The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 22, 1922, Page 1

we ‘The Weather CONTINUED COLD at FORTIETH YEAR % @ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE[== BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22 PRICE FIVE CEN’ STORM SWEEPS OVER INVESTIGATION INTO CAUSE OF PANAMA’S QUEEN - semi-rigid dirigible Roma destroyed yesterday at the Norfolk CRASH OF ROMA, WHICH CAUSED DEATH OF THIRTY-FOUR, IS BEGUN Army Officers Who Survive Disaster Say That Crash Was Caused By Breaking of Elevating Rudder of The Big Airship—Num- ‘ ber of Dead Remains at 34, With 11 Survivors, Eight of Whom Are in Hospitals . _ PROBE REPORT BAG ROTTEN Newport News, Va., Feb. 22.— Reports that the bag of the Army base with a loss of 34 lives was rotten will be probed by an Army board of inquiry., ‘The board of inquiry will be named today or tomorrow. Norfolk, Va., Feb. 22.— Investigation of the crash of the giant army dirigible Roma at the army base here yesterday will begin today with the arrival here of the officers of the Army air service from Washigton. The number of dead remained today at 34, all of whom have been identifieds:.< °° Of 11 survivors of the crew and passengers eight were in the hospitals. One of them, Charles Dworqck, of Dayton, O., a super- \ntendent of aerial construction at McCook field, was in a critical | condition. All of the others were expected to live. ij Army officers who survived the disaster say it was caused by the collapse of the elevating rudder. WON'T ASK RAIL MEN TO STRIKE a full and complete investigation of President Lewis Says in an Ad- the catastrophe. | ‘Belief was, expressed today by dress, Miners Only Want Moral Support those who saw the Roma on her flight that the after-compartment gave way forcing the rudder out of alignment. Mechanics who worked on the Roma | when she was first brought to Langley | field-are indirectly quoted as saying ihat the bag was “rotten.” This is; discounted by officers and_ enlisted .men who point out that the Roma was given several thorough tests by ex- perts before she was ever sent up. They further declare that had the bag been rotten or construction faulty trouble almost certainly would have developed on the trial flight to Wash- ington at which time the Roma raced back to Langley field ahead of one of the worst storms of the year. _ Recovery of the last body makes the toll of the disaster the greatest FORM ALLIANCE, Vachington, Feb. 22.—Leaders of mine and railroad laber unions in joint session today voted. to | | | form a protective — alllance | through witch the United Mine Madri Gras tha opens in Pana- ‘eb, ma, Feb. 25. She was elected by 300,000 votes. She’s ical Span- ‘sh beauty. N.P.L. MEETINGS AREHALTED BY SBVERE STORM May Be Necessary To Call League Meetings in Rural Districts at Later Date PRAISES ARMS in the history of American aeronau- tics at 34 dead, 8 injured, and three practically uninjured. Thirty bodies have been identified although many bodies of those caught dn.the: interior of-the: ship wereburns_| ed, blackened and charred almost be- yond recognition. Those dead in- cluded some of the air service’s most gallant officers, among them Major John’ Thornell, commander of the ship after christening in Washington last December, and Capt. Dale Mabry, her commander during yesterday’s ill- fated flight. Inspects Disaster Air service men from Langley Field, ! home station.of the craft, began to- day to clean up wreckage of the warped and blistered skeleton and preparations began for the official in- quiry. Major General Mason M. Patrick, chief of the air service, made a per- sonal inspection of the wreck and or- dered an immediate investigation. | APPOINT HEAD OF BOARD Washington, Feb. 22—Appointment of a board of inquiry headed by Me- jor Davenport Johnson to inquire in- to the Rotha disaster, was announced by: the army air service. YIELDS UP LAST DEAD Norfolk, Feb. 22—Completely wreck- ed by power and explosion the Roma, the world’s largest semi-rigid airship, and pride jf the American air service, had yielded up today last of the dead of the disaster which overtook her yesterday while maneuvering over Hampton Roads and sent her-hurling downward to crash into the network j of the high-power electric wires that wrought her destruction. EXTEND SYMPATHY Workers of America “would. re- ecive the full snpport of a ma- fority of the nation’s railroad em- moyes in the miners’ strike pro- Fargo, 'N. D, Feb, 22—With a se- vere stiorm sweeping the state today the attendance of scheduled Nonpar- posed for March 1. APRS alilafice® ns<yet~ does. ot isan. League, caucuses willbe maz terially reduced and it may be neces- call for a sympathetic rail strike, however. Chicago, Feb. 22—The United Mine Workers of America do not ask