The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 15, 1923, Page 1

PRTTRN TATA ss i ' \ \ ‘WEATHER FORECAST. Fair and continued cold tonight and probably Friday, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE 'ABLISHED 1873 | LAST EDITION BIS! MARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURS DAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1923 PRICE FIVE CEN’ 13 LOSE LIVES IN STORM AREA eee JAMESTOWN ' WOMAN [ DIES IN B IN BLIZZARD ¢ EXHAUSTED SHE IS LEFT. IN SNOWBANK Husband Digs Her Into Cave | of Snow When She Can Travel no Longer DIES WHILE HE WORKS Husband Seeks Help to Find Body but Cannot Locate ‘Spot Jamestown, N, D., Feb. 15. , —Searchers are still unable to discover the body of Mrs. ! Jules Hagenson, a young mother of the Spiritwood | vicinity who died during the blizzard Tuesday when she was left in a snow bank. Mr. and Mrs. Hagenson had been to a dance at the WR GIRL ASK $200,000 FROM CULT HEAD IN SUIT home of her parents, W. Lor- enz, eight miles north of} Spiritwood Monday _ night. | They reached the Hanson | farm one and a half miles| from there early Tuesday! morning and later attempted | to make the distance to their own farm. About 4 a. m. the} horses became exhausted and | they started to walk, but Mrs. Hagenson became exhausted) despite her husband’s assist- ance. Her husband tried to; protect her by digging in and banking the snow about her, | but she died while he peered | He covered her with blank- ets and snow and_ finally reached the Walter Bowman but, was unable to tell! 2 he had left her for| some time. He was badly| frozen and was unable to tell, of the tragedy. Mrs. Hagenson is the moth- | er of three children, the; Se being three months | a 1 COMMITTEE NAMED 1PON. | CITY BAND Association of Commerce In- vestigates Proposition Hl Through Committee At the meeting of the board of director of the Association of Com- merce lastevening reports from th: corn show committee and the regis tration bureau were heard and vari- ous other important subjects came under consideration. A committee of three composed of Spencer Boise, Bert Dunn, and Free Peterson “was appointed to discus- sion the feasibility of the organiza- tion of a juvenile band in Bismarck. The committee will recommend a plan to the board of directors at their next meeting. They were also ed to ascertain the expense of maintaining a leader for a year or more. | The plan would be for the mem- bers of the band to give free con- certs during the spring and summer months and make expenses by giv- ing paid concerts at the auditorium during the winter season. ‘ A committee of three were appoint- ed to investigate the selection of an auto-camp and report to the direc tors at their next meeting. Mem: bers of the committee included S. W. Corwin, R, B, Lobach and Al. Rosen. The balance of the committeé’s work is to anticipate the summer tourigis season. The aim is to obtain a location wherp there ean be police gontrol, sanitation, good location in connec- tions with the business district cf the city, and a pleasant gnd safe lo- cation, While no definite action was taken on, the agricultural exhibit, the! sub- ject will be taken up for discussion at the next meting. . It is expected that an exhibit will be assembled and placed on display at some «.dvan- tageous point. A total of about twenty subjects were scheduled for discussion at thi. directors meeting last night. _\POSTPONE’ CONVENTION Owing to. the recent storm: the North Dakota Dairymen’s convention scheduled for Fargo: on Feb. 14-16 has_been postponed yntil. March 7. | dock retract. Mrs. Gladys Bamford Rui 19.) left) and Mrs. Ruth Bamford Reei | | Gright), sisters, of Detroit, Mich.,| I ted suit for $200,000 dam-| gainst Benjamin Franklin Pur- nell, 61, and “king” (below), founder, high priest of the Israelite Hoi David, religious cult at Benton Har | Affidavits introduced in- Mich. to court by the gi bor, counsel allege Purnell caused them to be brought home at a tender age to be ited into love rites. The affi- davits also set forth that Purnell; forced both girls to wed men they | j aid not know, ALLEGED INSULT'T0 GOVERNOR, WOULD PERMIT | DEMAND FOR RETRACTION, HARK PHYSICIANS 0° EXCITING SESSION OF THE HOUSE |Remark of Rep- Seren Made During Debate on Mill and Elevator Measure | Followed by Demand for Retraction — House in Tie Vote on the Demand for This Action — Nopartisans Oppose Changes in Bank of North Dakota or Mill and Elevator Laws. An alleged. disrespectful remark concerning Governor Nestos, a de- mand that Representative Walter | Maddock, Mountraill county, apolo- gize for