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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-14
GIRL CAUGHT
IN ATTEMPT
TO ROB BANK
Demanded $1,000 From Teller
Of Saginaw. Michigan,
Institution

Saginaw, Mich. July 14.-lP--
Blonde. bobbed haired and defiant.
a l9-ypar-old girl is being held here
today following her unsuccessful at
tempt yesterday to get $1,000 from
the paying teller at the Peoples Saw
ings Bank,
Coolly pointing decrepit revolver
into the face OF &. f. Speckhardt.
teller at the. bank. the girl showed
a $1,000. check signed MAKE It
Snappy," through the window and
airily commanded the teller to 'givc
me $4,000, and make it snappy."
Speckhardt dropped to his knees
behind the counter and pressed the
complicated burglar alarm system.
Within few seconds a policeman,
several hundred pedestrians flockinl
at his heels, rushed into the bank
and disarmed the girl. She fell Into
the patr0lman's arms, and took ref
uge in tears.
The young woman gave her name
as Viola Harris, of Flint.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-14
ROY ". CLARK,
n. P. OFFICIAL,
IS PROMOTED
Assistant to President Chas
Donnelly Made General
Traffic Manager

st. Paul, July 14.-LP)-Roy w.
Clark, who has been assistant to
President Charles DOnnelly Of the
Northern Pacific railway, has been
made general traffic manager of that
road. it was announced today.
In his new position, which has just
been created, Mr. Clark will nye inn
mediate charge Of freight and pas
senger business under ]. G. Wood
worth, vice president in charge Of
traffic.
Mr.. Clark, who is one of the most
widely known, railway executives in
the northwest, has been with the
Northern Pacific for IS years.
Mr.. Clark will assume his new
duties Saturday, July l6. Mr.. Dom
nelly has not announced his sue
cessor as assistant to the president.
It was on March l3. 1902. that Mr..
Clark entered the employ of the
Northern Pacific. As j stApographer
in the office Of the, ehisf Sh6lpeer.
& From 1907 to- 1913 he was the pres
idenxs secretary and during, the
United States administration 81 rail-
roads he wes. assistant to the federal
manager a. tho Northern Pacific.
March ]. 1920, hs beeAme asststsat to
the 1koaiaant, II IL ~. 81 &.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-14
Sheep Distributed
to Burleigh Farmers

Over 1000 head of sheep were
distributed to Burleigh county farm
ers July at Driscoll, Sterling and
Mckenzie, it was announced today by
County Agent A. r. Miesen. a.
The sheep were brought in under
the auspices of the Agricultural
Credit corporation from Idaho. They
were all yearlings. Mr.. knutson Of
Driscoll. H. f. Wildfan" Of Sterling,
and representatives Of the Northern
Pacific railway were instrumental in
placing the sheep.
Nearly l.4O0 more are to be
shipped here in about a week for
pasture. Othef farmers who want
some of these sheep should see Mr..
Miesen. Mr.. Wildfang or Mr.. Knut-
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-14
Friend of Miss Brownell Says
He Called Twice at Her
Home and Found Lee There
Both Times - Believes
Spinster Was Locked. Up in
Basement Room

New York. July 14.-R)-Evidenc
indicating that Miss Sarah Elizabeth
Brownell. one of Brooklyn's two axe
murder victims, had been held pris-
oner for time prior to her death,
was in the hands Of police today. ;
John X. Sheffield. friend of the
69-year-old spinster, told police he
gone to her house one day late in
June and was met by Ludwig Halver-
son Lee, the 3S-year-oM ships car
penter who served her as jan;tsr
and is now suspected Of numbering
her and Mrs. Selma Larsen Bennett,
&c. Lee, he said, told him Miss
Brownell was out of town.
Calling again July e. Sheffield said
he found the door open, walked in
and tried the cellar door, which he
found locked. He said he loitered
near ID for . while. Then he said,
it suddenly opened and Lee, appear
ing very i'll at ease, emerged and
explained that Miss Brownell was
away on q trip. The witness de-
clared he thought he heard noises
behind the refocked door.
Among Lees effects police found
clippings relating now police obtained
confessions from Henry Judd Gray
and Mrs. Ruth Snyder to the murder
of the woman''s husband.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-14
Manager Of National. Air Der.
by to Be Greeted BY City
and A. C. Officials - to
Make Arrangements For
Landing Of Planes Here on
Cross-continent Race

