The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 10, 1931, Page 1

4 we } 2 Ag Williams, widow of Earle Williams, bo WIDOW OF ACTOR ~~ SLAYS CHILDREN “MOTHER AND SELF * once was an inmate. “North Dakota’e Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1878 Had Become Discouraged over Loss of Small Fortune and Prospect of Poverty LETTERS GIVE EXPLANATION Contain Detailed For Burial of Family Instructions Tragedy Victims San Francisco, Aug. 10.—(7)—Vic- tims of what police said was a mur- der and suicide pact, Mrs. Florine stage and screen star, her two small children and her mother died by pol- son in their apartment here Sunday. Officers concluded that Mrs. Wil- liams and her mother, Mrs. Clarisse ‘Walz, 80, discouraged over the loss of | their small fortune and the akg of comparative poverty, along with Mrs. Williams’ children, | Joan, 7, and Billy, 4. { Mrs. Williams was unconscious ‘when neighbors broke into the apart- | ment and found the other three dead, ; but she died soon afterward. Police! said the actor’s widow evidently had Played the role of executioner. | In the room four letters were found | —letters in which Mrs.. Williams said} she could not go on longer and in which detailed directions for the fu- nerals and disposal of property were! siven. ki Each of the women had written | two letters. Mrs. Williams directed! her to Harry McKenzie, her attorney, | and Mrs. Madge Fish, ber landlady. To the attorney, she extended thanks for what he had done on her behall and to Mrs, Fish, she gave minute di- rections for the funerals of the four» She and the children, she said, were} to be cremated, while her mother’s ody was to be sent to Brooklyn. N. Y., for burial. 3 ‘Mrs. Waltz’ letters were addressed to Mrs. William Marcuse, New Or-| Jeans, La., & friend, and to her sister, Mrs. Blanche Weill, at Brooklyn, N.Y. | Injuries Are Fatal | _To Small Minot Boy Minot, N. D. Aug. 10—)— Francis Melville Benton, nine-year - old son of Mr. and Mrs, George Ben- ton of Minot, died late Saturday in| a Minot hospital after he had been run over by a truck in this city. | The boy’s severest injuries were in) his chest. Death was caused by a morrhage, according to the; report of s physician. It is believed) that a front wheel of the truck passed over his body. Rushed to @ hospital shortly after) six o'clock in the evening, the boy! died less than three hours later. The driver of the truck was Gilbert front of the machine. ! the authorities that he applied the, brakes the instant he saw the child, but was unable to avoid running him down. Funeral services will be held at 8t./ Tri-motored Plane Odell. Refuels Here Sunday Jimmy Mattern and Nick Greener, pilots of the refueling ship for the County Jail Opens to First Female Inmate Fi west county, scomteed eo Jearges of intaxication.and dlecrder- ly conduct when arraigned in police court Monday morning. The girl is ‘being held -while au- thorities endeavor to communicate with @ Montana institution where she Wisconsin Boy Hurt In Crash of Glider; ‘United States showing ‘SX MEET DEATH |Hughes, 22, Fort Thomas, Ky., sten- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1981 These, the first photos to reach the Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh after their penetration of the sub-arctic wilder- ness of northern Canada, depict their AS BIG AIRPLANE _-GRASHES IN OHIO Whirling Motor Tears Itself Loose and Pilot Fails to Re- gain Control of Ship Cincinnati, ©. Aug. 10—()—A pilot's desperate’ struggle to halt the head-long plunge of a tri-motored| airplane failed to prevent its crash here Sunday. and six persons were cartied to instant death. ‘The plane, bound from Cincinnati to Atlante, had just taken off from Lunken airport when the propellor of its right-side engine came off end &@ moment later the engine itself tore loose and hurtled tothe ground. Out of control, the big passenger plane started its death dive while Pilot M. T. Odell, 23, Cincinnati, turned over nose first, entire front end, and killed 4 ‘The victims were Miss Wrenna B. ographer; William E. Keith, Atlanta, . H. Brim- HE Newsboy Is He: Minneapolis Shoo ; Aug. 10.