The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 4, 1922, Page 1

s ‘The Weather . Generally Fair THE BISMARCK TRIBUN ak oe BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1922 RAILROAD EQUIPS PULLMAN’S WITH RADIO SO PASSENGERS | ARMY AVI ATOR CAN TAL WITH “ANYWHERE” ' SHOT, HOLDING FRIEND'S WIFE | Prominent Oil Man Kills Lieut.} Col. Paul Beck, Command- ant at Fort Sill E | Last Edition e UNION MINERS HAIL SIGN OF “FIRST BREAK” Declare Reported Offer of Inde- pendent Anthracite Producers Is Encouraging FORTIETH YEAR NEW ORDINANCE ON TRAFFIC IS _PUT IN HOPPER City Commission Will Consider Measure Introduced by Commisssioner Henzler ASKS DIVORCE FROM CHINAMAN That her husband, a Chinaman, represented himself as an Ameri- can citizen when he was not, is the chief basis of the complaint of Mabel Kawabata against Roy Ka- wabata, for divorce, Mrs, Kawa. bata, a white woman, instituted suit in district court at Minot for divorce. ‘Her husband demutred to the complaint, which demurrer was overruled by Judge Lowe. The case is to be argued in su- Preme court this week on appeal from the ruling on the demurrer. | RESIGNATION IS ASKED COUNTY AGENT ASKED HERE T0 Appointment For 60 Days If Not} erators the reported offer of several Permanently Is Asked of independent producers in the anthra- cite fields of Pennsylvania to grant County Board the strikers’ 19 wage demands !mmed- jately. LOAN BLANKS IN THE CITY STORY OF THE SHOOTING CENTRAL FIELD QUIET Commissioner Henzler Presents / Resignation of Fire Depart- ment Man; Not Accepted Close Friend of Oil Man Claims Aviator was Struggling with Day’s Wife Disorder Reported in Western Pennsylvania Where High Line Wires Are Cut Fair weather which has brought out (esi (By the Associated Press) automobiles and speeders also brought forth a new traffic ordinance in the city commission last night. The or- dinance, a combination of the present ordinance in Bismarck and of other cities, was presented by Commission- er Henzler for study and considera- tion by the commission. The ordi- nance was read the first time and may be read the second time and be up for passage in two weeks. Some of the principal ordinance follow: Speed limit 20 miles per hour; eight miles per hour when approaching street intersections; requirement that brake must be sufficient to stop car going 20 miles an hour within 50 feet. Cars must not be stopped in the Oklahoma City, April 4.—Lieut. Col. Paul Beck, commandant of the Post field aviation section of Fort Sill, was shot to death here early today in the fashionable residence of Jean Day, widely known oil operator. Day is ;held at his home in custody of a dep- uty sheriff pending an investiga- tion. ! According to a statement issued by R. W. Dick, Day returned to his house after escorting home a number of guests whom his wife earlier/had en- tertainedvat cards and found:Mrs. Day struggling in the arms.of. the army officer. Dick, who is an intimate ac- quaintance of the family, said Day authorized the statement. ‘Lieut.. Col. Beck had long been aj‘ close friend of the Days and came here| p, yesterday by airplane from Fort Sill. He was one of the guest$ at the card |, party last night, Dick said,.and was left, alone with Mrs. Day when her husband saw their friends home in his automobile. Upon his return home, Dick said, Day peered through a porch window jand saw his wife fighting to release the aviator’s hold on her. He rushed kaa sin ZA fore the board. Mr. Haw upstairs and obtained his revolver, 1 a BY ALEXANDER. HERMAN, mie asserted, and returned Bs his lege would pay $1,200 a year on the| mittee would meet in NewYork to- Hoboken, N.J., April 4—Passengers| room. Beck made a motion as if to|C°UBty agent’s' salary. He spoke of] morrow to act on the report conces- on trains going 60 miles an hour are| strike Day, Dick said, and Day struck | the various services he said the coun-| sion of the anthracite operators and now able to talk to‘their wives or|him over the head with a revolver, ty agent could perform in the inter-| acceptance may result in negotiations offices hundreds of miles away, by|the revolver exploding. Beck fell to|@8t of the county. of separate contracts and reopening of radiophone, | the floor and was dead hefore police|, It was urged especially that a man! the mines affedted, union officials After successful