The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 6, 1922, Page 1

bf The Weather . FAIR AND WARMER * THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE(==) FORTIETH YEAR BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MO Y, MA RCH 6 1922 : PRICE FIVE CENTS GOVERNOR SMALL TO GO ON TRIAL NO CHANCE NOW FOR REVIVAL OF ~ HOMEBUILDERS Bonds Cannot be Issued tee Sev.| eral Years Under the Law, Manager Says MUST MAKE UP DEFICIT Legislative Appropriation and Change in Law Held Neces- sary to Continuance ‘No bonds of the Home Building series can be issued for several years under the terms of the law govern- ing the Home Builders’ Association, in the opinion of F. E. Diehl, manager of the association. There appears to be no.Jegal manner in: which operations could.be resumed {ithe Home Build- ers’ Association until»the legislature has revised the laws, he believes, The next legislature also probably ‘will have to wrestle with the prob-j Jem of;.making up the huge deficit which the Homebuilding * Association now faces, There are only three ways provided by ‘the Home. Builders’ law of 1919 for raising: money, Mr. Diehl points;° out in a report to the Industrial Com- mission on the operations of the as- sociation. These are: (1) By sale ot bonds; (2)' By appropriation; (3) by payments of home purchasers or derived from deposits made by them, An amendment to the law, enacted ‘by the special session in 1919, how- ever, provides that no mortgage may; be issued until payments amount to; ‘one-half the value of the property to be mortgaged. chaser hag paid 20 per cent of the value of the property before the amortization begins, it would require 124 months, or 10 years and 8 months, ; before one-half of the amount would be paid. Ways to Obtain Money Section He Chapter 150, of the laws} oi 1919 provided. “Whenever fands shall be available,| derived from the sale of bonds issued ‘by the State and delivered to the In- dustrial Commission for negotiation to carry on the business of the Asso- ciation; or derived from appropria- ‘tions. made by. the Legislative Assem- bly for such purpose; or derived from deposits received-by the Association as hereinafter provided; from payments made for homes by purchasers thereof; such funds shall tbe used, under proper regulations of! the Industrial Commission, for invest- ‘ment in building or purchasing homes within’ the state for members of the, Home Bulders’ League, as such Leagues are hereinafter provided. The above section, in the opinion of; Mr. Diehl, “provides only three meth. ods of procuring funds for operating! this department and that there is ab-| solutely no provision of. law, .which authorizes the officers of this depart- ment ‘to execute notes in the name of the department or procure loang in the name of the department.” » The association, however, owes the Bank of North Dakota about $413,000. As the association is unable to issue bonds for several years the only way in \whjch the loan can be repaid is from payments by the Home purclfas- ers or by legislative appropriation. Bond Limit. Provision. Chapter 29 of the amendments toj the Home Building law, enacted by the} special session of 1919, has the fol-). lowing limitation regarding bond is-| gues. “Provided, however, that no such mortgage, note or obligation shall be so assigned (to the State Treasurer) | as security for bonds so to be issued | if the total amount remaining unpaid and payable upon such mortgage shall exceed one-half the value of the real! estate by which such mortgage, note! or obligation is secured, nor unless it} shall be a first mortgage upon such real estate.” The loan of the Bank of North Da- kota is for 6 per cent, the interest), amounting to approximately $25,380 a year. Under the law prohibiting the ass0- ciation from loaning more than $4,000 to an individual home purchaser, the amortization payment on a $4,000 loan would be $28.65 per month, There are 34 houses built by the association. } This would make the amount paid $1,547.10 a month, or $19,725.20 a year| which the home purchasers would pay the association, This limit, ‘however, ! was not observed. DICKINSON TO HAVE ELECTION | Dickinson, N. D,_M D., tions demanding the recall of all! members of the city commission} were presented to that body at its} regular session at the city hall. The commission took immediate action in! the matter and arranged for the cAll- ing of the election as required in the recall law. In order to prevent ad- ditional expense to the taxpayers of the city the special election called for March 21 to elect a successor to W. L, Richards who resigned recently as| president of the city commission, was deferred until April 4 to give pos- March 6.