The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 13, 1923, Page 1

“s ‘\ient from this High to the Low over WEATHER FORECAST. Fair and colder tonight, Wednes- day fair and continued cold. Ss |THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [=| ESTABLISHED 1878 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1923 VICTORY SEEN BY GOOD ROADS SUPPORTERS ON EFFORT TO KILL SYSTEM Claim Fifty Solid Supporters in House with More Con- , verts Expected SOLONS BATTLE STORM Brave Winds to Get to State Capitol to Begin Consider- ation of Bills Advocates of a good state high- tem, who are opposing house 3, were confident of victory in the expected fight in the house of representatives today. The storm, however, prevented the ion expected to be made at the de ~ morning session of the lower house, called for 10 a. n It was 11:30 be- fore ‘there enough nt to assemble. Opponents of house bill No. 233 were counting fifty solid supporters in the house after only a partial poll- ing of that body, and there have been ! were members so many protests coming in from ¥al a the state, that| should the sure be successful in| the house believe it would be} defeated in the senate. | | Se ral members of the legisla-j ture suffered from the cold in reach- | ing the capitol by bobsleds during | the morning, but members were ; : boys fro hine. ious to dispose of much of the| ¢8ubboys from the R business on hand and they made! aaramaaaael their way in spite of conditions. The two women members—Mrs. Minnie Craig and Miss Nellie Dough-| er Rep. Js fioze his fa ing kson, Ramsey count: and Mose Rosenwe: suffered in Several members reported! their ears were frozen. | When the house finally got under! it was decided not to take up| hous 0. 283 under the circum- stances, and instead they began con-| ideration of house bill No, 141, pro-! | similar! *s storm brought same busi- ness to a standstill, But not the telephone business The ’phone rush not only began earliér than usual, but it was twice as heavy as usual. It was estimated that phone calls wer ing—twice the cler 14,000 tele- handled this mo: load. Thi viding corrective measures in the, afternoon busin s just as hea- Bank of North Dakota law. vy—everybody was visiting by "phone 3 : | or doing business that way Leaguers Oppose ; The telephone busin usually Lengthy debate developed in the} begins to pick up about 7:30 in the house over Rep. Carr's bill adjusting operations of the Bank of North Da-| kota throzzh changes in the law Although the changes are not gen-| Jy Pf, VY, erally regarded as doing more than| HOLD A NUAL er takes up his loan the bank shall: MEETING HERE be protected in the rate of interest | | at which bonds were sold on which moved to kill the bill, which was | defeated, 36 to 32. to clarify and better procedure, Non- } partisans indicated exceeding cau-| his loan were made and may be, Experts sold in the future. tion in discussing the bill, seeking | for “jokers.” The clause over whic! there was most discussion was tha providing that in event the borrow. from (Chicago Office The house finally adopted tne! to Speak and Give Lectures committee report recommending i passage, but the Nonpartisans voted | Wednesday aaginst this. Rep. Walker, leaguer A dealers mecting of the Interna- \ [tional Harvesting company will be oe held at their Bismarck branch house | THE WEATHER | | tomorrow morning, February’ 14 at {8:30 o'clock and continuing until PSR Ee Teh a Te 6280! o'clock inthe evening. For twenty-four hours ending at} |The meeting will be devoted to a noon today: ldiscussion, of problems met by deal- Temperature at 7 a. m. . +—Tjers and to consider ways in which 14 | better service may be rendered to the 20 | farmers of southwestern North Da- 11|kota and eastérn Montana, An im- +: portant part of the meeting is to +10! better equip dealers to serve their -+ |community efficiently. Talks and lectures to serve on va WEATHER FORECAST i : a on vert For Bismarck and vicinity: Fair out, subjects will be given by Inter ~and colder tonight. Wednesday fair | tional experts from the Chicago ay eaten ere "| office, : and SE Teen catia: Rote ae aneh willbe ctorved citaiho JIat: For North Daokta: Fair and cold-| Vester building at noon and a ban- er tonight. Wednegday fair and con.| et for the visiting dealers will be tinued cold. Strong northwest winds |held at the McKenzie hotel at 6:29 diminishing. o'clock in the eveni Weather Conditions eerese = The pressure is unusually high SELLS HOTEL from Montana northwestwamd and Jamestown.