experiments the| arrived, be named at this time to handle the|said. Lackawanna railroad is preparing to! The commanding officer at Fort Sill The| According to C. J. Golden, a union Leaders of anthracite unioa miners today complained to the scale commit- G F 2 tee which is negotiating new wage County Auditors Receive Appji- agreements with the operators in New cation Blanks For U. S. York that the anthracite operators in é many instanceg are not living up fully Seed Loans to the suspension orders. They a charge that mine bosses have re- Appointment of a county agent in| placed the maintenance men left in urleigh county was urged before the| the mines for protection. of property. board of county commissioners today; Meanwhile on tle battle ground of by John Haw, county agent leader, of! the nation’s greatest coal strike—the the state. agricultural. college. Mr.| bituminous d—deVelopments sore Haw appeared before the board and| clearly defining the situation as re- discussed the matter. . With him was|gards support given the strike by the John de Jong, whom Mr. [Haw recom-| non-union miners ware expected to- mended as a competent man for the] day. place, There was a lengthy dis points in the “LISTENING IN” BY RADIO ON A TRAIN MOVING 60 MILES AN HOUR. D, G. MURRAY IS OPHRATING THE SET. EDGAR Si LOOKING UP A CALL NUMBER, TO HIE RIGHT: “CAGE” USED FOR BOTH RECEIVING AND TRANSMITTING, street in congested districts except re ey ICE BREAKS IN MISSOURI RIVER; “education LOWER PART OF MANDAN ENDANGERED, Mufflers must be used; also lamps with dimmers. Cars must not be turned around in congested districts except at street/Ice Breaks North of Northern Pacific Bridge at 11:30 O’clock; Intersections. x tes Today and Gradual Moving Out of Ice in Next 36 Hours Is Indicated—- Heart River Became Clogged Somewhat Endangering Lower Part of Mandan ' rs Seale Committee Meets cussion. be-| Strike. leaders announced that the id the col-| anthracite miners general scale com- os may not be parked within 25 feet of either side of the entrance to public buildings or theaters or, within 15 feet of hydrant except for delivery of freight or discharge of passengers, When. slowing or stopping the sig- nal to be used to those in the rear is lowering the hand vertically. When turning to left extend hand Ice broke north of the Northern Pa.) causing a drop in the alige from 9 ft. The ice opposite county seed loan applications. horizontally. cific bridge in the Missouri river at|8 in. to 7 ft. 2 in. . F : licati i district president, all mines in th . . : . : “| Rock (Haven and at practically all/ equip-its Pullmans' with the necessary| has been notified. pplication: ate sent stoxthe county) fo oe Dies cen Bi uae ns Ue Whew turning to right raise hand/11 o’clock today. The river was run points north ig still holding, as is| receiving and transmitting apparatus. Day has heen prominent in political |@uditor in counties where there was anthracite field are shut down with Ye ning full and ice between the first and] shown by the reports received at the}. In the fall of 1913 the Lackawanna|and financial circles of the state since|0 agent, Asupply of blanks for Bur-|the exception of one at Locust, Pa., where for three months 30 men have been digging frantically in search of a miner who disappeared under an av- alanche of coal last January. .As the rescue work goes on about 20 tons of janthracite coal are mined each day. H Foreigners Leave President Lewis of the miners today announced that the strike in all union districts, both anthracite and bitumin- ous, is 100 per cent effective, His re- ports from non-union — districts he said, were insufficient to allow a statement. No work is being done in the Kansas mine field except in the case of a few independent mines. , Thousands of coal miners especiaily in the anthracite fiel’s are reported searching for employm2ni in other lines of endeavor. The exodus of foreigners to make their homes in native lands is quite marked, also. The only industry to feel the effect of the suspension so far, is transporta- tion. The Iowa state federation of labor today pledged its unqualified support fo the cause of the miners. Pittsburgh, Pa., April 4.