—Peti- sible canlidates an ‘opportunity to} file petitions for their candidacy. MUMMY FEET FOUND. Leeds, Eng., March 6.—The feet of what has been decided to be a mum- my were found in a dust bin at a/Minn., The|(Minnesota National, Guard. house in the Harehills district. Under the amortiza-; ‘tion plan of payment, after the pur-| or derived! { i ! Charles W. Morse, and his three | Morse. NOT FOR CHILD - LABOR, ASSERTS SEN. IPCUMBER Says He is Being ing ‘Micregrescatéa in Statements Saying He Favors It | pani | Denial that he favors child labor made by United States Senator Po! ter J. McCumber. Having received, reports he was being quoted as faver-! ing* child labor, Senator McCumber j has. issued the folowing statement in | letter form: | Washington, D. C., March 3, | Editor ‘Bismarck Tribune, | Bismarck, N. Dak. I am in receipt of reports in which! 1922, |favor of child labor. | I cannot imagine any one senenadl such nonsense. ‘est supporter of every measure de- | signed to eliminate child labor from our work shops. hild born into this world is-entitled | to a good education. Outside the, home the school room is the only, proper place for a child until he has} icompleted his education; and if re receives fhe education ‘he ought to have he will have passed far beyond! the age of childhood when he leayes | the school room, Some time ago in the he {the sugar schedule befor mittee on Finance a witness {a reason for refus rings on he urged as to the sugar beet growers that the | farmers’ children ed him in | “thinning” the pects, that is pulling out the small ones and tue sprouts. [) | ventured the remark that every child) jon the farm ‘was taught to work and that if he never bad eny work to do! until he was sixteen or eignteen years ‘of age he never would acquire the ; habit of industry. I am aware that political opponents who work on the principle that any} falsehood is fair in poli , sent out; the statement that I favored child) Jabor. They knew, however, that the: Ise as! statement was worse than jeveryone must know w' ‘no the! slightest knowledge of my views and! action. ° J. MOCUMBER: 2 [WEATE WEATHER REPORT) !o——_—_____—____* For twenty-four ‘ours ending at noon March 6. | Temperature at 7A. M . 26 (Highest yesterday 3: Lowest yesterday . | Lowest last night . | Precipitation ... | Highest wind veloc! Weather Forecast. For Bismarck and vicinity: Unset- tled and colder tonight; Tuesday gen- erally fair with rising temperature. For North Dakota: Unsettled and | colder tonight, possibly snow in east | portion; Tuesday generally fair with | rising temperature. Weather Conditions. | A Jow pressure area of cons derable jintensity covers the upper 4 ippi | Valley with increasing pressure west- ward to the Pacific coast where a high pressure area central. The low pressure area is accompanied by | strong winds but only light scattered | precipitation. Temperatures are above | normal generally over the United | States but nave fallen considerably | over the Canadian Northwest and will | fall over the Northern Plains states) tonight. . Trace \F | FORKS GUARD INSPECTED | Grand Forks, N. D., March _ 6—Co. |M of the North Dakota ional Guard, was inspected here iday by | Major’ WwW. A. Fulton, of Mankato, instructor-inspector of the A ban- coroner decided there was no need|quet was held for company members for an inquest. and their ladies, MORSE AND SONS FACE TRIAL ith defrauding the government of millions in shipbuilding contracts, This ‘photo, taken in the office of their attorneys, shows, left-to right, two of the! sons and their ser Harry F. Morse, Erwin A. Morse and Charles W. | it is ibeing circulated that I am 2 I have been an earn-), I believe that every! Com- | IG IGE OF NORMAL THICKNESS ON Exaggerated by Weather Bureau ple in Lowlands Keep in Touch With It Reports that the ice on the Missouri river is of unusual thickness are ex- aggerated, according to weather bu- reau reports. The latest tests of the weather bureau here have shown the thickness of the ice to be 31 inches. The river has at times in the past been covered with ice of a depth of as high as 36 inches. The fact that the ice this year is extremely solid and there ig a great deal of snow on the river, however, makes the likelihood of a spring overflow somewhat greater than usual, Ice in the Missouri at Pierre, South Dakota, was found by the weather bureau to be 25 inches thick, which was said not to be un- usual. In response to an inquiry as to the danger or probability of a flood in