—-C, F, Rathman, for- merly of Jamestown and now of Los Angeles, has sold the Gapital Hotel property-here to W. J. Bowman, also of Los Angeles. \The consideration was about $100,000. The building temperatures are low from the nor- thern Plains States to the north Pae Coast, Temperatures are 20 degrees. or more below zero from Montana northward. The steep grad- “NORTHWEST ‘| ht ais <maeetade ides aaa | | ST. MIHIEL ARRIVES IN SAVANNAH | aati lnt itn hersceartn head | FIGHT GROWS | Thousands of spectators lined the banks of Savannah harbor when | d&ys Past if thovbillt eich paeeeldee U. S. transport St. Mihiel arrived with the last contingent of 14,000 TELEPHONE CALLS ARE | morning. It began at 6:30 this | morning. The operators \were just about swamped until 8 p. m. when ethers came on duty. Only one gir! was unable to get to work because | of the storm. ¢ i) At 1 p. m, every stfition on the | switchboard was being operated, with | two supervisors, and they were bare- | ly able to handle the business. It is’ probable 35,000 telephone dled before the day over. that more than | Is will be han-! and night are! HO CITY SCHOOLS ‘ ARE DISMISSED} School in the city was dismissed | at noon on order of Superintendent | Saxvik because of the storm, Attend-| ance was so low during the morning; that work of the schoo! could not| be carried on satisfactorily, and at! j that time the storm appeared to be} growing worse. } BUYERS RUSH FOR “TIP TOP” Entire Auditorium to be Sold ; Out for Fred Stone Show There was a rush of buyers for seats for “Tip Top,” the Fred Stone | show cqming to the Auditorium Thursday night, when the seat sale opened this morning at Harris and | Woodmansee. | Already there was a stack of mail| orders, from local people, Mandan, | i i Dickinson and other towns. In spite of the storm there was a big line waiting when the seat sale opened. PRISONERS HELP. ~ REVIVE JAILOR Minot, Feb. 13.—Prisoners in the county jail assisted the jailor, C. R. Hicks, by réndering first aid whea the latter was overcome by a faint- ing ,spell while treating a woman drug addict. The woman was ‘being houses the hotel and several business the upper Mississippi Valley. A se-| Places. vere blizzard is raging in parts of, North Dakota this morning. Snow occurred generally throughout the northern states. 8 ORRIS W. ROBERTS, ‘+ Meteorologist.” : Tribune decided, as they believe subscribers would Sonenitinee, He Tan teted also, that they should not Pasha’s report of Lausanne confer- ence expected to clarify political at- mosphere especially Smyrna situa- tion. Foreign minister waose return from Switderland delayed by wea- ther will explain it'is believed that peace negotiations attempted at Lausanne ‘postponed rather than abandon and adjustments possible. Turkey's attitude toward allies at Smyrna and. elsewhere . appears changed for better and Ottoman au- thorities at closed port reported as The Tribune was able to more conciliatory towards naval wire today was meager. commanders, os bn ‘ca i @ y if . : NO TRIBUNE DELIVERIES Because of the severity of the storm, The the rigors of the weather to make deliveries. Deliveries being suspended, all subscribers pos- sible were reached through the postoffice depart- ment and downtown deliveries, ‘ ae. subscribers not getting the paper during he day may call at The Tribune office or, by tele- oning, have the paper delivered tomorrow. Telephone and telegraph service was inter- rupted; and the news ‘of the outside world: which get over Western Union given medical attention when he be-| came faint. risk exposing carriers to ' Asserted by Them | Word, the governor dec! i which consolidates the work’ of the! | der one hi | chance than most measures of the ; down by the j zoing to make a real speech s j words for Congressman J. H, Sin- and a hended at brought here. the jurisdiction of juvenile court officials. fense.,Formerly a drayman at North- wood, he is said to hace a wife: and four children living there in desti- tute circumstances. He ‘left North- wood on Sept. 20, disappearing then, : \ _—_ LYNCH BILLS GOVERNOR SAYS Give Too Much Power Manner Drawn, It Is in Delivers Address on Anniver- sary Before Lincoln Re- publican Club, St. Paul NOT PROGRAM Much Interest Is Manifested | Emancipator Can Well Rank, in Fate-of the McCoy | Cigarette Bill | Among Greatest World Has Produced eb, 13. -1t was to see th Some St. Paul, Minn., the ability alway the road--to remain distra that Lincoln one of the men, Governor R, A. Nestos of North Dakota told the Lincoln Republican club in a Lincoln day address here last night, This, in