The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 1, 1931, Page 7

‘Managua Ruined by Recurring Tremors And Conflagration (Continued from page one) pah yn civilians have been re- Ported yi tse ‘rsident and American Min- iter Matthew E. Hanna were out of i city at the time. Call Martial Law Martial law was in operation. Lieu- tenant Colonel Frederick Bradman, commander of the marine forces, was in charge of the rescue work. Lack of water through a break in the wa- ter system handicapped the fire fight- ing. A scarcity of foodstuffs added to a rivation. A scarcity of medical ipplies existed. wo A Nicaraguan Red Cross was form- ed by minister of health, Dr. Frutos Paniagua, to ald relief work. Minis- ter Paniagua issued the following statement. “We do not possess the necessary medical supplies adequately to cope with the situation. Sincerely trust the American Red Cross will be able to send aid.” The only building of importance Jeft_ standing were new structures re- inforced by concrete. The front of the presidential palace was intact. the rear part of the building was sliding downwards. Two of the three Managua banks were destroyed. pied Anglo-South American bank dynamited by soldiers before the tire reached it and the Anglo-Central American Commerciel bank was burned to the ground. Hotel First To Go The Hotel Upone, headquarters of Pan-American Airways, was one of the first .structures to go.. Airport Manager Harry Rammer was in the office when the temblor was felt and rushed outside as the walls caved in. The American legation was burned and its entire files destroyed, Ellis M. Stevens, clerk at the legation, was sitting on the porch of Diedreci- tas Chalet when the quake came. He dashed away as the chalet slid into Asososca, lagoon. The United States marines and the Nicaraguan national guards were do- ing heroic work in attempting to quell the fire. Although carrying a head wound caused by a falling beam, Colonel Bradman worked throughout the night without a wink of sleep. Camp De Marte, where the marines ate barracked, was. transformed into a huge hospital, Returning from his-summer home Tuesday, President Moncada and part of his cabinet camped for the night outside the palace. He issued the following.statement Wednesday. “A state of siege has been declared in the department of Managua. The director of the national guard will undertake the task of caring for the People and guaranteeing properties. Food will be purchased at the expense of the government and distributed gratis. Committees‘ will be organiz- ed to relieve the poor and suffering.” It is believed the greater part of the deaths occurred at the public market where a huge” throng had gathered at the time of the first shocks. About 150 persons were killed at the National penitentiary. No Depredations Reported The American refugees gathered at, the marine-barracks where food and medical attention was supplied. Thou- sands of natives camped outside the city. Many of them wandered back ‘inte~the: streets-in-the ~ hape «of .re- |:¥! claiming. lost: possessions. _ Authori- ties posted orders that any one caught looting would be shot. No depreda- tions had been reported. All communications were severed except those of the ‘Tropical radio, operating from a plant outside the city. Workers of mercy were expected from many points. The U. 8. 8, Ro- chester left Panama for Corinto Tuesday night and the Salinas was expected to leave Wednesday with a cargo of food and supplies. Twenty- four army planes from Panama and five ships of the Pan-American: Air- | fee! ways from Miami, Fla., weré await- ed. It was planned to ship out all American women by air Wednesday. American Minister Hanna is ex- pected from Guatemala City by air to take charge of civil relief work until a representative of the Red oe can arrive from Washington, D.C. RELIEF RUSHING TO QUAKE-STRICKEN AREA | Washington, April ig irae can relief on wings sped We toward earthquake-smitten Mabnaain, Nicaragua. On the capital of the isthmus country army and navy forces were converging while a Red Cross official was on his way to the region. From the east came the aircraft, esrrier Lexington with more than 100 airplanes. At Coco Solo in the canal zone two navy transport planes awaited daylight. before their northward flight to. Managua.” Toward the western coast, nearer the scene, sped the