Soaring eastward after leaving
Glendive this noon, Major John I.
Fsncher. in charge Of the National
Air Derby. was expected to arrive
here this afternoon at about 4 o'clock.
A telegram received this morning
from Major Fancher. at Dillin~s. said
that he expected to arrive here AZ
about 1 o'clock to arrange with city
and Association of Commerce Of
ficials for facilities for planes which
are 4o land here in the National Air
Derby.
Another telegram from J. L. Tay-
lor, secretary of the Glendive Com
mercial club. said that Fancher and
his mechanic were delayed and would
arrive at Glend.--- in time for lunch.
leaving shortly after noon to make
the hop to Bismarck and then gong
on to Fargo, where they planned to
spend the night. Taylor said he had
checked the matter through Missoula
and Billings.
Officials To Greet Him
At the local aviation field to greet
Major Fancher were to be Mayor A. +.
Lenhart; Myron Atkinson. city audi.
tor; Henry Duemeland. president OF
the Association Of Commerce.; n. r.
Goddard, secretary. and q. w.
Roberts, chairman of the AssOcla-
tion's aeronIutical committee.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Billings, Mont, said that Fancher
spent the night there, leaving early
this morning on their trip eastward:
Engaged in blazing an air trial
across tn, continent for the derby
flyers, Major Fancher said he was
al.ted over flying conditions found
between Spokane and Billings Only
for 10 minutes, while crossincr the
continental divide ut an altitude OF
1900 feet. were they out Of range
Of landing spot" he said.
Development Of coast-to-coast maii
and passenger service along north
ern route is the aim Of the derby
Major Fancher told Billings, people
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-14
Smiths Honolulu
Flight at Glance
BY The Associated Press J

Object--To be first civilian to fly
from California to Hawaii, 2,iOO
miles. successfully negotiated by
Lieutenants. Lester j. Maitland and
Albert Heggenberger of the army
June 28 and 20.
Piot-Ernest l.. Smith. 34-year-
old of Sausalito. Calf, free lance
flyer.
Emory B. Fronte, %,
Of Hollywood, Calf. native Of New
York, rated as master mariner, au
thor Of a text book on navigation but
nursing a desire to be lawyer.
Plane - Travel air monoplnne,
Wright radial 200 horsepower motor:
maximum speed l2O miles per hour:
carries $40 gallons Of gasoline: cruls-
ing range 1900 miles: wing spread
46.6 feet; weight loaded 1890
pounds; cost $4,000.
Equipment-Radio transmitter and
receiving apparatus; magnetic com
pass; altimetcr, chronometer. sex
tant, thermometer, drift Indicator,
bank and turn Indicator, signal
lights, signal rockets, tach ometer,
oil presume gauge, gasoline gauge,
air speed indicator, rate and climb
indicator, octant and penumatic life
raft.
Rations-Six pounds hard tack, q
ounces canned tomatoes. one pound
dried apricots, half pound tea, 30
ounces seeded raisins, 20 ounces
chocolate, one pound dried prunes,
three ounces mailted milk tablets,
half pound butter, a dozen sandwiches
and three gallons water. Made up
by dietitian and said to be enough
for 10 days.
Backer Anthony Parents, San
Francisco.
This is Smiths second attempt.
He took off about two hours beh ind
f.ieutenants Lester J. Maitland and
Albert Heggenberger here June %,
but was forced to return because Of
defect in the plane and the sub
sequent refusal of his navigator,
Charles Carter, to consent to sec
ond take-off on that day.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-14
SMITHS NAVIGATOR
NEPHEW OF LOCAL MAN

At least one Bismarck man has
more than the usual amount of
interest in the flight of Ernest
L. Smith and Emory Bronte from
Oakland. Calf. to Honolulu,
which started this morning. This
man is o. c. Brannen, an employe
Of the Bismarck Tribune. Bronte,
who is Smiths navigator on the
transpacific flight, is Mr.. Bran
mems nephew.
Mr.. Brannen said the youth
had attended IA navigation school
in New York and after that en-
tered the service Of a shipping
company. He was in line for the
captaincy of one Of the large
vessels when he became of age,
but about two years ago he went
to San Francisco to work in the
office of shipping company,
giving up his life on the sea.
Mr.. Brannen never saw his
nephew, he said. The youth was
born in New York, where his
father. Mr.. Brannen's brother,
was an actor. calling himself by
the name of Emory h. Bronte.
The father has been in motion
picture work.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-14