it, and debate over meas- ures affecting the state mill and elevator at Grand Forks _ were high lights in an e: house of representatives today. was not recorded and the exact word- ing was not given differently. The remark of Mr, to the effect that the proposed mill and elevator measure was not neces- sary and, as heard by those demand- ing retraction, was that he wpuld not. support any measure to aid’ the Chamber of Commerce or < other forces behind King Rangvald The First. As explained by Mr. Maddock the remarks contained no reference to the Chamber of Commerce. Rep, Twichell demanded Mr. Mad- Mr. Maddock said if he had done any injustice to the Governor or in- jured anyone’s feelings he was sor- ry, but that the remarks were not such that he felt an apology was necessary and wanted the house to decide. The vote was 54 to 54, with five absent, the apology not being de- manded by the house. During the discussion Rep. Dell Patterson was declared out of order by» Speaker Johnson and when he Maddock was * RAILROADS PLOW WAY OUT OF SNOW, Transportation Over North- west Assuming Normal Af- ter 24 Hours Tie-up St. Paul, Feb. |fom transportation difficulties re- sulting after the blizzard was ex- pected in the northwest today. Rafl- roads were preparing to resume in- terrupted main line trains to points west on branches. Coast trains on Paciife and Chicago and Milwaukee started out last night, the first in twenty-four hours. ch swept Minne- nd North Dakota had died and railroad snow plows | ar the lines. The Great Northern plained to send out first coast train in more} than. twenty-four hours, Temperatures ranged 20 degrees below. Three trains from the East reach- ed in Fdrgo today, and a number of others reported on time. Train con- ditions are becoming normal. STONE SHOW WILL APPEAR HEREPROMPTLY Cancels’ Fargo Date in Order did not immediately sit down the Speaker ordered the sergeant-at- arms to accomplish this. Rep. Pat- terson sat down before any such action was taken. Bills Passed The Nonpartisans, with one or two exceptions, opposed the Freeman bills; H..B. 243 and 254, intended to permit the Industrial Commission to issue bonds up to $1,000,000 on wheat and flour to provide a revolvi g fund for the mill and elevator. Independents said the _measure was necessary to finance the mill| and accused Nonpartisans of trying | to prevent this. Leaguers declared there was ample law, and feared a change might weaken present laws. Both bills were passed by.a narrow vote. Block Bank Changes. Nonpartisans. in the House of Re- presentatives blocked proposed changes in the Bank of North Da- kota law, designed, it was. asserted by: Rep, Curr, the author, to correct (Continued on page 3.) to Appear in Bismarck Tonight “Tip Top,” the Fred Stone show, will show at the Auditorium in Bis- Marck tonight. Definite word that the special train carrying the troupe and scen- ery would arrive in Bismarck in time was receiyed early this morn- ing by Manager Vesperman of the Auditorium. The special train of five cars was at Jamestown at 9 a. ™., and was to make a leisurely trip to Bismarck, arriving early this after- noon. The curtain is scheduled for 8:10 p. m, ‘In order to make Bismarck, the show passed up its Fargo date of last night,/the capacity of the Auditori- um here being much larger than the theater in which it was' to show in Fargo. Every seat in the Auditorium after the seat sale opened, from Duluth, \ 15.—Further relief | here was sold ‘within three hours The show is coming direct here| up as a liar and made him admit it” 4 GIVE LIQUOR: Senate Amends “Air-Tight’! Prohibition Bill and Passes It 24 BILLS PA Senate Puts on Its Working Clothes After Enforced Holiday Physicians of North Dakota will not be restricted to the use of alco- hol when their professional duties! , gall for the administration of a stim: ! ulant but may use any intoxicating | ‘liquor they see fit to under un amendment to House pu 50, the new! airtight state prohibition bill, which was passed by the senate yesterda afternoon. The bill will go the house on the question of curring in the senate amendment. | The amendment permitting the use ; of other!liquor than straight alcoitol | proposed by Senator Porter of} Cavalier county, himself a ph It was opposed by Senator Miklethun j | of Griggs county, chairman of theh | committee on temperance, and spon-' }sor of the bill as faf as the upper! ‘house is concerned. | | Senator Miklethun declared that; | the amendment was a backward step | jin the way of law enforcement andj | that liquor could not longer be re-| garded as a medicine, | | “Straight