The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 13, 1919, Page 1

oo /letter of the IB THIRTY-NINTH YEAR. NO. at BISMARCK; NORTH panes FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1919. ~ PRICE FIVE CENTS TO SUBMIT | HALL REPLIES 70 ATTACK MADE BY SENATOR CAHILL Shows Gentleman Pico Grant That He Is Rather Defi- , cient in Legal Lore - THREATS WILL ‘NOT; WORK Talk of Inmpenthinbat will Not Result in Cancelling of Speaking Dates pf Senator J.-1. Cahill, the gentleman from Grant’ who in~ the: senate, last . Winter wanted ‘the laws authorising , the bond issue so laxly drawn tha ye hawked about the markets at 50. per per cent, if the industrial commis- sion so chose, and who is on Town- ley’s payroll as an organizer and agi- tator, lends his name this week toa ttack on Secretary sot North’ Dakota securities might CourierNews’ State Hall, Mr. Hall Capit if Bi usually neg in. the, follow the; press tadey, takes off Mr.|/ Senator J. I. Cahi t, si North Dakota, iT: ‘My attention “haying been called to an interview credited to you in the Courier News of Tuesday, June 10, and not being; just certain where a letter might reach‘ you: direct; I am giving this open letter to the public for your conBideration and I. trust to your benefit: 9” You state in the Courier News of June 10 that J haye violated the plain Jaw and“ can be im- peéached’ for pldcing'in the publicity pamphlet before each ‘bill the same explanatory ‘matter that was gotten up by the [).V."A. and circujated with the referendum’ pétitions. . oe The Constitution. i ‘Section °25' of ' the’ comtieution, .2 amended, provides;! ~ “Bach peution shit eee printed thereon* ‘a ballot, title,’ which shall) - fairly. represent the subject, matter of| * the’ measure,” and the names’ of at least five electors who shall con- ~-stitute--the: :Jeomumittoe--fonthe tioners, atid. Who shall represent and act for the petitioners. ‘submitted to the slec- a8) ae shall cause to; be: printed: -and'imatled to.each ‘elector a. publicity! pamphlet, containing a. copy: of);each ‘measure together with’ it# ballot title, to be submitted at;any ‘election. Any citi-}' zen, or he officers of any organiza- tion, may submit to the secretary of state for publication in such pam- phliet, ‘arguments concegning any measure ‘therein, upon first subscrib- ing their names and addresses there- to, and paying the fee therefor, which, until otherwise fixed by the legisla- ture, shall be ‘the sam of two hun- dred dollars per page.” You will. note that this requires that the ballot title, be: printed on each -péetitton and ‘published ‘by the secretary of state in the publicity pamphlet, and any person who makes the statement you are credited with making is either a mental or moat defective. 4 You further state, “The pri fore each law {n the ipublict ee ‘ Phlet 6f.the sare matter. that’ was) circulated by the I. V.A. to prejudi the people against the laws, which} , Nothing less, than 4 summary of the| laws as the I, V. A. sees them,-is a plain violation of the law under any fair interpretation.” The law requires that the ballot title “shall fairly represent the’ sub- ject matter of the measure.” About ‘Mr. Lemke. Mr. William Lemke, when. objecting to the placing ofthe ballot titles: up- on the ballot, admitted that he had noticed nothing unfair in any of the titles. In submitting. sample ballot to the governor F called: his attention to the fact that I had heard no intl mations that the, ballot titles did not fairly represent the subject matter of the measure. Hg suggested a fer minor changes, and they were all made, so that if the ballot titles preju- dice the people against the laws, the : fault is probably in the laws. You say tat the’ referred bills should be placed: first. in the pam- phlet, to be followed, by the. argu- ments. “Any hotest man should have seen these plain’ and obvious facts.” Then what do you think of the: fol- lowing letter?