The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 14, 1923, Page 1

Fair and continued cold tonight. WEATHER FORECAST. Thursday not quite so cold. ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | t VN LAST EDITION WHOLE COUNTRY HIT FIRE THREATENS MANDAN BUSINESS D HEAVY LOSS OF STOCK FEARED ASSTORM,CALLEDWORSTIN | ‘N.P.’SREGISTER. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1923 OPPOSITION 70 TWENTY YEARS, PASSES ON BAST’ ELEVATOR BILL Warning Sent Out by Weather Bureau May Have Saved Members on State Affairs Much Stock But in Spite of This Great Loss Is Possible— | Northern Pacific Begins to Dig Out of Storm Today to}. Release Passenger Trains. Although news is lacking from rural districts it was feared today in many quarters that passing of the storm will reveal heavy loss in livestock all over western North The storm is characterized by many as the worsi | in 20 years on livestock and on humans compelled to be out in it, and in spite, of the warnings broadcasted over Western : Dakota. North Dakota in advance of weather bureau, it is considered likely that great numbers the storm by the Bismarc of cattle perished in the storm. H The storm was abating today, but the wind still was blow- ing at a rate of 24 miles an hour at 10 o’clock this morning. Gradual slackening of the wind’s pace and continued de- crease in temperature indicated that before night it would be fairly quiet and very cold, and work of digging out of the storm would be fairly under way. It probably will be 30 below zero in Bismarck tonight. 2 | The high point of the storm, which O. W. Roberts, weather observer, says is the ence at the weather bureau here, was reached at 4 o'clock _ yesterday afternoon when the wind velocity was 46 miles an hour, and it was 15 below zero. worst in his 17 years experi- An hour later the wind velocity had decreased to 40 miles and the temperature to 16 below. During the night the wind abated graudally. At ; before the senate. and the wind velocity 10 miles an hour. i it was 16 below and the wind velocity 24 miles. The center of the storm was over Lake Michigan today. Railroad Ploughs Out Railroad began digging thonaes] H out today. Not a train passed { Bismarck from yesterday morning, but it probable one or two trains would be moved dur- ing the d Three Northern Pacific passenger trains on the main line—No. 2 due 35 yesterday morning, No. 8 through was due about 2 p. m. and No. 4 due at o'clock last night—all were at Mandan this morning. No. 4 got to Mandan about 4 o’clock this morn- ing from the west. No. 1, due here at 11:30 yester- day morning, was stalled at Wind- sor, this side of Jamestown, No. 7, due yesterday afternoon, at James- town. Toda: No. 1 and No. 3, due here at 10:30 o'clock last night, both were reported at Fargo, Rotary plows were sent out of Mandan east this morning to open up the line, and a plow was working out of Jamestown. There were how- ever, several freight trains stalled between. Bismarck and Jamestown. some on the main line and some on sidings, and they must be moved be- fore the passenger trains can get through. The Northern Pacific branch line trains out of Mandan and Soo line trains were held up. None of the Soo line trains were caught out of sttions, however. Soo line telegraph reached only as far southeast as Fredonia, Twin, City wires of the Northern Pacific were down. School Opened Again Bismarck was recovering “normal- cy“ today. The public schools were open, and the attendance this morn- ing was good, particularly in the high school. When school was dis- missed yesterday afternoon sleds ‘and wagons were fequisitioned to get the children home if they had no other means of transportation. In many, cases parents came for them. The girls were quite as brave as the boys in getting to school, it was re- ported. Way was opened to the state capitol today. Practically no employ- es were on duty there yesterday. The legislature was to convene as usual today, the house earlier than it has been meeting, ' There were numerous reports of frézen faces and ars, but reports do not disclose any very serious injuries thus far. The rush of telephone business continued, many girls remaining on, duty in order to handle the enor- mous rush of business. Three of the girls suffered frozen faces but continued