The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 25, 1931, Page 1

, North Dakota’s * i -~@ Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather Partly cloudy Saturday night and Sunday; cooler Sunday. ESTABLISHED 1878 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1981 PRICE FIVE: CENTS | New Courthouse Is Dedicated | 27 | Killed As Flames Sweep: Home for Aged |New Heat Record | INVADE PLACE OF HAVEN AND REFUGE One of Victims of Frightful Holocaust at Pittsburgh, ¥ @. Pa., Was a Nun 216 ARE IN HOSPITALS More Deaths Feared as Result of Shock and Injuries to 1 Infirm Inmates ) Pittsburgh, Pa, July 25—(?)— ‘Twenty-seven persons, 26 of them be- Y° BW tievea inmates of the Little-Sisters- one a nun, were burned to death, and! y ) 216 others are in hospitals, victims of | "fire tnat turned the haven into a/ place of horror and suffering Friday| night and early Saturday. The coroner’s office reported 15 persons still were unaccounted for, but the ruins had been searched thor- oughly, dissipating belief that more had died in the flames. Twenty-six bodies, only three of them identified definitely more than 12 hours after the fire was discovered, were in the county morgue. Physicians feared the shock of ter- aA tor and confusion among the aged ~ would increase the number of fatali-| ties. Many of them were calm and helped their fellow inmates as the fire raged through the home, but later * DP collapsed when the danger was past. | One of the aged victims died Satur- day. a Fire Chief Richard L. Smith esti- mated the property Saeee today at: '. between $45,000 and $50,000. ' : Wall Bars Entrance | 4 _ The alarm came from outside and ~ heavy barred gates and a high stone/ wall faced those who sought to warn inmates and their protectors. Once warning was given, chaos ruled. The few nuns, the staff of the home, struggled to lead to safety those of the 250 patients—145 men and 105 swomen—they could reach, Of the in- anates themselves, the stronger helped ‘the weaker; those who could strug- *{gled from window to window. crying for rescue; those whose infirmities ‘pinned them to their rooms, followed Vibe ple of blind Mrs, Mary Kline, “dropped on my knees and a 4 ‘to God,” and many of them : ved, le, firemen battered down the vheavy gates to get in their Suntneee fought Stutilely for a time to maintain y’ {against the walls ladders that burned ‘as they were reared, and then turned inge nets, frantically calling to the } prisoned to leap for their lives, Even before firemen reached ‘the ‘borhood in which the home stood had, led the walls and begun restue/ ‘c. Before fierce heat drove them back they raced into the burning ture, bearing out the helpless. heat within frustrated them, formed human chains on fire ypes, passing old men and. women, | 4 to the other until the ground was ed. Emergency Aid Given the wide lawn below, physicians nurses from throughout the city d their tasks. Nearly all those ~ ee poe required treatment of ' cary nn en without, priests gave Jast sacrament to the dying at the tt of the four-story table institution. Whatever the of-the-Poor Home for the Aged and} | ‘scene, scores of the men of the neigh- if \ ew Burleigh Courthouse and Men Who Built It "J HORROR AND DEATH. [L__Sew Bereta ourioue A. C. ISAMINGER VICTOR MOYNIER FIVE PERSONS DIE AS PLANE CRASHES AT MINNESOTA LAKE Cass Lake, Minn. July 2—(P)}—| Five persons were killed Friday night when the airplane in which they were , flames soon raged throughout structure. By the time today, and pictures of the men. who were for its construction. ny their work the cupola aa tape collapsed, rescuers below. headway had the fire gained ‘al hope of saving the building abandoned. concentrated on firemen, “every man who could ‘fire lines quickly established. On ‘t Tce. nine semana 6 Soe d =e Miller, rae and Barker to| manager’ New Mill Commission he eee of the ae POUR NONPARTISANS Frazier, ‘Nye, Sinolair, and Lar- kin on Program in City Ae is i i B 4 et E in i i +s another vehicle, of four: wes | pinned May be ALEX MACDONALD, PIONEER OF SLOP, DIES FRIDAY NIGHT Prominent North Dakota Poli- ticlan Stricken in Glencoe After Long Illness Alexander MacDonald, 71, one of the state’s most widely known plo- neers, died at his farm home near ‘an illness of 28 months. Stricken with cancer in April, 1928, MacDonald made a gallant fight against the ravages of the disevse and up until two weeks ago was up and about every day. Aware that his death was imminent, he left instructions relative to his fu- neral and burial with his family three weeks ago. MacDonald was prominent as & political figure and livestock raiser for many years. He came to North Dakota in 1883 where he settled on ranch in Emmons county near Glen- coe. With him were three other Scots, the Campbell brothers, raised with MacDonald at Campbelltown, Scotland, who were later to become prominent as large scale livestock Men in North Dakota. Was State Senator Long a power in political affairs in the state, MacDonald had served as state senator