The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 9, 1920, Page 1

" " ik é ‘ 5 J | \ ‘ THE WEATHER | Generally Fair evento THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ‘LAST EDITION a BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1920 PRICE FIVE CENTS COL. FRANK K WHITE QUITS THE SENATORIAL RACE SIX DEAD, 100 ARE INJURED IN | STORM WHICH STRUCK PARTS OF NORTH DAKOTA AND MINNESOTA Cyclonic Wind Sweens Northern Railroad Track, and Fire Follows; Farm Houses Demolished Fargo, N. D., June 9.—The which started in the northern part of North Dakota yesterday and spread over an area of 200 miles caused immense damage. Deaths reported here this afternoon total six. of River Falls, was killed by lig killed when-a barn collapsed and ceived at the same time; William Roeder, farmer, living near Gardner, N. D.; Mrs. R. M. Winkle, living near Grey Eagle, killed by a falling tree and a farmer 1 More than 100 persons were inju At Fergus Falls, Minn., Willi his father and sister injured in th Minnesota. dell, 15 miles from Breckenridge, after the train was blown into the ditch. Members of the crew and many of the passengers did and children and other injured passengers. ‘Among those injured were: ° A. M. Carlblom, Gwinner. N. D., in-} ternal injuries, in serious condition. Mrs. A. M. Carlblom, Gwinner, N. D., scalp wound and other bruises. | T. Poole, traveling salesman, Wah-! peton, N. D., badly bruised. B. Lillestol, Wyndmere, N. D. | B. E. Brooks, Lidgerwood, N. D. Mrs. Julia Faulkner, Wahpeton, N. D. E. W. Otteson, Williston. N. D. C. E, Olson, mai! clerk, Wahpeton, N. D. Mrs. N. D. The train was caught in a storm about 5 p. m. Shortly after the rain began to fall in sheets it became dark.) and the engineer, fearing that he} might strike a washout, stopped the train. Just after the train stopped a cy- clonic wind hurled the four passenge! coaches and mai! car into the ditch. The fire was caused by an overturned lamp, which had been lighted in the mail car. The fire soon spread to other coaches. All of the mail was burned. In the meantime the passengers were scrambling from the over- turned coaches in the heavy wind and downpour and almost pitch darkness." The train crew andj those of the passengers not over come by their injuries or shock immediately turned their attention to rescuing the others from the burning coaches. As soon as day- light began to return the engineer ran the locomotive into Brecken ridge and summoned help. A rescue train with six doctors on board soon left Breckenridge. Later in the evening all the passen- gers were brought to this city and the injured taken to St. Frances hos- pital. ‘F. Melischka, Wyndmere, Former Auditor Injured Among the most serious injured was A. M. Carlblom of Gwinner, N. D.. former state auditor of North Da- kota. Mr. Carlblom, wife and daugh- ter, were on their way home from St. Peter, Minn., where Miss Carlblom had just graduated from Gustavus Adolphus college. Mrs. Carlhlom re- ceived a bad scalp wound and is suf- fering from shock. but Miss Carlblom escaped with only minor bruises. All of the injured passengers have been identified except one young woman, who is unconscious in the hospital. Her condition is believed serious, there being slight hope for her recovery. She appears to be suffering from internal injuries. Lumberjack is Hero A big lumberjack from the north woods named Fitzgerald — proved himself a hero in rescuing Men,! women and babies from the burning passenger coaches. It is the opinion of many of the passengers here tonight that several would have} perished but for his work. He carried several unconscious victims from the wreck cars with utter disregard for} his own safety. The storm that hit this evening was the worst experienced for! many years, A 60-mile gale. accom- panied by a torrential rain, caused | much damage in this city, Wahpeton. and the surrounding country. Meager | reports received here tonight say that the storm was worst east and south of) here. A report from Foxhome stated | that that place had been almost com- pletely razed. many person killed and injured. Aside from a call for doctors no definite from that point as all wire communi- cation has been destroyed. | ction this | Roeder’s Death William Roeder. who was killed near Gardner was single and lived alone on his farm. The “twister” which