crulser, Rochester, the hospital ship Relief, and the army transport Chaumont. The gunboat Sacramento stood by at Balboa the army subsequently joined sea forces in planning relief, After 2 conference, the American minister to Nicaragua, Matthew E. ‘Hanna, was asked to coordinate activ- ities until the arrival of Ernest J. Swift, acting director of ae and foreign affairs for the Cross. Swift is on his way to Nicaragua. For the time being, relief work was devoted Lebesipped to medical aid. As in all such disasters, outbreaks of lisease were feared, while the injured still needed- attention. Some assistance was expected from the marine corps hospital units in ee Tess than 200 miles to Managua. The navy department was advised she expected to have her first airplanes 2 the Capital City late Wednesday o: early Thursday. The Lexirigton has on board seven doctors and a goodly store of med- ical suplies, En route also to Corinto was the hospital ship Relief. She is less than three days from Managua. In the city, too, was @ relief detach- ment from the engineers’ group which is surveying the route of a proposed new carial across Nicaragua. Brothers Murder Case Might Go to Jurors ‘Thursday (Continued from page 1) ‘ clerk, who testified for the defense ‘Tuesday. Clarizio repudiated. “parts of the statement Tuesday, particularly. the part in which he was, quoted as say- alley after the shooting had “dark, black hair” and was 5 feet 10 or 11 inches. Clarizio said Captain Stege put the words in the statement’ for him but both Stege and Lane said it word. " The state launched a campaign’ of impeachment at defense ‘witnesses who said they saw the slayer of man. The first rebuttal witness was Ed- win J. Kelly, Kankakee, Ill, sales- man, who said: he--talked.to Paul Thorne, a defense witness, 45 minutes jafter the assassination of the police reporter. ‘Thorne, who admitted calling him. self the “star witness for the: de-/| ae when he was trying to sell his: of the Lingle story, hadisaid etwas a few'feet from ‘ “the entrance to the Randolph street pedestrian tunnel when a man ran out, Kelly testified that Thorne told i him the afternoon of the killing that he was “half a bleck” from the tun- hel entrance at the time of the kill- ing. Jury Probes Probes Death Of Rockne, Others (Continued “from. page one) having been carried away by souvent: seekers. Eighteen pouches of mat] were found intact in the twisted: wreckage and forwarded by train to Wichita. The cattle raiser testified it had not rained, in the vicinity Tuesday and there was no mist at the time of the accident. Blackburn said he could not esti- mate the distance the plane fell or the time the fall consumed. “I tell you, it was awful quick,” he told Harry C. O'Reilly, county at- torney questioning the witnesses. “When I heard the crash I got in my car, but finally had to abandon it, and go afoot. The wreckage was headed down in the ground. The bodies of passengers were strewn about the ground. Three or four were nearthe plane. The main por- tion of tne wreckage was in a radius of 300 feet. Wing Broken Square “The wing broken from the plane came.down a quarter of a mile away. It was broken off rather square across. The edge looked ragged. It ‘Yanded upside down. The glass in one of the plane's lights was unbroken.” Blackburn said he noticed no ice on the wreckage, saw some spilled ate ing the man he saw running up an | was Clarizio’s own version, word for | Lingle and that Brothers was not the | jated ‘This Associated Press telephoto shows President Herbert Hoover, in back seat with Gov. Roosevelt, Jr., entering the eity of San Juan, Porto Rico, United States’ Chief Executive a hearty reception. Porto Rica Society Girl To Wed Associated Press Photo Mary Van Rensselaer Cogewell, New York society girl whose e jus created something of a 1929, and Sigourney Thayer, theatrical producer, will be married March 28, gasoline, but no evidence. of fire. Coroner Jacob Hinden delayed the inquest, awaiting the arrival of ‘Ern- est McKenzic, an undertaker, who on the body of one of the pilots ‘and tickets which had been’ taken -from the passengers. R. 8. Bridges, traffic agent at Kan- sas City for the trans-continental and | Western Air Express, read the names one by one from the tickets. “Knute Rockne,” he read, and paused. The little’/Chase county court room instantly became