The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 10, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER FORECAST. Partly cloudy and somewhat un- setlted tonight and Sunday. ESTABLISHED 1878 \ |THE BISMARCK TRIBUN BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1923 LAST EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS MINE DEAD MAY REACH 100 STATE ROAD BUILDING IMPERILED DRIVE TS MADE ON SYSTEM OF STATE ROADS All Federal Aid Would Be Rejected and Business of Commission Wound Up FIGHT IN THE HOUSE Opponents of State Roads System Win Their First Step in Program House Bill No, 233, which would nbolish Federal Aid road work in rth Dakota the state hway commission to’ wind up its work survived the first brush ovér the bill in the house of representa- require tives. The bill will be fought over late today in general orders and the issue of whether or not there shall be a “moratorium” on state highways work in North Dakota set- ed, The bill was reported out by the committee, the majority endments and passage; the minority report signed by C. H. oranson and L, H. Steen for inde- postponement. Proponents of tir the bill asked that discussion be de-) ferred until general orders. A mo. tion to kill the bill failed, by and “nay” vote, but be- of the fact that there was coupled with the plea for adoption of the majority report the sugges- tion that the bill could be better disposed of in general orders, the vote may not have been a real test of strength. There is, however, strong opposi- tion to the state highway roads. more yarticularly to the Federal Aid roads and, according to expres- sions in the’ highway committee, inst the plans and specifications down for dirt roads in North ota by the United States Bureau Da of Roads. I e Bill No. 202, one of the bills sponsored by American Legion members, was without objection from them. The bill extended the law providing Eng lish only shall be taught in the first eight school grades to include private and parochial schools. Objections of private and parochial schools reach- (Continued on Page Three) LINCOLN DAY PROGRAM WILL BE RENDERED Both Houses of Legislature To Join in Tribute Mon- day Afternoon Members of the Home Board of} the state lodge of Odd Fellows will| hold a meeting here tonight and Mon- day, at which time the question of whether the lodge will begin building} declared that the latter measure was this year on the site near Devils Lake chosen for a state home, may be settled. Members of the board are Oscar Greenland, Binford; Oscar Olson, Wahpeton; G. B. Metzger, Williston; W. E. Byerly, Velva; Don McDonald, grand secretary, and ex-officio mem- |! Hamilton Bin indefinitely postponed | PASSAGE OF HOUSE BILL NO. 233 | WOULD BREAK NORTH DAKOTA'S WORD | TOU. S. GOVERNMENT, IS CHARGE: funds to Pussuge of house bill No, 233, pend- take care of suc a ing in the legislature, “will break | {North Dakota's word to the federa: ari government, accepting the provisions i of the Federal Aid acts,” in the opin+ | ion of J. E. Kaulfuss, secretary of the North Dakota Good Roads county work. “The maintenance of the Miss river bridge would fall entirely Burleigh and Morton counties, No further federal to North Dakota, and of $1,000,000 a y oy id could come s allotment} , all but $30,000 | ssoci- ation, . of which is derived from other states, ! “One unforseen result of the | Would go back to the other states. measure, if passed, is that all Fed-| “No more tetrogre could} eral Aid would be withdrawn from the state,” he declared. “The coun- ties and state would be left to finance the completion of all unfinished con- tracts. A necessary addition to the} proposed measure, if it is to work at all, should provide a fund of per- haps $500,000 or more: to take the place of the federal funds which [have been relied on to complete the have been conceived than house bill No. 283, which, if not int at wi} benefit only one county sp ually does so benefit prin one county. “Senate bills Nos. 44, 45 und just the opposite in effect and na-{ ture. Instead of returning the aute moneys to counties these bilis use them for the general development of contracts still in force.” the state at large by the improve-; The measure would wind up the| ment of a common system of state | work of the highway commission and | highway In addition, counti: abolish state highway road building. “All state highway work would be shut off,” he declared. “The main. tenance of the state