that Smith was not going to land,
that he was merely gaining altitude.
Circles Over City
Smith was circling above the city
Of Oakland, after which the plane
was named, gaining height and as a
farewell to the city.
Finally the monoplane Strengthened
out and headed straight for the
Golden Gate.
The Smith plane headed due west
and disappeared in the low fog over
San Francisco Bay.
Spectators who watched the ship
through field glasses expressed as
tonishment when Smith apparently
spurted up and passed one Of the es-
cort planes.
As Smith took off the crowd
cheered with mighty roar and
there was much waving of arms and
ieaping into the air by mechanics
who had worked hours, night and
day, to make the little plane ready
for its flight.
Final preparations for the flight
began shortly after midnight, when
the weather chart showed the pros
pect of low clouds and fog with
north and northwest winds prevalent
from here to the halfway mark.
Fueling and final grooming Of the
plane for the. 2,4OO-mile flight was
completed early today.
Smiths Second Start
The hop-off today is Smiths
second effort to fly to Honolulu. He
first attempted to race Lieutenants
Lester J. Maitland and Albert Heg-
enberger on June %, when they took
off, but was forced back because of
minor defect in the plane.
Dispatches from Honolulu to the
effect that army officials considered
it impossible to hop-off on a return
trip from Wheeler field, where the
flyers intend to make their Honolulu
landing, because the l,2OO-foot rum
way is too short for q heavily laden
plane to get up headway enough to
leave the earth, left Smiths plan
for an immediate return flight in
doubt.
The engine is Wright Radial,
which develops 200 horsepower. The
cruising speed is rated at 12O miles
an hour, and Smith expects to hit
the pace on the second half of his
flight, when his fuel is lightened.
Food Enough for 10 Days
Mrs. Samuel H. Green, expert diet
titan, who supervised the proyision-
CONTINUED on page throal
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-14
Floods Cause Thousand Deaths in China
Fancher Expected Here
From Glendive at 4 p. m
Hope of Finding
French AviatOrs
Again Renewed

Chicout:mi. Quebec. July ii
tAP)-Another suggestion that
the missinf French air men.
Nungesser and Coli. may have
landed somewhere in this north
country has come through a story
told by J. A. Gobeil. secretary
Of the Chicoutimi county agri-
cultural society.
Mr.. Gobeil declares that two
Indians he encountered in the
woods few days ago related
that they had not only seen
white airplane, but they had
actually touched it back in the
woods. These Indians said the
plane lay back in the brush,
about IL weeks march distant.
This would place the wreckage.
if such it is, anywhere between
$50 and 200 miles north of Chi
coutimi.
H. S. Smith and l.. O'Rei!lv of
New York, screen news men,
sought out the Indians and i'm
mediately left on an expedition 20
where they say they saw the
plane.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-14
TITLE TO LAND
NOW IN DOUBT
K0sitzky Must Decide Dis
pute Over Ownership of
Foster Co. Property

Decision Of dispute as to the
title of 40 acres of land in Foster
county near the village of Melville
is being sought by Carl r. Kositzky,
state land commissioner, after an ar
gument which has been carried on
internationally for a score of years.
Title to the property is claimed by
George NJ. Forman and company,
Chicago, under foreclosure from G..
j. Bowers in 1928. The Forman
company bases its title on a Sioux
half-breed scrip, issued by the U. S.
land office at Fargo in 1882. The
scrip was issued by A. p. Thayer,
then chief clerk Of the land office,
to RQsean Bruguier, who apparently
then Sold the land, basing her title
on the land office scrip.
The state land department found
that the land in question was pre-
sumed by the government to have
been given to the state of North Da-
kota and a. score Of years ago tried
to obtain title to it. The effort
failed and the state tried to induce
the government to grant the state
additional land in lieu Of the 40 acres
claimed under the scrip.
80 4VvSInutSut IG4ASC0S nViuIB
that the scrip was not q patent to
the land and that the chief clerk Of
the land office never had authority
to issue anything which even re-
motely resembled title to the land.
The Forman company now is rent
ing the property, along with some
other land in the vicinity, but Kos
itzky plans to refuse to recognize its
title and make an attempt to collect
rent for the state. Mn this manner
he hopes to get the case finally
settled.
As further proof Of the states
title to the land Kositxky points out
that when the Northern Pacific rail-
road built line across the property
It refused to recognize the title Of
the then owners and purchased a
right Of way from the state.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-14
OPIUM RAID IN
SEATTLE NETS
FIVE ARRESTS
$3,OOO,OOO Worth Of Drug
Confiscated - Climax Of
2-year Investigation