the last factor in the mind of the Emanci- pator whfch gave him greatne: the North Dakota executive declared Even when a boy Lincoln's habit was to think over the things he haa rd and reduce them to simplicity So he developed logical po by which “the obscure became lumi- misunderstanding appears! to prevail regarding the attitude of the state administration on the| group of bills introduced by Senator | Lynch for the consolidation of the | state regulatory work at the agri-| cultural college, according to Gov- ernor R. A. Nestos. These bills are not fathered by the | administration in any sense of the red. The es, that end of unswerved =f tion Abraham made analysis was the principal one of the — ser! various regulatory departments un- the governor declared he was inclined to regard as a good! bill,but so far as most of the others | of the series are concerned he said that he had not even read them and | had no idea as to whether they were | good or bad. | tricate legal and political med to solve themsely hoa | In opening his addres Hotel keepers of the state who| Crnor mentioned that H. favellbean in Bikmarce: tet several) had selected Lincoln as one of the | six men who, in his opinion had contributed most to the develon- ment of the world. While it may be possible to differ with the author problems ov- for hotel inspection. One objection | is that its terms are so broad that| PSS A any person who entertained a single | °f “The Outline of History” regard- paying guest over night as a inatter| im& some of his “greatest men of accommodation would come with-| there cam be no question that Lin- in its terms. There are a number of , ©!" belongs on the list the Gover- ether provisions in the measure, | 20" declared. which are claimed to be impractical and amendment of which will be requested. to See Good The present day executives ' and | legislators too often fail to see the eae ,end of the road—the goal—or are Cigarette Tax Bill ' There is considerable _ interest among the legislators here as to the | probable fate of Senator McCoy's | bill which would legalize the sale cigarettes under a stamp tax s- rf reper tem which will come up for consid-|t® travel the road of principle,” he eration before the senate committee added. “The temptation to follow the on taxes, and tax laws either Wed-| C#siest way; the way of expedien- HENRY LOPUURUROST ORGKTC cca | Soisdalwaya isocnentiand.ceiectie While it is doubtful if the bill will and Pee aceae o yi eee feohaatloet rei pe neem om ayaa e -ABStted (Oe redecisthevedideiseaies power- | ful and press upon the public offi- cial from every side.” too weak to follow steadfastly on their course for it, the speaker said. They often let expedient rather than principle govern them when it comes to a pinch. kind have had during the last fe years, Apparently the yote will not ; y uotes From Lincoln e along party lines, Several Sena- Q) incl tors, both Nonpartisan and Inde-|,, He quoted the expression that “it is following the lines of least re- sistance that thakes men crooked as it makes rivers crooked.” The efforts that hinder public of- ficials and try to turn them aside from the straight path to the goal come from various sources, the speaker said. Some come fram those who consid- er themselves wiser and more able to decide questions of policy than the official. “Finally and most frequently” Pressure is brought to bear by the organized minorities—the groups of | Selfish interests no matter whether j of capital, labor or some other min- ority. pendents are known to be in favor} of the measure while the opposition to it is also divided between the two parties, Public Hearing There will be a public. hearing! held by the house committee on in- surance .Wednesday evening on the two measures which have been in- troduced to change the present workmens’ compensation law. One af | these which is understood to have the approval of the Associated In- dustries of North Dakota merely lets in private insurance companies on a competitive basis. The other bill which was introduced by Rep. A. B. Jackson of Devils Lake rewrites the| entire law, takes the state out of TURN OUT AT insure their emptoyes in companies according to rules’ laid! tate. i It is not regarded as likely that! either of the two bills will pass} however. May Rap Sinclair Senator Bill Martin of Morton,| has passed the word» out that he’s! Help to Save Clothes From Tailor Shop Burned There It will be on a certain resolution | now before the house which among j other things contains some kind| H H a) clair, The senator from