from Emmons county for many years and was land com- missioner under Governor John) 99. Burke from 1907 to 1912. Honorary pallbearers will be Judge Congressman Thomas Adolph Giovononoi, Clark Crawford, Wallace Kyes and Gus Bens. Besides his widow, MacDonald leaves two son and two daughters and eight grand children. His children are Donald, Braddock; William, Glen: coe; Mrs. Florence Tracy, Braddoc! and Mrs. William Robinson, Glencoe. A daughter, Caroline, died during the influenza epidemic in 1918. | Funeral services will be conducted jat the Glencoe church Sunday at 2:30 p. m. Burial will be made in the family lot in the Glencoe ceme- Get First License In New Courthouse marck, were the first couple to obtain a marriage license in ie new courthouse, according County Judge I. C. Davies, a issued the license Friday after- noon. The couple were married by Rev. W. A. Baker at his home, 807 Fourth St. The bride has been enslave in the Cowan drug store and Mr. Hansen is with the Montana- Dakota Power company. iFrench Doubles Team Defeats English Pair Roland Garros Stadium, Auteuil, July 25.—(?)—France today took a lead of two matches to one over England in defense of the Devis Cup, international tennis trophy, as Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon defeated the lish youngsters, George Hughes and Charles Kingsley in the doubles, three sets to one. The 7 | i i i | ty il i dH i ; z Hi 4 / gf rely ue i = HI 5 ag Fx ii d Ei f ae 8 L-year-old_ i Glencoe at 8:20 p. m. Friday following | Set Here’ Temperature Goes Above 90-; Degree Mark for 19th Day This Year in Bismarck NO RAINFALL IN SIGHT YET Only Five Points in State Re- ported Maximums Under 100 Degrees Friday Temperature Saturday went above 90 degrees for the 19th day this year in Bismarck as North Dakota and the northwest entered its second day of a new heat wave. The mercury registered 103 here at 1:15 p. m. In the normal year, maximum tem- Peratures of 90 degrees or above are recorded only on 15 days here, ac- cording to officials of the U. 8. wea- ther bureau. Thus a new heat record for the year is in prospect since an- other week of July La all of August, normal hot months, rei No immediate rainfall is in sight and weather men promise only “cool- er” weather Sunday. Saturday morn- ing’s forecast for Bismarck and North Dakota said “partly cloudy tonight and Sunday; cooler Sunday.” Mercury got off to a flying start Saturday morning when the tempera- ture rose from 66 to 83 degrees above between 7 and 9:30 o'clock here. Only five points in North Dakota Friday reported maximum tempera- tures of less than 100 degrees. They were Pembina, 87; Grand Forks and Lisbon, 97; Hankinson, 98, and Oakes, Four deaths were reported from Phoenix, Ariz. Friday, as the result of temperature reaching 114 degrees. At El Cen‘ro, Calif. a sunbeaten ex- panse being reclaimed from the desert, Paul W. Robert, 36, succumbed to heat prostration. Fessenden was the hottest point in the state, with a maximum reading of 108. Other recordings in the state Friday follow: Dickinson, 107; Max and Minot, 106; Drake, Dunn Cen- ter, Napoleon, Beach and Hettinger, 105; Jamestown, Williston, Bottineau and Carrington, 104; Bismarck, Cros- by, Devils Lake and Ellendale, 102; Amenia, 101, and Larimore and Wishek, 100. Low temperatures during the night ranged from 57 at Minot to 71 at Lis- bon and Napoleon. It was 66 in Bis- marck. ‘With crops of all descriptions be- ginning to suffer from the dearth of rainfall, drought conditions were ag- gravated as the hot sun beat down steadily Saturday. Dudley Shoots Great Keller Club, St. Paul, Minn., July 25—(7)—Ed Dudley, Wilmington, Del. ripped up the Keller course with a great 65, seven shots under par, Sat- urday to lead at the half way mark of the 72-hole $10,000 St. Paul open golf championship with 136. Harrison “Jimmy” Johnston of 8t. Paul scored a sensational 66 to total 139 strokes, five shots under par. Golf to Lead Field)", INEW STRUCTURE I FORMALLY OPENED FOR USE SATURDAY Many Pioneers of Distriot At- tend Ceremony; Crowds Inspect Building VISITING OFFICIALS HERB Spirit of Early Settlers Lauded by Governor, Mrs. Quain, Lenhart in Talks Burleigh county's new courthouse was dedicated hago afternoon at ceremonies here attracted hundreds in spite aw temperatures well over the hundred mark. Among those present for the pro- gram were many of the county's pio- neers, who were seated at chairs placed at a vantage point near the speakers’ platform. A number of visiting county of- ficials, here in response to invitations extended by the board of county com- missioners, were also present at the ceremony. Thayer avenue in front of ths Little Waste Space Found in er eat Inspect Building Following the ceremones, many of the the court- othe Dew courthouse” the governor jsaid. “is an index of the development jot titty, years of North Dakota his- tory. It is symbolic of the high stan- Five Bismarck Boys Will Pick Strong Branch Next Time They Perch in Tree g| ft Halliday Child Killed in Accident igi i