The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 9, 1922, Page 1

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ESTABLISHED 1878 ILAGALITY BY OFFICERS NO EVIDENCE BAR Evidence Obtained of Liquor Violation Without Seach Warrant Is Upheld LOCAL MEN CONVICTED Supreme Court Divided in Opinion Held Important in Dry Law Enforcement Use as evidence of apparatus | used in the manufacture of intoxi- | eating liquor, seized by officers who dotared=‘a- dwelling . house: without | search warrant guests, was upheld by the supreme! court here today garded as of considerable importance | in the enforcement of liquor laws in the state. \ In the same case the court held | In the same case the court najd that | the legislative act foridding the man- | ufacture of liquor for whatever pur- | pose was valid, and that it did not/ contravene the institutional pro-! vision which forbids manufacture of ; liquor for sale, gift or barter. / i The court was divided, Judge Bron- son, who wrote the majority opinion, Chief Justice Birdzell and Judge Christianson taking similar views. Judge Grace held the anti-liquor det wei: constitutional but that the acts of the officers was in violation of the constitution, Judge Robingon held! that it is unconstitutional for the legislature to forbid the manufacture of liquor not sold, bartered or given away and also that the officers vio-{ and \as uninvited in an opinion re-} if lated the constitution. i The case arose in, Burleigh county, the defendants being J, W. Pauley and his son, Pearlie Pauley. It has been declared by defendants that the case would be taken to the United State supreme court. The circumstances were that in| February, -1922, the sheriff, chief of police and a deputy sheriff visited | the home of the defendants in Bis- marck. They possessed neither war- rant of arrest nor a search warrant. At the door they told the wife of one of the defendants that they desired to sec her husband. She stated she would call him; officers said they would go sec him. They proceeded to the basement and there they found the defendants manfacturinn, intoxicating liqaor, the court. recora seized the equipment, the defendants objected to the production of the equipment used in making liquor and its introduction in evidence, Duty to Arrest. Judge Bronson in his opinio states the officers were not invited guests but were not denied admit- tance to defendants, saw the defend- ants committing a crime and it was their duty to arrest them, and that| the instrumentalities were properly received in cvidence. Quoting from authorities he saia. “It has long been established that the admissability of evidence is not affected by the illegality of the means through which the party has been enabled to obtain the svidence. The illegality is by no means con- doned; it is merely ignored.” He declared that such illegality} must be redressed, or punished ot resisted by appropriate proceedings | otherwise taken, and that it would| not invalidate the conviction in this! case. Whether the seizure was un-| reasonable, he asserted, was not at} issue. j Regarding the uction of officers he further said: “Their right to in- terrupt the performance of a crime! and to apprehend the offenders and| to seizure the instrumentalities be- ing used to commit the crime is not} to be denied because the edfendants | happened to be operating within the confines of their own home.” Constitution Not Violated, The proof of such instrumental-| ities for the manufacture of liqure and their reception in evidence wag; not violative of the constitutional provision that no party in any crim- inal case shall be compelled to be a witness against himself, Judge Bronson declared. Judge Grace, in his opinion, point- ed out that the state law prohibits! the manufacture. of intoxicating} liquors, irrespective of whether the same is manufactured for sale or} gift, while the Constitution makes the manufacture of liquor a violation of law only if for sale, barter’ or gift. He held that the legislature had power to prevent the manufac-| tuer for any purpose. The action of the officers in entet-} ing the home without search war- rant and in the manner they did, he held, was a violation of the provision on the Constitution protecting the home against “unreasonable searches | and seizures.” ! He said that: “Under the evidence; and in the circumstances of this case, the entry by the officers and} each of them upon the premises and} into the home of/the defendants, | without a warrant for their arrest or for the arrest of either of them, without a search wartant, with no| order or comand from any court and with no authority whatever under! our laws and Constitution, for the sole