the; nation’s railroad employes to join them in a strike, John L. Lewis, presi- dent of the’ miners, said today in an address opening the conference of mine and railway unions. Mr. Lewis spoke of what he termed “the coming strike” of miners and) said his orgenization wanted only the | full moral support of the carriers’ employes. REJECT INVITATION , Pittsburgh, Feb. 22—The Pittsburgh coal producers association last night rejected the invitation of John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers ‘of America, for a joint con- ference to discuss a new wage agree- sary to dbandon them in a _ great many instances, it is belicyed. At league headquarters here today. officials were unable to state what steps would be taken to call precinct meetings at a later date, but it was indicated that early action would be taken to instre selection of precinct representatives at county conventions scheduled for next month. ‘Nearly all Nonpartisan caucuses are held in rural districts, with the result that today’s | works double hardship on the political orgenization’s program for launching the 1922 political campaign. In the official league paper in Fargo attacks continue to be made on the ;so-called “balance of power plan” ad- vocated by A. C. Townley, president |of the league. precinct { storm | SALES TAX MAY JUDGE ROBINSON. BERECOMMENDED MAY RUN AGAIN Says He Has Not Decided Just G. 0. P. on Committee Wrestle What Course Will Be With Compensation Problem Justice J. E. Robinson, of the’ su- preme court, is not certain that he will retire from public office with the ‘Washington, ‘Feb, 22—What pro- |conclusion of his term next yanuary vision for financing the soldiers bonus | Replying to queries as to truth of ‘London, Feb. 22—News of the de- struction of the U. S. dirigible Roma! tragedy and pictures of the airship. Similarity of the details with those) of the destruction of the R-38 at Hull last summer {js widely remarked. The Times says that as in the Hull tragedy’ the people of the United States and Great Britain join in a common sor- row. GUMMER’S FATE SOON SETTLED Valley City, N. D., Feb. 22—William Gummer, on trial in the Barnes dis- trict court for murder, spent a quiet lay in his jail cell today, with plenty of time to meditate on his fate, which probably will be in a jury’s hands by tomorrow night. Arguments in the case were sched- uled to begin tomorrow. morning, and it ig expected the jury will have the case sometime during the afternoon. ' CONFERENCE; Philadelphia, Pa., Feb, 22—‘It was the inevitable working of poetic jus- tice in human history that the greatest! conference ever held in the interest of | peace should meet a century ail a half after Washington’s struggles and triumphs,” General Arthur Currie, head of the McGill university, Mon- treal, declared today at the University of Pennsylvania, Washington’s birth- day exercises. After his address Sir Arthur and General Pershing were honored by the doctor of law degree by the university. Flax is grown in almost all tem- would be proposed for a vote of the |Tumors that he would not be a candi- full committee was,a measure of spec-|date to succsed himself, Judge Rob- having the quest t rad reduce the opiem to some solution, |friends have insisted that he shouid The general belief of house mem-;TUn and that he was uncertain, what bers was that some form of sales or ine would do. . .| “It depends a good deal upon who recom. Sete tax would? be: rec jthe candidates are,” said the. judge. 2S. \“If the candidates would make good GETS NOWHERE 3 {judges I*probably would not let my Weshingiion, Feb. 22—The house iene, be entered. bonus tax “committee got nowhere at | judge Robinson is now much , en- ifs first session to discuss ways and |£Tossed in several proposed initiative means of financing the bonus. Sever- |!aws, for which he has prepared ant ab members were absent and it was {18 circulating petitions. He wants finally decided to put the whole ques- | ihe deve woted on in the June pri- tion over until later in the day. \ S. : é ' $2,500 ASKED FOR SLANDER HIGH SCHOOL : | Minot, N. D., Feb. 22.—In a case $2,500 from : TEAM ON TRIP begun in district court ‘here, Louis Bolders: as damages for alleged slander, W. F. Meyers. The Bismarck high school basket | ball team will leave Friday morning; for a trip, which will include games , with Casselton and Fargo high! schools, The local team will play @asselton | Friday night, and will play Fargo Sat- urday night. Bismarck defeated Far- go by the narrow margin of two points in their game here. FACES FEDERAL CHARGE Devils Lake, N. D., Feb. 22—James D, Banning, wanted in Ramsey county on a charge of. whiskey running, is now held at Des Moines, Iowa, under $1,500 bail and is scheduled tio have a jhearing tomorrow on_ the ’ federal | charge of transporting liquor. He was released here several months ago un- der $2,000 bail growing out of habeas corpus proceedings, bringing his total Washington, Feb. 22.