The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 30, 1922, Page 1

lh | ~_ Second Report of Judiciary Sub. \ with recommendation that Mr, Miller’s | ‘The. Weather COLDER TONIGHT | Last. Edition Hee | Il ” FoRtteTt YEAR ___ BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, : =~ ANUARY 30, 1922 ° : . ONDAY, J PRICE FIVE CENTS - 08 DIE IN MOVIE COLLAPSE Rt tat tenement FULL COMMITTEE _URGES MILLER BE CONFIRMED RECOMMENDED JUDICIARY. BODY , WOULD DISMISS CHARGEBROUGHT Committee Headed by Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesotr | Submits its Report \ s + ACTION SAID UNANIMOUS committee is Accepted, | Chairman Announces \ Washington, Jan. 30.—By the Assu.cicu cess.) —'the nomi- nation of Andrew Miller to be federal judge for the North Da-| kota district was ordered report- |< ed favorably to the senate today by the judiciary committee. Th action, Chairman . Nelson said, was: unanimous and based on a, ENGIIBERS OF seat Mr. Miller be dismissed. | ~ MEETING HERE There are 17 mentbers of the full | judiciary committee which ‘reported! ANDRE VE MELEER, nomination by President Harding be) confirmed. The chairman of the com- | mittee is Knute Nelson, of Minnesota, | who eat in at the sub-committde hear- | ing Friday. The membership of the; committee includes: Senators Knute | * A Nelson, Minnesota; William Dilling-; A state-wide call has bech made! ham, Vermont; Frank Brandegee, jand_local members of the North Da- Connecticut; William -Borah, Idaho; ‘kota Chapter and the Bismarck Club LaBaron .B. Obit, Rhode Island; Norris, Nebraska; Krank Kellogg. ‘ Minnesota; Charles A. Culberson, | jeers are making: pr ‘Texas; Lee Overman, North Carolina; third. annual mee| Henry, F. Ashhurst, Arizona; John’ chapter to be Shields, Tennessee: Thomas Walsh, |February 9 and Montana: William King, Utah; Rich-} The North Dakota chapter, ard Ernst, Kentucky. comprising a majority of the profes It was reported in thas Miller oppo- | i sional enginéers of the. state, wasi sition circles in Bismarck Mik former. Ga ae Hine eeatareeh: aaniay | a 5 e hei pa had Dersnated Sen The~-American Askociation «6? the floor of the senate against the-con- | Engineers, a national organization ot firmation and that efforts were being |2early 25,000 members, is a non-) ther_senators for a | technical organization’ of technical tet A the floor of the Hine nator *|men devoted to the promotion of their BASTERN TIE-U Convention To To Bring Many From| Various Cities Throughout North Dakota of the state Bismarek on ‘will be “North Dakota as a Field for Engineers.” Sonfe of the speakers Geo. iof the American Association of Engin- | parations for the now | ruary is ners eds to surpass all pre- One of Most ‘Severe Storms In; vibe meetings. Prominent speakers have been secured. The general topic History is Reported ~ , f Washington, Jan,-30.—More than 24} hours of continuous snow had Satur- day night covered the middle Atlantic section, with Washington as a center, 0a Gepth of a foot to nearly 30 inches; caused the suspension of practically all business activity; disrupted tele-| phone and shut most of ulation in their homes. The storm, 'which weather bureau | officials said avas one of the most severe in history and exceeded in the | depth of snowfall only by the long; remembered blizzard of~ February, 1899, was moving slowly last night up’ the coast from its position during the day. Reports to the weather bureau! ,Showed that the Carolinas, Virginia, ‘Maryland, Delaware and the District | of Columbia were ‘bearing the brunt | of the storm and receiving the heav- iest snowfal uf Virginia. cities accus- tombed to only an inch or so of ehow| and then of rare occurrences, were buried in many cases to the depth of.a foot while northern portions of the Carolinas still were blanketed | with e fall that began Thursday. - : ‘Washington, however, appeared to! be the center of the heavy fall, fe weather buread measurements tak Jate in the day showing) the depth | { to be closely approaching two and a the pop- feng their topics are: ‘Coal and Coal Mining if North | Dakota,” F. L. Anders, Fargo. “Clay and Clay Industry in North | Dakota, -, J. Babcock, Grand Forks. { “Indian Engineering,” M. Gilmore, | Bismarck, |_,“The American Association of En-/ gineers,” F. M. Bass, Minneapolis. | “The Architect in North Dakota,” \G. R. Horton, Jamestown. “Irrigation in North Dakota,” McMahon, Bismarck. “The Road Situation in North Wa- | koa, ” F. F. Mees, Mandan. Geo. ' “The County Superintendent Highways,” T. H. Ropinsoy, Wash. , burn. Plant,” | | “Minot's Sewage Disposal E. J. Thomas, Minot. , | ¢ All professional engineers a n ai architects of the state havo been in- | |vited to attend. All sessions but the |Friday afterndon business session will | be open to the public a ‘Meetings | {will be held in the American Legion | hall. ~A large attetidance is expected. | Considerable preparations are being made especially for the banquet and’ dance to be held at the McKenzie ho-+ tel Friday evening, Feb. 10. FIRE DAMAGES — SCHIPFER HOME , Believed « to Have Originated half feet. The national capital ~ with its | From Overjeated Chimney heavy and coastantly increasing | pe blanket was virtually paralyzed a8! Fire which original to activities of all kinds in much the! the homeof Dr. .Schipfer, No, 4 same manner as in 1909 when a light-| Ayenue B, stortiy before 11 o'clock er fal}, but accompanied by rain and} | today aid considerable damage < sleet. forced abandonment, of elabor- | | though prompt actfon by the fire d ate plans for the inaugura! jpartment held the fire which had ow fall in Washington prac- ; gained a good start to a minimum tically Halted governmental” activity | i eee tee ea eet ne are ee oa a had its effect in an international | m an- overheated mn A an aacellation of} large portion of the roof was burned. way by causing cancel onférence| Considerable water was thrown by: two schedued armame! | the fire depattment, but not a great: ca ‘of government em-} ‘deal of damage was caused to the ployees walked to work and many jj iieveg. ur- | others living in outlying or sub | The amount of the damage could TS iain ean tated by the| not bd estimated early this afternoon. storm, only 49 seuators answering " the, roll call and a bare handful -of W. Cc. T. U. J. Committee house members reported. Both hou - and senate aciourned after brief s@s- | sions, { HOLD HEARING AT GLEN ULLIN The railroad commission will hold a hearing February 3 at 5 p. m. at Glen Ullin in the matter of investi- gating the rates, charges, practices and service of the.'Hannes Light and Power Co., of Glen Ullin. On Febru- ary 2 the "commission will hold a hearing at New England on the ap- plication of the Milwaukee to put tri-weekly local service on the Can- ponball line= _'state convention. in the attic of The North Dakota ¢3 skota executive com- | mittee of the Woman's Christian Tem- enforcement and membe! paigns in the state. Pl be made for the district of the unioh within the en fall. Mrs: Elizabeth Preston Fargo, national recording se: Anderson. tange the presence of Anna A. {lower floors by dripping water, it was’ To _To Lay Plans hands of the jury this week, | perance ‘Union will meet in Farg) March 9 and 10, to lay plans for law hip cam- 1] about nine cents an hour to give each n|child in Minot educational prepara- e this|tion for life according to figures | pre- spring and the state cofvention next] vared by school officials) upon™ the MOWNLEY FREED. "FROM JAIL GETS. ) WEEK'S RESPITE | Leaves Jackson, Minnesota, a St. Paul to Spend Several Days With Wife \ eee AT FARGO NEXT MONDAY Week’s Respite is Granted By Johnson ee ' Jackson, Minn. Jan. 30—A. ©: aownley, president of tho National: <onpartisan Hague, was réfeaseft! om the Jackson county jail today! ter serving a 90-day sentence for; n of the state ‘espionage law. | (He ft the jail at 19 m. and im- j ediaiely departed utomobile to | ; St. Paul to visit his wife who 1s ill iene: ‘Townley.had agreed to appear | nCass county district court at Far- 'g0 February 6 to answer to a warrart ‘charging him ‘with implication in the jallesed "embezelement of $3,000 from ‘the Scandinavian-American bank of | bargo, it was a new Townely who stepped i out “from the jail rejuvenated physically and eager to return to tne | ‘farmers fight” as he put it. | ‘His 90-day stay in jail was sane i! him inzo three months of system-} 'good regular meals put him in better: }shape than he has | his friends say. Two automobiles made up,the Non- ; partisan party that left for St. Paul | |this forenoon. ‘The first car to leave! ecytained C. G, Griffith, brother of [the league state manager for Minne- ; A. B. Gilbert, and H. B. Shu-j cher, the latter of Fargo. | Townley traveled in the second car | and oe companions were his secre- | tary, J. Merrick, and Mrs. Merrick, | | Geo. Ry Grifiith, state manager of the | league, and Geo. N. Nordlin, St. Paul, a member of the state:house of ren | resentatives, ,/-Fownley refused to make any’ fe! itnent before: leaving as. to his future | plans. He thanked, the sheriff andi Mrs. Lee for the treatment they had: ‘accorded him, including many small favors. Sheriff Lee said Townley had | ;been a good prisoner. | GRANTED WEEX’S DELAY . _ Fargo Jan. 30.—A. C. Townley, | ,for whom Cass county officials hold a jwarrant charging embezzlement will} be permitted to go from the Jackson | {county jail to St, Paul, according to| iWred Kraemer, Cass county sheriff, Mr. Kraemer said, that Sveinbjorn | ‘Johnson, Attcrney General of North Dakota, sponsor of the charges against | | Townley, has approved the plan per-: ;mitting the national league president | jspending this week in St. Paul, coming | ,to Fargo next Monday, ~ STREL SELLING PLAN PROBED | “Pittsburgh Plus” Method of; Selling Steel is Attacked | Milwaukee, Jan. 30.—For the third time the Pittsburgh plus steel con- j.troversy between western manufac- turers and the Pittsburgh steel mills j came under investigation today be- fore the Federal Trade Commission: ' Examiner John Bennett. cpened a series of hearings here ‘with other hearings. ‘scheduled for Minneapolis, Pittsburgh and Indianapolis later. Complaiats in the present case in- es ae ae tthe “Pittsburg plus” plan all stee] of the steel corporation is sold | at Gost at Pitsburgh plus the freight ‘from Pittsburgh, although the steel may have been produced in Minnesota milly The plan is designed to pro- tect ihe Pittsburgh mills fromi compe- titon, it is alleged. ARBUCKLE LE CASE “ HALTED A DAY San Francisco, co; Jan 3 30.—There was! no session today of Superior Judge Harold ‘Lauderbach’s court where Roscoe Arbuckle is on trial for the second time on a charge of manslaugh- ter arising fronf the deatt. of Virginia Rappe. Cavin McNab, chief ‘of the defense counsel, is in Nevada ,appear- ; ing in the Mary Pickford divd¥ce pro- ‘ceedings and the court declared a re-° cess until his return tomorrow. It is ‘expected the case will be in the EDUCATION COST 9 CENTS AN HOUR Minot, N. D., Jan. 30.—It costs grade schools, high school. night and {| kindergarten schools. . This figure is arrived at by taking 2,000; Minot pu- for the organization [s working. to ar-| pils, six hours a’ day, for mine months Gor-| of school. and the school year cost at don, national head of the union at the! about $186,000. About 86 teachers are employed as the year’s average. ; Plea of Toynley’s Attorney For American Farm Bureau ty ¥ ee Sa PROMINENT PEOPLE KILLED. GCLINBOINS Ta exercise and this coupled with} of the National Wo have been because s been in for years, | {24 to Albert Leavitt, professor of law at University of } met him last March 1 Wendrow Wilson.” U AIR ERNEST SHACKIGVS0N I awnrnAnnr~~- ‘WILL PUBLISH ‘STROMME’S WORKS The marriage of Miss SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON, NOTED WHEN MOTION PICTUREROOR CAVES | IN DURING NIGHT PERFORMANCE \_ | Brigadier-General of Reuta: Arey Army Put in Charge of Ruins and | Search For Bodies Goes on— Three-fold Investigation Is 1 Started by Authorities Into Cause For Collapse, at First i Blamed to Heavy Fall of Snow on Roof of Movie, Which Was i of War-time Construction | Washington, Jan. 30.