the Missouri river this spring, Mr. Roberts of the weather bureau, replied by making his usual annual statement that “As long as there is ice in the - DEPARTMENTS Missouri River at Bismarck there is WILL BE PAID |2!"avs danger of an overflow.” He sons are among the 12 men charged ‘added further that owing to the un- Warrants in payment of amounts | &Sual depth of snowfall over the Mis- [ue fire departments of tho stato FD Se eta atin bee e mailed out this week, it was said/ er MOM ane today by Auditcr Poindexter. Pay- that tnless this snow melted slowly, ments of about $45,000 will be made} there was every in¢ | | | | | to organize fire departme the water nearing or axe eding the flood jmoney derived from approp | tage. bascd upon payment es in Statement to Residents The following statement has been is- sued to residents on the bottoms adja- ‘because, the auditor says, sufficient) Cent to the Missouri by river observ- | funds Were not on hand. Another! €S at all points hetween the South | payment of approximately the same | Dakota line and ‘the Montana line: ‘amount is due in June, ‘Bismarck will] ‘Arrangements should be made by jall residents along the bottoms adja- receive about $2,000 on the present | ry ae Payment! } “i cent to the Missouri river to keep in SUPREME COURT. ~ DISMISSES CASE company tax. Payments are for ‘tron, in order to get as early informa- tion as possible regarding river con- ditions...There is an unusually -heavy snow covering over the entire Missouri Valley, as well ag over western North {Dakota and eastern Montana. is also more than the usual amount of snow on the eastern sldpe ‘of the Rocky Mountains. While the thickness of ice in the Missouri river is about. \the average for tlis season of the; {year, it is particularly solid, due to ithe fact that the snow which: has State of Texas Loses Suit to ,covered it has prevented honeycomb-| Question Interstate Com- ling. The same arrangements have ¢ |been made as jn the past for distrib- merce Authority juting warnings, but all interested par- ties are requested to keep in ‘close Washingon, h 6.—The supreme | touch with the Weathcr Bureau until | court today dismissed the case after the ice has entirely gone out.” : Since the above statement was is- brought by the state of Texas chal-/sued there hag been a great decrease lenging the constitutionality of the | cSntrol of the Interstate Commerce |from Bismarck as far wést {Benton, Montana. , / ate rates and other } i NO FLOOD DANGER, ransportation act of 1920, including legality of the railroad; gt, Paul, Margh 6.—Although Min- nesota is covered Wfth a heavy Dlan- labor board, ket of snow there is not much dan- ing any protection ; The opinion declared all suits to] set aside a rate should be brought in \ ger of floods this year because of the tie United States district court, maki2z | ynugual dry conditions of the soil, | the Inte, e Commerce Commission |.B, ‘Ww, Willard, state drainage and ‘and the United States party to the ac-!water commissioner said. The Red | tion. - ! River is not in jeopardy, he said, un-! ‘less there is precipitation of a large} | amount of water as would be caused | by a heavy spring rain. “APPROPRIATION FOR AGRICULTURE Washington, March 6.--An appro- NEW EMIGRANT priation of $24,978,023 to meet ex-! penses of the agricultural department RATE Is GIVEN | during the coming year is recommend: | ed in a bill reported today by the | Special Rate For Movement of! ‘Emigrants Movables hot spnroprigiions committee. The | | total i ,710,026 less than the amount appropriated for tie current fiscal year and $1,554,825 less than budget | | estimates. ’ 50 BROKERAGE HOUSES FAIL, The carload rate on emigrants mov-; ables has been restored by the Nort! ern Pacific railroad, according to i New York, March 6—The list of | formation reccived by W. A. McDon- stock brokerage house casualties | ald, local N. P, Agent. The special rate applies on car- loads of snovebles from eastern term- inals, and also from Oakes, Edgely; and Casgelton to points in Montana and ;North Dakota. The new tariff will/ also permit one second hand autom bile to be included with carload «+ ship-| |ments of emigrant movables. | This is jn addition to special round | |trip rates for homeseekers and other| lrates desifned to aid emiyration from the east to the Northwest. $600 FOR TWO STAMPS, London, March 6.