alcohol cannot be given/ jin many cases,” answered Senator Porter, “but,I know of many cases, | ineluding children, when the use of | | brandy or wine may save a life. I say if a child is sick for God’s sak let us save its life. As far as the! doctors are concerned I can assure |, the senator that if they want to get! drunk they can get much drunker | jon the same amount of alcohol than | | they can on whiskey or brandy.” Vote One-sided Senators Hamilton and Peck, both} Nonpartisans, made strong/pleas for the passage of Senator Porter's amendment, and Senator Miklethun was almost alone in his’ opposition on a non-record vote. Another amendment proposed by Senator Miklethun wHich would have; reduced the amount jof liquor which could be purchased ‘by a physician in the course of ajyear from five gallons to six: quarts was voted down, and the. bill was‘ then passed, the, vote standing 42 to 4. ‘There was a near clash in the sen- ate during the afternoon between Senators Ployhar and Baker over the former’s bill to appropriate $100 to pay mileage and per diem to several Valley City residents who were call- | j st i gumed will leave the city for Bis- PERIL 0 BIG BRITISH LINER IS INDICATED S. 0. S. Caught From. Steam- ship Gurcan Prince in North Pacific TEAMER All Members of Crew Taken ; From Nika Which Is Destroyed Seattle, Wash., Feb. 15 the British steamship Gu somewhere in the North P indicated at 4 o'clock th neralae when the radio station caught an “S. 0. S., Gusean Prince ashore. Po sition bad.” At this point the wirs- less broke off as if destroyed, HOME PORT NEW FOUNDLAND | in Francisco, Calif, Feb. 15. — Guscan Prince, a ighter o7 5 tons owned by the French line limited sailed/ from San Francisco to | Seattle last Sunday. Her home port | is New Foundland, Is BURNED Peril to] ‘an Pr cifie was GOES ON ROCKS. San Francisco, Feb. 15.—The steam ship Santa Rita which was searching for the Mika steamer off the Wash- | ington coast has gone on the fee at the entrance to Puget Sound, ac contig i tolfimesenge oreesivediat 4) a.m. At 5:25 another message w: received saying that the Santa Rit: had appeared. RESCU s PASSENG ERS, Seattle, ‘ The ¢ wise cutter § Se UEnaieie has takeo all members of the crew from th steamer M burned the water edge. Th information | was continued in a message from tie ‘commander of Snowhomish at 8:4 asm. No details were given as to po-| | sition of ship. TOTAL LOSS Seattle, Wash. Feb. 15 eamer Prince which went ashore few! miles south of Cape Flatte early today is undoubtedly a tota ‘10s, Harold Burchard, representa-! tive here for the Furness-Whitey Co., agents for the Prince line lim- ited of London owners said today. The Prince was commanded by J. Ghilders and had a erew of 12 men. TWO BURNED TO DEATH Redvers, Sask., Feb, 15--Mrs. Wil- | liam Ellis, a widow, her son, D'Arcy, | age 7 years, and daughter, Stel age 5 years, were burned to death, ey a fire burned their home near | Tilsen, it became known here today. | STEAMER SINKING | York, Feb. 15-—The Italian | ship Monceisio sailing from Norfolk, was sinking today about 510 cast of Cape Henry, Va., ac-| cording to wireless reports picked up ‘here. REPORTED ON FIRE Seattle, Wash.,‘ Feb. 15,—The; steamer Kewanee, reported by wire- | less that a ship supposed to be the Mika was reported to be on fire. MILL READY URN OUT |failroad commission; killed H. B. 165 | remorse ‘i T0 T |tato buyers, (hilledicenate billion ta ‘REP VOIGHT 1 STATE FLOUR ‘Industrial Commission Held ’ Up at Grand Forks May Leave Today / Grand Forks, Feb, 15.—The North ‘Dakota Industrial commission has Minished the work of checking the contractors in their work on the North Dakota mill and elevator and as soon as train schedules are re- marck, where their work with the legislature will be continued. They expected to leave today. In a statement Lewis F. Crawford, secretary of the commission, said that the flour produced at the milf is of the highest grade of wheat which is desirable for making the highest grade of flour. The mill has excellent testing equipment. It was said that the Drake mill also has ex- cellent testing equipment. There! is yet some work in getting the mill properly organized. The plant is about refi@¥*to operate at full capacity, said Mr. Crawford, but first he said that a’ market must be be founded for the product. MAY POSTPONE CONVENTION Grand, Forks, Feb. 15.