roads, includ- ing completed state aid and federal aid projects would be left to the counties. The proposed returns of auto money to the counties would, in a great many counties, be inade- | quate to properly maintain the com | pleted state work and such counties would need to provide additional STORAGE = ee OF BY SEN. caer sid Toei wate i ! Roentgen waves, popularly known as. Is_ Believed ; x-rays, is dead at. Munich. EGGS FILLED WITH WHISKY. AT $6 A DOZEN Dry Agents aliseizal Case of “Canadian Brand” at which have gone into state and fed- eral work will have funds refunded| tothem)for uislon county roids, | House bill No. 283 is finding strong) support in Cass county, which woule be returned about 10 per cent of all auto license fees collected. It is op- posed particularly by those who de- clare that roads no longer are bound- | ed by county lines, and that the de- velopment of a state highways s: tem would benefit the whole state. i | Shelved to Make Way For Toferud Bilt Today | | DEATH PENALTY LOS I Bill to Restore it Killed — 9} Per Cent Miximum In- | | | | | | terest Rate Voted ! Establishment in the state of a! system for storing grain on the! Los Angeles farms, and for the ‘obtaining of! Los Angeles, Feb. 10.—The very best grade of Canadian eggs are .quated here at $6.00 a dozen. A prohibition pfficer seized a case and learned why the price was so’ high. Each egg had been blown and re- filled with “three fingers” of the best Scotch whiskey. , COURT HAS EQUITY CASE St. Paul, Feb, 10.—Judge Charles Bechhoefer of the Ramsey county rict court today had under ad- visement the petition of several members of the Equity Cooperative Exchange for appointment, of a re- loans on the same by the farmers 1s | | provided for in Senate Bill No. 2, in-| troduced by Senator Tofsrud of! Pierce county, which was taken up; by the senate as a snecial order! of business Friday afternoon and will be up for third reading and final passage today. | | At the same time the senate ma- jority vote to kill Senate Bill 47,! introduced by, Senator Hamilton oj | McHenry county, the purpose of which was the same as that of Sen- j ator Tofsrud measure. The vote, the! question of which of the two bills should be put up for, passage was along party lines, In urging on the senate the pass- age of his bill rather than that of Senator Tofsrud, Senator Hamilton| ¥ | ! | 1 i not workable. | appropriations are contained in Seh-} | tions committee by small cuts in the! | appropriations ;priation for the department is eut! cussed the aministration ‘from $806,600 to $699,800, | appropriation for the department: is ‘the senate. STATE BUDGET: !LADD CALLED — ISSLASHED BY 'T0 WHITE HOUSE UPPER HOUSE! BY PRESIDENT Big, Cut Made in Sum Asked ; ‘in Company with th Bloc Mem- For School Aid, Secretary H bers Talks Over Farm Of State’s Office | Indus‘ry Problem TOTAL $851,780 D U SHIP BILL cUuT | Harding Asks Senator Oppos- ing to Formulate Some Other Remedy First Big Budget Appropria- \ tion Bill Passed in This Form Almost Unanimously hington, Feb. 10-—Three tie “| WwW Appropriations for the expenses! ; apn a ‘ ,of a special president's commission of the executive, legislative, and Rarer ‘to study causes of car shortage and judicial departments of the state, ‘ e government and for the public! | possibly other transportation causes schools for the coming two year) during the coming recess of con- period, amounting to $1,895,750 were | gress is being planned by President voted by the state senate. | Harding who is expected to send concrete recommendations on the | subject to the house and senate In- terstate commerce committee within the next week. The president recently ate Bill 86 which passed the senate; the matter at the conference with only one dissenting vote. ;which he invited Senator Capp The reduction from the amount! chairman of the Farm Block; Good. recommended by the budget board, ing, was accomplished by the appropria-| beck, South Dakota; Brookhard, lowa, and Ladd, North Dakota recommended for! Republicans, Those at the confer- nearly all of the state departments. ; ence said there was general agrec- School Aid Slashed ment that the agricultural industry The largest cutimadanineine Ae required drastic relief to afford; ures of the budget board in the bill} more freight cars, and that freight as passed by the senate is in the de-| tates on agricultural products too partment of state school aid. The| high. Among other things proposed