purpose of searching for and| seizing intoxicating liquors and to| discover if the same were manufac- tured in the home, way a wanton tréspass and a direct and flagrant | invasion of the constitutional rights | of the defendants (who were occilpy-} ing the premises as a home) guaran- (Continued on Page 2) THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Pertect Saxon Beauty i ‘ The type of English beauty which is most’ characteristic of England been found in the features of Mrs, C. E. Eaton, prominent Londog ‘eociety woman, by a committee of artists. e Railroad Commission Hear Testimony in Matter On December 29 7 | ELECTRIC RATE BINDS GIRL | } ) ' CAR TRACKS IN CASE SET FOR mat MEMPIS SUBURB HEARING SOON Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 9.—Efforts —— of, police investigating the finding, |, ibound hand and foot and gagged be~ Will | side the street car track in a sub- ‘urd early yesterday of Miss Jennie ! Rogers, 32, a trained nurse, whom it }was reported had been placed there ‘by a man, after having held her ‘prisoner for five days, disclosed the | BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1922 IRISH STATE "TO CONTINUE LAUSANNE CONFERENCE ‘lin’ will be followed by further shootings is expressed today by jsome of the Dublin dispatches to the London newspapers. respondents are convinced that ® jchain of repgisals will continue. The' Daily Mail's Dublin corres- pondents quotes a Free State offi- ials as saying that there are at c. 9.—The expectation Russian Delegates Resentful At Attitude of Turk Envoys i DROP SOME DEMANDS | | ‘who, having no care for their own Recede’ from Position De- leaders and endeavor to assassinate i ‘~~ | members of, the government and of manding Control of Dar- the Irish parliament. danelle Straights e correspondent remarks that ‘the authorities still have in custody AS is ae scope of the recent pros eas a :Hensanne today for the | tion prescribin;: a sammaty pi itary Near East conference had weathere | trial and execut.on of persons found what was probably-its most diffieu!t|to possess lombs, explosives or fire ion to date. jarms, 7 Ismet, Pusha’s statement of the! Turkish views on the Dardanelles | question and the reply it brought} from Lord Curzon on behalf of the |; inviting powers resulted in a. gen-j eral clearing of the conference: at} Mosphorey Turkey has appardntly | KILLED NDER broken away from Russian contrel,! and foreign minister Tehitcherin and |' his associates, although resentful of | Turkey's failure to hold out for com-| i plete autonomy in the straits, are| accepting the situation. i Details of the Dardanelles’ settld-| ood. i ment were being threshed out today | Brooks Underwood, Soo Line by the naval and military experts | Employe, Is Instantly Killed at Wilton in informal meetings and it was ex- pected several days would elapsc| before another general conference | session would be held to discuss. the | modified plan designed to satisfy both the Turks and the allied pow- ers. SLIPPED AND FELL Bodks Underfwood, conductor on ITS REPRISALS These cor- | least 100 desperate men in the city | , lives, will follow the behest of their | aia iseveral Republican leaders who | (By the Associated Press.) , [were captured ‘under certain cir- Lausanne, Dec. 9.—-Optimism | cumstances. br'nging them within The Hughes Electric Company identity of one of the men mention- ied in notes scrawled on an envelope, jstate rate case will be heard by the sound in her possession, according railroad commission Friday,!to announcement early today December 29, beginning at 10 Lee Rodgers, brother of Miss i 4 saaean At ” | Rodgers, referred to in the notes m, it was announced in the orders | (eee vent to the hospital early of the railroad commission today. ‘this morning, but according to the In jthis case several consumers | attaches and nurses, she did not asked for a reduction of alleged recognize him. exorbitant electric and steam heat! According to incoherent rates, and also for a rebate of found by the police addressed to about $40,000 they allege was col-;her mother and brother, Miss lected by the company last year in | Rodgers left the home of a relative excess of a fair and reasonable!e2tly Sunday morning to visit her reurn. jmother at Ripley, Miss. The notes GL ee Sanh lexplain that while waiting in the COURT GRINDS | station she fell asleep and when she ON JURY CASES ese who found them to rescue y her, notes kill her if she refused to cat and do as she was told.” The notes begged | awoke she, was in the clutches of “a jmasked man” who ‘threatened to | Authorities are unable to account |for her movements from the time Reperted Grand Jury Matter |she left the house until picked up |yesterday morning by a street car \erew in the woods near Memphis. | ; i HAIL WARRANTS TO BE MAILED NEXT WEEK Hail warrants will be mailed to May Come up Again District court ground away on petit jury cases today, with the) grand jury matter disposed of aty Teast temporarily. It was expect-j} ed it would be brought up again. It: also was understood that this | sli in 15 ti : would be opposed and that affida- othe al 2S erie ee ema vits of a number of signers would suffered loss and were covered by be presented. One letter of a State insurance , next Monday, Mar- signer stated hat he was offered | tin S. Hagen, manager of the depart- He sign ne petition. If the | ment said today. The counties.are were published: illi i i Pee eneety. lfrom Williams to Richland, inclu- gious leo her ol Of the | sive, the issuance of the warrants s rm, that of Ole Warne ‘this year beginning with Williams against M. B. Finseth, involving «| county. land contract, plaintiff was award-| The agreement for the purchase ea verdict of $800 and interest. | of ha'l warrants entered into by the e asked $1,356; 3. _ jindustrial commission and commis- The case of Herman Laskin:sioner of insurance with against James Lee et al was! Minnescta Loan and Trust Company being heard toda ‘and Lane, Piper and Jeffray provid- ed pprehase price. beginning with ‘December 1, the date on which the warrants being drawing interest, but the warrants, which _ pa: through the auditor's , and trea er's office, could not be prepared for holders by that time. The war- rants will be issued as regularly and Washington, D. —Weather out- 48 often as: possible from now on, look for week beginning Monday: | Mr. Hagen said. | Region of the Great Lakes: Tem- Serer gik perature below normal; considerable, FRIENDS OF MRS. FORD SEEK HER RELEASE Below Normal Temperature, Week’s Forecast (By the Associated Press) cloudiness, occasional snows. Upper . Mississippi Valley: Temp-! erature below normal; local snows at. the |® tions is being worked out by sub- commissions which are said making good progre Rumors of a possi Christmas persist but apparently no delegation desires to assume the re- sponsility of suggesting of work, even for a few* days, white the conference . is progressing 50 smoothly. , POLICE TRAVEL INCIRGES IN WOMAN HUNT Admit That They Are Baffled In Search for Mrs. Clara Phillips Los Angeles, Dec. 9—The search for Mrs. Clara Phillips, hammer murderess, who escaped from the Los Angeles county jail Inst Tuesday has “brought us right back where we started,” according to statements from sheriff's deputies today. They admitted they had “no tan- gible clues” and tuat only the facts stood out in their investigation— that Mrs, Phillips had escaped and that she was still free. e They declared again their deter- mination to continue their search un- til they had recaptured the woman, and said they attached as much credence to one report that she had fled to Mexico, as to another that he had remained in Los Angeles. They said they believed if Mrs. Phillips was not apprehended other-} wise, she eventually would betray her own hiding place, if some one} else did not betray her first. | ——_—-— if MANY WITNESSES CALLED IN CASE | OF EXECUTIVE: he problem of Turkish capitule-/ the Soo- line, was instantly killed| LAST EDITION (Leased Wire of Associated Press) RAPARATIONS — | | | | | | i ‘BEFORE SESSION OF PREMIERS. |Four Nations Represented in| Conference to Arrive at | Plan for Germany ' i ADS REFLECT WANNAMAKER PHILOSOPHY POINCARE EMPAHTIC: iDeclares Something Radical | Must be Done to Protect | France | | London, Dee, 9—The conference! jot allied premiers held a two hour| session this morning, adjourning for luncheon shortly before 2 p. m, The heads of all four delegations—Bri lish, Freneh, Italian and Bolgian jaddressed the gathering, Premi>r | | Poincare of France, holding’ the floor | the. longest. | | The premiers met to sketch the/ \latest and perhaps the most import- | jant chapter in the long story of | German reparations. The details, it! is expected will be filled in at the; |forthcoming Brussels. conference, to | ‘which the- conversations | today are preliminary. JOHN WANAMAKER y By NEA Service Philadelphia, Dec, 9.