—Federal prohibition avents in Georgia are waging an wnequal war on rum runners operating along the At- lantie coast, according to a re- port to Commissioner Haynes from General Agent Mack Ovyer- peck and Federal Prohibition Agent W. P. Flinchum at Savan- nah. “It fo ‘reported Here through yhat we consider reliable inior- mation,” the report said, “that at least once or twice a week boats coming from Bimini Island or elsewhere carrying from 200) to perate parts of the world. bonds up to $4,200. 2,500 cases of liquor are unload- WISCONSIN AND MINNESOTA ARE Many Towns Reported Isolated and Wire Communication is Severed By Storm Duluth Reports Twenty-six ‘Inches of Snow Having. Fall- en; Trains Stopped Chicago, Feb. 22.—The and. upper Mississippi valleys today ; ore in the grip of a cold wave accom- panied by heavy snow and sleet which was seriously hampering trans- yortation and communication systems. Upper Wisconsin and Minnesota were cut off from all telegraphic communication with Chicago and theager reports drifting in over crip- nled wires indicate many towns are completely isolated. A new record for maximum temper- ature for February, in Chicago, was set today when the thermometer soar- ed to 58 degrees above zero. The As- sociated Press established wire com- munication with Minneapolis and St. Paul for 20 minutes in a roundabout way and then lost the Twin Cities, northwest LIGHTNING IN ST. PAUL. St. Paul, Feb.'22.--Rain and sleet. ice and snow fell in the central north- west last night and early today ac- ‘companied, in some sections by light- ning and thunder and entire district felt the storm’s effects in crippled wire and rail communication. Twenty-six inches of snow at Du- luth tied up street car traffic today, caused annulment of out-going train service and a shut-down of the public gchcols “until weather conditions im- prove.” A rising wind and temperature down to 15 below zero is the prospect for Duluth tonight. Lightning shortly before midnight in St. Paul caused one fire, destroy- ing a grain elevator with a loss es! mated at $50,000 in St. Parl and Min-) neapolis and ice ,and sleet fell fo a depth of two or three inches. FIRE DURING STORM. Northfield, Minn., Web. 22.—Iire of|the daily milk records, advising and its, including stocks and bonds, wer unknown origin broke out between 3 aiding in the inspection and building | exempt from taxation. An income tax and 4 o'clock this morning in the heat-} ing plant of St. Olaf college, destro; ing the roof and wrecking the inter- for of the building. All the buildings: on the college campus, including the; dormitories of the men and women and the recitation hall are heated from this plant. i} i THREE FEET OF SNOW. Ely, Minn., Feb. 22.—Three feet of snow fell on the Minnesota iron range | today and was piled high by a 50-} mile wind. This village is cut off trom the outside world. 26 INCHES OF SNOW. Duluth, Minn, Feb. 22.—Duluth wag snow-bound today with 26 inches of snow having fallen in the last 18 hours. Train traffic was at a stand- | still. WEATHER FORECAST. North Dakota—Snow this afternoon and possibly tonight; colder tonight; Thursday fair and continued cold. AQUIT MAN WHO "STARTED RIOTS Supreme Court in Philippine Islands Frees Accused ' Manila, P. I., Feb. 16.—(Delayed)— i (By the Associated Press)—The su- | preme court tcday acquitted Artemo | Mojica, a member of the Manila po- !lice force, of a homicide charge in connection with the killing of one {Macasinag, December 14, 1920. The feourt held Mojica was justified by the threats made by Macasinag. | The shooting of Macasinag was fol- jlowed by riots the next day when near- '1y 1,000 constabulary left their bar- \\racks, shot and killed eight persons, } including three American members of ; the Manila police force and wounded ‘a dozen others. Seventy-seven con- C.| stabulary soldiers are serving prison sentences, many of them life terms, the riots. las a result of RRR U.S. AGENTS MATCHED AGAINST AN UNEQUAL TASK IN SOUTHERN RUM FIGHT ed on an island in some of the numerous roads leading from the Atlantic in toward Sayanréh. “The apprehension of those car- goes of liquor is made extremely difficult irom the fact that any one. of the islands may be used as a base from which to unload and bring to the mainland. “It is acknowledged under- standing that the crews of these hoats will make a stubborn resis- tance against apprehension.” “Proot of this was shown in the instance not long ago when Cap- tain C. H. Nesle on board the “Champo” was shot three times when at the wheel, HEIRESS TO WED ENTIRE NORTHWEST | | — { IN