appropriation for rural graded and! that might study methods to consolidated schools is sliced an: bring about rate reduction. even $100,000 and the total appro-; During his talk the president dis- | shipping | {bill and told his visitors, all of | y cut in the! Whom except Gooding opposed the F ion for the secretary of; bill, to formulate some other remedy tate’s office by reducing the a if they could not support the ad- propriations for the state publicity | ministration program. pamphlet and the blue book. The The amount voted is $351,780 less! than the total recommendation of the budget board for these depart- ments which was $2,247,580. The} discussed | to| There is also a hea 'AGED RESIDENT | BURNED TO DEATH reduced a total of $31,900 from the; recommendations made by the stete| budget board. Cut Attorney-General In the attorney general's depart ment the appropriation of $30,000 AT NEW ROCKFORD: recommended for the employment of | abecay assistants is cut to $20, 000. | e appropriation of $119,700 re-j commended by the budget board for New Rockford, Feb, aay the state railway commission is cut! to $97,300 ‘in the bill as passed by | 10.—Fire in nry residence in the northeastern part of New Rockfor claimed the life of Al Cole, his body ‘being found in the bedroom at the Practically every department o! reap of the residence by members of the fire department. He was 70 the state government has felt the! years old and had been a resident axe to some extent. 1 of New Rockford for many years. Jt This is the largest appropriation, bill which has been passed-by the| is not known whether he had any re- latives, senate during the present session up to this time. Most of the other; money bills which have gone through; jt was evidence that he had been being for the making up of deficits | suffocated while i i: None of the appropriations for the; in the rear of the Henry residence. large institutions have as yet been| Fire was eau ; reported out of the committee on! flue. fre] 1 eo Ge BANKS \SEEK ADVICE ON enone ARMS CONTROL 10.—The ae condition of clearing, house banks} Geneva, Fel. 10--Under a decision and trust companies for the week | taken today by the disarmament con- shows an excess in reserve of $12.-' ference of the League of Nations the 948,000. This is an increase over last| council of the. league will be asked week, to ask the United States government! BANKS’ SURPLUS SHOWS INCREASE; | ceiver for the concern. The petition- ers allege frauds and_ mismanage- ment by officers of the Exchange. The defense claims the Equity is solvent and that appointment of a receiver, now would be detrimental to its business. Final arguments for “I think both are workable in practice “interjected Senator Ettes- tad at this point. Provides Machinery Senator Tofsrud in replying to | Senator Hamilton pointed out that ber, Grand Forl Geo. Dickinson, | his bill provided the machinery for) each side were finished late yester- Minnewaukan, atid C. W. Greene,|cattying out the provisions of the day. Bismarck, proposed law in every county of the ODD FELLOWS BOARD HERE May Decide Whether Building Of Home Begins This Year The birthday anniversary of Abra- ham Lincoln will be observed by the state legislature Monday afternoon, program in the house with a publ chamber beginning at 2:30 p. m. Both houses will meet and ad- journ shortly after the session opens, for the purpgse of joining in a trib- ute to, the immortal leader of thu country during the Civil War. It is announced by Senator Lynn W. Sperry, chairman of the joim senate and house committee arrang- ing for the program, that Civil War veterans are invited to occupy seats on the speaker's rostrum. The program will include \avocai , solo by Mrs, Anson Jackson, réading by Terrence Halloran, solo by Frank Gale and an address by Judge A. M. Christianson. * No business will be transacted by the legislature on the legal holiday, rompltiae meetings and simi- excep, lar wo! ele The banks of the city will be| mie in their banks to obligations closed Monday, and there will oe] owed them by the depositor without patriotic exercises in the schools. state while under the McHenry sen- | ator’s bill it would have to be car-| 4 tied out by the state itself, The vote, on putting Senator Tofs- rud’s bill up for passage and inde- finitely postponing that of Senator Hamilton stood 25 to 23. na ; : ,.,| Washington, Feb. 10.