Morton 2 rly Today elected as a Nonpartiisan Leaguer, - é i Members of the Elks lodge of Man- b . ie ae sieenieadaie ee reeera ne dan, attending a function at the club out that the speech in question will| 70M helped to save clothing fron, be well worth hearing. the store of “Murphy, the Tailor,” care 5 when fire broke, out at 2:30 o'clock The house banking committee has| this morning. ‘ agreed to report out favorably for; The fire originated, it is believed, passage the senate bill providing| in the rear of the Boston cafe. The means of consolidation of banks. It! ¢afe, the tailor shop and a shoe shin- decided unanimously to recommend ing parlor were destroyed. , All occu- killing of the senate bill reducing! Pied two small frame buildings .on the maximum interest rate in the| Main street, betwen the brick stores state from 10 to 9 percent. A divided | of Hintgens and the Plymouth Cloth- report will be presented on the sen-| ing house. -Firemen prevented the ate bill which provides a bank can-| fire from spreading to these stores, not set off deposits to satisfy) but the frame buildings, the only claims against the depositor, six | ones of that character in the block, being for indefinite postponement! were destroyed, and two for' passage. The Elks who turned out to save __— clothes from the urphy shop not only saved clothes of other people AN pee Two Gear ers but in some instances their own ean L Sohne, rooting N i, a suits in the store for pressing. The iF tps ae gin °hlse of! 1088 is several thousand dollars. Northwood, were recently, appre- Glendive, Mont., and |-THREE NEW POSTMASTERS ARE NAMED ON SLOPE Nominations of two postmasters for Slope towns were this. week sent to the serlate for confirmation by President Warren G. Harding, includ- ing Maj. Welch of Mandan; Clarence A. Vasey as recommended to succeed W. T. Wakefield at Mott; ‘Will N. Thompson was nominated for post- The girl, being a minor, is under Johnson is held on a charge of wife desertion and statutory of- IN STORM’S BILLS ONE OF GREATEST, vorld's greatest | nous and the most complex and in-| Wells! NIGHT FIRE’ | of a crowded hall | nearby door to steady himgelf just into a ditch and snow drift 48 ‘some one closed the door, catch-| which put snow over the run. | ing the fingernail, He fainted, was ning board of the truck. But | carried to a printing office where| it pulled out, | he received medical attention and Firemen were hoping all citi- | BALLOTS, NOT BULLETS, WAS Never Favored Any Revolu- tionary Doctrine, Judge Christianson Says TRIBUTE i | IS PAID \ seesthe | ’ No doctrine uttered by Abraham George Baka, descendant of an-| Lincoln can be construcd as favoring cient’ Hawaiian warriors, —singie-| revolutionary principles, Judge A. M. handed frustrated attempts of twol Ghristianson of the supreme conn j bandits to loot the Hawaiian terri- Goria) trensuty- of indllions, declared in addressing a joint ses- Se Rs sion of the legislature at Lincoln day exercises in the state capitol. The i ' doctrine of Lincoln was just the op- | posite, Judge Christianson said. He quoted Lincoln as saying in his} j first message to “Our popular ress: government has of- LARGE AMOUNT LINCOLN IDEA) PRICE FIVE CENTS GRIP 36 MILE AN HOUR GALE WHIPS SNOW INTO BLIZZARD; __ MERCURY REGISTERS 13 BELOW eee i Weather Bureau Predicts That Before Night It May Reach 20 Below SOME TRAINS CANCELLED Rural Carriers Not Allowed to Make Trips—Bobsleds and Taxi’s Compete STORM DOES NOT ABATE Although it had been expected by the weather bureau that the strong wind would die during the day, the wind was still blow- ing at a 36-mile-an-hour gale at 2 p.m. and there was no indi- cation of a letup. At 1 p.m. the thermometer registered 14 degrees bélow and at 2 p.m. 15 below. The snow fall at 2 p. m. was 1.3 inches. The storm which greeted Bismarc! people when they rose this mornin has the entire Northwest in it grip today. Snow extended from eastern Wash ington to Minnesota and the uppe Mi sippi valley. The cold wave ex tend from British Columbia t North Dakota and South Dakota. The storm, which swept out of th« ten been called an experiment. Two! points in it our people Iread i M N ttled- the successful establishin | and the successful administering of | One still remains —its successful | a maintenance against a formidable in- | Those Favoring Bill to Abol i | ish Flat Tax Point Out tempt to overthrow it. ‘or them to demonst hes “ carry an election can also suppre Available Funds a rebellion; that ballots ar \ —— jrightful and peaceful suc | The surplus fund of the