The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 25, 1937, Page 1

b peeve. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper The Weather , Fair and not so cold to- night; Tuesday unset- PRICE FIVE CENTS Through this huge gap ripped in Beechmont levee, Cinzinnati, by the Ohio ri roaring torrent poured down on lowlands, converting them into a shallow port. greatest deluge in Cincinnati's history. Most of the city was high and transportation was seriously affected. Even on the higher land seen in the background the water rose to tled and not so cold, ’s pounding flood waters a ind inundating Lunken air- threatening level, in the third dry, with business as usual, but Flames Add to Terror of Flood JUDGE DISMISSES Take Straw Vote On Salary Hikes 20 Killed... Bismarck Hunters, Unre- WELFORD ATTEMPT No Provision Under Law to Per- mit Such Action, Jan- sonius Asserts District Judge Fred Jansoni Simoanct: matpetig mie “deat be brought by Welford, Judge Jan- sonius ruled, because Welford was not directly interested in the outcome of the case. In the event Langer lost the case, Lieut. Gov. T. H. Thoresen would succeed to office and not Wel- ford, the Burleigh county judge pointed out. In the action, brought in a civil suit by Welford as a private citizen, it was charged that Langer violated paign exceeding expenditures. ‘The suit was filed in behalf of Wel- ford by C. Liebert Crum, Bismarck attorney. E E | tr Fever [ 4 i E FEE u g 5g. Ford Firm Given B Tax Rebates by U.S.| 82 Legislative Committeemen in Favor of Increases for College Teachers A tentative “straw vote” Oh & three-sided submitted — to, propriations In the senate 11 of 17 members fav- ored ‘increases. wl The “straw vote” came on the qués- tion of whether the educators should be granted no salary increase or one of 5 per, cent or of 10 per cent, Senator-committee members voted for no increase 6; five per cent in- crease 8; and 10 per cent increase 3, while among representatives the vote was none for 10 per cent increase, 6 for 5 per cent increase and nine For pone wi cour ornare ver 00 vere Tt was pointed out by some repre- sentatives that any increase would be fractional because the state appro- priations are i pepiy: = aan poet Appropriations at Valley City, Mayville and Minot were studied at a meeting of the sen- ae ‘sppropriations committee Mon- 50 per cent of would be able Need need ‘for a new lUbrary building Valley”City. “The and by companion chamber. Levelling. its critical spotlight how departments used 1935 legislative appropriations, the Saturday adopted a resolution intro- duced by Senator William Watt ae Sompnding sas from the state salary increase” th North’) Dakota's institutions. of higner edu-|> 31 Trapped as Vehicle Plunges mre! i-attess octal security board st Washington, D. In Bus Dive... Off Florida Highway Into Deep Canal Miami, Fla., Jan. 25—(?)—A motor bus overturned in a canal alongside the Tamiami trail about 30 miles west of here Monday and the Negro por- ter, Robert Singleton, reported 20 of the 31 passengers were killed. Singleton said the right front wheel broke, the big bus Jurched from side to side, rolled over twice and toppled into the deep canal which parallels the highway through the calling for his wife, who sppereny was trapped beneath the water. - An ambulance driver returning |" with four”bodies described the acci- dent as “the worst I ever saw.” ‘The crews of a fleet of ambulances extricate the victims. Men dived be- neath the water and emerged with bodies, which they held dragged them out. until the jfore ropes WEBSTER FARMER {S| ¢ N. DS 4TH FREEZING FATALITY OF WINTER ported Since Sunday Morn- ing, Are Located rae North Dakota's fourth freezing fatel- ity this winter was recorded Monday az t the state remeined far whey “Siep na aby Ue travel vel following Sundays les Frederick McNamara, 30, Wel farmer, died of exposure at a Devi within a mile of his home Sunday morning. It is believed he became exhausted from shoveling snow when his car became stranded, re-entered the car to rest and finally went to