The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 23, 1922, Page 1

» The Weather CONTINUED COLD HE BIS 2 TRIBUNE TA wlan FORTIETH YEAR BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23 PRICE FIVE CENTS FALL OF SNOW EXCEEDED ONLY ONCE IN CITY Weather Bureau Reports Show} Near Record Amount of Snow is on Ground’ TRAINS BATTLE DRIFTS Efforts Being Made To Rushj Shipment of Hay to Ranch- ers in This Section A blanket of snow 20 inches deep in places where the snow. has not been disturbed covers Western North .Da-| kota. According to the United States Weather Bureau records this, amount of snowfall during the winter has been exceeded but once during a winter in! North Dakota. In 1897, on March 8, the snow fall had reached a depth of 22.4 inches in protected places where it had not been disturbed. ‘Snow was piled to a depth of ten feet in many places today, following the storm. One of the biggest drifts in the city was at the end of Sixth street, where vehicles turn into the The arift|M@ry, daughter of the British reign-| road to the state capitol. was about ten feet high in places. | The total amount of snow fall in the | ,oya) dast two days is given by the weatherj fo; peneath her rank in the scale of; of the location where Harry M. Fields, bureau ag 9 1-2 inches, or the equiv-/ alent in moisture to .97 of an inch of; rain. The snowfall is generally of| the same depth throughout the west-; ern part of the state, according to} reports. Clear weather was expected; to follow on-the heels of the storm.) The mercury stood at 8 below at 7! o'clock this morning, but a bright sun} soon warmed the day. Train service may be demoralized) for a few days. Northern Pacific No. 3, due at 12.16 a. m. arrived about 7 hours late, but No. 2 due to go east shortly before 10 o'clock, was re- ported only about two hours late. A big snowplow went ahead of No. 3, clearing the track, and slow progress; ‘was made between Fargo and Bis- marck. Branch lines were still ‘in difficulty today, with efforts. being made to clear up the track. # _.-:, Hard on. Stock . Yesterday was a severe day on! stock in the western part of the state, | The fact that the snow was moist) made it more severe upon stock out on the open range, one stockman said. The hastily formed relief body at Mandan was endeavoring today to ar- range for speedy snipments of hay from Montana, eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota for farmers and ranchers. Because the price of hay has soared with the great need for it this relief ‘body, of which George Janda was acting secretary, was prepared to send men to points where hay was available, bail it and load it on cars. The body had made agreement to purchase 20 cars of hay ona branch line, but got only two cars, others outbidding for the rest. Secretary A. B. Cox, of the Govern- or’s office, was in touch with county commissioners aiding in making ay arrangements that can be made at this time to hurry shipments. Employes at the state capitol got to work today on bob-sleds, Branch Line Train Leaves ‘On the Killdeer branch, the, train left Killdeer this morning in an effort | to get through to Mandan. Reports from Jamestown say that local freights can not operate on the main line because the side tracks have not been cleared. No. 4, east bound passenger, reached Jamestown 10 hours late. Northern Pacific main line | train ‘No. 1, due here shortly. before noon, will arrive about 9 p. m., it is report- PREVENT FIRE, CITIZENS URGED Little Fire Might Be Dangerous Duririg Heavy Snow Watch your furnace, stove and chimney! This is the advice to people of the city from Commissioner of Fire and Police C. W. Henzler. “With this heavy snow it is practi- cally impossible to get to many places | with the fire truck,” Mr. Henzler said. | "There have been no fires in the last 48 hours. A small fire, however, might result very seriously because ; of the inability of the department to reach the fire. Penple ate urged to inspect their furnaces, chimneys and stoves, and to; be doubly. careful to prevent fire. - BANKER HELD UP IN MILL CITY Crosby. N. D., Feb. 23.