The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 25, 1937, Page 2

ez eae a A a IRS I THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1987 Cincinnati’s Worst Flood--From the Air MSTRICT Standard Oil, Crosley Radio Corporation Plants Razed by Flames By W. W. HERSCHER Cincinnati, Jan. 25—(7)—The smoke of $1,800,000 or $2,000,000 fire cleared to reveal Cincinnati's Mill lustrial district a flood-rid- Gen area of charred buildings. 1 walked ee slushy streets to make one of the first surveys of the stricken territory since firemen got the flames under control. Backwaters of the Ohio river lapped at the pavement half a block away; the sme! burned petroleum filled the air for miles around. beyonea d_ city ronets, ani lenged me at every b creek district. n, armed with men l= in the Nuewspapermen and maintenance em- pores ‘of factories—were permitted ond the lines. A of smoke still arose from a burning warehouse of the Standard Oil company. Fifty firemen poured a ane of water into the front of the building to prevent burning fuel alts sweeping across the street main piding of the Crosley Radio think we've got it licked,” As- Chief payee Sherwood To id to my left was the stubborn fire in the Standard oil oegundry buildings all around me still smouldered as firemen prowled through them. An olive-drab sheet of water stretched more than a mile across the valley, revealing only the upper stories of its industrial buildings and the brick red tops of freight cars. CONTINUED) from page ‘one. Take Straw Vote On Salary Hikes The senate passed three bills Satur- day, including repeal of a law prohibit- |} —£_—_____—_ ing smoking in public places, & $26,400! Stray of Mountrail county who said appropriation to the state seed depart-|the “bone of contention is between ment, and providing for burial of] the oil and lignite men.” honorably discharged soldiers, sailors} “Let's let the big companies go drill . for oll—if they get a dry hole its their In the house only two bills were} money lost; if they don't it’s to our passed, establishing rules and regula-| penefit,” he said. tions governing oi] and gas wells, and Twichell Speaks Up eppropriating $1,900 for clerk hire and! Rep 1. L. Twichell of Cass com- expenses of the state procurement of-| mented that the pipe lines necessarily “we Id Speed Introductions ~ could only serve big communities and ond power plant failed, forcing the from Dayton and Indianapolis. ~ Power Necessary Police said if lines failed to the outside, the city would be at the mercy of flood and fires as the police telephone and redio system and the fire department telephone and bax signal system are supplied from elec- tric lines, City Manager C. A. Dykstra was notified by H. C. Blackwell, presi- dent of the Cincinnati Gas and Elec- tric Co., that his concern had secured only 35,000 kilowatts of current from Dayton and Indianapolis. As the swollen Ohio, fed by Jan- vary rainfall which already has to- PRECIPITATI arck Statlo dent Roosevelt offered government &s- sistance. Rain, which poured down for more than e dosen hours Sunday, stopped Sunday night after more than two inches had been recorded. Meterol- ogist W. C. Devereaux said’ the rise was “Blowing slightly ahd no more precipitation was expected. sources and would be used by the Public buildings “only when its use results in an advantage to. the tax- payers.’ ‘Morland declared the law would put both the industries on an “even basis” and received su t-| found ourselves in the water.” Olt Feeds Flames Barrels of oil and sagging gasoline ot | tanks fed the flames. At one time BISMARCK, clear .,. Devils Lake, clear Williston, cl Fj own, clear. Grand Forke, clear WEATHER AT OTHER POINTS ee Hie ‘ es! ‘The stream had mounted more than recorded quoted the president as saying in long distance telephone conversation. PARAMOUNT _ Today & Tuesday The screen’s most exciting lovers— together at last! dict when the river would reach a crest or at what height, but river- men expected the water's rise to halt about Wednesday. Reichstag Summoned To Hear Nazi Review cl 4 clear -4 clear 24 28 Pi Qu’Appelle, Sas! Rapid City, 8 Berlin, Jan. 25.