—First dis- orders in the western Pennsylvania coal strike were reported from Fay- ette and Washington communities this morning where authorities said: high tension electric wires had been cut and a detail of the state police had ‘been called out to disperse a crowd en- deavoring to get non-union men o leave their work. JAP SOLDIERS ARB ATTACKED The maximum penalty for violation is fixed at a fine of $100 or 90 days’ imprisonment, or both. The report’ of the city weigher showed fees for March amounted to|/ began experimenting with Wireless| Oklahoma was admitted to the union.|/elgh county has been received, Coun- service, During the war the experi-| ‘Lieut. Col. Beck was one of,the first|ty Auditor Johnson said today. ‘Hiow- mental equipment was dismantled. |four aviators in the Unitdd States|eVer, several counties in the western D. W. Richardson, D. G. ‘Murray and| Army. He had been in the servie|Part of the state which have county Edgar Sisson, undergraduates at|since 1899. agents received blanks last Friday or Princeton, heard about this, So they Saturday, according to announcements went to the company and told the CLAMP DOWN LID in weekly papers. officials what a chance for progress| Lawton, Oklahoma, April 4.—It was It wag suggested that a county agent they were losing. impossible to communicate with head-|be named for 60 days to handle this The officials gave them permission| quarters at Post field, Ft. Sill, ‘thig) Work. The McCumber bill appropri- to rig up a radio set in a club car|morning in regard to the shooting at|ating money to be loaned to farmers ‘and ‘arrange a practical demonstra-| Oklahoma City early today of Lieut:| provided for $1,500,000. It was pointed tion. Col?Paul Beck, commandant at Post|out that “first come, first served” is “It was great fun,” says Sisson,| field, orders having been issued pro- the rule to be adopted in the Grand who is only 19. “We went to Paul|hibiting telephone service into and] Forks office. Counties who have county Godley, who conducted the transat-|Out of the post. ppents, are likely to ee pretrences In lantic receiving experiments last fall eSLg ET e natural course of events, it was and waren wstece with its. nine DAY IS HELD emphasized. Burleigh county, it was stages of amplifiers. We fixed up a], Oklahoma City, April 4—Jean Day| said, may not get her full quota if small transmitter, rigged up a new today was held under $5,000 appear-| she has no county agent. cage antenna, grounded our set on the |@nce bond pending an investigation by) The commissioners were to discuss rails and were ready. a coronor’s jury into the death of} further this afternoon the matter of a “Our first demonstration was on a| Lieut. Col. Paul Beck, assistant com-| county agent, at least for a 60-day train ‘between Hoboken and Scranton.|™andant at Post field who was killed | period, during which ‘he would han- It was the first time that messages early today at Day’s home here. dle the seed loan applications. had been received and dispatched from SEER TE TEE ‘Regulations for Loans. a moving train by wireless, The application blanks, which are “We caught messages in a tunnel a at the office of the county auditor, con mile and a half long. We heard sig- in the regulations, which ‘include nals from Germany. We were able WILTON MAYOR these specifications, W. Stewart, Incumb- ent, 214 to 181 (Special to The Tribune.) second piers, Weather Bureau from Washburn, San- A break up all along the line is in-| ish and (Williston. This ice is well dicated. honey-combed and is expected to grad- A summary by the weather bureau] ually break up and move out during $217.60. The police magistrate re- today of conditions said: __| the next thirty-six hours. - ported fees and fines of $156.90. “Sunday afternoon the ice opposite] The Heart river, which broke up John Rosenbeck, who said his little Schmidt moved out to a point between] about a week ago and gorged some- girl suffered a crushed toe when a Glencoe and Huff where the river| what, again froze over. Last night water main cover fell on her foot on|™#kes a very sharp turn. The ice be-| the ice for the second time broke up Sixteenth street, asked the city to pay low the-new bridge at Bismarck also} and moving down clogged at the via- the doctor bill, The main, it ‘was said,| broke up and moved down about a} duct and this morning was endanger- is owned ‘by the government. The mile. “At 3:30 P. M. Sunday after-| ing the! lower part of the city of Man- matter was referred to