-In the ad- ements of one of the greatest in of Philadelphia and New York department stores lies the philoso- phy of John Wanai beginning | * While Premier Poincare was re-/ | ker, 84-year- {ported not to have reached the point |(1j) jmiltionaire merchant, who’ has lof definite proposals, he declared, | heen suffering from a severe cold ‘the reparations question had arriv ; thes paral ont auestion had eae Hfor the last two months. . said, to discuss with the others what | yoloped this business pioneer from jaction should be taken. — France’s!, poor farm boy into one of the great interests he insisted, must! most respected characters in the be recognized. | country. to be} le vacation as | a cessation, at Wilton in charge of Conductor; | AT STAKE FOR | about 10 o'clock this morning Wilton, when he fell between tears and was run over, The train, extra freight 419 west, was backing in on an elevator track atlier's were the finance ministers of WO; Great Britain, France and Belgium; | Count De Saint Aulaire, the French Ambassador, Foreign Minister Jas- par of Belgium and the Italian mem- bers of the reparations commission. M. Poincare appeared perturbed when he left his hotel for the con- ference, having just made a denial of a charge that France intends to |J. I. Setser. Conductor Underwood was working as a brekeman. He ‘slipped and fell between two cars,! and the wheels of the cars severed | his body, according to reports reach-! annex the Rhine region. He was in ing here. ' | good spirits, however, when he re- Mr. Underwood was about 45 years! turned, from which the French at- {of age, His home was at 1200 Broad-/|taches drew the inference that the | way, and he is survived by a widow] conference was going well. and a daughter about 9 years of age.! Mr. Underwood’s home originally | was-at Atlanta, Ga, but he h:vi been] in the Soo line service since 1912. He; was a ‘member of all Masonic bodies, | jincludiag the Shrine, and B. R. T. and 0. R, C. He was well known and popular among railroad men. Altelephione message to The Tri: bune from Wilton said that at noon arrival of the McLean county coro- ner was being awaited before the: body was moved from its fosition} under the train. Two people saw Mr. Underwood fall between the cars, but were some distance away. The body was dragged about two car lengths. NEGRO IS BURNED WOULD GRANT MORATORIUM London, Dec, 9.—Premier Pojncare towards the close of the first ses- sion of the conference of allied pre- miers heré today is understood to have. said that,France would consent to a moratorium of two years for Germany if certain economic guur- antees accompanied it. LARSON WILL HELD VALID Decisions of County and Dis- trict Court of Burleigh County Is Upheld SLAYING WOMAN Perry, Florida, Dec, 9.-Peace pre- | vailed Here early today with county | will bequeathing an-estate in and. state authorities reporting 10 Inorthern Burleigh ‘eéunty value at racial outbreaks during the night | about $15,000 to Annetta, Erickson, following the burning at the stake |, friend of Peter Larson, deceased of Charles Wright, negro, by a mob ‘hermit, was declared valid by the of several thousand men early last supreme court here. The will, writ- night after he is said to have con- ten in the Swedish language, was in fessed to have slain Miss Ruby |pon and ink om ordinary scrap paper Hendry, a school teacher here last {and was written January 29, 1900, Saturday. . |20 years before Larson’s death. The police say the mob which! Larson, was found dead in his gathered from the northern section jhome, his body partly, devoured by of the state, quietly dispersed after |the large number of cats he always Wright’s body had been burned a | kept, ort distance from here. The’ special administrator, Oscar The authorities are still holding | Backman, contested the will on the custody Albert Young, negro,|/ground of fraud and undue ing i i in captured in a Georgia town early | fluence, and that it was not the will lyesterday after he had been trailed | of the deceased. The Swedish con- ix days. Wright, it is said, in his |sul intérested himself in behalf of IN HIGH COURT iphia, July 11, 1838, and remained there all his life, except for a brief ‘stay in Indiana. \\was $1.25 a week as errand boy, but ‘by the t.me he was 23 he had es- tablished a clothing store with Na- than Brown, whose daughter he la- ter married. His keeness for competition brought him many enemies, but it also brought him h‘s, fortune, He opened his present store in this city \in 1976 and 20 years later took over the store of A. T. Stewart in New York, now one of the largest depart- ment stores in the country. Interest in Religion Wanamaker had other business interests, but thay did not diminish his religious activity. His interest lin the Y. M,C. A. led him to donate money for the establishment of branches all over. the world.,. He helped found other religious and so- cial institutions which are today refuges for the poor. | As postmaster general, under President Harrison, Wanamaker in. troduced sea postoffices, banished lotteries from the mails, expanded free delivery and established rural delivery, ‘ Few knew the feelings of this man juntil 1912, when they came out in pithy, / epigrammatic sayings in |his department. store advertisements. |They were helpful paragraphs which were printed almost daily un- til his recent illness and whieh {brought him many letters of appre- ‘ciation. ; That he practiced what he preach- jed is shown by his sudden reduc- tion of 20 per cent in the prices of all his merchandise, in 1920, to help the country return to normal. FARGO RATE Varga, N. D., Dec 9.