The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 12, 1923, Page 1

mary 3 { ; H * ( q . y a) ‘ va i * vy Avo i 5 WEATHER FORECAST. Probably fair tonight and Fri- day. ESTABLISHED 1878 McKENNA SETS ASIDE BANK FRAUD INDICTM INDICTMENT IS IS RETURNED IN TAB TABERT F JURY REQUIRES SHORT TIME TO BRING CHARGES Walter Higginbotham, Con- vict Boss, Is Charged With Murder $10,000 BAIL Attorneys for Tabert Family to Follow with $50,000 Damage Suit Tallahassee, F April 12.— The joint legislative investigating committee in the Martin Tabert fogging e held its initial for- mal session today, organized and adjourned until late this noon, t> hear evidence to be presented hy a score or more of withesses. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [maaw) BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSD. Y, APRIL 12, 1923 PRICE FIVE CENTS "NATIONAL BUSINESS WOMEN’S CLUBS HEAD TO VISIT NORTH DAKOTA SOON Mrs, Lena Lake Forrest, Com- ing to Attend State Con- vention, Has Had Marked Success Both in Business| and in Forwarding the In-! terests of the Clubs Throughout the Country. | | Mes, Lena Lake Forrest, President of the National Federation of Busi- ness and Professional Women, Ir who will visit North und South I kota, Towa, Nebraska and Wiscon-, sin, in her official capacity thts} spring, is one of the outstanding! figures among the progre:sive wo-! men of the world, .Under her wiss and careful guidance, the Federation has spru from a new tion to one the women groups in the country, known! and respected in every state. Mos! Forrest will attend the state con-| vention of Business and Profession- i foremost! During ita brief session mem~| a) Women's clubs in Jamestown hers of the commtitee sought to May 11 and 1 { broaden the authority vested bY] "Mrs. For san insurance brok the legislature to investigate other Jer, and a keen insight into the | cases of flogging in campsi i rie throughout the state instead of, alt business women.! sing: LENA LAKE FORREST confining investigation to the Tab- ert case. Asks Full Probe Rep. @ H. Kennerly of Putnam ; sought to hold a full investigation | into the flogging of Paul Revere White of Washington, D. C., at @ convict camp, said to be the pro-j perty of Senator T. J. Knabb of Baker county, John Roddenbury, a convict camp boss at the ‘Knabb camp, was indicted Monday by the! Baker county grand jury on charges of, cruel treatment of prisoners. Ife will be tried in October. ator MacWilliams of St. Au- gustine, du ng the discussion, as- | the North Dakota legisla ce for passing a resolution re- questing the Florida legislature to investigate the death of Tabert, who hailed from North Dakota, and died at a convict camp near Clara, iNorida, 14 amonths ago. Criticizes North Dakota Senator MacWilliams said that his opinion that the North legislature acted beyond province of any legislature in the passing a resolution of this char- acter, The senator, however, ap- peared anxious to have the investi-} gation expedited. Senator John P. Stokes of Pen- ola, id a full investigation should be made “and let the chips fall where they . He con-! curred with the yiews of Senator MacW. ms on the action taken by the North Dakota assembly. Representative Kennerly told other members of the committee that “we are in, bad and we have got to clean up.” He urged that the hearing he made public and “if we are guilty: then let us shoulder it in the p: rO- | per spirit and make Immediate amends.” @ Madison, Fla., April 12.— At liberty here on bail of $10,- 000, Walter Higginbotham, convict whipping boss, waiting trial for first degree durder in connection with the} death of Martin Tabert of} North Dakota who, witnesses said, was flogged to death. Late yesterday the Madison county grand jury-in session here for in- vestigation of Tabert’s death, indict- s, ed Higginbotham on three counts,| tion examiner will be bh charging murder, The trial may come up at a special term on May 15, at Cross City, Fla., county seat of Dixie county, where | the alleged flogging ‘took place in} February, 1922, Counsel for Higginbotham said they would admit the use of the ash hut would attempt to show that at bert’s punishment was not so severe that it would cause his deah. Camp officials maintained that Tabert died of natural causes, To Bring Suit. Egvowing: the return of the indict- ment