working. The girls were lodged in a downtown hotel last night by the company, so that they could be on duty again today. All hotels were crowded last night - with traveling men.and others who were unable to get home, and many were seeking, rooms outside id order |- to accommodate guests. “While the present cold wave is considered bad a temperature of 45 degrees below was reached by: the thermometer Jan. 19, 1916;” declared Mrs. J. P. Dunn, i speaking of ‘the weather. “But the day was quiet and still,” said Mrs. Dunn, “not a storm as the present one.” The Tribune of Jan. 4, 1884, ported that the thermometer regis- tered 40 below on that day. “On New Years day of 1884, we kept open house in. Bismarck,” said Mrs. Dunn, “It was 41 below early in the morning and never went below 36 degrees all day. There was much suffering that day,” said Mrs, Dunn, “and when the capitol was dedicated Jan. 14, 1885, it was 86 helow all “during night.” At the same time WORK WHILE STORM RAGES Many Bills Are Disposed of | By Body in Committee of the Whole EXPERIENCE! RUE Nipped Ears and Hands Make) Many Doubt If Energy Is Justified -| Members of the House of repre-| sentatives accomplished a great d of work yesterday afternoon inj spite of the storm, but some of the | members were rueing the! experience | bf battling their way to and from) the capitol. The house session, with | 72 members present ended about 4:30 p. m. in order to allow members to} board bobsleds for the trip down-| town before dark, Some members walked the entire distance from the| capitol. On account of the weather condi- tions which made it impossible for {have many of the legislators to reach the| capitol no final action on any meas-| ures were taken by the “rump”; session of the house. A number of | committee reports were received! however, and the house sitting as; the committee of the whole argued; out H. B. 141 for strengthening the farm loan department of Bank of North Dakota. This measure was | finally reported out for passage on a! strict party vote of 36 to 32 the Non-! partisan league| members opposing” the bill. | Reasons for the league opposition! were somewhat. vague. They seemed! to be summed up by the iden that; someone was trying to slip some-' thing over on somebody, but just what nobody knew... Walter Maddock and Frank Vogel} objected to a provision in tHe bill to protect the state in cases of early | prepayment of loans. There was no} such provision in the federal farm! loan act they said, and it might tend! to frighten away borrowers. i Rep. 'Carr of Jamestown who in-| troduced the bill pointed out thati the absence of such a provision: might very easily cost he stated a half million dollars or more, but still the league members were un- convinced. 1 Although reported out for passage there appears to. be no possibility that the measure will.become a law because as it amends the Bank of North Dakota act which was referred | in 1920 it would require a two-thirds majority in both the house and sen- ate, There is no chance of its. re- ceiving this as the league members voting along strict party lines. e two billg for the financing of the ‘state mill and elevator at Grand Forks were reported, out for passage today by the house state affairs committee. They provide: for the is- suance of bonds up to one million dollars for the operation of the plant. There was no opposition to their being recommended for pass- Vote on “Bismarck Bill” The house voted in-favor of repeal- (Continued en Page Three) Committee Say They’ll Oppose Measure |ALSO HOME BUILDERS, Against Repeal of This Act— 10-Hour Day Bill Is Carried Over Nonpartisan league members of the setiate state affairs committee for- mally registered their intention to block'the appointment of a board o| managers for the state-owned, state- Forks if possible, ye noon. They also took a firm stand ainst repeal of the Home Building Association Act. When the league members in con- mittee promptly declared their op position to the Atkins bill No. 380, ‘providing for appointment of a board | ‘ot managers for the Grand For mill, little debate followed. The sen- ators frankly agreed the vote wouid be along party lines, und a divided report from the committee will Hamilton, Nonpartisan. Because a bill taking control of ithe mill owt of the hands of