—The ‘total ‘The senate had on its working fe ie clothes Friday and iri a six-hour ses-/ Value of American merchandise ex sion which began at noon passed|POrs during 1922 was three billion } f : a) ight hundred thirty- ion nine sixteen bills and killed several oth-| eight hundred thixty-one mitten ak oe 5 igath Ronaliy: Falls $4,485,031,256 in 1921. Among the bills killed was that of |] —— Senator Baird which ‘provided for the re-establishment of the death penalty for first degree murder. Al- though recommended to pass by a majority of the committee on state affairs the senate voted its jnde- finite postponement by a margin of ‘one vote. Senate Bill 74 making 9 per cent the maximum contract interest rate in the state passed by a vote of 29 to 20 in spite of warnings uttered by several of the senators that its passage was a mistak ‘You are driving capital out of the state every time you pass leg- islation of this kind,” declared Sen- ator Stevens of Ramsey county, one. of the senators who argued against the bill. An amendment offered by Senator Kretschmar under which the bill would not have gone into effect until January 1, wet was voted down, « Without any ngpualiten appearing EXPORTS FALL OFF OVER 1921 No one Wants the delinquent girls of the state training school now at Mandan, There has been some sentiment for removing them from the school rather than to build additional buildings there. Two years ago’there was talk of changing the state science school at Wahpeton into a school for them, The good people of. Wahpeton fought shy of having them in their midst and a plan has been worked out to make the school there one for trades and industry. This year the~ “forestry” norma: school at Bottineau has been the STATE WANTS TO TRANSFER MANDAN SCHOOL GIRLS-NO ONE WANTS ’EM 3 7 ee | to present concrete propositions con- Boy of Thirteen | cerning the general line of collabora- | s tion it is able to give other nationn Kills Chum After {in regard to control of arms and also Card Game Quarrel, in the [ests Oo MEET manufacture of arms, Chicago, Feb, 10—Robert Rutkow- ‘TWO KILLED IN IN ski, 13, was arrested in the railroad | yards in a suburb for the killing of | a boy chum’ of the same age last) AIRPLANE SPILL night in a dispute over a card game. The lad was said to be wait- ing to board’a freight train from! gan Antonio, Tex. Feb. 10.—Lieut. shesclty. ‘ | Frank Hosinger, 27, and Sgt. Joe In the absence of his parents, Kelley, both of Kelly field, were in- Robert called Walter Melovetz, 4! stantly killed late Friday ‘afternoon neighbor boy, and with the former| when the DeHaviland combat plane two brothers they played-a game) trom which they were dropping Known as “sixtyrsix. A dispute! bombs in the war’ maneuvers being arose and Robert was said to have! enacted before Brig. Gen, William 8. produced a revolver. There was 4/ witchell, assistant chief of the Unit- shot and Walter fell dead, Robert in od States /army air service, crashed terror fled from the house. Heelaicur nae baked Honsinger and Kelley had just taken to the air when in crossing a jgully. a gust of’ wind caused their | ship to bank and going into a nose ‘dive crashed to earth. The gasoline tank exploded and both men were burned to a crisp. to bring them to Bottineau, accord:} i ing to the delegation. Bottineau is a small“town where the girls would! be pointed out as being pupils of the training school, members of the delegation say. They add it would be best to bring them to a larger city like Fargo, where the girls’) identity would be lost or else toj hi id i onae there they would have isolation, | To Pay 11 Million To Ship Owners | The argument that continuance of 7 ‘the school is needed for continued) — research and study in forestry has easel Washington, Feb. 10.—A joint re- lution directing the shipping not yet been advanced. Meanwhile the girls, themselves oard to pay the $11,955,000 award by an arbitration tribunal to Norwe- haven't been consulted’ad to where the training school disclosed them} gian ship owners for vessels requis- PLANES CRASH San Antonio, Tex., Feb. 10.