counsel for Tabert’s family in North ‘Dakota announced that as soon as the trial is called a suit will be filed in the United States district court in Florida or Wisconsin against the Putnam Lumber company for $50,000 damages. The Putnam Lum- her Co. is incorporated under the laws of Wisconsin, Higginbotham was employed by this company at the time of Tabert’s whipping and it also is pointed out that an agreement existed between county authorities and the company whereby the latter obtained sole use of prisoners, Flogging Story Told Declaring that he had been whip- ped from head to foot and now hag on his back physical evidence of the ) flogging, John T. Gardner, private, Battery F, Fourth United States Field Artillery, stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, related to the grand jury a story of alleged brutal- ities while he and Tabert were con- fined in a convict camp near Clara, Florida, fourteen months ago. Gard- ner was one of the principal wit- nesses_at the hearin, Sixteen other witnesses were lined up yesterday and awaited their turn, (Continued on ‘page’ vars ) \ isi she hus the courage conviction—a sure vision— ‘and the ability to through any {plan that the sof her organ- i BAR T0 FIGHT ization may decide upon. ie is ilargely owing to her organizati 1genius that the National Patenutin jhas grown so swiftly and yet so j surely. Each year she has taken, {the time for long trips among the [¢lubs, giving much of her strength. jher time und her talents for en-! | couraging and bringing out o f#ani zation development among — the {younger business women. Her views! fon education were responsible for iis wonderful Educational program | OF BASIC LAW Judge Fish, President of State Bar Association, Out- h is being put over by the Fed-| i { | eration this year, lines Plan | ©The Educational program waich, aes {has been adopted by our orgs tion,” she points out,” is the broad-| j Minot,-N. D., April 12.-"New and ‘ strange doctrines, bolshevistic, which est in scope of any educational pro- Rete eG jgram in the country. and is the on- | threaten to undermine the basie low Hly one that has known no criticisn, | of the land are abroad in this coun- from press or pulpit. It calls tor a: try of freedom,” declares Judge C. higher standard for commercial and’ J Fisk of Mino}, president of the! business schools and they are upual-' state bar association, “and the Amer. lly glad to cooperate with us. Pos | ien on of | in ! govern- sounding the call to meet; Bar Associ champion of the long establis American food stitution of constitutional used by| ment, i inefficient education is the cur: our We cannot expect s judgment to be girls who come ‘BANDITS TAKE TRAIN, $30,000 _ WORTH OF BOOZE Il. ASK PROBE OF ASYLUM DEATH MILLION AND HALF IN ROAD WORK PLANNED | Federal Aid Project to be Let inz northwest Pacewell county and | the Iinois river bottoms in Peoria | Peoria, . Absit 12.—Sheri in 24 Counties Within county for 14 armed men who Board to Look Into Case ' jlast night held up a Santa Fe : Two Months Itrain northbound for Chicago and) of Louis Wentz stole $30,000 worth of wi and alcohol, The train was halted for an) 90 TT T OF IT GRADING hour and a halt at a pre-arranged) CLAIM FACE BRU while the bandits loaded the} 5 i — r on board automobile trucks. | : . i ” They are believed to have headed | : ‘ j Part of First Contract of Sea-\ror a river at some point north ot, Indicated Cruelty at State Y bi Q i Peoria to transfer their loot to boats anita ne i son Is Let to a Burleigh {in an attempt to make their y | Hospital, According to County Firm [by water, Woman Asking Probe Federal aid road projects estimat: | R " cine 7 ed to cost $1,500,000 will be let in loa i ass IN ny Aull) Ted 2A ion of circumstances lead ing up to the death of Louis Went, (65, of Grand Forks, in the state in- ;24 North Dakota counties during | April and May, according to a oe ment today from the office of W. “IN GASH FROM. Black, chief engineer of the Ieee each y iktter s at tie e Commission, jernor R. A. Nestos by J. BL Wine The road work included appr Iman, state's attorney for Grand imately 200 miles of road grading | Forks county. i 170 miles of gravel surfacing, to-, Mr. Wineman was interested in gether with bridges, culverts and | vin the case of Mrs. Jacquenia Wentz, ;Masonry work, The first letting’ ot! ‘widow