quiet. Coroner Hinden read into the rec- ord evidence bearing upon identifica- tion of the victims, He said his iden- tification of all the bodies was posi- tive and was made chiefly from cards in their clothing. Jack Frye, vice, president of’ the transport company, in ¢ of op- jerations at Los Angeles, ‘landed ‘his monoplane near ‘the wrecked liner Wednesday paired and arrived in coarenee Falls time for the in- ques! Frye made a brief inspection before testify ing. “I have no opinion as to the cause “ the wreck at this time,” he told the jury. The officials testified the company’s planes were inspected as a matter of routine every 28-hours. He said the ill-fated craft had been in service a little more than a year. It is com- mon in Europe, Frye said, for such ships to remain in service nine years.’ Witnesses were questioned by Rob- ert Blackburn, son ofthe eye-witness to the crash, who is counsel for Ed- ward 8, Goldthwaite, father of one of; the victims. W. A. Stanley, attorney for the transport company, was present at the inquest, but declined to’ question Any of the witnesses. Bagagge Was. Limited The jury learned from’ ’’ Agent Bridges that each passenger was lim- ited to 30 pounds of baggage. Asked if this was a department of avanaugh and ¢ mite! jel, partner of John Jacob Astor in the \dentified the. passenger list.. found, Press Ph Theodore ins lined the streets and gave the commetce regulation, Bridges said: “As far as I am concerned, it is a limitation placed by the company.” The exact weight of the pay load appears ofi the ship’s manifest, Bridges testified. It came to light during the inquest that ore of the 18 pouches of mail carried by the plane was found be- neath the broken wing, which flut- tered to earth a quarter of a mile from the main wreckage. Other pouches were scattered about the ground. FIRE IS ELIMINATED AS CAUSE OF TRAGEDY Emporia, Kas., April 1.—(#)—The mangled fuselage of a giant plane, silhouetted on the top of a promon- tory in the desolate Flint hills and | surrounded by a horizon treeless and devoid of all signs of human habita- tion, is a fitting marker for the place Where Knute Rockne, Viking chief of football, met his death with five fellow passengers and two pilots of the tri-motored Fokker which crash- ed in the heart of the Flint hills Tuesday afternoon. Gaunt, sun-tanned cowboys, remin- iseent of the famous horsemen of | Notre Dame, galloped-to, the scene of | the disaster as the news spread, stood |mounted guard over the twisted | wreckage. They helped extricate the mangled bodies, half buried in. the earth with the twisted steel and aluminum of the plane, and tried i somewhat unsuccessfully to keep the fast-gathering crowd of morbid cur- ! tosity seekers from pulling it to pieces for souvenirs, Tn Cottonwood Falls, 10 miles gway, three telephone operators workéd to bring order out of the chaos of a frantic world eager for news. ;Air- plane officials, insurance .compan- jes, friends of Rockne and a movic company: for which he was'.making football pictures, pleading voices of wives and mothers, calls from almost every state in the union converged in, the. little frame tele- phone building. Not until nightfall, aid the crowd of curiosity seekers trudge. from the fallen-plane over the two-mile stretch Of soggy. prairie to their motor cars parked along the highway, bearing triumphantly pieces of fabric, strips of aluminum and odd pieces of the Plane of varying size and.importance. ‘The low-hanging cloud from which the shattered plane core, with # severed. witig fluttering. in its wale, drifted off over ‘the prairie carrying the secret of the trage Certainly it was not fire, for the | wreckage was not so-much as singed: Quite as certainly it was not ice, for, the weather, while chilly and damp, was far above freezing and the plane was flying low, as eye witnesses te the disaster heard the craft's muffled roaring from the lowering clouds, at least 10 minutes before they saw it crash into the heart of the Flint hills. x ‘Knute Rockne’s Viking ancestors, Who buried their fallen chieftains on a high promontory overlooking the Sea, could not have chosen a better resting place for the earl-king of the gridiron than this headland of the Flint hills which dominates the trackless prairie, rolling away like an ‘ocean of virgin sod°to an infinite horizon. MIGHT HOLD ROCKNE