STORM PATH HEAVY SNOW AND SLEET| Miss (Mathilde daughter of Harold F. McCormick, McCormick, Chicago harvester millionaire, and granddaughter of John D, Rockefeller, master, of Zurich, Switzerland. DAIRY CIRCUIT Short Time—Five Register- ed Animals Coming 16,| is engaged to Max Oser, 57,’ riding | HIS WORK HERE LEADER BEGINS [Legislature of 1919 Failed To Burton Havens Goes to A. C. For! the legislature will deprive the state STATE EXEMPTED ‘STORM SWEEPS DOWN OUT OF ARCTIC REGIONS, COVERING WIDE AREA AND ISOLATING MANY TOWNS IN THE WEST + |Most Branch Line Trains Are Tied Up By Storm Which Covers All of North Dakota, With Six Inches of Snow Having Fallen in Thirty-six Hours—Clearing Weather and Cold Wave To Follow, Weather Forecaster Says , The storm which swept over North Dakota today came from | Alaska, according to reports received at the United States Weath- jer Bureau here. The storm area extended from the Pacific Coast — Seattle, {Portland, Roseburg in southern Oregon, east to Toledo and Sault | Ste. Marie, which is as far east as reports are received here. The isnow area extended south into South Dakota. In Iowa and. TIlli- ‘nois thunderstorms were reported. BANK STOCK IN The outlook was for a continuation iof the storm during today and part of tonight, with clearing weather tonight and below zero temperatures. About 6 inches of snow has fallen jhere in the last 36 hours, O. |W, Roo- lerts, weather observer, reported. The ; temperature here ranged around 2 be- low during the storm this morning. :Temperatures fell on the Pacific | ast to 34 above at Seattle and Rose- ; burg. f _Practleally every branch railroad line in this section of the state, as jwell as in other sections, was tied up today, reports said. A Northern Pacific freight train’ was snow-bound \five miles west of Mandan this morn- ing and a local train went out and got it. All branch lines operating out of Jamestown were at a standstill today, The wind ranged in yelocity from 26 to 30 miles an hour, _ Snow Plows on N, P. t Big snowplows were operating on the Northern Pacific to keep the main jline open. No. 1, due here shortly before noon, was tied up for a time at Casselton, but was due to arrive about 3:30 P. M. Wo. 2, eastbound coast train, was two hours late, going of North Dakota of tax on state bank| through Bismarck about noon. FROM TAXATION Tax Commissioner Loses Suit In High Court Involving Case on State Bank Stock OVERSIGHT HELD CAUSE! Provide when Repealing Money, Law Credits An oversight in the 1919 session of Burton Havens, superintendent of! the Farmers 000 in 1920 and $408,000 in 1921. The supreme court, in the case of State stocks estimated to amount to $447,-| Rien TO MAINTAIN Bank of Page,} the Bismarck Holstein Dairy Circuit,| against the state tax commissioner} has gone to the Agricultural College! and the treasurer and sheriff of Cass| to complete some tests, after which | county, holds that stock in state banks | he will return to continue the work is not taxable. | LABOR AGENCIES of visiting the farms of the. various The 1919 session of the legislature members of the circuit and keeping up| ‘¢Pc2led' the money and credits act, Bismarck to Have State-Federal up of the dairy herds. Tonight five fine Holstein animals will arrive in Bismarck by express. They are a sire and heifer jpurchased by L. E. Malard, sire and heifer pur- chased by Mrs. Jennie Moran and a heifer purchased by P. J. Hiltenberg, all of the J, D. Bacon stock farms at Grand Forks. he five animals, among the finest shipped into western North Dakota, are being shipped by express to insure proper care. They will arrive on the fast passenger train at midnight, be placed in a barn over night and taken to the respective farms of the owners, Mr. Malard and Mrs. Moran made trips to Grand Forks to purchase the animals and Mr., Hiltenberg’s ani- mal was ordered by wire upon their} which provided that money and cred-| Employment Office ‘Labor agencies probably will be was substituted, Through what is be-: maintained by the federal-state em- lieved by the tax commissigper’s of-| ployment service in Fargo, Bismarck, fice to have been an oversigfit on the’ Minot and Grand Forks’ during the part of legislators, the law was left!spring months, according to Joseph in such shape that the supreme court! A. Kitchen, Commissioner of Agricul- holds that bank stocks still are ex-|ture and Labor and employment dil- empt from taxation, except the nomi-jrector fior the state. The balance in nal capital stock case. |the fund appropriated for offices is A case somewhat similar is pending | said to be too small to permit them in federal courts in which the right, being maintained in all cities during of the state to tax national bank stock the entire year. is questioned, Judges