accompanied the storm near Gardner took away all but the floor and foundation of his home scattering the material for miles over the coun-; The floor with Roeder on it, was carried a short distance from the home site and turned over. Roeder, was crushed beneath it. When found by neighbors Roeder! was unconscious. suffering from aj crushed skull and other injuries. He was put in an automobile and hurried to Fargo by E. W. Goss of Gardner} (Continued on Page Hight) An elevator at French, Minn., was demolished and buildings were blown down in other localities. William Roeder, 27 years old, f: ty, North Dakota, was so badly crushed when his home was de- stroyed by the wind that he died within 15 minutes after being taken into a local hospital last night. Twenty-six persons were injured, several of them seriously, when Northern Pacific train No. was blown into the ditch and burned, one-half mile north of Ever- ‘SLOPE COUNTRY Harry Diamond, Oliv Pacific Passenger Train from in Storm wind, rain and electrical storm O. Spenberg, htning; William Nokmer was his mother died of injuries re- named Elsom, near Grey Eagle. red. iam Nokmer, 11, was killed and e storm that swept northwestern armer near Gardner, Cass coun- 156, carrying 100 passengers, Minn. The coaches caught fire heroic work in rescuing women QN EDGE PATH OF BIG STORM Telephone Service Interrupted by High Winds Which Ac- companied Eastern Tornado BIG RAINS TO THE NORTH The heaviest rain of the year, ymounting to almost to a cloudburst in places, o¢curred about fifty miles north and east of Bismarck yester- day, according to reports received here, 3.68 Inches Rain The weather bureau reported 3.68 inches rainfall at Fessenden, which is «a record-breaker for the season and one of the heaviest rainfalls in so short a space of time for years. The rain was accompanied by lightning ind thunder, A traveler who drove from Wash- burn to Bismarck in an automobile yesterday afternoon said that the roads became so heavy that it was impossible to keep an automobile in the road. When he reached a point within four miles of Bismarck he had run out of the rain, and he stopped} and took off his skid chains and re-; moved the curtains. Autoist Blinded Another autoist reported to the! weather bureau that there were times | during the storm when the rain was <0 heavy that he could not see thg| radiator cap on his automobile, The rainfall reported on the weath- 2r map today follo Wahpeton, .62; Minot, .50; Pembina, .04; Napolzon; .18; Bottineau, In some places north there was hail with the rain, but it is said to have! been so fine that no material damage | a was caused. The storm which caused damage and: loss of life in e: and Minnesota yesterday came near | } the ‘Slope country. Today telephone service was inter-| rupted between Bismarck and Fargo, but was repaired during the day.! There was high wind at Jamestown, | (Continued on Page Tnree) i WCOD FORCES WIN TRIUMPHS IN COMMITTEE Two Advocates of His Candi- dacy Head Most Important Posts in Organization IS ANYONE’S FIGHT STILL Delegates as They Adjourn First Session Pause to Sing America Chicago, June 9.—Wood forces were elated tonight. General Wood dele- zates won two of the most important committee chairmanships when Sen- ator Watson was named for the reso- lutions committee and Edward Dut- field, New Jersey, for the credentials committee. Frank Hitchcock, designat- ed by Wood delegates as their preme strategist, said “Think of the phsychological effect of this victory; we controlled the committee againnst powerful opposition, almost solid anti- Wood forces.” While these developments were tak- ing place drift of talk seemed tending toward Lowde! Both Johnson and Lowden reiterated confidence they would win. The fight tonight seemed to be to weaken both Wood and John- son forces and turn gains to Lowden. It is planned to have all the nominat- ing speeches delivered Thursday even if necessary to have the convention sit all night and then the first ballot with the real contest to come Friday. Made Fermanent The convention met shortly before noon, heard the keynote address of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, tempor- ary chairman, appointed committees on rules, permanent organization, res- olutions and credentials, and adjourn- ed. The committees went to work im- mediately after lunch. The corhmittee