—()—A Kt f g ; shore of Hudson Bay, arrival at Churchill, Man. on the after a 751 mile dash from Moose Factory, Ont. The couple have since reached the Arctic ocean. In the upper picture their plane is being lashed to a dock) in Churchill’s new inner harbor; the lower photo shows them leaving their ship to be greeted by the town's 2,000 inhabitants. Northwest Co-op to Get Financial Help Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 10.—(?)— A plan to accept temporary financiai | aid from the Farmers National Grain corporation, federal farm board agency, was agreed upon here Sun- {day night in a session of directors of {the Northwest Grain association, with C. E. Huff, president of the Farmers National. Although officials were disinclined to discuss details of the agreement, it is understood that directors of the Northwest Grain association still are unwilling to agree to permanent fi- arrangements which would nancing involve the placing of the marketing facilities in the hands of the Farm- ‘ers National. LINDY IS HELD AT BARROWBY WEATHER Rain and Fog Are Bar to Fly- ing; Anne Is Getting Home- sick for Baby Ponit Barrow, Alaska, Aug. 10.—(P) | —Rain-swept skies and barriers of fog Monday delayed Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh from resuming their vacation flight to the Orient. For two days a storm had lashed Nome; their next scheduled stop 532 miles away, and late Sunday the bad Organization Lists Lindy as an Amateur New York Aug. 10.—(7)—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, the world’s most famous flier, is rated as an amateur by the newly formed United States amateur air pilots associat ition. The organization was formed to organize amateur aviators for Promotion of individual flying ‘and to secure for members more advantageous cover- ages. It describes a professional as one who is paid directly or indi- rectly for piloting or giving in- struction or who engages in the sale of planes or accessories. Ex- ception is made for executives of PREPARATIONS TO: ABANDON BSMARGK POST ARE HALTED Army Command at Washington | Gives no Reason for Ap- parent Change of Heart by regular army Preparations troops to abandon Fort Lincoln had) , been halted Monday and members of/ the local committee, campaigning to; prevent the evacuation of the post,/ were preparing to review the situa-| tion and determine any further ac- tion which may be advisable at this) time. i The order to abandon the fort, re- ceived July 31, was countermanded Saturday but no official explanation was given and officers of the post had no information as to the cause for) |the change in the announced plan. A Washington dispatch late Satur- day said high army officers said the movement of troops away from Fort Lincoln had been indefinitely post- poned but declined to comment as to the reason or to express an opinion as to whether the plans to abandon Fort Lincoln would be permanently MARTIAL LAW 1S Revolutionary Uprising Against’ Regime of Gerardo | Machado Fails 10.—(®)—Martial throughout Cuba Mon: i F ge s i ee i tii a g e | Hi? i i fe 3 i tk {Burial will take place at Cannonball ,of arrangements for bringing the body. DECLARED IN CUBA : Fair tonight and Tuesday; ‘Warmer Tuesday. PRICE FIVE CENTS Persons Dead in Murder-Suicide Pact [__he Lindbersts on the age of the retie _ WHITES AND INDIANS GATHER AT BIER OF "FAMOUS N. D, INDIAN Are Services at Cannonball Read Both in Indian and White Man's Tongues MAY BE BURIED IN CAPITAL Board of Administration Con- sidering Interment on State-Owned Ground Indian and white man, in whose councils he had stood as an influen- tial figure for more than a half cen- tury, were at Cannonball by the hun- Greds Sunday to do final homage to Red Tomahawk, reputed slayer of Sitting Bull, famous Indian medicine} man. Funeral services were read both in the language of his fathers and in the tongue of the people whose customs he had adopted. The body will be held at Cannon-| ball until Tuesday, pending outcome | of a movement to bury Tomahawk on the state capitol