—Two French one-| franc vermillion stamps, issued in} | 1849, were sold here for $600. An un-} used copy of the one-shilling orange yermilion Newfoundland stamp, issued in 1869, brought $2: jtouched the fifty mark today when In- ‘yoluntary bankruptcy petitions were | filed in Federal Court against Etting and Wall and I. ‘B. Mullens and com- pany. STATE TO REST IN MURDER CASE; Los Angeles, , March 6—The state | was expected to rest today and the! defense to begin its efforts to pnove the innocence of Mrs. Madlysne Oben- chain, on trial for the murder of J. / Belton Kennedy, broker. BOND ISSUE IS APPROVED MAY HAVE SUNK + Dickinson, vote of 196 t by the Dickinson approved at the for the purpos polls opened at the city o'clock and closed at 5. As a result the board ill take im- weeks. The money will be used in| days ago, taking up warrants now outstanding against the district. brought no word of her since. THE MISSOURI, Reports of Thickness Found: LIKELIHOOD OF FLOODS with the market. Weather Bureau Suggests Peo- j touch with the nearest telephone pa-|~ There | in the depth of snow on the Broun | as Fort} Thomas sixth and Eddie Miller sev- te steamer was reportel| sinking and wireless inquiries have Receive Reports at Chicago, March 6—The Board of Trade today has been broadening its reports hy wireless telephone in 30 minute intervals as a means of bringing the producer in closer touch The service will be given every day the board is open. Members of the board expressed the belief that the new service would | Prove of immense valuc to farmers of the middle west. As many boards have procured radio receiving sets re- TOSS COIN ON BABE’S CONTRACT ‘New York, March 6.—Down at the Yankee training camp in New Qrleans ‘today Manager Miller Huggins and his American League champions of 1921 were all dressed up tn thcir snappiest uniforms in anticipation of the arrival of “Babe Ruth,” the home-run king. fact that “Babe,” by the mere flip- ping of a copper penny had won for himself a contract calling for something around $50,000 a year and a $500 bonus for each and every time he bumps the horse- hide for a round trip. TOMMY MILTON MOVES NEARER TO RACE HONOR Victory at Los Angeles Gives; Him 500 Points in Race For 1922 Championship ITALIAN DRIVER THRILLS | Los Angeles, Cal. March 6—Tommy Milton, winner of ‘the 1921 national specdway championship under the} American Automobile contest rules, today was the possessor of 500 points toward the 1922 title and $10,000 prize money as the result of his victory in| the 250-mile race at the Beverly Hills speedway yesterday. Milton, whisking his fast mount around the circle fior an average cf} »110.38 miles an hour, jumped into the | {lead in the first lap and held that po- i sition throughout with “the exception | {of few circuits during the middle of | tho race when Ralph DePalmer, fam- | ous Italian driver, stepped out inj front. i The veteran Italian driver, however, Went out wf the race in the 51st lap! with a broken piston. Jimmy Murphy, winner of the French grand prize last | year, was second, averaging 109.2 an’! hour; Harry Harta third; Frank EL. | liott fourth; Eddy Hearne fifth; Joo enth, Pietro ‘Bordino, a recent arrival from Italy, who had been regarded as ene of the dangerous contenders for first honors, went out in the 139th lap} with engine trouble after he had| | treated the crowd of more than 50,000 | |to what was claimed to have been the | | fastest lap ever negotiated on a mile | and a quartér course by a car of 183} inch piston displacement. 'His average time for this lap was 118 miles an! hour, 'TURN’EM DOWN | | NOW IN-FARGO, i Fargo, Ma 6.—Machinations of} the feminine mind have evolved a new mode for wearing the galosh that) | threatens a complete revision of! {tastes in flapper circles. The old | style of merely leaving the Jaces un- : huckled and beating a tattoo against i the wearer’s ankles has been supple-! | mented here by turning the tops in| ja fashion followed iby the pbucaneers| jof old, NEW ‘CONFESSION’ IN TAYLOR CASE ‘Authorities Checking up on Lat-: est Admission ee i | Los Angeles, March 6.— Further}, | checking on the latest confession to {the murder of William Taylor, film [DISTRIBUTION OF MARKET REPORTS BY RADIO NEW PLAN BEING TRIED. Service Will Be Extended If It Proves of Value Through the Middle West, It is Announced on Chicago Board of Trade—Can They had been informed of the |Rabbi Matt, of Minneapolis, De- DOCKET BEING CLEARED; HUGE SUMS INVOLVED \Illinois Governor Charged With Irregularities While he was State Treasurer 500 Miles Distance cently it was believed that virtually every farming community would find one near enough to be of service, If the plan proves successful it is planned to increase the distance so that even the most distant point in this country will be able to receive the market quotations by