sleep. His frozen body -was found later in the morning by his wife. Two Bismarck hunters, who were be- Meved to have been lost in Sunday's storm, were located brs farm south of Mandan. The pair, Louie Weiman and John Jackwitz, left Bismarck be- tween 11 and 11:30 a. m., Sunday by automobile. Later in the day when their auto- mobile became stuck in a drift, they sought refuge in # nearby farmhouse and remained there overnight. Feel- ing concern for their safety, friends here had broadcasts put out over the radio and it was after that that a report of their whereabouts was tele- Pppee Sheriff Fred oak up by a 24-mile-an-hour wind, blowing from the northwest, the snow piled high in new drifts and base ele toads throughout west- orth Dakota. The storm reached the height of its intensity in the Dick- inson vicinity. -18 in Bismarck the night the temperature drop; to 18 degrees below zero at ithe federal weather bureau station in Bismarck and went two degrees lower after 7 p. m., Monday morning be- a slow rise. Minot and Williston, each with 24- degree-below-zero readings, were the Officers received reports that the|two coldest points in the state over- bus was traveling 40 to £0 miles an night. hour at the time of the accident. Federal Agency Will Open Offices in City District offices of the social security will be established in Bismarck building, Third and Broadway, according to in- formation received from Taylor H. Mee Freight Locomotive o ccdcetocs rocaloione ot Derailed Due to Cold; tax commis- Devils Lake had a -22, James- town -21, Grand Forks -19 and Fargo 14. Girl Quad on Diet of Hot Milk and Water Montreal, Jan. 25.—(#)—Tiny Maria Rita Rondeau, only survivor of quad- ruplets born last week to Mrs. Ar- cade Rondeau, at St. Thomas, was reported: improved Mondey at S8t.| boat Justine hospital. Her two brothers and sister died shortly after they had been brought 40 miles over icy roads in an ambulance. The surviving baby 4s on a diet of hot milk and water. | Cincinnati Firemen Fight Oil Fire; 500,000 Are Homeless in 12 States; __ Heavy Rains Intensify Catastrophe LOUISVILLE FIGHTS FUTILELY AS RIVER CLIMBS STEADIL he Communication Systems Col- Torrents, Fire, Hunger and Disease Tormenting Millions; Worst Yet to Come; Fear- _ Maddened Convicts Shot Down PME ems (By the Associated Press)” Heavy rains beating down on the mountain watersheds of Pennsylvania and West Virginia brought a threat of still higher ra ag tod to despairing Ohio river valley dwellers, beset fire, hunger and disease. yank as Cincinnati firemen battled destructive floating oil fires and officials urged evacuation of Louisville, Ky., and lapse as Power Houses Fail |Cairo, Ill, word came that pelting rainfall was driving the in Stricken City Louisville, Ky. Jan. Allegheny and Monongahela rivers toward flood stage again at their confluence with the Ohio upstream in Pittsburgh. The added menace intensified a catastrophe which prompted 3 — Yellow debris-laden waters of the|President Roosevelt Sunday to augment Red Cross resources Ohio river swirled higher and higher| with those of army, navy, coast guard, WPA and CCC on vir- Monday oyer this flood Lgbinnlno tually a wartime basis. Ohio river section, and misery to thousands. Louisville struggled valiantly but suey, ees the unprecedented wal Already approximately 500,000 persons were homeless in Gece 12 flood states, the death total stood unofficially at about 70— including 15.Kentucky convicts reported killed in rioting—and the rampaging waters headed toward new fields for destruc- By using power from a pecan tion in the vast Mississippi river valley, pumps at one city water pum; station were placed in operation early Monday, Mayor Neville Miller an- nounced. He said enough water would be available through the day for fire departments only, but expressed be- lef a limited supply would be given the entire city Tuesday on a ration basis, The city’s reserve power was tapped Saturday, but the entire water system failed Sunday night. A river stage of ST feet will submerge the pumps. collapse of