the In-} j dustrial Commission would require two-thirds vote, it wi admitted it could not pass in the face of leagu: opposition. It hax been pointed out, however, that om majority vote alone the Industrial Commission might be empowered under the old law to se- lect agents whose duties would be that of a board of.mana, Divide On Repeal Act. The league senators also votea against Senator Bond’s bill to re- peal the Guardnty Fund Commission! ganization is to coax knighthood act after 1924. Independent sena ters on the committee favored the Lynch bill, No. 277, for liquidation o1 the Home Building association, but | the leaguers were against it. Senator Bond, explaining the bil: to repeal the Guaranty Fund act af ter 1924, said that “My idea is that through enactment of the Guaranty Fund Law we have got the state in pretty deep water. The law contem- plated that the state would merely supervision of the Guaranty Fund. But the fact is that many banks advertised that the state guar- anted their deposits, and the depos-| itors believed this. I believe the state is obligated to pay those de- posits. By providing the Guaranty Fund act will continue only until 1924 time is given bankers and de- positors to adjust themselves. A! present liabilities would still rest against the fund.” “Until the last eight or ten years this state was in good shape,” said Senator Eastgate, Grand Forks. “I am against the state doing thi guar- anteeing—if we go ahead like this stand the gaff that has got to pay the bill.” Senator Olson, Barnes county, re-! marked the farmers had had tough conditions like the banks, and for the same reasons, “Just take a look at Rex Willard’s figures down at the agricultural col lege on what the farmers are mak. ing,” he remarked. “Yes,” retorted Senator Eastgate, “and I can take Rex Willard’s way (Continued on Page Three) CONVENTIO I$ POSTPONED Annual Meeting of Lah Motors Co. Dealers May be Next Week The stotm has caused postpone-| ment of the annual convention of Willys-Overland dealers of western North Dakota and eastern Montana with the Lahr Motor Sales company, distributors for the territory. The convention was scheduled for Thurs- day. A special representative from the Willys-Overland factories at Toledo, O., is on his way to Bismarck, and probably is on one of the stalled trains. Another man’ coming espe- cially for the meeting had left. Chi- cago for Bismarck. One dealer ar- rived in Bismarck, but all others were held: up because of the storm. The entire party of 65 dealers were to be guests of the Lahr Motor Sales Company at the, performance of Fred Stone in “Tip Top” at the Auditori- um tomorrow night. Bpeause of the postponement W. E. ir surrender- ed the tickets to the Auditorium management, ‘ If the special representatives con- tinue their journey and can remain for a few days it is probable the convention will be held the first of next week, Mr, Lahr said today. ts the man who's Willing to stay and} “Sims, Miss Mary and John, survive. i (| ; 5 i for << | “We might as well make the) rec 8 o'clock this morning the weather bureau officially regis- Vora sdidltSenAtor iGardiners fads tered 24 degrees below zero. | : ; . | pendent. It was 28 below at Williston this morning at 7 o'clock) «1 am willing,” remarked Senator | MRS. ELIZABETH By Roy Gibbon) NEA Staff Correspondent | Chicago, Feb. 14.—Modern evils can be cured— | Only by getting back to the spirit of knighthood which reigned in medieval times! That’s the belief of a group of young men and women here and they’ve formed an organization icalled “The Knights of the Holy |Grail” to carry out their ideals, The expressed purpose of thedr- | back .into flower. | Members are not required to wear cast-iron haberdashery, tiit 'a spear as big as a tree-trunk or jride about Chicago streets on the jconventional milk-white steed. | But they are required to |tice chivairy, develop a sj ‘honor and substitute virtue for {primitive impuises and passions. Double Standard Dragon | _ The chief dragon the organiza- jtion will seek to impale on_ its | good sword will be the double stan- \dard of morality. No more of that, jsay the “knights” and their ladies. ‘PIONEER OF MANDAN DIES Mrs. August Timmerman Passed Away at Early Hour Today | | Mrs. Massina Tinimerman, aged 6 ears, wife of August, Timm |prominent resident of Mand Jat 2 o'clock this morning home in Mandan of heart dis super-induced by excitement caused jby a fire about two blocks from her! / residence. | Mrs. Timmerman had been i jdent on the Slope for 35 yea jing a pioneer of the Sims v } August Timmerman and three chil tdren, Mrs. C. i j | M. Cunningham of | | Funeral services will be held Fri \day afternoon at the residence. t ! { } STARTS AFTER * MRS. PHILLIPS Los Angeles, Calif., Feb. .14.