—Fargo’s rate |case hearing before Interstate Com- |merce Commission, which ended there yesterday after. five days ses- 'sions has developed into a large struggle between various interests in the northwest rather than solely between Fargo and the railroads, ‘rate men said today. They pointed si Oxford, Miss., Dec. 9—A dozen or| confession exonerated Young. Wright more of the witnesses summoned in/ implicated anothr negro whose name the trial of Miss Frances C, Birk-|he did not give, as having robbed beginning of the week and aga‘ii near the close. i { (By the Associated Press) Minot, N. D., Dec. 9,—Mercury | dropped to lowest point during pres- ent season here last night, when it: registered 32 degrees below -zero (By the Associated Press) Detroit, Mich., Dec. 9.—Friends of Mrs. May B. Ford, charged with plot- iting /to slay her estranged husband, Ney J..Ford, a wealthy farmer, re- newed their efforts today to obtain freedom for the prisoner. Mrs, Ford spent last night in jail ‘unable to ju Webber, according to official records. ‘raise the $25,000 bond required by =— ithe recorder’s court, before which 14 BELOW AT ABERDEEN jshe pleaded not guilty yesterday. Aberdeen, S. D., Dec. 9.—The mer-| No date had been set early today cury dropped to 14 below last night.! for the examination demanded by This is the coldest it has been here! Mrs. Ford’s attorneys. this season. | The!defense of Mrs. Ford, should |she be brought to trial, is expected Gompers Will ‘to be based on her statement to the 4 prosecutor that she was subject to Be Witness In j intermittent loss of memory, or tem- ‘porary insanity. , , Daugherty Case | “she did not remember, she de- _ jclared, that she ever sought to en- (By the Associated Press) jgage a gunman to slay her husband Washington, Dec. 9.—Former At-j|that she might gain possession of torney General George W. Wicker- his estate, as charged. If she did sham, President Samuel Gompers of! reveal such a plot to a detective the American Federation of Labor; ! who posed as a gun man, she said, Guy Oyster, Mr. Gompers’ secretary,’ it was during one of these mental | and Thomas Stevenson, an attorney | lapses. of Cleveland, Ohio, were subpoenaed | i today to appear next week before the} MAY GET NEW COACH house judiciary committee in connec-| Fargo, N. D., Dec. 9.—George tion with the impeachment charges | Dewey of the Oregon Agricultural brought against Attorney General !College and California University Daugherty by Mr. Keller, Republican jand for two years coach of the of Minnesota. {Multnomah Athletic Club baskets ball team of Portland, Oregon will iprobably direct the activities of North Dakota Aggie basket shooters this winter, according to Stanley E. director of athletics at PLANES GO IN SEARCH (By the Associated Press.) — | El Paso, Texas, Dec. 9.—Five air-/ planes in charge of Major Leo J.|Borleske, Heffernan, commander of {the twelfth 'the college. observation squadron, left Fort Bliss} His Pacific Coast record as sub- at 6:30 o'clock this morning for|mitted to college authorities here is head’s damage suit, in which she} seeks $100,000 damages from Lee M. 1 Russell, governor of Mississippi, re-| mained to be heard in federal court) today. It was indicated last night | the defense would offer other tes-j timony and rebuttal evidence is yet} Miss Hendry, after he (Wright) had cut her throat. Philadelphia Forum Entertains | Clemenceau | jresidents of Sweden who would be theirs of barson. The court affirmed decisions of strict Judge Nuessle and County lout that the North and South Da- ‘kota Railroad Commissi Grand | Rorks, N. D., Moorhead, Minn., and arias | Aberdeen, S. D., had joined the fight sone Ee ee Judge Robinson von. the Fargo side while the united Gianttest forsee” | support of Minneapolis, St. Paul and ‘Duluth is backing the ! holding that Fargo is not entitled to GIFTS POURINFOR 33 | Counsel on both side$ have until to be heard. : Testimony yesterday dealt princi- pally with alleged improprictics on! Philadelphia, Dec, 9.