Seattle, July A.-tP-Five men
we're held in Seattle and San Fran
cisco today in connection with the
seizure Of smoking opium declared
to be worth $3.00O.000 at "street ped
dlers'" prices.
The arrests climax a two-year in
vestigation by federal narcotic Of
ficers who described the case az one
of the largest in the history Of their
efforts to suppress smuggling on the
Pacific coast.
The agents announced that three
of the men admitted divers we're
used to recover opium Submerged n
Puget Sound by smueglers aboard
transpacific liners.
Those held here IN lieu Of oegA0o
bail each include Alex FceeT, ROOM
ing house proprietor; James ~ Sod-
ler. diver; and Harold Opal. I'D
ler's brother. in-law and aspistant.
The identity Of . fourth man. ar-
rSstsd in Seattle. WAS not diselosed.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-14
Two Are Injured in
Crash Near DriscOll

Donald Apland and Alvin Lewis,
both cf Driscoll, were injured this
morning when car in WHICH they
were riding ran into ditch and
turned over.
The youths were driving to work
on a road construction crew north
Of Driscoll when the wheels of the
car locked and the machine ran in
to the ditch and turned over.
Apland. who was badly cut by
flying glass, is in local hospital.
Lewis had only minor injuries.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-14
BROOKLYN POLICE BELIEVE One OF
AXE-MURDER VICTIMS MAY HAVE Been
Held PRISONER PRIOR TO KILLING
N. Y. Sweltefs in
Severe Heat Wave

New York, July 14.-(AP)-
New YOrk's millions sweltered
again today for the third success
s;ve day under the blast of the
heat wave that has gripped the
east. but the weather man prom.
ised some relief in showers.
At 3 a. m, the Official ther-
mOmeter registerd u degrees.
the same figure tor the same
hour as yesterday when the -,er-
curry later climbed to 81 degrees
in the later afternoon,
Many thousands. spent the
night on the beaches and in
parks. Five deaths and numerous
prOstrati0ns were reported.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-14
SHERIDAN CO.
COURT UPHELD
Appeal By Corporation From
Awards to. Injured Boy
Is Denied

Holding that electric power COM
panies are charged with the respon-
sibility Of making their equipment
safo for the public, the supreme court
has upheld the Sheridan county dis
trict court in two cases involving
an injury to Jack Mayer, lO-year- old
McClusky boy. The Central Light
and Power company appealed from
two verdicts. one giving the boy
damages for his injury and the otner
reimbursing his mother for money
spent in the lads care.
The court found that the boy ana
companions were returning from a
swimming hole near McClusky ana
passed q transformer station erected
by the defendant along the road to
change the voltage of its current.
Young Mayer had q piece OF iron IN
his hand and ratified it along the
pickcts in the fence which guarded
the transformers from the public.
He received an electrical shock which
knocked him down and burned botn
his feet and hands.
The fact that the protective devices
installed by the company failed to
work is Of no Importance, the court
held. the responsibility of protecting
the public from injury being placed
Reversing the Sheridan county
district court in another case, tnat
Of the First National Bank Of Nc
Clusky VS.. r. G. and Pearl oiiver
and others, the court reaftirmed pre-
vious decisions holding that debtor
may exercise preference among MS
creditors if he so desires.
The bank had been given Juag-
ment in garnishment action, IN
stituted by it. Upon showing by
the defendants that the property
Rarnished had been pledged to other
creditors and thus was exempt from
execution when the garnishment sum-
mons was served, the supreme court
reversed the trial courts decision.
Renville Case Dismissed
Taking cognixance of . new law
passed by the 1927 legislature, the
court has dismissed the case Of Nels
Limbaugh and others VS.. GraaaIand
school district No. IA, Renville coun-
ty, appealed from the Renville coun-
ty district court.
The reason for the dismissal. the
court specified is that the law gov
eYnipg the case was covered ~ >
statute passed at the last legislative
session which now is in effect.
The enactment in question Is one
which makes 1t illegal to close 9
school IN q town or village located
on 4 railroad, even though major
ity Of the voters Of the school dis
tnict haye voted to do SO in order
to oroanise . consolidated SCHOOL
hesref the center Of the district, un-
less 75 per cent Of the fathers Of
children attending the svillage school
consent 20 tho change.
In the case appealed to the supreme
court parents q children at1ene.ns y, e
willie county village, objected to the
Sktempt - force their children to
attend the consolidated school which
the voters of the school district had
authorized.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-14
PLANE LEAVES
OAKLAND FIELD
THIS MORNING
Civilian Flyer Is AccOmpan.
led on Trip Bv Navigator
Emory B. BrOnte
MAY MAKE. ROUND TRIP
Army Will Operate Radio
Beacon System - Ships
Warned to Keep Watch