on credentials went at once to the national committee room in the Coliseum to inspect the deci- sions of the national committee in the contests over seating delegates. Tho resoultions committee, most im- portant of all, which is to frame the platform, met at the Congress hotel. Resolutions Committee The resolutions committee organ- ized by electing Senator Watson for chairman, and began conferences out of which will come the party platform. ; Almost continuous night and day ses- sions are necessary to get the pro- gram ready to submit to the conven- tion Thursday. Those clamoring for audience included wets, drys, suf- fragists, antis, Irish smypathizers, lab- or leaders and others. A committee of 11 was appointed to frame the plat- | form, After the naming of the commit- tees, the convention adjourned to meet ; again at 11 a. m, tomorrow, when the reports of some of the committees will be received As the delega band struck up “ paused to sing. At the opening of the great clave, it was generally admitted that the fight still was a “free-for-all” and none of the candidates had succeeded in capturing a commanding lead. WEATHER REPORT left the hall the America” and they For twenty-four hours ending at noon, VE Wednesday, June 9. Temperature at 7 a. m. Highest yesterday Lowest last night. 58 Precipitation ... POTEET OEES lg no) Highest wind velo. y 32-8 Forecast For North Dakota: Fair tonight and Thursday; cooler east and cen- | tral portions tonight. Lowest Temperatures 58 5O 60 Winnipeg . 56 Helena . 42 Chicago 60 | Swift Current . 44 Kansas City . 68 ORRIS W. ROBERT: Meteorologist. TWO MEN NEARLY BLOWN TO PIECES AT WING WHEN CAPS OF DYNAMITE ARE EXPLODED THE INJURED Guy Blake, Wing, both hands badly lacerated. Wound in stomach, Not expected to live. blown off, eyes injured and face Charles Riechter, Wing, farmer, one hand blown off, face lac- | erated and general wounds. Eyes gouged out. Guy Blake and Charles Riechter of Wing were terribly wound- ed at noon today when they picked up a box of dynamite caps, } which exploded in their hands. T that vicinity. hey had just finished dinner and report could be obtained| were about to resume work on the county road crew, operating in It is believed that one of the men was smoking and one of the | caps became ignited. There were fifty pounds of dynamite near-by that was not exploded. con- ( HALL, STUTSMAN + TEAM FOR FIGHT ON TOWNLEYISM Thomas Hall, ¢ anti-Townley candj date for secretary of state to suc- ceed himself, and W. H. Stutsman, of Mandan. candidate for railroad commissjoner, left today for a, speak- | 'ing tour through several counties. ‘They will speak at three places in Bowman county tomorrow, in Adams county on June 11, in Sioux county jon June 12, and of Sunday, June 3, will attend an Amerjcan Legion picnic of posts of Dunn, Oliver cer and McLean counties at Painted ; Woods Lake, to which they were ia- | vited. On June 14‘they will visit McLean county and will be in Sheridan coun- ty on the following day. Both Mr, Hall and Mr. Stutsman will be con- stantly engaged in the campaign un- til the primary. RAILROAD AND COAL MEN TALK TRACK PROBLEMS Meeting Held Under Auspices of Board of Railroad Commis- sioners Last Two Days / CONSIDER SIX ‘QU. IONS I! A two-day conference between rep- resentatives of railroads and coal op- erators on the subject of spur track construction and operation opened here today under the board of railroad commi The subject of spur t tions has caused a great deal of trou- ble inthe state of North Dakota in the last two years, especially whilé con- struction was held up during the, per- iod of government control of the rail- roads. The problems cpnsidered at the conference here ar 1. Phys connection track with railroad. 2. Amount or part of the construc- tion to be assumed by the raliroad kK connec- of spur the coal operators. 3. The assistance furnished by rail- of spur track. or otherwise: * 5, Basis for remuneration. 6. Method of procedure and nature of application, together with data re- quired to be submitted by a coal oper- | ator in making an application for a spur track, C. F. Dupois, of the commission, has been appointed chairman committee on service of public utility companies | named by President Shaw ,of the na- {tional association of railway and util- ities commissioners, it is announced. (4 KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK; _ 24 INJURED June 9.