/ Hon. Thomas Hall, Secretary of State, State- Capitol, i Bismarck, N. Dak. Honorable Sir: Herewith I hand you check for $400 and copy for publicity pamphlet to- gether with cartoon. ‘Will you please have this matter in- serted so as to follow the first bill in the publicity pamphlet. Yours very truly, WM. LEMKE, May 30, 1919. A Question of. Honesty. Is it honest to place the arguments before six of the measures but dis- honest to place it before the seventh? In one paragraph you state that the way the pamphlet {s arranged it will help to defeat the bills, while a few paragraphs before you say it will make hundreds of votes for the bills. Marmion could lament, “When first we practice to deceive, what a tangl- ed web we weave;”, but you still seem to become badly entangled after fifty years’ practice. _ TH ‘in ed bills appear in the same mtinued on Page Two.) ch man-+ j Jeter Toleeset ito LANGER AND MEES HAVE BIG CROWDS Reports from meetings conducted by Attorney General Willilam Langer and. Senator Fred W. Mees in the eastern part of the state are to the effect that they. are talking to large crowds and are receiving a fine re- ception from league farmers every- where. The attorney general and the}: senator froni Morton spoke at Aneta on Wednesday night. Between that point and Lakota thex were waylaid dres, and the same thing occurred on 5 | Thursday at Finley, while the speak- ers were enroute to Hope. HEAVY WIND AND). (00D RAINS HIT Velocity.’ ‘Attained Here Last Night Highest Officially Recorded ine Decade ' DROUTH COUNTRY HELPED (Good Precipitation Reported in Minot and Beach, Where ~ Moisture Was Needed The entire Slope, beginning at a line drawn north and south on a par- allel with Fort Lincoln and extending westward into eastern Montana en- joyed a splendid soaking rain last night. At Minot, where there’ had not been a decent rain since May 11, the precipitation last: evening was 1.20. inches. More than half an inch of rain is reported at. Beach, and Dickinson and New England, two other dry spots, had 39 and .45 -re- spectively.. The official. records for Bismarck show .23 of an inch. Good re reported from, all parts of reservation country on the Norti. » Plaza, Douglas, Ryder, Parshal eg, communities. which had not bi¥ed a, thorough sosking for more ra a month, had over: an inch of ra Heavy Winds Here. In Bigmarck the welcome rain fol- lowed one of the sultriest days the city has ‘experienced ‘in many. years. ep he <dowstall-was:preceded by 3. vioy lent wind storm, during which ‘the air currents sweeping in from:the moun- tains far to’the west gained a veloc- ity of 75 miles,’ which speed was maintained’ for one minute. For:‘five minutes without cessation ‘th me blew at the‘rate of 64 miles a: The highest wind velocily ev corded ‘at this station for, five Mite utes: duration was’ 72 miles,” mdre than ten years ago. 4 ‘Trees were uprooted; huge branches were. torn off and went sailing through’ the air; street lamps were extinguished, and in many instarices wires were wrenched from their moorings. The whole down-town'dis- trict was. left in darkness for a great- er part of the night. So faras can be learned, the storm was local in its nature, and there was no severe prop- 6rty damage, althugh many a Bis- marck home-builder today is mourn- ing the loss of handsome trees whiclr cannot be replaced in a quarter of a century. Played Havoc in Country. Reports of material property dam- age resulting from the storm are iy tom in from the country, especial- ly from points five and six miles east of Bismarck. The rain freakishly be- gan or ended on a line with’ the Northern Pacific spur to Fort [ain- coln, East of that point there were fonly a few drops of rain, but-there was an abundance of wind. C. F. Kreuger, who farms the Ham- mond place, ‘five miles east of. the city, was in this morning. He report- ed that; one of his large snivaplect granaridst was picked up by the Bs carried helf a mile across the fields} and smashed. to smitnereens. Har- rows, boxes and hay racks were brok- en and scattered, and the glass was blown from windows in his dweiling house before he could bar the shut- ters. Mr. Kreuger suffered no stock loss. Frank Gress, who cate the Lahr farm, east. of Apple Greek, canie in-this morning to report a number of telephone and telegraph poles snapped short. He also advises that one of the barns on the Lahr Place, a structure 16 by 24, was com- Pletely wrecked, and that the root was torn from the big house barn ana doors were wrenched from their hinges. ° Mike Claussen, on the Baker place. lost an entire’ hen nouse full oi chickens, the building and all of its contents, including mother hens and half-section by the wind. Ames Ives lost a roof from his barn and. gran- ary, and there is probably not a farm in the Apple Creek vicinity that did not suffer some damage. The farmers fecl that they are es- pecially mistreated in view of the fact that the rain, which would hav: been so welcome, passed them dy, while they got more than a plenty of the big wind, which they did