—With 108 dead and 133 injured re- imoved from the ruins of the Knockerbocker motion picture thea- \ter early today rescuers were still struggling with the heavy i wreckage left when the snow-laden roof of the structure collapsed ;during the showing of a comedy feature bill Saturday night. Brigadier-General Bandholtz, commandant of the federal \troops in the district, in personal charge of the rescue work, said rit might be another 24 hours before it could be definitely said there were no more dead or injured in the wreckage of twisted ‘steel and. concrete. | It was believed, however, that the section now, bein; lored. ~ | ‘would yield few additions to the list. A party of the play early today had been struggling for hours to release one:man be- ilieved alive although | imprisoned under the mass measly! 36 hours. Investigation Started, A three-fold investigation was in | prospect today. In addition to an ex- haustive inquiry ordered. by the board of commissioners of the district and |another to be started immediately by the grand jury, Senator Capper, Kan- Ito learn the full feutant of the trag- |edy. President Harding in a state- i if !sorrow which has come to all of | iv ashington and which will be sym- Elsie Hill, chairman of the executive committee | BORAH CLAIMS orth Dakota. She} when he gave $100 to the suffrage cause “in honor of | ment last night said the tragedy had Heft him’ with the “same inexpressible !phathetically felt throughout the an’s Party, only ‘recsntly became known. That may ena e still retains her maiden name. She was married Dec. | Says Powerful Financial Intér-' ests Intend Debt Should Not Be Paid sas, a member of the senate District ‘. ih {of Columbia committee, announced, EXPLORER, DIES IN SOUTH SEAS Washington, Jan. 30.—The most that as soon as the senaté convened he would introduce a resolution call- Y powerful financial influence in the | United States:and abroad intend that \the “leven billion . dollars’ owed the “Three Times Tried to Reach the. ,United'States ‘by the allied and asso- | “J 'Gated nations shall. never) be paid, ‘| South Pole, and Made Many senator Borah, Republican, declared i> Thrilling Explorations i ing for an investigation of the trag- edy. The senator-said he had receiv- that the building code of thad heen violated in more than a few instances during the war- time rush of. construction. ' Edward H. Shaughnessy second ins- sistant postmaster-general,” was stil making ‘a fight ‘for life today at the Walter ‘Reid hospital. Among. those prominent on the list of dead was former Representative A. H_ Barch- field; formerly of Pittsburgh, and Mrs. Farrand, sister of Minster Dianchi, ‘of Guatemala. ° ‘ Victims Rushed to Hospitals All was confusion for hours aftet ‘the crash while police, firemen, ma- jtoday in.the-senate. | Senator Borah said he was satistied ‘ {that if the debt commission was given Buenos Aires, Jan. 30—(By the As-jauthority to extend the time of pay- :Sociated Press)—More than three! ments of interest at its discretion no weeks elapsed between the death of |interest would be paid fcr five or ten Sir Ernest Shackleton, the British ex-jyears. The result would be that the (Dlore., and its announcement to the'United States would, in fact, be ‘world made yesterday when the body | making additional loans to the debtor ‘arrived at Montevideo. The delay, La! nations at an additional cost in tax jNac.on’s Montevideo corr earondent (9 the American people. i ‘telegraphed, was described by Cap’ Hu. who accompanied fhe body He due to a series of wireless mishaps. | Sir Ernest died aboard the steam- ship Quest on which he was making another Antarctic voyage while an- chored off South Georgia Island on ; January 5. | His body was taki lon the’ first leg o! oF to Mantoviies| the trip home fessor Kuval. Sir Ernest Shackleton was born at Kilkee, Ireland, 1874. He wag sent to Dulwich college but his love of the sea was strenger than his love of hooks, and he left.college without fin- :Grand Forks, X. D. Ja N. D, Jan. 30.