—Thousands the part of Miss Birkhead during |of Philadelphians were disappointed her earlier life. jtoday at their inability to hear ‘Judge Holmes sustained an objec- Georges Clemenceau, “Tiger ‘ ror the plaintiff that | France,” deliver the last important tion by: counne! ote laddress in his tour of the United testimony as to the conduct of th: J ‘ . former cenosrapher subsequent to, States. As a partial relief for their the time of ‘the atleged wrongy set |Tsappointment they thronged the A |streets through which the octogena. forth in her declaration, should be | * . iasible only so far as it tended| Tian statesman was to pass on hi perm 5 vA "| way to Independence Hall and, the to show her physical condition al j Academy of Muste to catch a glimpse leged impairment of health is one] (+ han alusle ve a glimpse of the grounds on which the suit 15°" Tn gements called for only based. |a brief visit. Actually he was to be jhere about ten and one half hours, | but officially several hours less thar ° * lthat. His visit to this city was Fairbanks Films onder the auspices of the Philadel- cies ‘phia forum, an organization number- New York, Dee. 9.—The plea of jing 4,000 persons, which is about the Douglas Fairbanks to restrain Hy- |seating capacity of the academy. A man Winik and others from revamp- | futile effort. was made to have the ing films in which Fairbanks ap- | “Tiger's” peared several years ago, was deni. | function. ed by Supreme Court Justice Weg-| George Clemenceau, speaking to- ner yesterday. The court held Fair-|day in the city where America’s banks was but an employe of the | Declaration of Independence was company that made ‘he films and |signed, urged that America come address made a public make changes in a commodity they had hired him to help produce. The decision may effect cld films of a number of other motion picture | actors and actresses who have _be- that the producers’ had a right to |beek to Europe and help spread in- i Tucson, to goin in the search for a good one they say. The athletic Col. Marshall and Lieutenant Charles board of control must act . before 'Dewey’s appointment is definate. come stars since the were made. old pictures | Stripes ‘and the dependence throughout \ the world. | Ae was given an ovation as he ap- | ‘peared on the platform of the Aca-|to sail from New York on the Ma-, jestic ‘tusely decorated with the Stars and |Hampton and to spend demy of Music. The Academy, pro- | French tricolor, was packed, j;to eight months after that time ' Bath, Maine, Dec. 9.—Vice-Presi.,|from Johnston B. Campbell, com- ldent Coolidge many other notables | missioner and A. C. Watkins, special ‘nthe life of Washington and of |¢xaminer of the Interstate Com- ‘the nation were in this city today {merce Commission, who. conducted ito attend the wedding. of United | the hearing. ‘States Senator Walter FE. Edge of | J. W. Goodman, traffic director iNew Jersey, to Miss Camilla L,A+f the Grand Forks Commercial ewall. Club, yesterday in rebuttal testi- | President and Mrs. Harding sent |Mony denied Duluth’s contention ‘as their gift an oil painting by As- | that Fargo is not a logical distribu- ton Knight, entitled “Cahors”. ‘The | tion center by saying it is the most ‘ceremony was set for noon in Grace |logical center between Duluth and |Episcopal church, the rector, the ; Spokane. Rev, Charles M. Tubbs officiatin' ae Senator Frederick Hale of Maine} BLAME CROP REPORTING was best man and Mrs. John Wins- |, Sioux Falls, S.-D., Dec. 9. fair publicity trough false crop re- jlow Williams of Baltimore, sister of [/#!" publi } the bride, was matron of honor. j Porting is robbing agriculture | The bride's gown was the wedding |hundreds of millions of dollars \dress of her mother, of white bro- |annually, the Farmers Grain Dealer cade and old point lace. Her lace | Association declared in adopting 2 ‘veil, a family heirloom, was worn | resolution urging enactment of by her great aunt, wife of Admiral | federal legislation to. make false |David G. Farragut, when she was | ¢rop reporting a felony. The resolu- Ipresented to Queen Elizabeth of tion was adopted at the convention | Austria, just closed in Watertown, it | Gifts came from all parts of the world and many of them were of Eyler, historical value . Senator Edge and his bride plan secretary, made public here ; today. | OO Hl TO MEET TOWER CITY for South; Fargo, N. D., Dec. 9.—Fargo high the holiday |school meets Tower City here to- eason in Europe. Their permanent jnight in its first basketball game of home will be in Ventnor, N. J. the season. next Saturday Those present besides the prem: | Wanamaker was born in Philadel- | His first. income | CASE ENDS railroads in} i x |January 23 in which to file briefs { SENATOR § BRIDE jin the case and a tentative report on | i the outcome may be expected in six was | announced in the report of Charles! ‘path of the flames, but none was PRICE FIVE CENTS 2,600 ARE ~ HOMELESS IN ASTORIA, ORE. | |Loss Placed at 12 Million | From Fire That Razed 24 Blocks |FOOD GREATEST NEED { . | | Portland to Stricken | «Area (By the Associated Press) Astora, Oregon, Dec. 9.