—Frea Tremaine, father of the late Mrs./} Alberta Meadows, while driving his car toward Mexico, where he intend-| ed to take up the search for Mrs.! Clara Phillips, the escaped “Ham- | mer murderous,” convicted slayer of his daughter, was arrested for speeding at. Santa Ana and his trial! set for Feb. 17. Mrs. Phillips, according to reports here is hiding near Mexivo City. DON KHAKITO —_| HIKE TO WORK Girls working in the Mandan court house, which is located on a high hill, did not work yester- day, but braved the wind and snow today. Most of them don- “ned khaki hiking costumes in or- der to make the trip. ‘ CONVENTION POSTPONED Grand Forks, Feb. 14.—Convention, North Dakota hardware men tovopen today postponed to Thursday ac- count storm, “BRING BACK KNIGHTHOOD” Is New Panacea to | Highest wind velocity . :| cold | | .| tends along the eastern slope of the Cure World’s Ills C. KRATZNER Mrs. Elizabeth C. Kratzer is director of the organization. “The spirit of knighthood can save the world from much woe and! misery,” she says. | “Our organization is growing be-| yond measure. | “We plan to put manhood and} womanhood on the same high moral standard. “Women will assist in the move-/| ment by dropping their abandon-! ment of precedent and cultivating; moral restraint. Men must take! the knighthood cath to live pure} lives and again to elevate woman to her former pedestal. | Would Save World ! “Without virtuous womanhood respected by pure manhood there} can be no salvation from the moral | perils now threatening to engulf the world.” The “Knights of the Holy Grail” are said to have been a powerful f8rce behind the present investi- gation of commercialized vice in Chicago. The commissioner of health re-| quested Mrs. Kratzner to sit in at! round-table discussions of the Chi-| cago vice problem. i r "THE WEATHER | — For twenty-four hours ending at) noon today Temperature at 7 a. m. . Temperature at 8 a. m. . Highest yesterday terday st night ion 22] 4 Precipit Ww Bismarck EATHER FORECAST For and vicinity: day partly cloudy and not quite so For North Dakota: Fair and con- tinued cold tonight; colder extreme | east portion. Thursday partly cloudy and not quite so cold. | Weather Conditions { The cold, high pressure area ex-} Rockies this morning and tempera-| tures are below zero from the Great} Lakes region to the western slope of he Rockies and as far south as Mis- souri and Kansas. Temperatures are 30 degrees or more below zero in, Alberta and Saskatchewan, The Low | over the Great Lakes region, upper Mississippi Valley and in North Da- kota. High winds prevail from North Dakota the St. Lawrence Valley. Preci- pita- » tion in Lowest Wind last 24 temp. Velocity hours Inch- Stations es Bismarck 06 Boise 0 Chicago 84 Charles City. 08 Calgary 0 Beever . o* 0 les Moines 4 12 0 Dodge City :.. 4 12 OL Edmonton ot (i) Havre a 0 Huron . 18 0 Kansai City .. 10 16 0 Madena 12 0 Moorhead 24 04 Pr, Albert 12 01 Rapid City e 0 St. Paul 44 88 S. S. Marie 22 10 Seattle . 14 64 Spokane 16 Bt Swift Current —36 fs ‘ Toledo ....... 14 48 08 Williston 19 03 Winnemucca 10 ORRIS W. ROBERTS, f Meteorologist. ; two lines ‘ there were any storms where it was ISTRICT FIREMEN OF CITY BATTLE DURING STORM Several Automobiles Are Burned in Garage Fire; Buildings Threatened SECOND IN 24 HOURS Several Firemen Suffer Fro- zen Faces or Fingers While Fighting Flames for the si Fire ond time in 2% hours threatened the downtown bus iness district of Mandan last night, and firemen battled oof below zero weather and wind to prevent the fire from spreading. Fire wa discovered last night about 10 o’clock in the storage bat tery room of the Mandan Motor com. pany, owned by Kractzner and Miska jain stret opposite the Norther, Pacific freight depot. It destroyed this building, a shoc-shop of Jov Markus, two small buildings, and threatened