the city attor-|n00m the ice at Mobridge moved out,| dan. It is not believed that much ney. and last evening all of the ice from} damage will occur as the ice forming Resignation Asked ‘|the Northern Pacific railway bridge} the gorge is badly honeycombed and Commissioner Henzler, who has the| South moved out without gorging,| will not stand much pressure.” fire and police departments, presented L INDUSTRY MUST ‘BR CLEANED UP” place on file when they are appointe: i H 13 ENTER RACE FOR SHERIFF Tt is an_ unlucky candidate for sheriff. There are 18 in the field for the county piac ecording to An of- ficial and Unofficial count, Eleven have oificially announe- ed their candidacy. Two others are placed definitely in the race. There may be one or two others. LABOR OPPOSES SALARY REPEAL Bismarck Trades and Labor As-| sembly Takes Action narck ‘Trades | which.may be accepted at any time. Mr. Falconer asked to say a word, stating that he thought Mr. Henzler was unfair in“this matter and ex- plained that when he left the fire hall at night there always was another frente there, one who slept in the all, Commissioner , Henzler said he wanted the resignation accepted be- cause Mr, Falconer had not been on duty when he was supposed to be, and declared that a driver must be on duty at all times. There are two y deters one for night and one for day shift. y for some Herbert Hoover, Spealiing At Chicago, Tells His Ideas On the Subject t Chicago, April 4—The practices of | Commissioner Henzler moved the|a small minority in thé construction resignation be accepted May 1.|industry are unendurable and must be There was no second. Commissioner | cleaned up if the business and com-| French suggested that he didn’t want ie eer fig to vote on it until he knew more about | ™e"ce desire protection “from the the matter. Commissioner Henzler|Steady invasion of regulatory hands declared every commissioner knew all] of the government,” Herbert Hoover, | there was to be known, and declared | secretary of commerce id in an ad-| that he should be permitted to run the/dress today before the fifth annual | departments that were given in his| meeting of the National ede ttion of charge. Commissioner Thompson sug-| Construction Engineers. The secre-| gested Falconer could demand a hear-|tary said that during the past 10) ing if he desired. The matter was, Months the department of commerce | to carry on a continuous conversation Maximum amount of loan to one 'far- with amateurs along the way.” mer, $300, and $1150 per acre. Following this: demonstration, the Seed loans may be made for spring! company decided to radio-equip a spe- soy of wheat, oats, barley and flax cial train carrying Cornel] students 22. home for their Waster vacation, Defeats G: ‘Only actual farmers may get loans. “It is but a matter of time,” says ¥ A promissory note with interest at L, B. Foley, superintendent of the tele. 5 per cent must be made with appli- iT ess division cation, and chattel mortgage given: on railroad, “before all companies} Wilton, N. D,, April 4—Charles W. | TOP. will install such apparatus on their! Howe was elected mayor of Wilton Amount of loan may be approved trains, : ; in the city clection held yesterday |#t less than application. 4 4 “The cost of equipment is not large. | over G, W. Stewart, present incumbent All applications must he approve The expe by a vote of 214 to 181/ y in the seed loan office at Grand Forks. “Its possibilities ‘The vote on mayor was: Howe, wo-|, Some applications have been sent ing from the young lover who wants| men’s vote 90; Stewart, 89; men’s|'0 banks in the county. to hear his sweetheart’s voice to the| vote, Howe, 124; Stewart, 92. The office of the seed loan agent is busy financier who must know the! Mr, Stewart has been mayor for| at Grand Forks, it ig said, because the fluctuations in the stock market. two terms. The present councilmen |@ePartment of nar oulfere has an of “With the loud spe r attachment, | were unopposed for re-election. ‘They fice there, the federal crop reporter Members of the Bi and Labor Assembly, in ion last | night, went on record against the pro-| posed repeal of the teachers salary! Jaw, which ig to be voted’on, June 28. allowed to go over until next meeting. has given yenen eve study of ae ae The assembly discussed plans for| which we usc, passengers can hear the |are: _H, C, Stocker, A. C. Wilde, Dr. being stationed in Grand Forks. Eight Chita Soldiers Are Re- Ye Bills were allowed as follows: sa Jn the constrte ae tent Biddtlon the state federation meeting in Bis-| broadcasting of all the large stations |p, BN Polls wére open from aA ties ported Killed i Washburn: Lignite Coal Co....