—A com- ishing his coursei } Four times fe sail- mittee has heen organized to publish ed around the world before his ap- the memoirs and other works of Peer Pointment, in 1901, as third lieutenanc ¢ne United States Grain Corporation known Norwegian Grand Stromme, widely writer, former editor, of the, who died last fall The committee in- -¢ludes P. O. Thorson, manager of the Normanden; Simon Johnson, editor of Governor Nestos, othgr well known men of Norwegian Forks Normanden, at Madison, Wi: that paper; birth or descent. The committee has ‘been formed in the wish expressed by the late Mr, Stromme. GUMMER TRIAL OFF FOR WEEK accordance with Valley City, William Gummer, murder of Marie postponed today until Monday, Feb. | illness of W. , Green, chief” prosecuter in the trial. |great farewell w The defense made no objection. 6, beeause of the and ot the National Antarctic Expedition. In 1907 Shackleton, was placed in command of the British Antarctic Ex- pedition and landed in 1908 at Erebus, dsland, South Victoria land. Here he spent the winter, sending out sledge parties of exploration. Mount ‘Erebus was ascended and on exploration, one of the most remarkable sledge ex- ploits ever recorded, was undertaken the Antarctic continent. On Jan- uary- 9, 1909, the party reached a point only 111 miles from the South Pole, but storms and a shortage in food supplies compelled the party to turn back when so near the goal. Late in‘Decembcr, 1914, the explor- er salled from South Georgia, in the South Atlantic, beginning then an ex- pedition that was destined to be one: of the most thrilling in the history of polar. rgsearch, Shackleton failed aboard the Norwegian steamship ame rines from the nearby barracks and soldiers from ‘Walter Reed military hospital strove to burrow beneath the mass of debris and bring. forth nose buried there under. Scores had been removed from the edges of the debris and hurried. to hospitals: but police, engaged for 24 U.S. GRAIN BODY 2 ners ‘ine ble to fev up on the num- Guage resomat Young Says That ber of those taken to the hospitals or whether any orn how many had died Something Must Be Done _2fter reaching the hospitals. to Stabilize Prices WOULD REVIVE _ Every. fire stdtion in the city was called upon to send its-crew to the ‘scene and the collection of fire fight- ing apparatus only added to the con- fusion, 7 With the arrival of thé marines, however, order began to be restored. Apply Acetylene Torches Emergency hospitals were set up in the neighborhood, some of the homes of high officials of the government ‘being used. Finding the tons of concrete and ~ steel of the roof was almost immov- able and unseparable, the street rail- way companies of the city and the Washington navy yard was . called upon to supply acetylene torches. With ~ these more rapid progress was made and it was hoped that within a few hours it might be possible to reach those buried beneath the debris. Representative Smithwick of Fhor- ida, Was painfully cut about the head and chest but not seriously hurt. An- other of those injured was Nobile Tomasso Assereto, third secretary of Washington, Jan. 30.—Revival of to handle the 1922 wheat crop in an effort to stabilize prices was advocated today by Representaive Young, Re- publican, Norh Dakota, at house hear- ings on bills designed to stabilize prices of farm products generally. Contending that the plight of the wheat farmer was more serious than at any time since the early '90's Mr. Young said some aid was imperative because what the farmer had to sell was at a low record mark while all he had to buy was quoted at prices unprecedentedly high. MANY EXPECTED AT CONFERENCE Representation of on of practically all of the member organizations is louked for.by G. N. Keniston, president of the ian 30.—The trial Of to-reach the pole and returned to Eng- the Italian embassy. Attaches of the British _ embassy reported at midnight that a check had been made of the staff of that embas- sy and none found to have been in at- tendance at the theater. Belief was expressed in some quarters that the final list of injured and possibly that of the dead, would contain names of rged with the‘jand in 1917 to aid his country in the; Federation of Civic and Commerce k, was further: war. | Organizations of North sakola, at the His third expedition was ‘started 1’ annual meeting in Fargo fb. 31. He was given a Keniston has sent a questionnaire to hen he sailed from | aj] the members and the replies in little ship, “The! cate a large and representative ' tendance. C.