—H. H. Mar-; tin, president of the First National bank of Crosby, and Harold Ericks- moen, assistant cashier of the First State bank of Crosby, were the vic- tims of a novel experience while in Minneapolis, when they together with several other patrons of an eating ‘house were held up and robbed by 10 masked men Eight of the men were P. J. Hiltenberg and Mrs. Jennie Mor- captured on a train near Sioux Falls, S. D, and. about $6000 of the loot which was taken was recovered. Mr. Martin lost only about $20. Mr. Ericksmoen lost $10 in cash and some | i | By NEA Service | Princesses who will marry. Left to right, Mary of Great Britain, Yolanda of Italy, and Marie of Roumania. | OPENS PLEA 10 JURY TO FIND | One Familiar with Hotel Could Commit Crime et Might Escape Vases H |. Valley City, Feb. 23.—Arguments t jthe jury in the William summer ing. State’s Attorney W. C. Green, of Cass county, opening the plea for the conviction of the accused man. The argument of Mr. Green was ex- | pected to require four or five hours and he will be followed by W. H. Bar- nett, counsel for the defendant. The final plea of the state may be made late today with the probability that ae ED DUE TO THREE ROYAL MARRIAGES THIS YEAR GUMMER GUILTY States Attorney Green Says Only | FARRELL A MYTH, HE SAYS ; murder case were begun this morn-| ; Eat y ' “canny Gute BOY 1S FROZEN TO THE GALLOWS; IN DILLWORTH: J Chureh, convicted of the murder WOMAN KILLED tn his cell todny tn the same. por ene would have to be carried to the | fap seated Onn eaie, ite is | Chicago, Feb. 23—Apparently sition that he had matntained tor | Short-circuited Wire Fatal To being ted foreibly, it was stated. unconscious of the fact that his last hope of escaping death on the gallows had disappeared, Harvey several days, Warden Westbrook said because Rochester, Minn., Woman of his | weakness he’ probably . During Storm — ? COLD WAVE SPREADING | | Declares Fictitious Guest Creat-) yT ; ‘ é i ed in Order That Guilty 1) f storm Continues in Minnesota and Wisconsin and Wave Spreads South of There BROKERAGE FIRM MAY BE MILLION Former Governor of North Da- kota Says He Lost | Every- thing in Crash Dillworth, Minn, Feb. 23.—Roy Holmes, 12, was frozen to death last night in a snow cave which he and his companions had dug in a huge drift of snow near his residence, St. Paul, Feb. 23.—Storm conditions vrevailed again today throughout the Northwest. ‘The second day of the i |zaoat severe storm of the season in | | London, Feb. 23.—European society! tis eagerly looking forward to three K {royal marriages before the end of; this year. fers | i. The first will be that of Princess! ing pair, to Viscount Lascelles, un-: because the princess will break} tradition by marrying a man) Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 23.—A sec- {usual ond search was planned here today nobility. | under arrest in Detroit, Mich., was re- ‘Belgrade has: officially announced! ported to have said the pistol used the betrothal of Princess Marie, sec-| tg kill William Desmond Taylor, film ond daughter of King Ferdinand ot} rector, had been disposed of. Dep- ‘Roumaniaj’ to Kinz Alexander of uty sheriffs made a search last night Jugoslavia. {upon receipt of a telegram from De- A report has deen current that) troit authorities containing Fields’ al- Princess Yolander, eldest daughter of! leged declaration but without result. OF MAN IN DETRIOT MAY _ GIVECLUETO TAYLOR MURDERER se2"2esorme: we having committed the murder might have $900 with which to pay him for driving the automobile in which they rode’to the Taylor apartments, HELD IN CUSTODY Detroit, Mich:, Feb. 23.--What he claimed to be the.location of a pis: tol used to kill W. D. Taylor in Holly- wood, Calif., three weeks ago, was disclosed to Sheriff Coffin late last | night by Harry M. Fields, who de-| the jury will be charged tonight or early tomorrow. © i In his argument, Mr. Green recited killed in a room in the Prescott hotel in Fargo on the night of June 7, last, ‘of which hotel William Gummer was jat that time night ‘clerk, Motive For Crime, ; Mr. Green asserted that the ei- dence was conclusive on the propus | tion that there were two distinct as- saults on the girl—the first about 1 A. M., when she was gagged and tied to the bed, and the second at about 4 A, M.. when she was beaten to death with a hose nozzle by the man who King Victor Emmanuel of Italy) would become the bride of King Boris of Bulgaria. This report lacks official’ confirmation. ‘ Princess Yolanda is 21. King Bori3 is 28. He is a