FUNERAL.NEXT South. Bend, Jnd., Al indications pointed ward burial of ‘Knute Rockne, Notre Dame's famous football coach, in South Bend next Wednesday but university officials deferred an- HOOSIERS CLAIM SHARE OF ESTATE - nouncement of their hopes and until the arrival of of his "widow arom the A dispensation from the Rt. Rev. John F. Knoll, Ft. Wayne, bishop of this Ea ‘would’ be necded 1° Rockne were: to be: buried before Monday, the end of Holy Week, as university officials wish to celebrate it with a high mass. Spring examinations were to’ end Wednesday at noon but the univer- sity dismissed all students Tuesday upon receipt. of the tragic news and. told them to return April 8. Puneral services will be held in the Sacred Heart church here where Rockne was baptized in the Catholic faith in October, 1925, His father is buried in Chicago, The Monogram club, composed of students who earned recognition in service to. the university in all lines of sports, will meet the funeral train at 11 o'clock Wednesday: night. Mrs. Rockne will arrive Thursdgy noon. Rockne’s body will lie in a downtown undertaker’s vault until taken to the Pe Haddin tes od ea hee oped ft ‘Two thoussnd students roneagner| low mass for Rockne Wednesda: train leaving at 9:15 p. m. for South Bend, . 4 Stil By B. P. HAGSTROM Walter Sundquist was a Wilton caller Tuesday, Marion and Leo Strand called at the Hagstrom home Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Richard, Mrs. Cora Richard and children -of Wilton were Sunday afternoon cellers at the Conrad Johnson home. Miss Hilda Ghylin assisted Mrs. Johnson with home work last week. Martin Strand and son Leo were Wilton callers Thursday. Mr, and“ Mrs, Edwin Johnson vis- ited Wednesday with Mrs. Signe Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. Benton Backman and sons called at the Tossgth home on Wednesday. Erick Pearson and Harry Triska called on Ole Hagstrom one day last week. Walter Sundquist .motored to Bis- marck Thursday. Miss LaVerna Houser and Hilma and Verner Johnson were Thursday visitors at the Conrad Johnson home, Martin Strand and son Leo were Regan cellers Friday. John and Ned Asplund called at the Martin Strand home Saturday evening. Pauline Hagstrom spent last week in Wilton with her sisters, Ingrid and Margaret Hagstrom, who are Wilton high school. students. Mrs, Peter Johnson and Mrs. Ed- win Johnsen were Wednesday calles at the John Law home. Ivah Noon was a Wilton caller on Thursday. Ida Tosseth called at the Eugenc Perkins home last week. Mrs. Albert: Johnson visited ‘Tues- day with Mrs. Walter Sundquist. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Falkenstein and son were visitors in Still Sunday. Mr, and Mrs. Albert Johnsch’and daughter were Sunday callers at the W. D. Perkins home. Mr. and Mrs, Edward Johnzon mo- > brother who er, Mrs. Charley Johnson, ‘who spent | King, the week with them. Mrs, Ed Broehl’ called on ‘Mrs. Signe Johnson Tuesday. Howard Watkins of near Regan was @ ‘caller gt. the Walter Sundquist ‘The Sunday School of Still opened Sunday and will continue throughout the summer every Sunday-at 10 a.m. George. John: Hags' Strand hauled. coal one day last week. . and Mrs. Peter Johnson were Clarence Standley of near boot ealled at the Martin’ Strand home Mr, and Mrs, Edwin Johnson mo- “Monday. ae Hagstrom hi Myrlin . Johnson visited Saturday with Leona Suni Conrad Johnson left Tuesday for fbi gel be Da edhe is seriously ill. {Gri} By MARGARET DAVIS ‘Victor Goleman is < quite ill at, this writing. noe Ida -Tosseth is visiting with her sister Mrs. Hugene Perkins for a few days, A.birthday party was held at the August Krause: home Saturday eve- ning for Miss Ella Krause. Mr. and Mrs. Benton Backman and children called on Mr, and Mrs. Nils Tossoth Sunday, A party was held *Zaturday evening at Henry Sunquists home. Marion Alm spent Saturday eve- ning visiting Alfred Anderson. Walter Coleman motored to Bis- marck Saturday afternoon after his sister Elsie, who attends high school in Bismarck. Elsie will spend her Easter ‘vacation with her parents. A birthday party was held for L. W. Davis Sunday afternoon. Thirty- five were present. Margaret Gill was absent Monday from school. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Holgerson, Mrs. Nils Alm and sons Marvin and Mar- ion, H. 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