of Louis Wentz, who clair ithe year, let at Grafton, Walsh ccun- | Total Balance of State Treas- {}\ ut the face and head of her ity, included 15 miles of grading; h i be: © urer Is Sh t ver jhusband bear several bruises ifrom Park River west, the contrac. | I own tobe O cuts, She expressed the belief that for grading and installing culverts $5,000,000 her husband had been illtreated being awarded to Wm. Schultz of ! prior to his death, Fergus Falls, Minn, for $31,910 and M. Norman, local undertaker,’ in the contract for all concrete work, | PAYME: 'S ARE BETTER, “hose It the body is now Kept, | including bridges, to J. J. Rue ana said that a number of bruises were | Sons of Baldwin, N, D., for $8,462.00, ' visible. The following is a statement of A : — ;the various contracts for Highway! Tax Collections During Month! ae Construction, and the tentive dates | ili eh TE) 1 of the letting of contracts, plan- of March Million Above Jamestown, ape thes —The state ned by the Highway Commission for Year Ago hoard of administration is making the beginning of the 1923 season, thorough investigation of — the April 13th at Hillsboro, Trail; a - ze i | charges of mistreatment and cruelty County, letting of contract for» With tax collections during March to patients by guards or attendants ateeldbaidwes opping those of the same month a at the state hospital for the insane April 27th at Devils Lake, Ramsey; year ago by nearly $1,000,000 and Charges being preferred by Ed. Steib . : t ees saan 3 Cleveland. {county, ten miles of Gravel Surfac-'the biggest. b c intesineel oe : ing from Crary t and sixteen! inn tworpe in it ane iat IR cain dee ae je two-paymen ax plan was adopt: | s le time on the case with (Cont inved on greasy! wed ed, the State of North Dakota is a the chief witness. {strong on ready cash, according to! Further evidence will he taken to fa statement issued today by State’ ascertain all the fact Treasurer John St At present the board has not! The balance in the state treasury,! sufficient information to make a r 1 | Beured is of Apr $5,308,804.82 statement or draw conclusiong but | f jeompared to O8 on the) the public will be informed as soon oe jsame date a year ago, as the probe is concluded, it was Tax collections durin, anes Over onding April 1 were $3.15 I! Consider Protests Over) cpipared to 163,064.89 Rum-Running Fleets jSame period a year ago. The total amount of taxes for the! the month} 448.29 as! for A dispatch from Grand Forks in which it is stated t the widow of Louis Wentz claims that the body from our cighth, the insidious propaganda of foreign | ‘last year remitted to the state trea- Lee re ena: eee ees | 8rade schools—-they must be taught! political cults which would create, London, April Surer amounted to $1,076,493.64, oF bruises. and cuts, has. not. bee jcorrectly for their business exper-| doubt in the v principles on ‘government is giving due delibera-| 99.4 percent of the total compire|calladl touthe: altaniiGn en diectieerd iichee {which the greatest republic was tion td representatives made by the ad to $824,755.52 or 18 percent of the Rodnor Site noamiteeli ten oa a Mrs. Forrest believes not only in founded.” ; United States government concern-| total, the treasurer's books show. ana ofainiabeeatm a an ent |a High School cducation, but in a) “The battle against the evils of:ing the smuggling of liquor to the State officials are particularly im-| will be carefully investi etl ea college course where possible. To-/ radical thinkers who would destroy American mainland from Nassau and) pressed with the heavy receipts of “ Pe MNSRIEREE ward this end, she encourages the! the American Bill of Rights with-|other West Indian ports, the house! during the months of Febru- ei foundation of Loan Scholarships in! out offering even a substitute in-'0f commons was informed by Ron and March, the situation at every club, from which young Wo-) strument will ‘not be waged with ald McNeill, under secretary for fora sent being far better than in the ASSESSORS ON | men may borrow sufficient to put and bloodshed, but with the/¢ign affairs, Mast few years, and with remittances jthem through college, if necessar mination of accurate informa-|, The question came before the ie! collect yet to be made by [In many. clubs this tras alres |tion regarding the ancient land- house when