scion of the famous house of Bourbon; a royal family which at different times has held the reins of government in almost every important Huropean nation. This year’s royal marriages will bring back the pomp and ceremony of royal nuptials abandoned during the war, SECTION 223 OF REVENUE ACT. They also announced they would look today for a man who, according to other information given out in De- troit by Fields, changed a $1,000 pill in order that persons named by him as WILL CONTINUE OBENCHAIN TRIAL Los Angeles, Feb. 23—The health of jurors, attorney and witnessos per- mitting, the trial of Mrs. Madelynne Obenchain for the murder of J. Bel- den Kennédy -was to be resumed in the, superior court here today. Influ- enza and other illnesses brought the trial to a halt a week ago when a ‘continuation was taken until , last Mdéhday. The same condition then resulted in another recess until to- PUBZLES MANY Gunder Olson, Internal.Revenue Collector, Interprets Mean- ing of This Law Numerous inquiries have been re- ceived regarding the proper interpre- tation of Section 223 of the Reyenue Act of 1921, which provides that each individual whose gross income for 1921 was $5,000 or over shall file a return regardless of his or her net inaome. Gross income means statutory gross income, defined by the revenue act to include “gains, profits and income do rived from salaries, wages or com- pensation for personal servic2 * * * of whatever kind and in whatever form paid, or from professions, voca- tions, trades, business, commerce or sales or dealings in property whether real or personal, growing out of the ownership or use of or interest in such property; algo from interest, rent, di- vidends, securities or the transaction of any business carried on for gain or profit or gains or profits and income derived from any source whatever.” Gross income does not necessarily mean gross receipts. A merchant, for instance, in computing statutory gross income, should deduct therefrom the cost of goods sold. For exaxmple, a merchant may heve gnoss_ receipts amounting to $10,000, but the cost of goods sold amounts to $7,000. He has no other income,’ The statutory gross income would be $3,000. In case the other deductions allowed him for busi- ness expenses, taxes, interest, bad debts , etc., amount to $2,500, his net income would be $500. No return uf income is required: in this case. A lawyer who is married and living with his wife has gross receipts in the form of fees amounting, to $6,000 and his necessary business expenses amount ‘to $4,200, leaving a net in- come of only $1,800. A return will be required in this case, as taxpayer’s gross income as well as gross re- ceipts is $6,000. FIRE CAUSES 1 —GUNDER OLSON, Collector. | editor of the Protestant published in| j Which has made it HA ‘worth living in. I happen to be Pro- 5 testant and attend a Protestant day. + BREAKDOWN OF CONTROL GAUSE OF AIR CRASH? Major-General Patrick Fixes .This as General Reason For Roma Disaster i Norfolk, Va., Feb. 23—Members of the Army Investigating Board con- tinued today their efforts to find the definite and primary cause o7 the dis- aster which overtook the giant army dirigible, Roma, over the army bas here Tuesday in which 34 of her pas- songers and crew died and the world’s | largest semi-rigid aircraft -was de- | molished. | That the fatal crash to earth of the | great airship followed a.breakdown of | controls regulating the altitude of the! craft, appeared today to have been i definitely established in the testi:nony thus far given. Belief that this was the general cause of the disaster was expressed by Major General Patrick, head of the army air service, based on the initial testimony and there has been no further official word today on the result of the inquiry. MAGNIDER ASKS FOR TOLERANCE Says It Is Keystone On Which Country Was Founded i Indianapolis, Feb, A plea for re-| ligious tolerance has been made by} Hanford MacNider, commander of the } Ame-vican Legion, in a letter to the} Washington, D. C., it was announced | today. | “This country,” the letter says, “wes. formed by men who sought re- ligious tolerance and it is that spirit free, fine and church, but as a member of the many junder old rules. | work or less. Monthly-rated employes’ | were remanded to the employes and clared he drove the