—Lieut. Harry Martin and Walter F. Grodec- ki were instantly killed a Kelly Field burned. The, ship was flying over rifle target when it suddenly nosed down. 4 a they want to go. A recent visit to one suggested and by yesterday that city had a delegation of three in Bismarck to lay the viewpoint of the town before the legislators. the senate passed S. B. 144, which forbids bankers to apply deposi (Continued on Page Three) i} It wouldn't. be fair to the girlssays one investigator, to be for the most part a rather] itioned by the Ambrican government bright and intelligent lot, all too] during the w; young .to be hardened "crintinals,| the house. I ate, bas Was passed today by now goes to the sen- Idaho; Couzens, Michigan; Nor-) alli ~~ His body was in such position that! today when their ship crashed | | | | | lower SEEK COMPROMISE SHIPS REMAIN“ Muriel Harper has ‘been selected bya moa Broup of judges as aed girl in Winnipeg. And now, bearing the title of caine Win nipeg” she is representing her city at tho Winter Sports Carnival ia Wannipeg’s Most Beautiful | ON SHIP BILL TY DEFIANCE. Washingtow, Felt 10 hacieoeet: ‘fort “to smooth out the troubled! jcourse of the administration ship) | bill was made at a White House con-, ference attended by some senators | who are opposed to the bill in its present form, but who presented drafts of amendments designed to lead to a compromise insuring pas- j sage. ‘ATTACHES OF ‘BERLIN BARRED FROM RUHR al | French Issue Orders Prohibit- | ing Cabinet Ministers HAE In Area FEAR’ BLOODSHED | Occupied Zone Is Deplored ! Paris, Feb. 10.-German cabinet | ministers hereafter will be barred from the Ruhr by the F ce-Belgian forces. Premier Poincare of Franc2} | and the foreign minister of Belgium | at a conference here today drafted a brief note to this effect, which f j was, immediately delivered to | German embassies in Paris and | Brussels. The note reads: “The Belgian and , | French governments have establish- | ed that the visit of Chancellor Cuno ito the Ruhr region and the action | he ‘took there had for its sole ob- jject and resulted in provoking ‘a | | dangerous state of excitement, par- | ticularly among the big industrial- | | ists, chief functionaries and govern- thent employes. “Under these conditions French and Belgian anxious to avoid especially in the interest of the populatifh, disorders that might become sanguinary find it necessary to inform the govern- ment of the right and the govern- ment of the state that the ministers of the Right and the German State will no longer be permitted to enter the Ruhr.” the Money spent on, the Liberty Mem- orial building at the capitol is not paid by the taxpayers of the state, according to E. G. Wanner, secre- tary of the board of administration. To finish the building , $130,000 is asked of the present legislature iti addition to $300,000 already appro- priated. The house passed the bill late yesterday. “When this portion of Dakota ter- | ritory became the state of North Dakota the federal government set aside 500,000 acres of land as an allotment for state institutions. Of this 82,826 acres was set aside for buildings to be erected at the capi- tol, acvording to Carl Kositzky, land commissioner. None of the interest, jomene or ‘proceeds of sale of this ind * | Visit of Chancellor Cuno to , the, | formation governments, | OF TURK ORDER: Commander of American De- stroyer Said He Had Orders To Remain in Harbor SITUATION Allied Cruisers Ignore Ultimitum of Angora Government London, 10.—The mien of The Telegraph tells how| the commander of an American des- troyer, the Litchfield, ish order to leave Smyrna. The dispatch says that the vessel commander admitted to the Governor of Smyrna that the Litehfield regis- tered slightly more than 1,000 tons, the limit set by the Turks but said that destroyers nowadays were fair- ge shops and he would like to nople The commander supported his an- swer by adding if permission was refused he orders to remain anyway and pointed out that it would be much plea er not to have any} trouble. The Governor thereupon | gave his consent, the correspondent adds, Di: Thu: ches from Washington said the destroyer Eds was the only American naval ‘era at Smyrna and, that she, as a mat-| ter of fact, slightly exceeded the 1,000 ton burden mentioned in the Turkish order. Thirteen Ameri vy department offi Constantinople, while six othe on duty at stations in ters. n destroyer, na- are NO CHANGE IN CONDITIONS London, Feb. 10.—The latest from Constantinople as, well as from diplomatic quarters here indicate nothing important has developed ft Smyrna where foreig1 warships are said to remain in de- UNCHANGED jer Continue to; met the Tuek-| in-| iar iaps ars 3 TOTAL DEAD NOW 44 WITH 72 MISSING Believed None in Mine Will Be Rescued Alive—Many Not Accounted For HOPE NO HELD our Nature of Explosion Make It Dubious if Any Could Survive Dawson, N. M., Feb. 10.