|few months ago. ‘England in the ‘ Quest.” W THER R REPORT. | HE M. Stanton, secretary of the cr- For twenty-four hours ending at FARMERS CO-OP | ganization, formerly secretary of the} well known persons inasmuch as the noon Jan. 30. | Grand Forks Commercial cib, has|theater was situated in a portion of Temperatiir CREAMERY GROWS written trom ‘Duluth; to which city he| the city in which many government Highest y | has removed: that he will be present | Officials lived. Lowest yesterday .¥ Lowest yesterdy Lowest last night . Highest wind veloci Weather Forecast, For Bismarck and vicinit: tonight and Tuesday; night with temperatdre considerably The managemeyt of the theater, which was owned and operated by the Harry M. Crandall company, owner of a number of theaters in the city, de- clared that the building only recently had been inspected and approved and that the collapse of the roof only could have been caused by the tre- mendous weight imposed by the heav- iest snow fall that has visited Wash- With possibly one s, all the subjects 16, Thief River Fall ‘i “Minn., Jan, 30—j at the meeting. 5 \Thore was received at the Farmers’! exception, because of. illn —2) Cooperative creamery in Thief River! men announced to discuss 08 Falls during the year 1,794,495 pounds | will be present. of cream, from which ‘625, 335 pounds of butter was made, of which citizens FIRE CAUSES HEAVY DAMAGE Fdir of Thief River Falls consumed 123,923 St. John, N. D., Jan. 31—Fire broke to-! pounds. Farmers of Pennington coun- | ty who furnished this amount of dairy | products received as their share ap- cold Tue: below zero ntinued cold ington since 1899. For N Dakota: lair tonight proximately $275,000. Many ote oe out in the local garage . Friday’ 8 Wark Heddices: ¢f Danger and Tues colder tonight, cold patrons received individual checks of | nignt. Inside of two hours the build-} The roof fell with such force as wave in east and central portions with ; more t temperature-considerabiy below zero, continued cold Tuesday. Weather Conditions, A high pressure area with. s the Pls temperature cov and the Canadian lew pressure areas temneratures cover Valley and the southwestern stat Snow hag fallen over the plains states | violating the Harrison anti-narcotic the weather has been |,act ts, surrendered today to U. S. Com- but elsewhere fair. ORRIS W.-ROBERTS, han $3,500, there being several ing was burned to the ground. The {'to drive three concrete pillars through seore who reached the $1,000 mark.” | Fire Griginated in the rear of the gar-|the orchestra floor. Up near the stage, ‘age, where the electric light plant} however, iis force was arrested, so Man Wanted In was located. It probably started|that the platform successfully acted ro around the exhaust pipe. Twenty-}as buffer. For ‘this reason, it was Minot Surrenders Leavenworth, Kan., Jan. 30.—Frank T. Johnson, who says he is wanted in Minot, North Dakota on a charge of said, several of the musicians escap- ed. Every expedient was resorted to in eight cars were in storage, most of them without insurance. Two were saved, + There was very little insur- ance on the building, making the |the work of rescue, volunteers assist- | whole almost a complete loss. ing the firemen, police and marines For a time it was feared that the| without regard to the possible aol- operator of the light plant had been | lapse of the walls, a prospect which missioner, Bond. Johnson said he es- enveloped by the flames, but upon j was regarded as all too imminent, capel, last October when federal auth- | closes investigation he was found to} One case was observed: of. a small jorities conducted a raid-at Minot. {be safe and sound, (Continued on Page 3) a ‘ = Meteorologist.