communication The Ohio climbed to 542 feet—| General Motors corporation pro- over 26 feet above flood Weather Forecaster J. L, Kendall pre- dicted a further two-foot rise by|Teopen some plants as its executives nightfall. From Frankfort came unverified/ington Wednesday for a peace con- reports that 15 convicts were killed|rerence with automotive strike lead- at the state reformatory in rioting among white and rch One hundred of the most paeloeet William K. Naylor, com- the fifth corps ares, was (Continued on Page Two) Death Described — By Crash Victim ment” was given Monday by Theodore Prins of Aberdeen, who -was pro- nounced clinically dead for five min- 5 desperate At the corporation’s office in De- Farmers carrying ‘shotguns stopped U. 8. army engineers seeking to re- lease Mississippi river waters into the Birds Point-New Madrid, O., flood- way in order to save Cairo, Ill, Na- tional guardsmen -were to aid the engineers, Fear-maddened white and Negro convicts rioted: in the flooded state reformatory at Frankfort, Ky., and GENERAL MOTORS PLANS TO REOPEN SOME CAR PLANTS Corporation Awaiting Summons to Peace Conference at Washington An accurate check was impossible be- cause the bodies sank in’ six feet of water covering the prison floor and grounds. Prisoners were removed by Doeiaito wbaiy omni Martial law was in force through- out the flood belt of Southern In. diana. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend di- rected relief authorities to comman- deer trains and trucks to transport about 55,000 refugees to cities as far, north as Indi 5 Downstream from the ravaged Ohio-Indiana-Kentucky sector river cee said the worst was yet to rorector W. J. Moxom of the gov- ernment forecasting service seid it might be 10 days or two weeks fore the Ohio's crest met the Missis- sippi river at Cairo, Ill. Calling the roll in the flood Tllinols—The mayor of Cairo, lation 12,000, proclaimed that women, children and feeble evacuate immediately. The stage was more than 58 feet, wil two feet of the city’s sea wall Levee workers gave up trying to (By the Associated Press) ceeded Monday with preparations to ‘awaited & summons to meet in Wash- troit it was said no statement would be made on the request until official & ce Knudsen, executive vice- eral Motors, said he to return 95,000 of the l i s g é jens. The state’s homeless totaled 20,000. Pennsylvania and West Virginia— U. 8. Weather Observer W. 8. Brotz- man said rains which washed snow into tributaries of the Allegneny and Monongahela might push the conflu- ence stage at Pittsburgh back to the 33 feet of last week, when hundreds evacuated. Panic-stricken residents! of the Parkersburg, W. Vs., district continued evacuation after ® warning that the Ohio might climb to 60 feet. ‘Tennessee—Memphis expected a 46) foot river stage. A central relief de- pot was established for 5,000 homeless. Workers began evacuation of 300 flood-besteged residents of Black Is- land in the Mississippi river. Arkansas—The St. Francis river poured through a levee near Tru- mann, flooding 90,000 acres. Floyd Sharp, WPA administrator, said 3,000) families were in refugee camps and 15,000 more on their way. An ice storm caused $10,000,000 damage to timber and $500,000 to highways. Frost Again Menaces California’s Groves i! é 4) i : : ie t sere "WATER SHORTAGE MENACES FLOODED, BLAZING CINCINNATI Broken Trolley Wires ignite . Oil-Laden Water Causing Huge Blaze Will Be found on \Fage 2, Ohio, legs 3) ter Cincinnati's Tell Maoday into the grip € 8 grave wat With it arose ® new threat to the health of « city one-seventh flooded, in ca) by an Ohio river swollen 28 feet above stage. that water would be available only 15 or “4 ate a to oly A HEH HOLeE OUR Tod onser City Manager C. A. bray city, in which 66, one guard estimated 15 were killed. | poses, (Continued on Page Two) TWON, D. PERSONS ACCIDENTALLY SHOT Condition of Dr. Walter Toepke of New Salem Is Said Not to Be Serious E g 5 i a iff li cell rr cree aul iy Eis E y s i a Pl] iF ee I iy i Hi i f ts [ [ a] obe € i 83 itl} 5 EB i | . HL i a3 i