip- ment. Losing Battle Apparent From the time the first bert discovered, it was apparent e | firemen were to fight a losing battle. | | State TH ent in e He f Be gE li i ii g aE g i i : er iE f ll Ss €8 i i i g t 3 F A | lhe 2 3 z 5 Gi &4 k i i sti ! EE é g E Hi i a Local Baby Suffocated Adrian, five-emonth-old son of Mr. and ‘Mrs. Clark Gordanier, 807 Sixth street, died of suffocation at the Gordanier home this after- The child had been asleep le ¢! in its basket and evidently pulled a rubber bib over its face, a neighbor of the Gordanier family said in a conversation from the Gor- danier home. Mrs. Gordanier discovered ibs dead infant at about -P. Mm, WDAY and FargoFirm Face Lottery Charge Hlitges | gS gi a + ¢| Minneapolis Man Is E BISMARCK TRIBUNE ee { Pictured above are four scenes of the North Dakota state capitol as it was being razed;by fire Sunday: morning. The photogra- pher was facing east when he snapped the photograph in the upper left.’ Flames can be seen through the windows of the three floors of the.main, or oldest wing, and also the senate chamber, in the upper floor of the south or front wing. The pic- tures in the upper right and lower left show the capitol from a BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA,? MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1930. Tlie Weatlier what warmer PRICE FIVE CENTS nts Assigned Following Fire Bismarck Aids : point southeast of the building, near the Liberty Memorial building, with bright flames*leaping through the windows of the senate chamber. The scene in the lower right is taken from the south, just off the end of Sixth street, showing spectators beginning to arrive in automobiles. Liberty Memorial building is seen at the right. In the upper left. hand scene, firemen can be seen playing a water stream through a window of the house 3 | chamber in the north or new wing of the structure. Fire had NORTH DAKOTANS GET TAX REFUNDS Total of $37,369.48 Will Be Re- turned By Federal Treasury Department to the Amenia and Sharon Land company, Minneapolis, which was paid $30,566.31. The second high pay- Released by Chinese Historians Dispute ] Date of North Wing ° —?e Giving Girl ‘Drink’ Spontaneous Combustion May Have Started Flame Rags Soaked With Turpentine and Varnish Had Been Used For Cleaning eee, Fg i eeaee 8 & & not gained a good start in this wing when the picture was taken. Directly at the left is shown the capitol as it looked before it was destroyed by fire. The white cross indicates where the flames are believed to have started and where Joseph Winkel, janitor and night watchman, said he heard an explosion shortly before the flames burst forth. ATTEMPTED PRISON BREAK FRUSTRATED 12 Men, Most of Them Bank Robbers Or Murderers, Forced Back to Celis Michigan City, Ind., Dec. 29.—(F}— An elaborately planned jail break at- tempt failed at the Indiana state surrender without bloodshed. The 12 men, most of them bank robbers or murderers, had Los Angeles Aviatrix Claims Altitude Mark Los Dec. 29.—(P)—A di- minutive Los Angeles Avistrix, .| Juanita Burns, claimed s new offi- clal world’s altitude record for wom- en today as @ result of s three-hour Night yesterday in which she esti- PRN ay AS & DMN OF 38,000 feet. ‘The present world’s record is 21,418 feet, set by Etinor Smith, Fire Facts at a Glance Bismarck In Fine Position to House State Offices, Asserts Fred Conklin Job of Finding Suitable Space Committee of Association of Commerce Makes Survey to Ascertain Rooms Available, Ex- pect All to Be Settled Within Few Days Discovered by Joseph Winkel, janitor, in fourth floor of building at east side, shortly before 8 a. m. Cause not definitely determined. - Spread of flames destroyed building in less than four hours. Loss estimated at more than million dollars. May. be much higher. Part of loss cannot be estimated be- cause some irreplaceable records were burned, Much time and money will be required to replace others. Vaults of the state treasurer, state auditor and state land department were opened today and the con- tents were found unharmed. The secretary of state’s vault was known to be seriously damaged. Insurance—$430,000 on building and $298,000 on contents. Considerable furniture and equipment and many, records salvaged by state officers before fire reached their offices. Citizens committee offered aid in locating capitol offices elsewhere in city.. This work got under way. Sunday afternoon. . Expect to have all offices placed and functioning within next few days. Leases will be for two-year lod. New capitol building will be recommended by Governor George F. Shafer with probably an office building to house some state departments. E. A. Hughes, in a telegram from Florida to the board of administration, offered to build a fireproof building, five to eight stories high, on the site of the building o present armory at Second: str id Broad- way avenue, provided the state ult rent fora pe- riod of years, Approximately $1,280,000 available now, without further appropriation for construction of new capitol. All state offices will have same telephone numbers in new locations as they had in the capitol building. State officers, aided by a committee.of local citizens, today took stock of the situation caused by destruction of the state capitol building by fire Sunday and arranged to locate all state departments in quarters which will serve until a new capitol building can be constructed here. The state board of administration, which had charge of the capitol and its grounds, this afternoon was well into Bismarck has facilities for housing state departments and offices in the emergency caused by the capitol fire which surpass those of any other city in the state, Fred L. Conklin, chairman of the Association of Com- merce. committee assisting state officials, said today. Pointing to the space in business buildings which is available, Conklin said this,is augmented by the World War Memoral building now being completed, all of which is available. Commander A. D. McKinnon and R. J. Kamplin, representing the Legion Memorial building scaatitae. said the whole of that structure could be made avail- able if needed and recommended that, if the space is needed, use of the structure as a community center be postponed in order to give the legislature or any state department adequate housing facilities. It is estimated that the main auditorium of the building would comfortably accommodate two or three of the state’s largest departments. In addition, other rooms are available. the work of leasing new quarters and expects to complete the work within the next few days. All leases will be for a two-year period which is the time estimated to be neces- ig for the state to plan and construct a new capitol build- As soon as the work of assigning offices to quarters is completed a directory will be published. All offices will State Payroll to Go On As Usual; May Add Some Employes, Says Shafer State employes will lose no income by reason of the capitol fire, Governor George F. Shafer.and other state officials said today. It is probable that there will be little for employes of some departments to do until arrangements are made for them to return to work but they will be paid as usual, the governor said. He suggested that, rather than reducing the state payroll, the immediate effect of the fire may be to in- crease the number of state employes, at least tempor- srlly, of to throw more work on the shoulders of exist- ig forces, have, in their new quarters, the same telephone numbers which they had at their capitol building. Temporary assignments made today were: Governor’s office—In federal court chambers and court clerk’s office in federal building. ; on pega three) Fair tonight and Tuesday, some- er Tuesday. si tendent of public instru aparin lent of pul ction and commissioner, |