—Eleven and twenty ‘one henectady, N. Y. q ished into the rear nger train which had stopped about two miles from Sche- nectady, N. Y., because of engine trou- h All but one killed were asleep in two Pullmans at the rear of the pas- senger train. Martin Doyle, of Albany, engineer of the express, died at his post, one hand being fast to the throttle when his body found in the wreckage. higan Central, a , carrying express matter, disregarded signals and went into train No. 28, a New York Central n, hound from Buffalo to ording to the story of Crobins brakeman, of No. 28. He said he waved a red lantern in vain and finally threw it into the cab as the express dashed by. passenger tr: New York, n, DEMOCRATS T0 UPHOLD TREATY OF VERSAILLES | San Francisco, Jun E |tion in favor of ratification of treaty of Versailles will be the main plank to Homer jthe democratic national | who arrived here las \for the national other big constructive planks will be built into the platform is not for me | to say at this time,” he said. L. H. Knowles, Wing liveryman, had just delivered the caps | MR. STAIR TAKES rushed them to Regan where they attended by Dr. Thompson. ‘to the camp and was present when the accident happened and | were given first aid. They were | PRISON CONTROL After their wounds were given temporary attention the men | of representatives at the last session. were rushed to the Bismarck hospital where it was reported that’| yesterday assumed formal control of the men were in bad shape. It is thought Riechter will recover, | but little hope i is held out for Blake. Blake is single and twenty-four years of age and a former ser- | tineau 37 years old, a farmer and has a wife and a | April 2 vice man. Riechter is 3 son. Owing to the good driving of L. H. Knowles, James Ashlock, | er Bold, Emil Peipkorn and Geor; ‘ge Peipkorn. | the North Dakota penitentiary as war- den. | “Mr. Stair, who comes from Bot- _county, was appointed on An invoice of property was | taken ‘immediately and then Mr.! | Stair became ill, which nece: ated | la postponement of his filing his oath; | of office, company and the amount or parts by | road company in actual- construction | 4, Operation, whether under lease , in the democratic platform, according | Cummings, chairman of committee, eaker of the house; LEAVES GRONNA AGAINST LADD | __ IN PRIMARY White’s Reason Given as Desire to Clear the Way for an Anti-Townley Victory ANNOUNCED COMMITTEE (Special to The Tribune) Fargo, June 9.—Colonel Frank White, of Valley City, authorized an announcement to the republican state central committee in session here this afternoon that he had_ with- withdrawn from the race for the republican nomination for Unit- ed States senator. Mr. White’s withdrawal leaves only United States Senator A. J. Gronna and Dr. E. F. Ladd in the race for the nomination. Col. White took this step so that the success of the anti- Townley candidates in the June primaries might not be impaired by a divided vote for United States senator, it was stated. Decision~ Announced The decision was made known by Chairman Sinnes at the re- ‘publican headquarters an hour before the state committee went into session. It was said that Col. White would support Mr. Gronna. Representatives were present from every part of the state at the meeting of the state com- mittee, which took up all phases of the anti-Townley campaign. Senator Gronna, while not en- dorsed by the Minot anti-Town- ley republican convention, where he did not ask for endorsement, has attacked the Townley social- istic element unmercifully in his campaign speeches. Ex-Service Man the third candidate, and had re- ceived strong pledges of support from friends throughout the state, his friends say. As an ex-service man he had received strong endorsement from many of them. His withdrawal was occasioned only by the desire that nothing be placed in the way of defeating Dr. E. F. Ladd, the Nonpartisan league candi- ‘date in the primaries, who is running as a republican. | ALASKA FLYERS MAY STOP HERE Bismarck is on the New York to Nome, Al pedition, which will start from New York about July 1, according to the tentative route announced in New York. The flight will be held under the auspices of the United States army. It probable that stops will be made at Bismarck for pline and oil. Four army airplanes will blaze the trail in the first flight ever attempted to Alaska, and one of the longest flights ever made MILL BURNED | NEAR DULUTH Duluth, Min: June 9.