not need at all. AT BASE HOSPITAL The local army recruiting office has just received word from_army head- quarters of the arrival at Base Hos- pital No. 20; Fort Snelling, Minn., of the following men of North and South Dakota: Leon M. Brown, Dickinson, N. D.; John Baski, Bismarck, dD; George E. Gould, Kimball, S. Dd; Ralph by 400 farmers, who demanded an ad-|* s|WESTERN SLOPE} BANK AGT ENDANGERS BIG. SCHOOL FUND Politicians Can Seize State Truat Money Under Act ‘and... Loot State at Will OPEN 5 DOOR FOR GRAFT Miss Nielson Sounds ‘Notes: ot Warning ‘to! Voters of * State’ “s Miss Minnie’ Ki Nielson, state super. intendent of public’ instruction, today gave out, the following statement, to the p a tlh my attention was calle to pro’ in section 15 of the ‘act: cre- ating Hank of North Dakota,' which | reads ag follows: “he Bank. of North Dakota may transfer funds, to other} departments, institutions, utilities, in- dustries, enterprises*or business pro- jects of the state, which shall be r turned with interest :to the bank’.”, “Dpon reading this provision ofthe peared ‘to provide that the’ director of the bank or the industrial commission could transfer any funds, fort instanee, the school funds, to-any state owned business enterprise in which it’ saw fit to engage—and it did not seem. possi- ble that. sane men. could have ‘written such a dangerous provision upon the statute books of the state. “Heretofore, even the most crooked} politiclans the’ state has ever had has held the school funds of the state aga sacred trust. Many laws have’ been enacted to safeguard this trust, im- posed ‘upon the, state Lathe federal goverunient,.-and to. preserve. intact these endowment funds.for future gen- erations, , . “E-consalted with a:nuamber.-of_law- yers and have discussed the matter with many others, and there seems nu escaping the:couclusion that it was’ the intenfion of: the. Sixteenth ‘legislatite assembly to empower the directory of the bank:or) the industrial commiksion to transfer as aimere matter. of book? keeping, the funds contributed) bythe people of ‘the state for)a’ specific, pur- pose or given to the state .by the, fed- efal government. as a trust, for. school |, purposes, to any enterprise in which pe tate- might: be engaged For: itr}? sta! ferred to an account to -purchase. the Consumers’: United stores; to purchase operate a .lue factory, or woolen mill ; to build and opéfate terminal elevators, pheking iplans,! Reine In'btief; ‘any andl! the fdits of the state ‘counla'Le taken! overiby the tiére vet “of Hook- keeping and‘ean be atsed for atiy pu pose within ‘the ‘diseretion of the ‘indus- trial: commission, .” “T consider this one of the most vi- cious pieces of legislation ever enacted by an assembly of the state of, North Dakota. It means that the school funds may be used for any purpose that the industrial commission may, elect—thnt they will be so used and squandered I have no doubt if this law carries, J therefore urge every voter in the state of North Dakota, who is interested in our school system, in education, ,or in preserving our schdol funds intact, to vote against the banking bill.” STRINGENT, RULES. /Moorgead, Minn., et 11.—Minne- sota Holstein Breederk’ secqnd.. an- nual’ sale, governed by the. ae strin; gent rules regarding: the a of ani. mals which may be placed’ on sale., opened here today and will continue through tomorrow., Eighty pure bred Holsteins fro mtwenty-eight herds in| the state are offered for ‘sale. Early prices for-the animals offered will be made, Latgé delegations of dairy men and tarmérs“from southern Minnesota. ar- rived''héré' yébterday.. Much interest attacléy’the. winning of a fifty dollar prize offered to the county in. gouth- ern Minnesota sending the largest delegation to the sale. N. Greenman, Aberdeen, Ss. DB; Ed- ward Kirkpatrick, Platte, S. D.; Matt Mortenson, Edinberg, N. D.; W. R. Marshall, Lincoln, N. Bs ditred J. Sikkink, Castlewood, Wilde, Grafton, N. D. the ‘Azores after, itaxii ing ; the School funds could. be trans: | the Townley newspapers; to build and |? bidding today indicated that reeora ’ ee ‘Men Arrive at Camp For Demobilization Des. Moines), Ia, ae 13.