members asked whether | ounty feel successfully established, lope lo ueacanment Gen ieh he is the continued. he protection of the ideals estab- assault” object of 21 T0 SEEK | ment of criticism’ leveled at the Con-{ stitution, i | “The teaching of citizenship, what jy, : it means, what it offers, and what Naturalization Day Is Set For! it needs to be most valuable, will be i | the chief weapon with which the as- | April 17th i sociation will meet the attack, and| ! | for that purpose the bar of America he said, 1 is arranging, through the Committee Brmish ‘s Twenty-seven persons will appear } before District Judge Fred Jangonius {here on April 17 seeking admission | to the United Stars. A natutaliza- | Served on three successive: national | ye at that | holidays—Patriots day, April 1 time, and other naturalization hear- | Decoration day, May 30; and ings in this section of the state will | pendence day, July 4.” held. | The members of the bar, national | Many of the case to come be-'and state, are summoned to fore Judge Jansonius at that time | cause by R. E. f, Saner, chairman! | are hold-overs from the last year’s of the national titizenship commie naturalization jon proceedings. tee, who urges thatthe three days 3 TR ANSIENTS [iv ats Geeta ae ens, | of American Citizenship, a series of! ‘three community programs to be on | § inde- | ¢ present | cognize are needed at the li time.” SENT TO JAIL PETER SMITH a a WILL FILED Three men, giving giving thetr names as { pi are cada be teen and) The will of Peter “Peter M. Smith, dis- | . jents, were ar- f tate estimate! at rested by Chief of Police Martine-| POSime of an esta fe son and Deputy Sheriff Phelps charg- probate in county court. ed with the theft of an overcoat bu. died March 13. A daughter, Vivian, | ¢ longing to a Mr. Fitzgerald, employ-| is given the home property on Sixth | northeastward to the ed with an N. P. bridge crew. Po-| street, a son, Harry,/160 acres of lice Magistrate Cashman fined them| land in ‘Trygg township, and Mrs. | peratures are above freezing in allj. $25 each and gave each 30 days in| M. Gilbert, Mrs. Helen By, Vivian! sections except in the Great ‘Laeel than 1,600 names. the county jail. and Harry share the residue of the | region. P |FATHER AND SON BANQUET IDEA H AS | estate, which includes two houses on! Corn and Wheat s| ST ‘ATE FLOOD | Sixth street. | Stations Bigh Low Pree. Amenia 21 0 Pe: H Y CONTROL URGED| yp cin wep, BISMARCK hs ¢ La Moure, N. D., April 12,—Prob-| Bottineau ae z F Fargo, April 12—Conversion of|ably one of the earliest morning | Bowbells 21 0 The Father and Son get-together) The Bismarck banquet yill be held Lake Traverse into a redervoir and| marriages ever recprded was that of {Devils Lake 34 0 € 4 plan has had a remarkable growth | under the auspices of the Boys Wel- construction of a large canal along|Miss Agnes Williardson, of this | Dickinson . 28 0 © jin the last eight years. fare Committee on Friday, April Soi the. course of the Bois de Sioux] town, who became the bride of James |Dunn Center -55 28 0 C With the Y, M. C. A, practically} No boy 12 years of age should miss would help ‘solve flood problems in} W, Daker of Houghton, Monday | Ellendale ..; +43, 35 0 C | the only institution urging the idea’) the big time, the committe says, a wide territory affecting Minnesotu,| morning at 2:30 o'clock at Aberdeen. Fessenden -34. 25 0 C | at that time, the idea has been tak-| adding it will cost him nothing. but North and South Dakota, engineers| They had forgotten that the South Da-| Grand Forks -41 34 0 G Jen up by virtually all organization>| the Dad who accompanies him will say. kota laws required a marriage license | Jamestown «147 24 0. 6 working among boys in every part] pay $1.00 to defray expenses of the The U. S. supreme court. indorsed] and when they arrived in Aberdeen Langdon -88 15 0 C ‘Jof the country, among others the| banquet, this project in its recent decision in Sunday, the clerk's office was closed. | Larimore 42°17 0 C | Rotary club, “If the boy cannot secure a dad the $1,500,000 damage suit of the}It was not until 1:80 a. m. Monday,| Lisbon .... +45 26 0 C Since last October hundreds of| one will be found for him, if he Dakotas against’ Minnesota growing| with the help of a friend, that they] Minot .. 