—(®)—Members of| Se "foule’ Mo the German reichstag were sum-/ Salt moned Monday to meet in Berlin 5 Saturday, the fourth anniversary of the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and national Socialism. Adolf Hitler will deliver a review of Nasi its during his regime, officials announced, and is expected to make a pronouncement on Nasi foreign policy. Purther decrees in 's cam- paign for national self-sufficiency probably will be disclosed before the parliament, meeting in its first ses- sion since March 7, 1935. LIQUOR BILL READY Rising majestically over a scene of watery desolation and devastation, the towers that f line provide the bac! id to this remarkable photo taken from a plane wi squat, snow-covered factory and office buildings resemble so many little islands in overflowed from the Ohio, Taken from above Covington, Ky., across the river, the picture affords right, still dry above the swollen river, dips quickly into water-logged Broadway. CONTINUED rt CONTINUED amneisa Weather Repo: es panieciiged: by. tae For Bismarck and vicinity: aen-| Menaces Flooded | the Climbs Ste: adily erally fair and not so cold tonight; 9 duction in the legislature be fled f if ; cast and south, incronelng cloudiness With the secretary of state 25 days be-|!U8 up @ new avenue for revenue if/ en route here to survey the situation blaze along a three-mile front de- ‘ such resources are Gyaeeth aqcord- tonight; tuesday unsettle ae 4 stroyed $1,500,000 to $2,000,000 in Gebate over @ bill to per-| “Action on the concurrent resolution | “heirman of the Srerigen Tes Gross, | south portione. ne ek property * mit use of North Dakota or oil | pledged full support o: organiza-| “For South D: : Pal: t_ so | ever, expressed confide: ie te ‘ a introduced in the house by Kenneth a Eee cold weet portion tonight: “Tassday | der concol, set lele ‘where it serves to the advantage of es ‘ood supplies dw! led rapidly ani $ the taxpayer,” ‘marked an otherwise |Win’ Scortens ‘nnd ‘Twicnelly for siudy Louisville police were ordered “shoot | ‘“Icr montana: Snow west, unsettled only foodstuffs, drug stores and 5 » a en places operat as the river The proposal, introduced with five! amendment be submitted the voters. By dusk Sunday—after almost 24] Warmer tonight and — extreme east companion ‘bills’ by Reps. The amendment would make it| hours of a constant downpour—calls! For Minnesota: Fair, colder to-|& aoe i oe 80-foot hand predicted i offic! lor Monday night or Tues- of Bowman; C. M. Peterson of Ren-|tion with the secretary of state 25| mately 3,000 persons fought through] {ions Tuesday, increasing cloudiness, ‘ ville and C. P. Rgtter of McIntosh-\days before a» legislative assembly | rain and over slippery streets to reach ae eae boats, och mie a ane : yO! persons, reso! un- be up for final action Monday Called Impractical trains carried the refugees to Indiana, WEATHER CONDITIONS Debate in the house centered on|) majority Floor Leader Godwin] towns that offered shelter. © Great Laites,Feelon and over, the spota as the tons of floating buld- jomeless far Northwest, Calgary 29.94 incl » TOO! , in some cases, the dustries, when Rep. L. R. Burgum of |lution be withheld until Monday, and| Mayor Miller asked citizens to leave| While ® high pressure area over! f ‘Stutsman sounded the motion for in- | was seconded by Twichell who said the | i¢ they possibly could. He estimated] mucca 30.48 inchés. The tempera- Total damage from flood and fire proposal me spades ture dropped considerably from the ]Mounted toward the $7,000,000 mark. Feasons.” ‘The motion was adopted. | urs at 200,000—nearly three-quarters | Rocky Mountain slope and the read- upon the right of Among eight new bills introduced | of the city's population. ing was 44 degrees” below. zero, at “n industry older than statehood and tax laws committee to reduce the mile- ings continued Jeopardize the lignite industry,” he |age of state and county officials from Hasetet Ae ee Yaz] wont. | Light precipitation . 