the Fleck Motors com pany garage, the Masonic temple and the Mandan Creamery. Several automobiles were burned up. The loss is estimated at from $25,000 to $30,000. Three firemen suffered frozen | noses, faces or fingers, and they ba tled the fire for three hours with bux of hose. Two hydrants were frozen up. A telephone cable was burned, put- ting 150 phones out of commissi sion. The Mandan Motor company build- ing, a frame building 150 deep orig. inally built for a lumber shed, con- tained several automobiles. A large stock of tires, a Case tractor, a $3, 000 G. M. C. truck, the Franklin auto of W. F. Reko, stute license inspec- tor; an automobile of, Jack Agnew and several other curs were destroy- ed in the fire. Many Masons rushed to the Mason ic temple, and moved out all of the Knights Templar and other valuable articles, fearing the flames would not be stopped. Fire on the prevssus night on Maia street, Mandan, caused a loss esti- mated at $20,000 in the Boston cafe and other buildings. 'HERRIN TRIAL I$ OPENED (By the Associated Press) Marion, Ill, Feb. 14.—The third panel of jurymen was on hand toda; in the second trial as a result of the Herrin massacre. No jurors wer? definitely accepted either by the state or the defense yesterday. \GOV. ROBERTSON FREED OF CHARGE Ada, Okla., Feb. 14.-Former Gov- ernor Robertson stood free today of charges accepting bribe while in of- fice to permit Okmulgee bank to operate while insolvent. Judge Hal Johnson sustained the demurrer. ee |N. P. PASSENGERS HELD AT MANDAN GET FREE FEEDS | Poosengers of N. P. trans-con- j tinental trains stalled in Mandan were enjoying themselves at the expense of the railroad company. Free feeds were furnished on | the Pullmans, and passengers | whiled away their time on the | trains or visited places in the city. While N due there at 9 o'clock yeiterday morning and No. 4, due there at 7:30 o'clock last night, were in the Mandan yards. No. 4 reached there early this morning. No. 7, a’ local train, will not continue its journ east, but turn around and go back to Glen- dive today. FRENCH FINE “GERMANS FOR | / ATTACK MADE |Several Ringleaders in Out- break at Gelsenkirchen Are Being Held TENCE CONTINUES} dorf Join in Strike Against Occupation (By the Associated Press) Duesseldorf, Feb. 14.—Aj fine of one hundred million! eastern half of the courmtry | will be enveloped in the storn by tomorrow. No _ state ; immune from its effects, ex clash between French and | cept possibly Florida. Trains which resulted in casualties. drifts generally in the west {and transportation was de- The French hold several of | moralized. Wire communcia ; tion was crippled. The temperatures reported Resistance to the French here varied from four to 32 Telephone girls degrees in the west. here have struck, refusing to 32 below at Lewiston, Mon- marks was levied on Gelsen- kirchen as a result of the German soldiers on Monday} It is due to be paid today. the ringleaders in the out- break. | continues. Y STORM PACIFIC COAST HAS GREATEST SNOW IN YEARS No State in Union to be Im- mune from Cold Wave with Exception of Florida MANY TRAINS STALLED) Wire Communication Also ! Badly Crippled Through- PRICE FIVE CENTS out the West (By the Associated Pre: Regina, Feb. 14.—Two dead and five injured and a prob able heavy loss of livestock was the indirect toll of the blizzard in Saskatchewan yes- terday. Shannon 64, and R. Stirret, 8. 0 DEAD The dead, Mrs. W. burned to death at Richard- son. The work under French rule, and! tana. the service is crippled. Ex-| Vohwinkel. Gelsenkirchen reported as marks. AGREEMENT | Washington, Feb. ment of senate party 14.—An leaders The heaviest snow in the pulsion of German function-/ history of the Pacific Coast aries continued and was ex-| was reported from the Pacific tended to include the town of Northwest and upper Cali- fornia refus- | service ing to pay a fine of hundred million | Ore., and Seattle was discon- tinued. At Spokane, George Hartz, just released from a_ six- months’ peared straw hat, the only hat he hac REACHED ON le he went to jail and th only hat he had’ when 1 DEBT PLAN == oct NOT A WHEEL TURNING | St. Paul, Feb. 14.