17 0. C | thousands of “Dads and Lads” have| makes it known that he has no one out of floods, State flood control] located the clerk, who went to the| Napoleon 32, & C {gathered together at banquet tables|to accompany him,” said J. J, M. engineer Herbert Hard said has been| office and: issued the license to wed.| Pembina 16 0. C |.as pals, singing songs and making| MacLeod, today. Applications will, urged by engintcrs of Minnesota and| The ceremony took place in an Aber-| Williston 30 0 C | merry together, listening to talks| be. distributed in the schools’ and] North and ‘South Dakota for several] deen drug store, with the night. em-| Moorhead 34 0 C {which stimuldte friendships and a} employed boys May: secure applica- years, ‘Ployes of the store as witnesses, | ; t aiehcd hg ihe ston ndarel ctr her nee |steps were being taken to prevent | representations had been made by|i" | the sequently into the United States by | $996,010.01 in the Workmen's Com ismall craft from the American coast | pensation jmanned by United States citizen of the law of the United States and | to be made in the near futire will the whether any action can be taken in| not due to an increas States government.” the if —_____.__~_¢@ i! THE WEATHER 1) —_—_—— jessong in citizenship which all re- | ly fair tonight and Friday. ! first et of triplets to be bgrn in Great Lakes region ahd on the; Grand Forks county for oat F » | Pacific cohst and it is low over the| years, London, April 12.—It is reported | northern | Rocky Mountain region, Heavy pre- t $15,000, has been admitted to | cipitation occurred in Texas | Eanes: Mr. Smith | Oklahoma and light, scattered pre- region and west of the Rockies, Tem- treasurers, they that entage of the total due on the first payment of taxes will far exceed last year, tion had been called to the par- pation in the:traffic by ships fly ng the British flag, and scieliat| SPRING WORK lone the Workmen's United States, said that the} Bureau Fund. iquor appeared to be introduced sub- ; $2,845,685.07 in the Compensation ‘This is compared to eneral fund and a The balance of $5,308,804.82 for i tion will be accomplished through | sriendly ‘power the; law of 91 the year included ” §4,178,40713 in| ASSessments to be Made on CITIZENSHIP. exposing the falsity of the bombard-!" "yr MCNeill, in tonfirning that! the eneral fund and — $1,130,397.69 Same Basis as Last Year County assessors are busy in Bur-! leigh county now, ing obtained the necessary blank hooks’ and print- ed instructions from County Auditor Frank Johnson, Assessors were told by the auditor to do their work much the same as last year. Although property is-to be classified on a 75 percent basis under the law of the recent legisla-! ture, the assessors are to assess at; full value and the 26 percent deduc- | tiorp is to be made by auditors after; the state board of equalization has acted. More than 30 township assessors! came to the courthouse here for} i their books and instructions. TRIPLETS.BORN ° eae IN GRAND FORKS) REPORT IRISH Mr. and Mrs. Frank Aree of i Fund on the same date jlast year, however,”!_ During the month ending April 1, “deplore any complicity of however, the state treasurer paid ubjects in the infringement | out $2,143,060.67 and other payments “The government would, is considering, in consultation with | eat up most of the general fund. other départments concerned,| The increase in eipts is in taxes, the treastrer said, The tax rate for last year was higher but the total } valuation was. lower, and the _per- j centage figures show the improve ment in tax payment conditions. he sense desired by the nega For Bismarck and vicinity: Proba-| For North Dakota: Probably fair; onight und Friday. Colder tonight! Warmer Friday ex-| reme east portion. General Weather Conditions Grand Forks are the parents of the The pregure is high over the lowe| gira y B and extreme in Klonmiel that Count Plunkett, | Countess Markievicz, Miss Mary M Swiney and the late Liam Lynch’s brother were captured by Irish na- tional troops in Tipperary _ today, says an exchange Telegraph dis- patch from Dublin. southern! The trio consisting of two girls and boy arrived Tuesday. The two girls died late Tuesday: The boy is still living. The girls weighed at birth 1 3-4 and 2 pounds respectively. The boy's weight was 2 1-2 pounds. and ipitation occurred from Kansas Great Lakes} 0 PC, part’ Cloudy; C, clear, keenér