Christianson and Bronson disqualified in the case, because both own bank stock, and District Judges Nuessle and Berry sat in the case Judge Grace dissented from the opin. ion of the majority. Preparing for the opening of the |offices, Commissioner Kitchen is ob- | taining from various sources in tho ;state lists of presidents and_secre- ;taries of Commercal clubs or like or- i ganizations, information as to whether ithe department can expect reasonable {cooperation from those organizations, |and a report on conditions at this itime and the probable wages farmers ROTARY CLUB SINN FEININ recommendation. OBSERVES AY The Rotary club, at its weekly luncheon today, observed ‘Washing. ton’s birthday. Lewis F. Crawford, secretary of the Industrial Commis- sion, delivered an address upon the life of Washington. U.S. REPORTS ON WHEAT CROP Washington, Feb. fing th condition ADJOURNMENT Agreement Provides No Vote: Shall Demand Govern- ment Quit Dublin, Feb. 22--An agreement ‘to adjourn the Ardfheis, the Sinn Fein} national convention, for three months was reached today by the convention leaders. The agreement provides that no vote in the Dail Hireann shall re- quire the resignation of the provision- al government and that there shall be no election meanwhile. When the election is held, it is stip- nated, a new constitution under the Anglo-Irish treaty shall be permit- ted. Nels O. Paulson, ‘Pioneer, Dies | SE mes In Missoula, Mont. RENEW FIGHTS Nels 0. Paulson; 73. years of age, i who spent a great part of his life in| IN IRISH CITY Bismarck, Baldwin and vicinity, died | at the home of his daughter, Mrs. T. | O. Deed, Missoula, Montana, on Feb-} ‘of the wheat crop dufing the first half of February ranged| from “generally | good” in the eastern section of the country to only fair in the middle western states according to a report. Conditions in the far western states were said to be favorable. The state of winter rye crop was re- ported as generally good. “The supply of farm labor,” the de- partment reported, “is plentiful and; igenerally exceeds the demand. Farm-| ers are employing as\ little help as} possible and are doing their own, work as well as they can manage it.” ruary 10, 1922, according to word re-! ceived here. Mr. Paulson was born! Sweden and came to America and | settled at Bismarck in 1880. After) spending many years’ in Burleigh | ‘Belfast,. Feb. 22—Several persous | were wounded today in a fresh out- break on the east side, said to have! resulted from a saloon fight. | (Military guards were stationed at | all saloons in the York street dis- | county, he went to Missoula to live | tijot. with his daughter, Mrs. Reed, about Z 11 monhs ago. Besid his wife he leaves four O. Reed, Missoula; Mrs. Alex Devasher, Broadus, Mont.; |: (Mrs. A. L. True and Mrs. Bert Ham- mond, Spokane. Two sons, Charles and John, both of Seattle, survive. Mr. Paulson had many friends in Burleigh cc MRS. STILLMAN’S FATHER DIES MASONS PLAN TO BUILD MEMORIAL TO WASHINGTON » magnificent building to Georze Washington to be erected by the Masons of the United States at Arlington, Vir- ginia, seven miles from here, on a ridge commanding a view of the Richmond, V Feb. 22—James George Washington annual memo- Brown Potter, father of Mrs. Fifi Pot-| rial association, The structure ter Stillman, of New York, died sud-} and surrounding grounds will will be willing to pay in the spring. -POWER PACT IS HELD UP Washington, Fb. 22—The move to attach a blanket reservation to the four-power Pacific treaty and then re- port it promptly to the senate struck a snag today in the foreign relations committee which again adjourned without action after a session of more than an hour. NP. L, MEETING IN NEBRASKA Omaha, Neb. Feb. 22.—Nofpartisan league members of Nebraska were here today for the annual conven- tion with A. C. Townley, national president, scheduled as the principal speaker. A new executive comntittee and state manager are to be elected, the political policy determined and the fu- ture of the league discussed, RESERVE BANK OFFERS TO BUY N. D. WARRANTS The Federal Reserve Bank has of- fered to take $10,000 of warrants of two southwestern North Dakota coun- ties immediately to provide funds to |aid the counties in obtaining emerg- ;ency hay shipments for cattle raisers, {according to word received at the ;Governor’s office here. A. B. Cox, }Secretary to Governor Nestos, com- | municated the offer to commissioners of Adams and Sioux counties, so that each county may place $5,000 of war- rants with the reserve bank, GERMAN IS SHOT BY FRENCHMAN Berlin, Feb. 22——A telegram re- ceived here today from Breslau re- rted that a German police sergeant shot_by..a French soldier at denly here today. cost approximately $2,000,000, Gleivitz, Upper. Silesia,