—Units of the 352nd infantry (88th division) comprising 1,171 men, arrived today for demobilization at ‘Camp Dodge. Five thousand. men-are expected to arrive tomorrow, and it fx’ believed that the batite division wah, be ence by Tuesd any. Bismarck Man. Honored—Next ‘Convention Goes to New Sa- lem—-Interesting Session The Slope group of the North Da- kota’ Bankers’ association adjournee its. annual convention Thursday ev- ening after electing, P. C, Remington, of Bismarck, president, ‘to succeed A Lanter: of Mandan, ané, Nad Satem as the 1920 The meeting was. law T doubted my own senses —it-wpefieery. well attended, and the papers and addresses were unusually inter- esting. The full quota ‘of officers electet for the. ensuing year ‘follows: President—P. ,C. Remington, Bis- marck! Vice-president—Charles }son, New Salem. + Secretary—A. J. Arnot, Bismarck. . Treasurer—J. Ee Gunderson, Kil- deer. , Member of” executlve “council—Ii. A. Tavis, Mandan, Member’ of; State Iixecutive Com- mittee—A: H: Neiter, New Leipsic. «Member. of State’ Nominating Com emer, Unde Underwood. F.. Peter- | . "AUTHORIZE D Corporation Heage id by. Obert A. Olson Receives Certificate of Authority ‘The Farmers’ Insurance Co. Dickinson, headed by: State Tre: er: Obert Ai Olson, was issued tificate, of;;;authority: Thursday: Cofmimigetange of Insurance 3) Olsness,)',The company. is éapitalized at $250,000, and claims to be the onlv state company ‘authorized to write fire, lightning, cyclone, tornado, haj! auto, property damage, sprinkler leak- age, inland, navigation nd live stock insurnce. Obert A. Olson of Bowman is pres- ident; W. A. McClure ‘of Dickinsor secretary and treasurer, and Lyall P Merry of*Dickinson, assistant ecre- tary and ‘director of ,agencie. The board of diréctors is made up of fit teen substant/al business mer bankers and farmers’ from various sections of the state. The company was_ incorporated February 21, 1919. The writing of risks will begin soon, agencies al- ready having been’ established ir practically every county in the Slope. C.F. WYANT IS: FOUND GUILTY St. Paul, Minn., June 13.—Charles F. Wyant today was convicted of accepl- ing deposits a bank which he knew was not solvent. The case went to the jury in Hennepin county district court yesterday, which the lower wings were riddled in the battle with the waves. oA aha DAKOTA BANK IS GIVEN GROOMING BY SLOPE GROUP | Bankers Subject Director F. W. Cathro to Interesting Cross Examination STILL MUCH IN THE DARK Official Admits That Many Pol- icies of Institution Haven’t Been Framed The Pank of North . Dakota. was much in the limelight during the Slope group convention of the North Dakota Bankers’ association. Pregideat Phe- lan of the First National bank;of, Bow- man paid ‘his respects to. thisitinancial bulwark of the new. industrialdemoc- racy during the morning session, In the afternoon Fred. W. Cathro, director general, was called upon to explain the bank, and following his address, which was devoted to a geueral discussion of the organization of the institution and a, definition of its ‘policies,’ so far, as they::have been worked out, Direttor ;Cathto .was. for 30 minutes or more subjected to: 8ifriendly but thorough cross examinution on the part of, Slope bankers who’ desired some first-hand inside information:as to the probable effect. which the new state bank would have upon their businéss and upon the community as a whole. THE GOOD OF IT ALL Some of the more pertinent ques- tions were asked by W. H. Stutsman, Mandan banker. In- particular, he asked point blank just what good for the state, its farmers, its financial and commercial and industrial enterprises and the people as a whole, the Bank of North. Dakota was expected to ac- complish. ‘This question elicited the answer that the “Bank of North Da- kota would coordinate, credits.” None of ithe bankers present, in, their light of theit..qown experience, were able to appreciate, just whit this, “goordina- tion of ‘cedits” would: be’ or "What. it would accomplish or, howyyit, would be hrought about, but the. reply seémed to satisfy Mr. Cathro. MANY THINGS NOT KNOWN ctor Cathro admitted that there Were_many: points upon which he could: give the bankers to definite opetatiqn' at this time.