grounds here. should plans to inter the body at the capitol fail to materialize. The state board of administration; has been asked for permission to bury! Red Tomahawk, on the capitol grounds. A decision from the board) is expected by Tuesday. - Captain I. P. Baker, Bismarck, close friend of the old Indian for nearly half a century, is in charge here, His death, at the age of 82 removed one of the most colorful figures on the Standing Rock reservation where in 1890 he was among the Indian police Who sought to arrest Sitting Bull. Red_Tomahawk cla to haye fired the shot which killed noted chief. Born in Ta-can-rpi-luta, as Tomahawk was known to the Sioux, was born in Mon- tana territory in 1849 and as a youth developed a reputation as a fighter of Indians hostile to his tribe. He came with his’ tribe to the reservation here and became a sergeant in the In- dian police. | To Frank Zahn, interpreter on the! Standing Rock reservation, Red Tom- ahawk recounted his version of the battle in which Sitting Bull was} killed only a few years ago, after a) silence of almost 40 years. | The old Indian, for whom Zahn} acted as interpreter in his many deal- ings with federal authorities, claimed that two shots were fired at Sitting Bull. Tomahawk Sitting Bull’s log house, ordered him to dress; and to submit to arrest. | Sitting Bull, unarmed, called to his followers to kill leaders of the Indian Police, Lieutenant Bull Head, leader of the detachment, fired at the chief, | pi ard him in the chest. Toma- hawk, firing simultaneously, struck Sitting Bull in the cheek, and claimed his bullet caused death. of Cuba, is accused of leading the re- PREMIUM LIST F WHEAT PRODUCTION OFPIGALLY GIVEN + AT 86013000 BU. Figure Is Higher than Estimate Leading Figures In Cuban Revolt Made by Government Body A Month Ago CORN PREDICTION IS LOWER Decrease In Anticipated Yield Of Important Feed Grain Nearly 200,000,000 Bu. Washington, Aug. 10.—(®)—Corn Production this year, based on the condition of the crop August 1, was estimated Monday by the Department of Agriculture at 2,775,301,000 bushels, compared with 2,967,953,000 bushels indicated a month ago and 2,003,352,- 000 bushels produced last year. The country’s wheat crop, spring and winter combined, was estimated at 893,582,000 bushels as against 869,- 013,000 bushels indicated month ago and 863,430,000 bushels harvested last year. ‘The indicated production of the principal crops, based on their condi- tion Aug. 1, with the indicated pro- duction a month ago and the 1930 final harvest, was: Winter wheat 775,000,000 bushels, compared with 713,000,000 and 612,- 000,000. Durum wheat 23,000,000 bushels, — with 32,000,000 and 57,000,- Other spring wheat 95,000,000 bushels, compared with 124,000,000 and 194,000,000. Oats 1,170,000,000 bushels, compared with 1,306,000,000 and 1,358,000,000. Barley 221,000,000 bushels, compared with 267,000,000 and 335,000,000. Rye 36,200,000 bushels, with 38,300,000 and 48,100,000. Buckwheat 10,400,000 bushels, com- pared with 7,900,000 last year. Flaxseed, 13,800,000 bushels, com- GERARDO MACHADO Mario G. Menocal, former president| Volt against Gerardo Machado, pres- ent chieftain, which is disturbing the island. A PARTIAL VICTORY (An Editorial) Announcement that orders to prepare to abandon Fort Lincoln have been countermanded, made Saturday, constitutes 2 partial vic- tory for the forces which have been fighting to keep North Dakota's only military post occupied. But it is only a partial victory. Until the proposal to evacuate the fort is abandoned entirely the fight must be continued. In this war, as in all wars, the battle which must be won if success is to crown North Dakota’s banner is the last battle. The reasons which dictated cancellation of the “prepare to aban- don” order are still obscure and probably never will be known. But the weapons which North Dakota has available to it in its effort to obtain revision of the entire scheme are in plain sight. They fall into two classifications, The first is that of military Policy, since the needs and interests of the nation are paramount to those