—At Pine y lightning struck the flour mill route of the ‘a, flying ex- The fire Lumber company were destroyed. , The s, Which rain saved the town from destruction according to reports received here. Col: White entered the race as | Hagan, WOOD AND LOWDEN STRENGTH NOT CHANGED BY CREDENTIALS REPORT; SEE FIGHT ON CONVENTION FLOOR Two Missouri Delegates Are Giv: ing in Contests After All Begins Work of en to Lowden by Committee Act- Night Session; Convention Making Platform Chicago, June 9.—While committees continued to grind away at organization preliminaries t! tion went through motions of a second keynote speech by the permanent chairman, thus follo he Republican National conven- second day’s session. It escaped selection of Senator Lodge as wing the plan of 1912 and 1916 of making temporary organization permanent. Today’s business consisted of committees, framing the platfor tials committee. hearing reports of progress from ‘m and a report from the creden- Ideal convention weather continued today. A cool, crisp breeze blew off Lake Michigan and the sun was shining. marked by everyone that the co! fortable. It was re- nvention hall was unusually com- ACT IN CONTESTS Working all night at forced mittee completed the permanen o’clock this morning. draft speed, the credentials com- t roll of the convention at 4:30 Previous rulings on contests by the na- tional committee were sustained in all but three cases. In disposing of 103 appeals from decisions made last week by the national committee, two delegates: were taken from Governor Lowden, one in Georgia and one in Tennessee ,and given to Gen. Wood, but in the Fifth Missouri, Kansas City district, where the national committee refused to seat anyone, the credentials com- mittee seated two Lowden men, candidates unchanged. FRAZIER WENT BEYOND POWER, COURT RULING Governor Did Not Comply With Law in Attempting to Re- move Wehe from Office WEHE RETAINS HIS JOB A demand “ane by L. J. Wehe on S. S. McDonald at the Work: pensation Bureau to- salary for April and men’s Con day for his for the signi payment of May ed by Mr. MeDo retary, The ord declaring Mr. s signed today. s ty day stay Man appeal is to be by the Compensation Bue Laureas J. Wehe today stands vic- tor in his fight to retain his place as a commissioner of the North Da kota Workmen's Compensation bu. reau. Judge W. L. Nuessle, of district court, held late yesterday, after th conclusion of arguments by attorneys before him, that Mr. Wehe still 13 commissioner on the prima fac showing made in the petition, a and demurrer filed in the c The court ruled that under the law the governor cannot summarily re- move a member of such a state com- ion but must grant the accused a complete hearing, This, he held, was not done by Governor Frazier in Mr. Wehe's case. The case was before Judge Nuessle on mandamus proceedings brought by Mr. Wehe against the workmen's com- pensation bureau to compel the pa. ment of his monthly salary of $20: which had been refused. “An answ was filed by the bureau and John commissioner of agricultu ex-officio member of the commis- on, by George K. Foster, attorney. ‘To this answer Mr. Wehe demurred. Wehe’s Demurrer The case undoubtedly will be pealed to the supreme court. Judge Nuessle held Mr. Wehe prima facie (Continued on Page Hight) ap- VICTORY TICKET SKETCHES CONGRESSMAN GEORGE M. YOUNG al- isan Congressman George M. Young, though endorsed by the nonpi league on several ions, has nev- er been subservient to their leader- ship. He openly opposed the Town- ley regime on ths Plumb plan for ownership of railroads and when the ted to run counter to Americanism and representative gov- ernment, he broke away as did Lang- } er, Hall and Kositaky. He is running for a fourth term} and is now one of the ranking mem- bers of the Ways and Means commit-} tee, probably the most important com-| mittee in the House. He is forty-nine years of age and resides Valley City. Previous to his congr ional career, | he served eight years in the legisla- ture. | Mr. Young will be voted upon i the following nineteen — counti Barnes, Benson, Bottineau. Burleigh, | D , Eddy, Emmons, Foster, Griggs, | | Kidde