$ 63.45 dimvuly wut ee cleated up. marck, May 7,8 and 9. It was stated and enjoy tieir music, lecturers, re-|g A, M. to 5 P.M. P ‘ Hoskins-Meyer Co. . 20| Conclusions reached by the depart, | that there would be a mass meeting; ports and news bulletins. Robert W. Cotton, former mayor, \ : —— ‘ a a “iin the city auditorium on Sunday even- was elected justice of the peace, A Tokio, April 4—(By the Associated Wachter Transfer Co. Finney’s .........++ Farmer-Labor Record Farmer-Labor Record 90-60) ment Mr. Hoover summarized as fol- 275 Press.)—Special dispatches from Vla- divostok today report a clash between Japanese troops and forces of the Chita government when 800 of the lat- ing, May 7. A banquet will be held) Monday evening in the McKenzie ho- tel. The Mandan trades and labor as- lows: 5 That the industry needs cleaning . 5.10/and the decent men must organize to LLOYD GEORGE i | OPEN HEARING WASHED OUT ; business meeting, the championship Lomas Hardware Co. . 8.70| do it; seoly. wl) Join. inZ entertaining the | GIVEN VOTE ter attacked the Japanese stassk, Farmer-Labor Record 4.05| That the great indirect wastes which | State federation. IN B ANK ( A oe ‘ Yausing!| about 100 miles i : i 7 = > x = oT | es from Vladivostok, fol- , Hughes Electric Co. 585.68 |are beyond the control of any one in-;, A whist tournament followed the J London, Apri! 4—The house of com-|Heart River Backs Up, Causing pani OY dua aray Le cIeeRaeeaete E. A. Brown .... 111.90 | dividual man or concern must ‘be elim- mons last night after an unexciting A, W. Lucas Co.. 2.00! inated by associated action and that to, 8ame being played between the car- debate, adopted by the substantial ma- Much Damage disarm, Eighty of the Chita soldiers were reported killed. i . H y i imi ing of Lofthus, | ‘ ; Wachter Transfer Co. .. 6.50/ accomplish these ends there is needed ; Penters and the Typographical fnion, | Preliminary Heari ljority of 278, Premier Lloyd George's - k igni Co. i the veterans of the former winning. ‘resolution calling for confidence in} The Mandan fairgrounds were pretty; Later the Chita troops attacked in Washburn Lignite Coal Co. 71.10/a cleaner organization of the trades, | Thatcher Is Held resolution calling well flooded today by the backing up|force with field guns and fighting is Luncheon followed. The meeting was in charge of K. C. Arness, CONVENTION HERE APRIL 15 The county convention to select the government’s policy on the com- | iug economic conference at Genoa.) of water in the Heart river, it was re-} The vote was 372 to 94. ported at noon. The Heart river jam-| Thig result is regarded as exceed-|med some place near the railroad | ingly satisfactory for the prime min- j‘bridge, and choked the channel. The} CHICAGO. MAN 3 0. IN JURED Part of the track between the Rus- IS SLATED FOR Vienna, April 4—A concealed bomb Wachter Transfer ‘Co. . Street and Sewer payroll. Police payroll . NEW DAIRY MA IS APPOINTED Assistance to small creameries boti not the destruction of the trades or-| ganization. | Mr. Hoover added that the building | trades “could pioneer a great trail of national advance in the cutting out of lost motion and waste.” SNOWSLIDES h continuing along the Ussuri railway, Fargo, April 4.—Preliminary hear- the report said. = sdgilnthe case of O. E. Lofthus, Bis- taarck, former state bank examiner and M. W. Thatcher, St. Paul acco :nt- ant, was begun in justice court here this afternoon before H. F. Miller. The | men are charged with perjury. The prosecution is founded on an affidavit signed by both and ased be- fore the supreme court of North Da- kota to secure reopening of the now washed out, the fairgrounds race track | was under water and the fairground | buildings were surrounded by water. | sell-Miller mill and the city was FEDERAL PLACE) in improving manufacturing and office, methods will be given by Bernt Hel- | faas, whose appointment as assistant dairy commissioner was announced to- day. Mr, Helgaas has ‘been engaged in| creamery work in Grand Forks and in! crookston, Minn. ' Dairy Commissioner | Flint said the department has been} searching for a man who could lend; assistance to the smaller creameries,! and that Mr. Helgaas has had experi- ence both in’ manufacturing and ac- counting methods. 