automobile that|had determined upon murder, as the carried> the film <director’s slayer to! means of closing the lips of his vic- the home; 8 tim who would accuse him next morn- Fields ‘is in custody charged with! ing ig she was still alive. forgery. ad Mr. Green maintained that the mo- tive of the crime had been established jand that the admissions of Gummer d ; | himself to the effect, particularly, that | ‘he had called Miss Wick hy telephone | Dakota for three terms. from the hotel desk at 11:20 P. M., June 6, and from the fact that other unescorted women, who had come to SLASH oN MADE the hotel, had been similarly ap- } ¥ ; proached, must be accepted by the BY RAI B ARD jury. as identifying. the ;man with a Li motive. ’ Felt Absolutely Secure. Mr. Green argued that no person except one who was thoroughly famil- ‘jar with the hotel and one who felt! |himself absolutely secure as agaiast {interference or detection, would have ; committed the crime in the manner) ’ {in which it was done. He oted the : ‘fact that the criminal felt absolutely AFFECTS 10,000 WORKERS secure in that the body of the girl had ‘heen handled long enough after the Virtually Restores Ten. Hour Day as Basic Day For Railroad Firemen, Oilers ‘| murder so that the coating of blood| New Rules of Railroad Labor, on one hand was thoroughly dried, #0 | dry that it did not mark a bandage Board Announced as Effec- | the murderer placed on the wrist in| eS tive on March 1 | retying her to the bed post. No per-| son from outside the uote: arsucs the , would remain in the room ‘Chicago, - Feb. 28 Another alagh, | noment after the accomplishment this time hitting 10,000 railroad fire-| o¢ the original motive and no man. men and oilers, was made by the|if driven to murder, would remain United States Rallroad Labor Board |to clean up the room and try to re- VICTIM OF OTHER PERSONS New York, Feb, 23.—Liabilities | of the brokerage firm of Karvos and Burke, which last night went into the hands of a receiver, were varlously estimated hers today at from $700,090 to $1,500,000. John Burke, former treasurer of the United States, whose signature appeared on bank notes issued from early in 1913 until his res. ignation a little more than a year ago, declared he had lost every- thing in the business, Bankers who have heen associat. ed with him in business were quoted as saying they believed he had been a dupe in the develop- ment of the amazing situation re- vealed in the matter, ERY John Burke, whose name is men- tioned in the failure of the New York| brokerage firm, was governor of North He was ap- pointed, United States treasurer by| President Wilson, an office he held} until the Harding adnjinistration came} this section, however, found the snow- fall subsiding in the eastern part of the Dakotas. Temperatures were fall- | ing rapidly with 5 to 12 below report. ed in western Minnesota and Da- kotas. Train schedules and wire communi- cation continued to be seriously inter- rupted, i Early today one dead had been re- norted as an indirect result of the storm, a woman being killed at Rochester, Minn., through a_ short- circuited wire, Sweeping in from the Rocky Moun- tain regions, the storm which began Tuesday night, with lightning and thunder, snow, hail, sleet and rain, was rapidly moving eastward today and was reported as clearing up along the state line between Minnesota and North and South Dakota. fi Duluth Storm Bound. Winds ranging from 30 to 50 miles an hour swept the light snow in the Dakotas to huge drifts and blew over telephone and ‘telegraph poles. Northern and southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin continued in the grip of the blizzard and snow’ was still falling today piled high in drifts. Duluth, Minn., reported nearly. 