“ The state’s financial dis- eases, he intiniated, were being diag- nosed by certain experts, and Whengthe nature, of the various, maladies? was ascertained remedies syould. be applied. -| He could | iio state justi what, these remsi: | edies woul id be, buf, he dntimated | thas, they would be applied,dy homeopathi doses und that when Jt became nece: sary to use a knife upon.the banking. business of North Dakota hypos would be administered, and the operation would be made as painless as possible. NO POLITICS IN BANK Mr, Cathro had_ stated that) there | g, was to be no politics in the Bank of North Dakota. Mr. Stutsman .aske:] why, if this was true, the largest bank in Mandan had received but $28,000 of the publie funds deposited by the state, while another, a much smaller insti- tution, he said, had received $48,000. Mr. Cathro said this was a matter with which he had had nothing to do. and hevadmitted that he could not explain the basis upon which this dis- tribution of funds was made. HAGAN 'MADE GOOD IMPRESSION “‘'Theré were many complimentary ref- érencés on the part of the bankers to e ‘address. made during the morning ssion by Commissioner of Agriculture dnd Labor John N. Hagan. Mr. Hagan showed an active interest in the Mis- souri river highway bridge project, and showed that as & member of the state highway commission he had personally conferred with federal highway eéngi- neers at Washington and had lone. ev, erything in his power to adyange,,the, project. The commissioner showed: very thorough grasp of his. subject. and gave many of the bankers present new light on the matter. (Continued on Page Three.) DELGADO “This i is the official photograph of the wreck of, the ‘NCB as it arrived at Punta * Delgado, in 200 miles under direction of Commander Towers. the manner in ‘Notest aun BOYS’ ESCAPADE LANDS THEM IN BURLEIGH JAIL Two boys from Linton were picked up today for stealing an automobile, and are being held here by Sheriff Welch and Deputy Sheriff, Phelps for the sheriff of Emons county. . The youths are brothers, Elmer. and John Brown, are 20 and 16 years old re- spectively. They drove the car from train thence to Bismarck. They will be taken back to Lintan today or to- morrow fr. their preliminary hear- ing. They are farmer boys and are aparentit’ fom a good family, and were planning to go to Montana to secure employment. . VALLEY CITY T0 GET 1920 MEET OF BUSINESS MEN ley Wins Over Fargo in 11th-Hour -Race MANN AGAIN PRESIDENT Devils Lake Man and All Other Officers Re-elected—Con- "vention Closes Mandan, N. D. June 13,—The North Dakota Retail Merchants’ sociation closed its annual tion Thursday evening, one day ahead of schedule, in order to give delegates residing in distant corners of the state an opportunity to get home for Sunday. Valley City was unanimously selected as the site of the 1920 meeting, and Fred P. Mann of Devils Lake was reelected, presi- dent. All of the ‘other executives were! re-elected, the only, changes made being in the directorate; It had seemed that. Fargo: had the inside track for the 1920 conyention, but: when Valley City appearéd in the race her supporters recalled the fact that the 1920 convention ‘had been pledged to Valley City at Minot last year, when tha. Valley. conceded ‘the honor of entertaining this year to Mandan. Fargo thereupon withdrew from the race, and the selection of Halley City was, madg unanimous. The, Officeds.;.;, ‘| Officers, ‘selected, for , the gienauing irae Weres ivy k President |, P. “Mann, Devils Lake First vice; president—L. B. Garnaan ‘Sheyenne. Second Vice. President—A‘ L. Staar, as- conven- Tower City. Treasurer—C. J. Stickney, New Rockford. anerreaary a Ws A. Donnelley, Far- # pirectors—C. E. Williams, War- wick; N. BB. Garnas, Oberlin; John F. Holman, Antler; 'N. W. Simons, Tioga; Robert Lange, Kulm; F. W. Peglow, Gleburn; C. H. Burch, Drake; Walter Harke, New Leipsig; Ernest Whiting, Beach; W. K. Nimmo, Dev- ils Lake; E. A. Capser, Grafton; F. A. Ricker, Fargo. One of the Biggest. The total registration for the week was 310, and Secretary . Donnelley yesterday declared the convention to have bee none of the best and most profitable the association: ever has held. s A large delegation of Bismarck merchants attended the closing ses- sion. RAILROAD MEN ‘FOTE 10 JOIN WINNIPEGGERS Winnipeg, Man., June 13.—Union leaders announced this morning thav Winnipeg firemen an dengineers em- ployed on the three raiiways enter- ing the city have voted to join, the sympathetic strike unless the city re- places its police force, which was discharged Monday. No statement has been made by the railway broth- erhood, but a delegation of railway men was expected to call on Mayor Gray this aft jon. BERLIN STARTS PROTEST STRIKE Berlin of great a citizens’ Freiheit. numberof leading chants and prof Reinhardt, the war, The ike was declared necessary “because the present government was incapable of redeeming Germany from chaos.” It was planned, according ¢: the newspaper, to gave airplanes tribute leaflets telling when