—Astiria today surveyed its losses from the $12,000,000 fire which yetserday razed 24 blocks of the city’s busi- ness section. The city set on foot measures to lrelieve the 2,500 persons made | homeless by the conflagration. A j citizens committee, hastily formed, ‘announced that obtaining of food | and necessary supplies and the tem- [porary housing of the homeless | would be its first object. | It was the general sentiment of jall that rebuilding on a larger and {more substantial scale would start as soon as the more immediate re- lief needs were supplied, Hundreds of teiegrams offering lrelief in the form of money and supplies were received here and the |the relief committee announced that ‘large amounts of staple goods and quantities of clothing were needed at once. Word from Portland was that a special train carrying sup- plies would be sent from there to- day. 2,500 Homeless Twenty five hundred persons were homeless. | The city was ‘without banking facilities. No food was obtainable except from a central distributing station established by a swiftly organized committee of fifty business mea. Last night beds‘ were provided for all. : ier Hundreds of homes hav@t., been {thrown open to those made destitute ‘by the blaze and all public buildings available! will provid sleeping und eating quarters for the kozicless. Although not many residences were in the path of the flames, apartment jhouses, hotels and frame tenement. structures were destroyed and resin dents of these barely had time to escape with their lives. Commandeer Supplies Relief measures consisted of or- ders to commandeer all. of the city’s food supplies at once. They be dis- tributed upon written orders issued by the relief committee, f Long lines of persons waited in front of the Y. M. C. A., where they were being fed with sandwiches and |loaves of bread. Inside many build- ings, including churches, women and worked tirelessly in an effort to provide for pe without homes. Several grocei stores and meat {markets in the outlaying districts suffered an unprecedented rush, and police issued orders against profit- jeering. Telephone and electric light work- men had partly restored lighting facilities last night but throughout the remaining district a heavy guard of soldiers and special police- men had been establjshed to pre- vent looting, : | Chief of Police Carlson said four- teen men had been arrested by his jofficers during the confusion and that all were attempting to carry away articles from the stores with. in the district. Fire fighting apparatus will kept constantly working until embers have béen extinguished. Ie Mayor Bremer expressed the opin- jon yesterday that the fire was of | incendiary origin and could be char- \ ged to “radicals,” Chief of Police Carlson concurred in this belief. “I am certain that radicalism is responsible,” the mayor said. “Of course there will be a more thor- ough investigation that has been possible. When it is over I am suré vit will be established that the fire | was set.” | The town of Astoria grew from | piles built far out into the water. The piles originally were extended into the deeep water to accommo- date vessels which otherwise would have had to anchor out in the har- bor. The business district naturally grouped itself close to the sea com- merce which gave the little ctiy its | principal impetus. The residential | section was built on higher ground Officials of the Oregon National Guard sent 17 officers and men |with a quantity of supplies here | from Portland. The supplies included 1,000 co (2,000 blankets, rolling kitchens, cook- ing and food supplies. The latter equipment would be sufficient to feed 3,500 persons in emergency, it was stated, although it was estimat- ed the demand would not be that great. Many refugees wandered about the streets aimlessly until through sheer exhaustion they went to sleep in the corridors of the Y. M. C. A. build- ing, the city hall and other shelter- ed spots. With their worldly pos sessions tied ina towel or tabl cloth many of them were taken in by more fortunate residents whose homes were not touched the flames. Local bankers said the vaults in the four banks probably would not be opened for two weeks. It is gen- erally believed the contents of the vaults are undamaged. Release Prisoners The churches were in the direct be all ‘burned. In each case the fire was either checked before the church was reached or veered around and by the house of worship. Everyone was barred last night from the burned area. | (Continued cn Page 2)