—On Great Nc agree-thern not a wheel turned last nig! nt on! between here and Williston. Of! British debt reported reached would | cials considered traffic unsafe. Co strike out house provision authoriz-| cern felt in small northwest tow’ {ng president to approve similar j because of lack of fuel. How liv settlements with other debtor na-! stock suffered in North Dakota tions and would substitute amend- | not known. Velocity of wind in mc ment of Senator Robinson, Arkan-! northwest states was fifty miles | sas, that future proposals be sub- | hgur. a if mitted to Congre: MINES IN HARBOR Marseilles, Feb. 14—Smyrna Har- bor is thoroughly laid with extending far out to sea according to reports reaching here. Forts and | ships enter on own responsibility. BeOS STORM NOT SO BAD THESE DAYS Bismarck folk who found the storm of yesterday mighty tough— while living in steam heated flats and perhaps traveling downtown in autos—might turn back for comfort to Joseph Dietrich’s winter in 1871 and ,1872. He and a companion saw some bad storms—perhaps as bad as that of yesterday—and their shelter was a small tent big enough to hold two people. + “We were on the river bank below old Fort Clark along after Christ- mas in 1872,” recalled Mr. Dietrich. “We were tired, too tired to put up our tent. So we went to sleep along in the evening on the river bank, with bedding under us and the can- vass laying over ys, “A storm pea up “during the night. Along about 3 o'clock next afternoon we ‘decided we ought to get up. We did—and we, had to dig out of about three feet of snow which was over us.” Mr. Dietrich said he doubted if colder than yesterday, but there have been. storms in this vicinity where there wa lot more snow. He has been out here since 1869. One storm he recalled, Thanks- giving day of 1806, there was five Held Worst Since Thanksgiving Day, 1896 '$leeping Under Tent During Storms Back in 1872 was Little Bit Worse, Joseph Dietrich, Says—Storm of Yesterday times as much snow as_ yesterday, he said, but it probably wasn’t as cold, The storm of yesterday, he said, was the worst he had seen in many years, “It was a little bit different in the old days from living in a steam- heated flat,” he said. “Do you remember a worse storm than that of yesterday?” W. A. Fal- coner was asked, “Yes,” he replied, “but it was a good many years ago.” The storm referred to, he believ- ed, was the Thanksgiving Day storm of 1896, : “Snow was piled half as high on Main street as the Dakota block (a three-story building at Second and Main) and after the storm passed a lot of people climbed on the snow apd were photographed,” he, said. That storm also came up during the night, he said. The storm was so bad one could not see across the street, and after a day of wind and snow the wind died out, leaving the weather clear and cold, Mr. Falconer recalled that in the northern part of the state a family perished in the storm. Oné one farm six miles north of the city, he said, a herd of: cattle was driven before the. st and! wire fence, mines | F Minneapolis, Feb, 14.—First tra west leave this afternoon, Soo, M waukee, ern | chiefly. Grand Forks, below zero here. | suspended, i - OF HEATED FLATS, SAY PIONEERS | sass sisi ar ranco Fargo, Feb. early. service held at resumption today. Snow plows wo: ing west from Duluth, HARVESTER The tional Others injured in pas senger train crash at Land | back. r *Chicago, Feb.. 14.— The e ; : | cold wave which originated Telephone Girls in Duessel-| in the Northwest is genera | over most of the country and is still increasing in intens | today.. It is spreading rapid {ly over the upper Mississippi | valley and the plains state: Pacific with mail, coach tri 14.—Eighteen bel Car service resumed. Tri at standstill. Most tra: Big Convention Scheduled f+: Today Can’t be Held was expected to bring scores of -dei:!- ers to Bismarck today, was postpon: ity forceast is that fhe is were stalled by It was Traction Portland, coast points. between jail sentence, ap- on the streets in a IRST TRAINS TODAY Great Northern and Nort FIFTEEN BELOW Feb. 14,—Fifte Street car serv division points. No prosp MEETING OF? convention of! the Inter: Harvester Company, whic! indefinitely because only a few deal ers could reach the city. Special repe°- sentatives of the company, who wore coming for the convention, also. w: marooned at unknown places. The elaborate program — included meetings during the day and a b:n- quet tpnight,