30 inches of sow wita drifts “in places more than 20 feet high. This city is snow-bound and few trains are run- ning. today when it announced rules ef- move Ba the manner in niet fective March 1 climinating extra pay | She was ed, , ' until after the tenth: hour and setting The Farrell Signature. : i up a “split trick” of eight hours within As to the James Farrell signal ures | ‘a spread of 12 without any overtime! Mn Green sald that even accepting | the proposition that there ig a per-/ son by the name of James Farrell, | who was a guest in the hotel that night, this Farrell could not have) committed the crime because he did! not register until after 2 A. M., while the evidence is undisputed that the. first assault occurred at least an hour lier. er tctiersnare) said the attorney, Farrell, if such a person exists, in fact came into the hotel a’ stranger, not familiar with the habits or cus- toms of the clerk, having no know1- edge, whatsoever as to who the girl inj room 30 might be unless told by the ight clerk. nee Green contended that Farrell was the name put down on | register by the | ipa eee ne room-mate, Andy Brown, for the} purpose of creating a fictitious guest who would be missing when the of- ficials entered upon’ discovery of the murder. efer er (Rules PO ore eae Refer Other ‘Rul Today's Weather | =e ay. Following several other decisions virtually restoring the 10-hour day for railijoad, workers the board today authorized the roads to pay only pro- rata wages afier the regular eight ; hours which the board retained in principle as constituting a day’s work, Time and one-half will be paid after 10 hours. Straight Time for 10 Hours In the case of the split. trick,; straight time will be paid for the first 10 hours whether included in the 12 hour spread or not and time and one- half given thereafter, | The firemen and oilers, all of whom) work around railroad shops, were paid time and a half after eight hours James | Sundays and holidays will for at the prorata, a minimum of three hours being paid for two hours wages were to be adjusted to elimin- ato the wld time and one-half provis- ions. Ten’ rules regarding discipline, | grievances, discrimination against committeemen and similar matters noon, February 23: roads for further negotiations. Pb | out. action. 2 For twenty-four hours ending at} | into power. He was succeeded by Col. Frank White, of Valley City. Mr. Burke. was réparted 340 -have doingd his brother ina manufacturing bpsi- ness in New Jersey when he left ‘Washington. RESE RVATION is practically shut off from the rest ) of the world as-a result of the worst ON FOUR- sleet and snow s®rm of a decade | which is sweeping over the state. FIRE CAUSES $100,000 LOSS, Superior, Wis., Feb. 23.—Unable to battle the raging elements fire de jeer WIS vartments were virtually helpless ee jearly today when fires destroyed Modified Plan Presented After three buildings in Superior, the loss Conference With Harding _ |'* estimated at $100,000. CHICAGO WAVE SPREADS. Is Opposed Chicago, Feb, 23.—The cold wave —_—_ | that has held the whole northwest in Washington, Feb. 23—A modified! its grip for more than 24 hours con- ‘blanket reservation to the four-power tinued today and spread down through Pacific pact treaty, laid before the Jowa, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas and senate foreign relations committee ' Northern Texas, as well as east of today by Chairman Lodge after a con-| the Mississippi river. ference with President Harding, met} peasant with immediate opposition from Re-j| 13 BELOW AT MINOT publican members as well’as Demo-| Fargo, N. D., Feb. 23.—Re-estab- cratic members. The new reservation | lishment of railroad service and wire intended as a swhstitute for that pro-!communication disabled by yester- posed several days ago by. Senator day’s storm /was proceeding rapidly \Brandegee, Republican, Connecticut, throughout North Dakota. This work provides that nothing in the treaty: was accelerated by a change in the shall be considered as committing the weather overnight which ‘brought out United States to an exercisa of armed) the sun and sub-zero temperatures to forces without the consent of con-|replace yesterday’s blizzard. gress. The lowest temperature reported After a lengthy debate which failed; was 13 degrees below zero at Minot. to win over to the ey proposal any | eee of the senators who had supporte the Brandegee reservation the oo SEVENTH DAY mittee adjourned until tomorrow biel ADVENTISTS SET MEETING Jamestown, N. D., Feb. 22.—The 1922 | ERS | night clerk an SEND CUTT ‘camp meeting of the North Dakota Seventh Dad Adventists association will be held June 22 to July 2, at , Jamestown, it was decided today. The | Meeting was held in Mandan last | year. Increased Liquor Smuggling Seng TRE 2 Causes Order Issued ‘MOHALL BANK New York, Feb. 23.—Increased ie| |quor smuggling has caused U. S.