state hai jinsurance department is now lar | enough to make unnecessary the fur ther levy of the flat tax of thr cents per acre for the hail insuranec | ; department is the claim of the advo. cates of House Bill 2 which woul do away with the ta. lots have | decided. | successful appeal | back to bullets; that there can be no| uccessful appeal, except to ballots | | themse! at succeeding elections. uch will be a great lesson of peace: ching men that what they cannot} The bill is'now in general orders! take by a election, neither can they in the house and is expected to come| take it by war; teaching all the folly | Bp ‘for a finallivote in| the course of||/of haing the beginners of war” the next day or two. | Tracing the ptruggle of Lincoln | In support of their contention the from humble surroundings and his ailvocates of the bill point to the re-| ultimate triumph. .,over, Jefferson | Part of the state commissioner of in-' Davis, the leader of the Confeder. jSurance on the condition of the hati! xew. who was born not 50 miles from dnsuransa) fund (ut theveloseyo8 thal Tincolmeamid wealthy ghdge GHriae| j last year. |tianson pointed to Lincoln as an ex- bullets; and that when b: fairly and constitutionally there can be, no | arhis report shows a surplus of{ample of individual accomplishment $2,790,070, while the total losses for! in Amerie j hemes Near were $3418/128)) rom) Reading, tromithe lesson of Lin! ; these losses however must be deduct-| cgin’s printed word, the speaker de | jccuserezone indemnity staxes)) “Titel ciated itu tinoulnaweresNving) today |report shows that hail was {he would oppose child labor, and} eaneied ress! Judge Christianson declared that “we | | paid the indemnity tax as well as the | could. do. nothing better,to commer [fehueeiicent per acre fat tnx. THia,| orice dnini theilath\ anniversary of | |however, represented less than half| pis birth, the land in the state which was actu-| ally under cultivation and little morej than one-third of the 27,244,017 acres | Child labor from Americ jof tillable land in the state. — ' “Lincoln is gone, but his work re- i, This land which was receiving n0\ maine” Judge Christiaan code ole HESneae eteaiiy thes ull sineursrce acti. ears ua tojacerthabithe inttitatione) [See ebee de ne the thted cont Aauitaxie8i 7h ichihe presarvedyares nob destro} jwell as that which was insured, or! Vai to see that those whom Kanes annotien words \Bedringpa lageapotolto eneir death) douuphold the: Union tion of the insursance burden it 15) fant wot have died ta wan maintained. | The program included selections | on siiernative Will which 1s OW iy McDonald's occhestms, atlp by Mra. before the house would provide for | a¥.on guckson and Freak Gules unl the reduction of we fat tax to one) dings by Terrence Halloran, H ais than to join in an appeal that Congress ubmit a constitutionar amendment to wipe out this blot of cent per acre. In addition though these bills, H. |B, 28 drawn by Rep. would speed up the payment of hail jlosses by making them ‘CALL FIREMEN OUT IN STORM; payable as 1 were sufficiént funds a lable to | Bismarck firemen were down on their luck today. About 11 a. m, a call to Tenth street was received. ieved state hail war- make the payment, and it is bi would also make th rants more readily DOOR FINGER; men responded and the FAINTS THREE TIMES] truck started to battle snow- Hunter, D., Feb, 13.~-Getting| drift his finger pi in a door The scene of the fire was Alfred Hanson to faint four tir reached—and firemen were in- ; He was standing on window formed that it was a mistake. watching an Am- erican Legion minstrel show when some one pushed him, causing him to lose his balance. He grabbed a Some rags were burning and someone excitedly thought there was a real fire. F Returning the fire truck went fainted three times more whole this : zens would carefully watch to- was in progress, day to prevent fire. eee 1 SAYSTORMFURNISHES STRONG | ARGUMENT FOR NEW SCHOOL Today’s storm furnishes good argu- ment for voting in favor of the is- suance of bonds with which to buila a new school on the west side, Mrs. 0. W. Roberts, a member of the com. mittee petitioning for the new school, said today. The election is on Feb. 20, one week from today, and will be held at Will school. Residents of the western part of the city are hoping for co-operation from all parts ot the city in the matter, Many parents could chidren to school today from the west side because of the distance, Mr. Roberts said. There are many children who have to walk 14 blocks, and: frozen ears