the would begin. All the food industries, including the bakeries, then would s pend operation, thus leading to a war, which the speakers claimed, would enable the bourgeoisie to regain power. The citizens would be armed, and Col. Reinhardt is ‘repertedsto have wrding to Der The attendance included s manufacturers, met- phal men, and Colt ussian minister of said the troops would be entirely ou their side, Linton to. Moffit, where they aban- doned it, it is alleged, and walked! from there to Sterling, taking the red in favor of | JEW TREATY PRINCIPLES 10 BE SAME BUT MORE SPECIFIC Impracticable to Reply to Ger- many’s Counter Pro- posals FIRST TEXT IS OBSOLETE ‘British in Eleventh Hour At- tempt to Reopen Issue of Reparation / Paris, June The peace treaty with Germany will be entirely rewrit- ten and reprinted for the incorpora- tion textually of the clarification con- tained in the allied reply to the coun- ter proposals, While unchanged in principles, virtually a new document will be presented the Germans. TO BE MADE PUBLIC It is understood the new, treaty will be made public the day of its deliv- ery. ‘The council of four decided that, sim- ply to attack the. reply to’ the. original document was impracticable. Hence the decision to. rewrite, the document. AMERICAN, TEND OBSOLETE It was commented in peace confer- ence circles today that this action ren- ders obsolete the text published in the United States. The reply of the allied powers t the German counter proposals is likely to be made publie Monday. It is’ ex- pected that the text of the German countery propos: which never has been given out, will be made public shortly. ELEV 'H HOUR ATTEMPT The British have made an eleventh hour attempt to reopen the question of reparation. They have submitted pro- posals introducing into the functions of the permanent reparations commit- tee. the principle of control of raw uuaterials, etc., furnished Germany, en- abling the committee to control Ger- many’s economic development during: the period it operate: i RECEPTION MPATHETIO+:: The British effort has not. met with: a sympathetic reception by the'repara’ tions committee to which it was’ re- ferred. It seems improbable that the proposals. will _be accepted, but. they. constitute ‘otie’of ‘the: catses iaf: the de- lay of the reply to the Germans, which rpobably will not be présented until Monday. ‘ The coun¢il of four today devoted both of: itsrsessionsito the revision ‘ott the textiofithe trédty, When the fore-°' ‘|noon. ‘session. ended, the council had’ ‘sent tojthe revision committee 18 re- ‘poxts. Among those remaining to be passed are several dealing with im- Tortant subjects. These include the Saar .valley, Alsace-Lorrafne and the league of nations. 4 —i POSITION STRENGTHENED Berlin, June 18.—The position of the German cabinet has been materially strengthened as the result of the speeches of Gustay Noske and Phillip Sehiedemann at Weimar, according the view of the non-socialist press, T! proceedings ‘of the conventions thus far also appear to have demonstrated that opposition to members of the cabinet in their own party has been overcome, the line-up seeming to reveal an un- broken strength, RADICAL: BILLS. AIMED AGAINST BOMB THROWERS Washington, June 13:—Radical bills designed to bring to an end operations of radical agitators have been. intro- duted by Rep, Aswell of Louisiana. One provides an allen attempting to cause loss of life by an infernal ma- chine or other ‘means shall he hell guiltv of a felony if convicted and shall be executed. Another provides that aliens who had led declarations of intention to become citizens an who had renounced their citizenship .o escape military ate shall be pun- ished. DEPOT T BANDITS GET BIG. WAD New York, June Tune 13.— Six hold-up men operating at the entrance to an elevated station in uptown Manhattan attacked two messengers of the Colo- nial bank shortly before noon today and made off in an automobile with a large sum of money which was being carried to the Federal Reserve bank. The bank officials ‘declined to make a statement as to the loss, PLAN AIR HOP T0 EMERALD ISLE St. Johns, Nfd., June 13,—Members of the Vickers-Vimy trans-Atlantic flight expeditiony, announced _ this morning their hope of getting off av 2 o'clock this afternoon on the 2,000- d. mile hop to Irel: LOCOMOT! LOWS UP. Ft. Worth, Texas, June 13.—A, i0-, comotive on the Ft, Worth &. Di 1 city railway blew up near ‘eve oday killing the engineer and several pas- sengers,