radio. Tire; present sending will cover .a radius! . si up to 150 miles for the averege re- Calls it a “Frame-up” of Politi- cerving eet and up to 500 miles OF cal Opponents to Put Him on Trial JEWISH RELIEF “WORKERS TOLD - OF SUFFERING IN VIGOROUS DENIAL ASKS POSTPONEMENT. Waukegan, Il}, March 6,—Gov- ernor Small today asked a 60-day postponement of his trial on charges of conspiracy to embez- zle state funds, His trial was’ delayed today while Judge Claire Edwards heard a divorce case, impanelled a grand jury and called the docket of the (March term of court. Fifty pros- | Pective jurymen were on hand for j the first day's examination and an additional number wil] come to- morrow. Judge Edwards an- nounced that each state and de- fence will have 10 peremptory challenges. . scribed Terrible Suffering * in Eastern Europe APPEALS FOR CHILDREN! enc) Waukegan, Ill., March 6.—Impanel- ling of the Lake county grand jury and clearing of the docket of several mur- der cases were the only items for the American Jewish Relief committee in | attention of the court here today prior Bismarck tomorrow at a luncheon in |'to the opening of the trial of Governor iths McKenzie hotel this afternoon by |Len Small on a charge of, conspiracy Rabbi C. David ‘Matt, of Minneapolis. | to defraud the state through embez- Rabbi Matt made his plea for the | Zlement of interest on public funds. children. “The old men and womenj ‘or the first time in the history of in the Ukraine do not care what be-| Illinois its chief executive went on comes of them,” he said. {trial during his term of officd in the Rabbi Matt characterized the Jews |courthouse here today. of countries ‘bordering on Europe as Not since the impeachment and re- the most helpless, most suffering, |moval of William Sulzer from the most downtrodden people on ‘the face | governorship of New York in 1913 has of the earth. 'the governor of any American state “In saying this I am not unmindful |faced charges so serious or which of the terrible sufferings of other peo- |have attracted the widespread atten- Terrible conditions existing in {eastern Europe were detailed to men jand wonien of Bismarck who Will par- Iticipate in the campaign for the | ples,” hq gaid. “I think none can suf-;tion as those pending against Len fer as much as have the Jews in war-|Small, twenty-eighth governor of U- stricken countries.” linois, and his fellow defendants, He told of the pogroms raging in the countries bordering along Rus- sia. During tho laste few years, es-| Park, Ill. pecially in the Ukraine, thousands of {| In Illinois’ 104 years of statehood people have been slaughtered, he said.|only two other governors have ever Beggar Description |been indicted while in ioffice, and in “Conditions have existed which |each of the previous cases the court simply beggar description,” he sald.;dismissed the charges without trial “I venture to say that when we come because of their trivial nature. to learn of what has happened in Rus- To defraud State sia we will find, that the Jews there; Although Governor Small and have undergone the most terrible | Messrs, Sterling and Curtis are charg- jreign of terror in many centuries.” —_| ed jointly with conspiracy to defraud ‘He told of the visit of Judge Harry |the state through embezzlement of “Fisher, of Chicago, to the European} funds from the state treasury during countries, and of a pogrom in one city! the terms of Mr. Small and Mr. Cur- where 1,260 persons were killed and'tis as state treasurer, only the gov- thrown in a grave 85 by 250 feet.|ernor will go on trial here today. Mr. Judge Fisher visited the grave. ;Curtis, whose case was brought ta This slaughter of Jews, he said, left’ Lake qounty from Sangamon county jthousands of orphans, children who with that of the governor, was grant- received such poor care in orphaned a separate trial by Judge Claire C. homes that many of ‘them 9 and 10, Edwards, presiding in circuit court years old had never learned to walk ;here. Lieutenant-Governor Sterling {because they h a d not sufficient | did not ask for a change of venue and strength. his case is still pending in the Sang- amon county circuit court at Spring- field. Lieutenant-Governor Fred Sterling and Verrjon Curtis, a banker of Grant Appeals for Children The appeal, he said, is a humanitar- ian one, without regard to race or; Originally there were four indict- creed. While the Jews of the coun- | ments against Messrs Small, Sterling try have made the heaviest contribu-' and Curtis, three of which involved tions, he sald, it is estimated that 33 \ the governor, but only one—the con- per cent of