5 Lak a to thi th Burgum asserted that the mining | Which would be cut from 10 to 8 cents persons of efforts to relieve them, Pacific e moe a ‘ ' nue i nm barometer, Incl = r within ee state and to 5 cents outside Virtually all fire-fighting equlp- ation Reduced interest rates are sought in three bills, defining interest in 36 flood waters in low sections cut off area after area. Danger from influ- fixing the legal rate of interest at 2 r cent; and limiting interest on|ed due to lack of proper tood, and| x; ee exhaustion. Total, January ist to date 2 per cent annually without com- Pound interest. scale. Thousands recelved typhoia| Accumulated exceas_to bs : inoculation from emergency stations NORTH DAKOTA POINTS Antofagasta, Chile, Jan. 25.—(—| ““on), & ly vague and meager reports Fifty-eight workmen and two engl-| -.ne trom the state but the known & catastrophe at the Chuquicamata mines Chile Explorati: = Wire Offices Swamped of she = DR oo Telegraph and telephone exchanges quired to complete calls. Most tele- grams and telephone calls never ° ° At Augusta, Ky., 1,500 of 1,800 resl-| Boise, Idaho, . Premiere Showing Wed, Jan, 27 ]-ieret mm) ; "9 ad a series of islands separated by broad One Day Only - - - - Two Shows ras - ugees were stranded because of @ i: ; lack of boats. . Hi i, -in Shakespeare's immortal classic oy i The Pinnacle of Picture Perfection \ With John Barrymore .. Edna May Oliver j >and a brilliant supporting cast. You've heard about it and read about it for months AND city as the Ohio river dealt it its sorriest blow in history. Flooded to their second floors, the hundreds view of the inroads the flood made into the lower streets of hilly Cincinnati, The Oentral bridge, at lower \from page one- that the farming sections would not Introduced in the house was a con- WEATHER FORECAST Futilely as River neces : ry A sary that all bills intended for intro. |the, Proposals “alm to, encourage” Tyeaday unsettied and: nok, 40) e0l3. Blazing Cincinnati ‘th it, it id west portion fore each seasion opens. ing to Bi 2 and Admiral Cary Grayson, national tonight jeeday uns alga) pari south portions, Sunday. Fire officials, how- in state, county, and school bulldings | mitch of Cass was laid over to Monday | “0- fecoming, wasettied; riplng tempera Jace uneventful day in the house. to kill” all looters. east portion tonight and Tuesday; : of the proposal that a constitutional Rois es ha tea ‘eatin f *Bjornson of Williams, L. K. Morland necessary to file all proposed legisla-{ for help became frantic. Approxi-| night, severe cold wave in-east por- a Ys so cold in west portion, Logan, weathered the storm and will | convenes. @ railroad station where three relief dreds of persons still in such danger the Great Lakes regi d tl “equality” for two North Dakota in-|moved that consideration of the reso- 200,000 Hic fe Nort S Calgary 29.94 inc fr the western Plateau, states, Winne- | "cs,0f two-story houses. “ts i tical fe a = eee erin was adopted. | Bomeless in Louisville and its sub-| ire, repped tog to the. enatorn I am ‘not willing at this time to more] wo shoresores by tie tay. Immediately after power failed 14| Prince Albert this morning. Rea "to 6 cents a mile except sherits | hookup, Mende gurred at moayplaces from the Great Bi provides employment for |e 28.29, "Heduced. to sea level, 30.23, ment was out of commission when . cess of 5 pér cent annually as usury; enza, typhoid and pneumonia mount- mens