-overed with a thin blanket of snow whien began falling at midnight Dawso this morning continued to search head in the torn recesses of mine No. 1 owned by the Phillips-Dodge Cor- poration rent Thursday by plosion, With the r shortly after ¢ o'clock this morning of five bodies in a shattered passageway the total number of dead had reached 41. According to the figures given out ion officials there were men in the mine when the ex- | plosion occurred. Of this number | two emerged yesterday morning un- \harmed. Seventy-nine still remainec hin the mine. Work of recovering the bodies is proceeding rapidly today. Two shift of workers are entering the tunnel | every two hours and workers are hing the premises. Few Spectators at Entrance. Only a small knot of spectators | stood about the mine entrance today. | Two days of realization of the enor- | mity of the catastrophe have-given relatives and friends of the interned miners a spirit of resignation whicn is reflected in their unemotiona‘ | meanor. | Hope has been abandoned virtu jly that there is any men still alive jin the mine. Experienced mining men point out that mine No.1 is a dry mine, par- ticularly at present. With the ex- ception of cross-cut No. 4 from which |two survivors eseaped and one other ut deeper in the mine the tun- re barren of water. This in- ed, they asserted, it would be ible for the interned miners, an ex- impos if any survive the explosion and fegl | themselves in isolated compartments, { to t for any considerable length | of time. Some Hope Held Out. Reports of the survivors yesterday that they had heard voices in an ad- | Joining passageway Wednesday night ave rise to belief that at Jeast four men still remain alive inside the | workings. The rescue crews reached | the vicinity of the spot where Filini Artini and Charles Candali, the su vivors, had taken refuge and found jfour bodies. Whether these men | lived through the night or died when | the explosion occurred probably will |vemain one of the mysteries of the | tragedy, Scenes of ruin and destruction | wrought by the terrific explosion of \ bases and dust are described by | those who are working for the aid of dead or living. Work of repairing |the torn shaft has carried the res | cue crews nearly half way througn | the mine shaft. It is declared, how- ever, that weeks will be required complete the work which is now be- ing performed hastily. | SEDAN TIS Turkish wa-) NONE HURT | Ravenna, Neb., Feb. 10.—Mrs, Joh Tesek, wife of the heavyweight wrestler, while driving her sedan, collided with an oil truck. The big fiance of Turkish $rders. There is| truck was turned completely over, no confirmation of a report that) pinning the driver beneath it. He Turkish officials at Smyrna have] was only slightly hurt, and Mrs. reached an agreement with allied naval officers where the status quo will be maintained pending diplo- matic negotiations. HERE'S JOY FOR SOLONS-LIBERTY MEMORIAL BUILDING WON'T COST TAXPAYERS ONE CENT, SAYS OFFICIAL | pose but capitol buildings. This is the fund from which the money 13 coming for work on the memorial building, Mr, Wanner states. Cash ‘and investments of the capi tol building fund on July 1, Mr, Kositzky. land is scattered ot erally. When the question of some sort of a memorial forthe North Dakota soldiers who died in- France, came up in 1919 it was at first planned to spend about $125,000 for a memoria statue in every county in the state according to former senator W. J. Church of Benson county. as to be spent iy any pur-| (Continued on page 3.) 1922 amoutned to $552,022 according to Beside this the fund still has 26,312 acres of the land, the rest of it having been sold. This vee the state gen- Tesek was not hurt, and her car, much smaller, vehicle, was only slightly damaged. OPERATION FATAL TOJUDGE KNAPP OF U.S. COURT auiae Feb. 10.—Judge Mar- tin A. Knapp, 79, of the circuit court of appeals, died at a hospital here early:today from a major operation to which he submitted last Saturday, He had been assignd to the Fourth Judicial Circuit. He made his home in Washington. WEATHER OUTLOOK Washington, Feb. 10,—Weather outlook for the week * beginning Monday: Region of Great Lakes—Much “cloudiness; much show; tempera- ture normal or slightly below. © Upper Mississippi Vajley—Consid- erable ness; probably. snow! 1] over north and snow or over south portion at the pene F the week and about We Thursday; temperature normal slightly, below. i