the funds raised by the spiracy case—remains. Jews themselves have been expended’ One indictment, charging the three without regard to race or creed. He defendants with embezzling $700,000 appealed for help for starving chil-;was quashed by Judge Edwards be- dren. jcause of technical errors.. The court P.:R, Fields, who, with H. J. Dueme-' also quashed several counts in the land, leads the city caripaign, opened ‘conspiracy indictment which remains the meeting, and following Alex Ro-/ to be tried, and a charge of operating sen, county chairman for the cam-ja confidence game. The judge then paign, thanked citizens of Bismarck | ordered the governor to trial on an in behalf of the American Jewish Re- |indictment charging embezzlement of lief committee for great help given | $500,000 during his term as_ state in the past. itreasurer, but the state objected to |trying this case first, and when, the judge ingisted C. Fred | Mortimer, state’s attorney of Sangamon ¢gounty, |dismissed the indictment. | The fourth indictment, which was never brought to Waukegan, charged Mr. Sterling with embezzling $700,000. CONVENTION OF LEAGUE MAR. a8 he conspiracy indictment charges | Kaldor Announces | Date, Claims) the two former treasurets with enter- ing into a conspiracy with Mr. Cur- Townley Defeat tis to defraud the state out of large sums due it as interest. Curtis own- ed the charter of the Grant Park Bank, a former private banking in- argo, March 6.—Only two out of 300 precincts that have reported the, Bank, t * result of Nonpartisan league caucus stitution, which the state alleges "ab- held Feb. 22 and postponed caucuses! S0lutely ceased to function as a bank held Saturday March 4, supported A. es 1908." Grant Park is a town of C. Townley’s “balance of power” plan,} $00 population tn srananees a few cordi 0. A. Kaldor, treasure rbd rade = according to 0. A. Kaldor, treasurer of To this: private. badiew the. cBEES the league state tee, Mr. _ Kaldor announced today that executive commit- iclaims, Mr. Small and Mr. Curtis—the former as state treasurer in 1917-18 s jand the latter in 191s-20—lent mil- BC eee curity than Mr. Curtis’ certificate of E CUT director, a 10-page document mailed from a small Connecticut ,city—was | | planned for today by officers assigned | | to the case, According to the confession as de- scribed by the police the confessor was the husband with whose wife Taylor had had an affair only to “scorn” her later. Then the husband and wife planned and executed tae murder, the confession ‘stated. FREIGHT RATE CUTS ORDERED Washington, March “March 6—Reduction in mediate stepy to float the issue and Boston, Marca 6.—Fate of the Nor-|the freight rate on petroleum and pe- it is thought that the bonds can be} wegian freighter Grontoft and “er|troleum pnoducts from the Burk-Bur- sold and the proceeds deposited to| crew of 20 men was the concern of! nett and Ranger fields in Texas to the credit of the district within a few] coast-wise radio stations today. Four| points in the Mississippi Valley and mid-continent areas were ordered to- day by the Interstate Commerce Com- mission. | horr to. 75 cents per hour. | schedule will become effective April 1. | turned into the state treasury. deposit. The money was then loaned, Tee ioc to four Chicago packing companies j Diekinaon N. Ds ieee 6, Mem-| armours, Swifts, Morris and the Cu- hers of the local Carpenters’ Union! gahy Packing company on short term this week announce a voluntar their w Be scale from 87 1-2 cents per cut ini notes paying from five to eight per cent interest, of which, it is claimed, The new}*not more than two per cent” was The ‘dill of particulars filed-by the | state claims the total profits in the al- leged conspiracy are unknown be- FOUR CHILDREN, cause Gov. Small carried away part of |the records of the treasurer's office | when his term expired and because ] ‘part of the books of Swift and com- pany “have not yet been found.” The tate charges the three defendants, with the late Senator Edward Curtis, brother and business partner of Ver- non Curtis, kept $535.000 of state funds “for their personal and private property and the property of others unknown,” in addition to the sums of interest retained. Gov. Small and Lieut.-Gov. Sterling -‘|kept_ two sets of books while in the (Continued on Page 3) Winona, Minn., March 6—Mrs, Gunder Midboe and four children were drowned while her husband and a neighbor escaped when their sleigh overturned in fording Beav- er creek late yesterday. Midboe made a vain attempt to save two of the children but lost them from his grasp in the swift current,