5 forrest Skinner, of Bismarck, ex-| ‘service man, has been named chief | clerk in the office of Commissioner of) Agriculture and Labor Kitchen, MOVE BY EXCHANGING Addlestone, Eng., April 4. — Four residents of Addlestone wanted to move, but there was mo place for rent. They exchanged homes. ’ “IN MONTANA Butte, Mont., April 4.—Snowslides in Montana today had resulted in one death and delay to railroad traffic.| The death occurred near St. Regis.; where a slide was reported to have! covered the Northern Pacific railroad tracks to a depth of 18 feet at one; place. | JIMTOWN MAYOR IS DEFEATED Jamestown, N. D., April 4.—G: B. Buckley, was elected mayor over |Frank Rathman, present incumbent, by a vote of 625 to 629 here yesterday. Otto Weinke, ex-service man, Was elected police magistrate over J. A. Murphy. delegates to the Republican conveu- tion called at Jamestown on April 19 by Burleigh Spalding will be held in Bismarck at 2 p. m. April 15, accord- ing to the official call issued to- day. There will be 14 delegates from Bur- leigh county selected and three candi- dates for the legislature endorsed. Precinct caucuses to name delegates to the county convention will be held April 11. The full call is printed -Jsewere in The Tribune. ASKS RE-ELECTION Washburn, N. D., April 4.—State’s Attorney M. Tellefson has announcec himself as a candidate for re-election Mr. Tellefson was elected two ‘year! defunct Scandinavian-American Bank | of Fargo in October, 1919, after it had been closed by the banking board. PROMPT ACTION HELD NECESSARY Washington, April 4—Prompt ac- tion by the senate and house on the administration ship subsidy bill was urged today by Chairma: Lasker, of the shipping board at the opening ses- sion of joint congressional hearings on | the measure. Delay may be fatal, he declared, adding that the board would ago and he feels that he has filled the| yiew with alarm inaction by this con- office during the two years in such a] gress on the legislation which the way that he will again have the sup-| President has advocated, in behalf of port of the people. the American merchaut marine. Washington, Apr. 4—(By he Associ- ated Press.)—President Harding will! send to the senate soon the name of! Paul Henderson, of Chicago, to be second assistant postmaster-general, | it was learned definitely today. Mr. ‘Henderson is a son-in-law of Chair- man Madden of the house appropria- | tions committee and succeeds to the! post left vacant by the death of Ed- ward Shaughennessy, also of Chicago, | who died from injuries received in| the Knickerbocker theater disaster. | Warning Against Dumping. Carl Brady, street commissioner, warns people against dumping ashes| or rubbish any place except on the! city dump. An ordinance provides a! fine in such ca8es. Ashes have been dumped on several vacant lots, he said, and declared charges would be preferred against anyone found guilty. ARE FAR AWAY; North Dakota men who served in the World War have scattered far and wide. Two appeals were received at the office of the adjutant general today to hurry payment of the state bonus. One was from a North Dakota boy now in Paris, He retutned here after the war and then went back to France in the graves registration service. “If | don’t get the money my wife and | will starve with the rest oi the “Frogs,” he wrote. Another was from Norway, where the soldier was threatened with eviction from his house. He had gone there after the war, en. listing in North Dakota, Bs exploded at a business men’s banquet in Budapest last ‘night, killing three and injuring 30 prominent persons. The bomb is believed to have exploded prematurely, however, as the princi- pay speakers had not arrived, COURT DOCKET IS CALLED When the court docket was called today in district court many of the cases were put over because they are jury cases. One case, that of the Home | Building association against the City jof Bismarck, was definitely set for | April 26. Among the other cases to be trie? are the so-called Armory case and the case of Carl Bredy and others against the Bismarck Water Supply company.