| ‘eoast guard cutters to be put on the} ‘trail of all “rum craft” plying be-| The board’s new rules supplant the] Temperature at 7 a. m.. 3 \national agreement made during fed-| Highest yesterday . i eral control which has been in effect} Lowest yesterday - ag since January 16, 1920. Lowest Jast night . . a 2 Precipitation |. FALLS UP ON Highest ind reo aH CIRCULAR:SAW For Bismarck and Vicinity — Fair tonight and Friday; rising tempera- Red Lodge, Mont., Feb. 23--Dick Van Danryck, employed neav here, ture Friday. was killed when he fell forward on a| and. Friday; rising temperature Fri- ‘tween the Bahama Islands and ‘Can-| The Mohall Security State Bank, ‘ada, Captain Reed, commander of the Renville county, re-opened for busi- 'New York base, revealed yesterday’ ness today, according to word re- lafter he had received a radio message ceived at the state examiner's office. ithat a tug with 2200 cases of whiskey| “The bank has a capital stock of jaboard had put into Portland, Me.,! 25,000 and large deposits. ‘It is the ifor repairs. | thirteenth bank to reopen since clos- | doco |ings began more than a year ago. i IN PURSUIT i__G. E. Fulkerson, of Medicine Lake, New York, Feb. 23.—A coast guard Montana, and C. D. Pancrantz, of Ege- leutter was last, night in pursuit off land, are the men who reorganized the For North Dakota — Fair tonight circular saw. day and in extreme northwest portion Edmonton, Alta:, Feb. 23—Fire caus- | Masonic bodies of which I have taken ed a joss of between $9000 and $1%./a more or less active part, I have 000 to buildings and stocks in six dif- | great respect for that institution, the ferent business houses in the center | Roman Catholic church. Its stand and of the retail district here today. teachings for the preservation of all SS aka Sa Jawful government were well exem- Shipment Delayed | plified in the heroic death of men who Tie shipment of five registered Hol-, served during the war.” stein animals from the Bacon stock! erate PERET ETI AS farms at Grand Forks to L. E. Malard,| MFADOWLARKS IN STRAW PILE Egeland, N. D., Feb. 23. — Ward an was not made yesterday because of|Skeen, farmer. reports that he found the storm. The animals are to be|two live and chirpy meadowlarks liv- shipped by express. ing in a strawpile. They did not ap- t near to be any the worse for winter- Checkers was known as an: oldjing so far north, being only a few A. B. A. travelers’ cheques. game among the early Greeks.’ miles from the Canadian boundary. tonight. the New England coast of an uniden-)hank and have placed it on a firm R PATROLMEN Bottineau, N. D., Feb. 23.—The B tinieau county board of commiss ers has authorized an advertisement for bids for patrolmen to provide for the maintenance of the state and federal roads in Bottineau county for 1922. The sentiment of the board at this time seems to favor suspending state and federal road building for a year, but action on this has been deferred until later. United States has 136 telephones to Weather Conditions The storm center which was over |Towa Wednesday has now reached the Lake. region and the high pressure area which follows has overspread the Missouri valley. Heavy snowfall ac- companied by strong winds has been general from the Rocky Mountains eastward over the northern states. The temperature is below zero over the Dakotas and Montana and is fall- ing over the upper Mississippi valley, but it is rising over the Canadian northwest. ORRIS W. ROBERTS, every 1000 population. i Meteorologst. tified auxiliary schooner said to be a | ASSOCIATION ASKS LAW Minot, N. D., Feb. 23.—The Minot Association of Commerce has adopted a resolution to be transmitted to the state legislature, asking that a law be passed requiring potato commis- sion firm merchants to render a com- plete sales account, giving in detail the price at which potatoes are sold, name of purchaser, amount of freight and demurrage, and so on, and .that from such sales account one commis- sion be deductable. footing, according to State Examiner Semingson. MILLS OPEN UNDER GUARD Pawtucket, R. \I., Feb, 23—Under military guard, the mills here affected by the strike of textile workers op- ened today without disturbing inci- dents. Comparatively few pickets were on duty, Galveston, Tex., is the\greatest cot- li 4 ton port in the world,