—An exe- ed as witnesses before ‘the senate investigating committee during the 1921 session. “Tl say. they were worth the money,” declared Senator Bak “They showed one of your witness (Coated on Page vue) ecutive session of the North Dako- ta hardware men’s association was here this morning to decide if the convention will held. The action of the executive committee depends upon the train service, C. N. Barnes, secretary of the asso< ciation said. ; , Elmer changed his vote, and a mo- | reports FRENCH DISARM 10,000 POLICE GUARD IN RUHR DISTRICT TO ‘AVOID CLASH WITH TROOPS 3russels, . Feb. | 15.—Ten thousand policemen throughout the occupied portion of the Ruhr were | Low Temperatur Securit verman disarmed by order of Gen. Degoutte. It was explained at French headquarters that this action was advisable because of the general attitude taken by the police toward the forces of occ Hereafter the police are to jas the protectors of the Ruhr nection with Berlin. upation. be considered by the French community without any con- } MEET IN CONFERENCE London, Feb. 15.—British and Fri met here today in conference which if it cooperation with the French nch cabinet, ministers ails to get British and Belgians in Ruhr transportation problem may result in an early with- drawal of the Br The British mini: h from the Cologne area. ers at the meeting were Prime Minister | have lost their lives in the Bonar Law, Lord Curson, secretary of foreign affairs, and the Earl of Derby, secretary o f war. The French cabinet, was represented by M. Le Togquer, the minister of jit works. PLACE ISLANDS - UNDER COAST. WISE LAWS, Washington, Feb. _15.-— Sherman Lasker has announced that the ship-! ping board had decided to recom- mend to President Harding to put the Philippines under the a coastwise law. (STATE LICENSE ~ DEPARTMENT - WILL REMAIN of House Representatives | Refuses to Turn Funds = | Back to Cities HIT BARN DANCES Discussed by Solons — Bank Interest Rate Bill Is Killed by House House bill No. 181, which provided | for abolition of the state pool hat inspection department as at pr constituted and prescribed | finery ent license fees for pool halls, motion pictur theaters and other establishments which local sub-divisions would col- lect and retain, was killed in the house of representatives this after- noon by a narrow mar After the house stood 54 to 54 on a motion to indifinitely postpone, a call of the house was ordered, Rer.| ion to adopt the majority committee | Teport favoring the bitl failed, 53 to 154. The house then indefinitely post- poned the bill, 54 to 47, and the “clincher” was applied. During a long session which the house devoted entirely to committee | and general orders, the; house killed H. B. 185, requiriny| commission merchants buying grain | to be licensed and bonded by the making similar requirements for po reducing the legal contract rate of interest from 10 to 9 per cent and killed H. B. 292 creating an educ: tional commission to prescribe a um form course of study for schools, and H. B. 22 creating the title of denta! hygienist and providing for. exam- ination and certification. In killing H. B. 181 the house, ex- cluding the absentees, in effect de- clared itself in favor of H. B. 206, to come up later, which re-enacts and amend the state pool hall inspec- tion law, and -prfvides for numerous state inspectors. Hit Bowery Dances. H. B, 181 had ben amended to pro- vid that persons running dance halls, (Continued on Page Three) ‘When the firemen reached tne place efforts of the firemen. solving the ! jteen | Sulted FOUR DEAD ON PRAIRIES, NINE FROM FIRES Causes Many Accidents From Overheated Stoves CHILDREN FROZEN Minnesota and South Dakota uffer from Intensity of Storm Also St. Paul, persons | Feb. 15.—Thir- are known .‘to ‘northwest as a result of the | terrific blizzard which laid its ‘icy hand on that section this week. Nine died in fires that re- from over - heated stoves of furnaces, while the TWO MILLION FIRE LOSS IN OMAHA PLANT ‘bodies of four were found | frozen on the prairies. Scores of further deaths &1re-expected when more com- plete reports are available. Four children of C. N. ' Gibbs were burned to death Armour Plant Suffers Heavy Damage in Fire Still j Raging DEF ECTIVE MOTOR CAUSE | Many Firemen Injured and Overcome by Amonia mes Omaha, Neb, Feb. 16 b. A fire that) was still raging saul ‘this morning and described as one of the most de | structive ever had in the packing in- dustry last night destroyed the nine 17, 18 and 19 of Ar-| mour and Company's plant in South | Omaha. It buildnig, had up to e today caused of $2,000,000 and had thrown moe than 1,000 men out of emplo: ment and w ing buildin wh s this mgrning threaten- 20 and 21, one a re- further losses, Firemen were trying to pro- tect the s of No. 20 and 21 so| that if the walls hold the blaze will! be