of a single state. But considered on the basis of sound national defense, there are few who will deny that an interested citizenry is the greatest single asset of the United States in time of national peril. Fort Lincoln, located in the center of the state and offering welcome each year to hundreds of boys attending the citizens’ mill- tary training camp, is the leaven which keeps working in the entire population throughout the year. It brings home to the people that there is-a national-defense problem and that, in time of war, the with 40,700,000 and 41,300,000. Hay, (tame) 17,600,000 tons, com- government will expect every able-bodied man to do his duty, It Pared with 79,100,000 and 77,800,000. keeps constantly before the citizenry the thought that war always ancemenn ‘with 22,700000 and a1 - fa & possibility and thus, through the memory of other wars, | 900,000. : : strengthens the desire for peace. There may or may not be technical Apples, 218,000,000 bushels compared” military reasons for concentrating troops in certain areas, as the ‘with 211,000,000 and 164,000,000. war department proposes, but whatever they may be, they are over- wit Sanne i balanced by the fact that the attitude and spirit of the people sre Pears 24,100,000 bushels, the most important factors in any national crisis, with 24,400,000 and 27,600,000. The war department may have recognized this fact and tesued Potatoes 371,000,000 com its order on that basis. But it is more probable that the department was advised by persons high in authority that no good end could be served by being hasty or arbitrary in the matter and that the result might be dis- astrous, both to the war department and the political party which has supervision over it. This leads directly to the second classification of available wea- Pons. The people of North Dakota have arrived at the point where they are disposed to judge political groups on their records, rather than on the sweet-sounding things they may say. The record for the administration would be materially smirched in North Dakota if it permitted abandonment of Fort Lincoln, a direct slap at the whole state, to be carried out. It should not be forgotten that North Dakota, usually rock-ribbed Republican, helped to elect Wilson in 1916. Another factor is the possibility of violent opposition in congress when the war department’s appropriation bill comes up again. Such @ flagrant breach of faith as would be involved in the evacuation of Fort Lincoln and such s woeful waste of public funds as would be demonstrated thereby, might well bring the entire record and activities of the department under close scrutiny. Those are things which could happen and which probably will happen unless the order to “cease preparations” is made permanent. bushels, pared with 396,000,000 and 343,000,000. Sweet potatoes, 80,700,000 bushels, © compared with 74,100,000 and 62,200,- Sugar Beets 7,200,000 tons, com- Pared with 7,570,000 and 9,200,000. The. condition of the various crops on August 1 was: Corn 76.3 percent of a normal; du- rum wheat 40.1, other spring wheat 81. ghums 75.9, hay (tame) 71, 63.7, beans (dry edible) 748, 68.9, peaches SECRETARY HYDE'S ~ VISTING BSMARCK Bismarck and North Dakota have won a partial victory. Nothing | Head of Agriculture Department should be left undone to cement this gain and make the victory final. Talks with Shafer About Drouth Relief Wool Assembled Here Totals 210,000 Lbs. During the last few weeks, mem- bers of the Missouri Slope Wool Pool assembled in Bismarck approximately 210,000 pounds of wool for shipment. to eastern markets, H. O. Putnam, Arriving here after a personal in- spection tour of the drought area of northwestern North Dakota, Secretary of Agriculture Hyde Monday FLOWER SHOW HA 14 CLASSIFICATIONS Annuals, Perennials, Gladiolus, 11008 pouns a Dahlias to Be Features | teigh one erie raed Of Bloom Exposition 4 ot man, releasing a classified list for exhibi- tors. .The groups will include an- nuals, perennials, gladiolus, and various flower z ; g g ft petite! i ii i i . i 3 ? di af 2 i att A ; E £3 s f l iF Hi