or worse ‘injuries would have ben the result in many cases if the parents had tet their in a reasonable distance the chil- dren could have gone, Not only were many kept from school, but if all had gone today, ax they do on many cold days not quite so stormy, they would have been Zone into rooms, poorly ventilated and over-crowded, a condition which not only handicaps the children in their studies buWalso is dangerous to the health of children from all parts of the city, Mrs. Roberts ada- ed. Official reports of the suferin- tendent show this condition not exakgerated, she said, urging the im- Portance of the new school to not merely one section of the city but to all sections, since it would relieve; the over-crowding. 2 The predictions are for much cold- er weather tonight and tomorrow— t send their master at Marmarth to succed P. j. Bott. The terms of all incumbents 1922, the girl also ? had expired some time since, perhaps 26 below or more—and it is a hardship on little children to go such long distances, it was added. children go. One family onthe wei side] sends children 20 blocks to school, If there were a school with- ‘j j Storm and the imp Canadian provinces, is expected reach a period of high intensity ir the upper Lakes region tomorrow. An inch and a half of snow whicl fell here from midnight and 8 a. 1 was whipped by a 36-mile-an-hou gale which began about 2 a, m. Th mercury dropped steadily. At 7 a. n it was 7 below, but the thermomete showed a 6-degree drop in one hous it being 13 below at 8 a. m, It ma be 20 below tonight, but with le: wind and no snow. Anticipate Storm The weather bureau had antic pated the storm, and late yesterda warnings were dispatched to James town, Fargo, Glendive and othe points from Bismarck Weather bu reau, warning shippers not to se: Vout periwhablesgbods wid railroads to guard themselves storm, Warning was sent as far as possi- ble to cattlemen all over the Slope country, and it is probable that this warning of the weather bureau may result in the saving of hundreds of head of cattle and s The prai- ries were a ma swirling snow which made’ travel impossible, cud great drifts piled up at plac Business was almost at a stand- still during the storm. The Soo line trains were cancelled, No. 2 from th west on the Northern Pacific w: reported about five hours late ear today, and it was probable bran! lines out of Mandan would not o erate. against — the Mail Deliveries Cut The postoffice department did n send out rural route carriers. Loc carriers ;were instructed to make t! business distrigt delivery at lea ouce, but it was probable that the ; Would be no residence district deli ery of mail during the day. TI parcel post delivery was suspendec The snow was general over Nor Dakota, Montana, eastern Washin ton, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Sou Dakota and the upper Mississir: valley. Riding on a high gale out the Northwest it descended over A berta and Montana yesterday a struck North Dakota during t night, Girl Walks 3 Miles The grade schools have an atten: ance of only about thirty perce this morning as a result of the sno. bility of tus service to cover the entire city. None of the children from west end of town attending W, school were able to reach the bu ing this morning. The kinder en had an attendance of but child who came from just across thi street, the first grade six child: and the second and third grad ven. Nine blocks was about the long: istance traversed by any child ing to the Wachter school. St. Mary’s school had an atte ance of about sixty-six percent th morning. An unusual feature of tl attendance was the appearance between 20 and 30 little folks the first grade. The upper grad report a good attendance while :- kindergarten has a very small p:: centage present. The high school was least affect: «! by the storm, the attendarice abou! 90 percent. A number of the studen! walked a long distance, but the rc ord was probably taken by Mis Gertrude Jennings, a senior, who walked three miles from the count to be on hand for her classes t morning. : Legislators Held Up The house of representatives w: scheduled to meet at the capitol 4: 10 o'clock this morning, The stre«i car did not attempt to run tiis morning, Two taxis anda big bu: did, They battled unsuccessful!) against the big snowdrifts and then - gave ‘up the‘fight, Some of the more hardy legislators chartered a bobsled and started out about 10. o'eloci: Othes ‘remained until word was rp- ceived that had small bunches the Son ee te gt ‘alee “ry, tha ally, “no were able _ ae Wes