Moure, Logan, McHenry, | , McIntosh, Pierce, Rolette, Sheridan, } ' Stutsman and Wells, | He lead the fight for a just price for wheat during the period of govern- | ment operation of the grain busine: {In 1915 he secured a revision of machin GEORGE M. YOUNG | grain grades and saved the farmers | stead law. hei considerable on that year’s crop. Lynn J. | leaving the standing of the two Face Contests The convention faced the task of de- ciding a number of the contests in which protests were made against the decisions of both the national com- mittee and the credentials commit- tee, The convention was in session only one hour and devoted itself entirely to routine preliminaries. The tempor- ary organization was made permanent, The report of the credentials commit- ‘tee was approved with the changes made last night, some of which revers- ed previous decisions of the national committee. For its second day’s sensation the convention heard a woman speaker— Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter, of Kan- sas—the first woman to address a na- tional convention. Depew Entertains Chauncey M. Depew entertained the convention with a brief address and apparently the convention had decid- ed to do away with a string of speak- ers who in previous years had enter- tained the convention while commit- tees were working for there were no other “entertainment” speakers on !hand. The next session will be at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning. The rank and file of convention vis- j tors also liked a lot of music and oratory and this year they are getting it, ! “Saturday noon at the earliest,” is the estimate of leaders when asked | when adjournment may come. The delay is more apt to be liable to plat- form difficulties than uncertainty over « nomination. The word has gone out to give the radicals every chance to give their views and stop any charge of steam rolling, or as some call it, “an excuse for a bolt.” Discuss Second Place Until the platform is built there will be no one named to stand on it. The fact that more than half of the dele- gates are uninstructed has added to the list of the nominating speeches. There are three or four for some and in some cases five or six for a candi- date. Between these speeches and.the platform contest it would not be sur- prising if the actual nominations of the convention would be carried over until Saturday. as to In reply to inquiries “what is in the air” on the vice- lency are met with the unanim- response: “Nothing. It depends on “who is put over to head the ticket.” The League Plank The league of nations plank was still undefined today, twenty-four hours before the republican platform was to be presented to the national convention. | Members of the sub-committee of thirteen, when they went into session to smooth out the remaining platform troubles, expressed confidence that they could agree, but all were some- what hazy on how it was to be done. | Senator Watson, of Indiana, head ‘of the sub-committee maintained that in the end the Indiana plank with jsome modifications would get the sup- port of all republican elements. Sen- | ator Borah, of Idaho, and McCormic of Hlinoi thought there would have | ‘ é 'to be material modification to pa | the irreconciliables. The mild reser- | vation group also wanted changes made, but in the opposite direction. Platform builders reported substan- tial progress on tentative drafts, with promise of unusually quick action by the resolutions committee as a result of preliminary work, Group differ- ences remained, but leaders of all fac- | tions said there were higher hopes of jan entire “harmony” platform after | the planks are smoother and the shav- | ings swept out in committee. | The league of nations plank con- [tinued Monday to .engross several {groups of the voluntary platform | construction corps. Another differ- | ence loomed over labor policies, in- uding demands, for indorsing anti- strike and similar legislation. Settle- | ments of both, however, were predict- ed. | Dry Plank Discussed The supreme court’s decision ‘on | prohibition brought forth renewed dis- ‘cussion of a prohibition plank. Pro- hibition advocates were planning to ; urge a stringent enforcement plank jwith a declaration against any “beer jand wine” amendments of the Vol- Many party leaders, how- (Continued on Page Three)