recorered 10 ie cours at Clinics were opened on @ large| Normal, January ist to dai REPORT PPLLED. Operated in fire houses, neers were reported killed Monday in} 034 ct food at six. r Bop. Che i paby. were swamped and hours were re- went through, Louisville from the air resembled] Sonve”’ cols. cles At Paducah thousands of flood ref-| 47, Norma Leslie Forecaster Kendall declined to pre- 9 “ROMEO ana JULIET i>< Reginald Denny . . Ralph Forbes ALL TRUE! Seeing this masterpiece is part of your business of living! Evening 8:15 Prices 50c, 75c, $1.00 (plus tax) All seats reserved .. , now on sale Box office open 2 to 5 and 6:80 to 10 Mets: This attraction will mot be shown in Bismarck again this year. _ (“Romeo and Juliet”... A five “A” picture... Merle Potter, film critic of Journal.) city to depend entirely on service | t “FRANKFORT PRISON ~ SHOT DURING RIOTS Exact Death Toll Will Not Be Known Until Waters e Yards Dry . Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 25. — (®) — among convicts in flood- bound Kentucky state prison left at ported dead Monday. marooned prison- Deep Figod waters, covering four-fifths of Kentucky's capital city, flowed six feet deep in the prison grounds for the first time ‘since 1863. W. F. Arbogast, Associated Press reporter, who was forced by flood conditions to telephone his story to Columbus, ©., said shots could be heard intermittently inside the prison Chandler‘ said the huge prison, lo- cated in the heart of Frankfort near the Kentucky river, which had risen he said. Bell, m, 81 John . 316 at 5:30 a, m., Mon- day, St. Alexius hospital. Det Martha Wetzel, 11-year-old daug! of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wetse! Sr., at 12:15 p.m, Saturday, hospital. 221 Ambro tal, 2:3 north of Mandan, died Monday in a hospital, Surviving are the past | Mandan widow, daughter and son. He had been @ resident of North Dakota 35 years. . ‘ {NAME MEAD'S SUCCESSOR dent Roosevelt appointed Johi ©. Page of Nevada Menday as reclama- tion. commissioner. Since the death. last year of Elwood Mead, he has acted in that capacity. STREETER MERCHANT DIES Jamestown, N. D., Jan. 25.—The body of Albert J. Royse, for 25 years ® Streeter merchant, was taken to Minneapolis Sunday for burial. Mr. Royse, 47, a native 6f Eureka, 8. D., Friday of pneumonia. The Year! + + + won from the stage with the stars who made it great! The “Must” Picture o the Seasen Parking Meters Are Good Docks i Huntington, W. Va., Jan. 25— ()—When city officials installed parking meters on Huntington streets to alleviate traffic conges- tion they didn’t realise they were installing emergency docks. Rescue workers in this flood- “ers ideal mooring posts for their skiffs, There's no limit on the LIONS HEAR CORWIN, “WITNESS THO FILMS Scenic Views of Yellowstone, Black Hills arid Wyoming Shown at Luncheon i fe ih i =r Hl | F Hl beth F g Hi EEE ty urday building. Guests of the club were Dr. I, D. Clark, formerly of Fargo but now connected with the Roan and Strauss clinic here, and A. W. Kunke of Chicago. Al Anderson and Leonard Anderson were named to the program committee for the Feb. 8 meeting. N.D. MOTOR TRADES ASSOCIATION MEETS Delegates Turn Attention to Legislation After Hearing Grand Forks Man turned. One striking bit of statistical in- brought out at the Detroit ‘was the fact that the Os their discussions bill No, 24, which recodifies all North Dakota motor vehicle laws, the con- Fingal Farmer Found Guilty in Valley City, Valley City, N. D., Jan, 244.—(P)— Joe Michalski, Fingal farmer charged with manslaughter, was found guilty of reckless driving in the district term of court here. The jury reached the after being was yr BURGESS MEREDITH MARGO Gunn dohn Edward bi, Tuesday and Wednesday Big Double Feature Program Mary Astor “Lady From Nowhere” “Dodge City Trail” and the new singing sensation, DONALD GRAYSON. ae