Municipal Airport. Oakland, Calf.
July l4.-lR-The silver winged
monoplane City Of Oakland" man
ned by Pilot Ernest L. Smith and
Navigator Emory b. Bronte, took off
mere at 1910 a. M. for 2.4OO-mile
flight to Hawaii.
The plane left the runway about
a.OOO feet from the starting point on
its second take off attempt, the first
having gone amiss when Smith halt
ed after veering toward crowd of
spectators.
AS it arose slowly from the ground,
the escort planes that had been cir
cling about during the delay after
the first hpp-off, fell in behind.
The plane appeared near the field
again but Captain Royle explained
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-14
ROCK RUINS PICTURE OF
FORMER GERMAN EMPEROR

Jerusalem. Palestine, July ID.
-lR) Examination of the wreck
age of Government House. badly
damaged in Mondays earthquake,
revealed that stone from
partially wrecked tower hurtled
through the roof of the chapel,
destroying picture Of the for
mcr German emperor in biblical
role.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-14
FIGURES GIVEN
''0N DEATH TOLL
EXAGGERATED
Later Reports Tend to Dis
count Stories of 1000
Dead in Holy Land
MANY HOUSES DAMAGED
Communication Disrupted
Reliable Story Of Disaster
Not Available
MANY HOUSES DAMAGED

London, July 14.-R- Reports
from the Holy Land earthquake zone
differ widely as to the number of
persons killed and injured. The
latest tend to discount the large fig
ures given in some earlier dispatches
from Cairo of more than 1000 dead.
A Jerusalem report received by
Reuters gives the following official
figures: At Amman, nine killed, 80
seriously injured; at Es Salt, 80
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-14
Former u. s. Senator
Weds Russian Lady

Paris, July 14-lR-Former United
States Senator Joseph France Of
Maryland and Mile. Tatiana Vladim-
irovna Dechtereva were married at
the Russian Orthodox church in
Paris yesterday. They had known
each other for q long time.
Mile. Dechtereva is granddaueh-
ter of former judge of the court
of appeals, Moscow, and has been
living in Paris for some time. No
plans for the honeymoon were an
nounced.
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tlled "a seriously injured. and in
the remainder of Transjordania, 20
kn.eu, .. seriously injured. This
report says that previous figures as
to casualties at Es Salt were ex-
aggerated.
D, 500 Reported Killed
The Half tSyria) correspondent of
the Daily Mail says that in Pales-
tine and Transjordania 500 persons
were killed and that in Jerusalem
and the surrounding districts more
than TOO houses were damaged. The
damage in Jerusalem is estimated in
this dispatch at about $5OO.OOO.
News from the stricken area con-
tinues fragmentary and no reliable
story covering the whole disaster is
available.
A big casualty list is reported from
Ramleh, apparently due to the col
lapse of mosque full of wor-
shippers. Details of this have not
been received. Relief committees are
operating in each district. and the
Near East Relief has offered to help.
Hrlses in some places are continu-
ing to collapse.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-14
SCENES ARE SIMILAR TO
THOSE OF BATTL LEElELD

New York, July -l4.-<H-Dis-
patches from Jerusalem to the Jewish.
Telegraphic Agency say that figures
compiled up to the present show go
persons killed and 5000 wounded in
the earthquake in Palestine and
Transjordania. The damage is esti-
mated at $2,OO0,0O0.
The stricken areas are described
as presenting scenes similar to those
of q battlefield. Thousands of tents
have been raised to care for families
made homeless, while transports of
fuel are being sent from Jerusalem
to Tel-Aviv for the sufferers.
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Partly cloudy tonight and Friday
Not much change in temperature.
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Weather Report

Weather conditions ct North Da-
kota points for the "a hours ending
, 1927-09-21

in fact | became his target in this Coun-
Gil. Nevertheless he was honest and
candid in everything he believed to be
true, and that is what liked in bin.
He fought with clean and bright wca
pons. A better opponent / have never
known. ID is with regret ! stand here
to acknowledge the acceptance Of his re
slenaJion and in doing so / can say that
this Council viii miss one Of Is Members
who, for honesty Of expression, cannot
be easily replaced.
ITO be c|onti8ued.)
, 1927-09-21
TELFGRAMS
ST. CR0IX STATION.

81. CNClA STATION.
Geneva, Sept. I9sh-Fra0ce on SaJur-
day brought to the efforts looking TO
ward disarmament a definite proposal
calculated to enhance the chance Of sue
cess Of any future Disarmament Confer
ence. A resolution was presented 20 the
League Of Nations Assembly by NJ. Paul
Boncour, intended to promote sugges-
tions OF q new conception Of the Geneva
protocol which would increase special
security pacts. lhis wculd make the
s|ienatories contribution TO pay system
Of penalties a~saIns, al as1e>sor nation
proportionate to the geographic situa-
ton and to the be. a. uniting them 10
other signatories. Ihe solution urged