confined to buildings 17, 18 19. L .C. Willis, general manager’ 01! the plant declared last night tha: | the fire started in the ninth story of | building 19 from a defective eleya-| tor motor early yesterday morning. h =would cause t and they had difficulty in making wat connections because of the sub-zero | weather. now pressure further | dered them in fighting. Huge Vunks | of snow which melted nullified the} The firemen became encrushed! with ice and some literally froze to| their hose lines. | Fire Chief M. J. Dineen was blown; explosion of ammonia and late the afternoon was removed to a hos-| pital, ix other firemen were over-| come and injured., They had to be! d to hospitals for treatment in} | PROTESTS RUHR MOVE Washington, Feb. 15.-—-Rep. Voight of Wisconsin, today introduced a res- olution protesting against France oc- cupation of the Ruhr, requesting the President to call a world economic conference and setting forth the view of cnogress that France shouid pay her war debt to the United States, REDISTRICTING IS PROPOSED IN NEW BILL PRESENTED TO HOUSE A bill changing several legislativ: districts, but leaving the total num- bers of the legislature the same, was presented to the house by Rep. Quade, Stutsman county, and refe red to the delayed bills committcs' which decide whether or not the bill be permitted to be in- troduced and acted upon. The bill proposes td make one di: trict of Sheridan and Kidder coun- ties, Sheridan now being a ‘district in itself and Kidder being linked with Emmons county. It. would make a single district af Emmons county, split Stutsman coun. ty intg two: districts, provide Me- Henry ‘county shoutd be one district, instead of two as at present, com- ine Sioux and Grant counties into one distriet, and Hettinger and Adams into one district. Another bill presented, and which also went to the delayed bills com- ‘ chewan; at their farm home near Pine | City, Minn.; an aged woman and a boy were cremated when their store was destroy- ed near Richardson, Saskat- and a woman and ‘her daughter lost their lives | when their ‘home near Cilston, !Sasktachewan, was burned. The body of Henry Hennen of Dumont, Minn., was found | frozen on the prairie near his home while the bodies of three children of Fred Beck, 'a farmer living near Eureka, |So. Dak., were found frozen lina sleigh. SCHOOL BUS STALLED Lidgerwood, No. Dak., Feb. 5.—An_ entire busload of | gata children bound for a consolidated school near Lid- gerwood was driven around the prairie near Lidgerwood almost all day Tuesday when the driver got lost in a storm. For hours the bus circled, the driver becoming more and more confused, unable to lo- cate the school building or any other building. Late in the afternoon the | bus reached a farm. None of the children was frozen. TRAINS ROLL THROUGH HERE ON NO. PACIFIC jeighten inches into the air by an| Track Opened, and and Many Pas- senger Trains Resume Journeys Trains were rolling over the Nor- ; thern Pacific between Bismarck and Jamestown at a lively rate today, and demoralized train schedules soon would give way to the regular order of ‘things. Five trains, all of which ran as sections of No. 4, went east last night, the first at about 7:40 p. m. No, 2, from the west, due here at 9:35 this morning, was five hours late. The first train from the east in two days arrived here at 7:40 a. m. today, running as the first section of No. 3, The second section arrived at 9:15 a. m. The first No. 1 arrived three hours later. Train service had’ not been re- stored on the Soo line. v2 —__—______.____-@ ' THE WEATHER | —_— For twenty-four hours ending at noon today: Temperature at 7 a. m. Highest yesterday: . Lowest, yesterday Lowest last night . Precipitation - Highest wind velocity ..... THER FORECAST For Bismarek and vicinity: Fair and continued cold tonight and pro- bably Frida: we mittee, provided for an auditing board to examine the ‘state hail in- surance department, the highway commission and workmen’s compey- sation bureau. Other bills present- ed included one amending the init- iated law of 1920 to provide the hoard of auditors shall make an ex- mination, of state industries annu- ally instead of twice a year; dnd on, by the ‘state affairs committee re- vising the rates charged by bascidind pers for legal notices. ‘eather Conditions The pressure is high in sec- tions. this. morning with the‘ crests over the Missouri Valley and. Sas- katchewan. The. weather is genbral- ly fair in al} ions except in the extrdme Northwest. Tei have risen slightly from: the’ sippi River’ een but it is stilt abnormally’ cold in’ all high winds