appreciation of each other, | tions from Mr, MacLeod. LOGGING CASE TOWNLEY, MANY AT JAMESTOWN Grand Forks Woman Wants, were the only questions ‘man, notorious “million dollar mail raised by the defense which Judge robber,” who has startled the on; McKenna considered. He did not | eoiaate recast BO froma: touch upon the question of Arthur his old haunts in’ New York, say | See seer Sede at older members of the metropolitan friNG itty or the allegations that saeclin iene he exhibited political pamphlets to They do not believe the criminal, | tke jury. He did not consider the whose daring flights have put him Contention that the Attorney-Gen- in the position formerly oceupied by ; CT! and his assist fe Roy Gandnor Bacine t bandit, Bangs of Grand Forks, had no right has fled to the mountains of North* te appear in the grand jury room Carolina, as Georgia authorities at} or that 19 of the grand jurors ATLUIBEIIASad were residents of #0, because Chapman was sentenced to the “the court being of the opinion that ing electric lights for the Prison yard Applied to All and, under cover of the rkness, The motion to set aside the indict- scaled the prison wal] by means of a! ment went to Judge McKenna in Tope) ladder, supplied by friends oat- | the case against H. J. Hagan tar | side. i ‘odetunete é !Ford, Dearborn, ;gressive party |Harrop, president “of the American MANY INJURED ENTS BARS CAN'T HOLD HIM OTHERS WERE HELD 70 TRIAL Judge Holds Indictments De- fective in Names of Wit- ses, Other Points STATE WILL APPEAL “escaped from Atlanta, federal Pison— | Review of Decision Will be Asked by Supreme Court, | Attorney-General Says Margo, April “12, — Judge | George McKenna of Napoleon | today handed down a decision setting aside all the indict- | ments returned by the Cass county grand jury in connec- | tion with the failure of the | Seandinavian-American Bank | of this city The indicted men were A. 1C. Townley, William Lemke, | F. W. Cathro, Lewis P. Me- Ananey, N. G. Eggen, H. J. Hagen, Lars Christianson, E. R. Sherman, O. EF. Lofthus, J. _J. Hastings and H. A. Pad- dock, Judge McKenna granted the motion to quash the in- dictments on the ground that the evidence was considered en masse with no proper se- gregation as to the charges. so that the names of proper Witnesses could not be en- dorsed onthe indictments. is a week. later fiom pial desire | ons & iS He held, too, that it was error to omit the name of former Attoe- ney-General Sveinbjorn Johnson ,and 14 other witnesses, all of whom testified, from the indictments, Mr, Johnson was a witness F. W. Cathro, former | the Bank of North Dakota, and his name did not appear on any of the indictments against Cathro. GERALD CHAPMAN By A New York, April 12 ervice Only Questions Considered Gerald Chap These federal peniten y at Atlanta, Ga., all of the 35 indictments returned after he had be convicted of be- inst the us defendants ing the leader of the $1,000, 000 mail! should be set de for the reagon robbery her in 1921. Iready given, it is unnecessary to Early on the morning of March 27 S upon or determine the» suffi- Chapman and Frank Grey, convicted forger, escaped from the peniten- tiary. They cut the wires suppl: ciency or legality of the other ques- tions raised.” er president of the defunct Ky E u but the points raised in that case, When a citizen refused. to. aid | itiwag agreed, applied te all god ae Chapman in hia fight, Chapman) thal reason the court wade ficient Zorsad Thm at thes nolut of an Auton. ie commen) dasendanteiarial nee matic pistol to accompany him on atl : igeet car Gide ence j ed all indictments set aside, Chapman, howe was recap- tured, after he had been shot three times, He was placed in a hospital at Atlanta, Ga. under heavy guard, Doctors said ‘his condition was so serious that an escape would be possible. But Chapman fooled dressed in his guard's ; knotted his bed sheet into a rop and, while his temperature was 100 degrees, climbed to the ground and fled. A nation-wide dragnet has failed to loeate him. Menaces Citizen Opinion of Judge The — memorandum dudge MeKenna, now sitting at pole j sisting of 67 ams | bistors, of the lious steps are d | The. opinion 13, 1922, Will of is a lqngthy document, con- in which the sand the var- pages, them. He} presented jthe petition for the grand jur dudge Cooley, who led it 2, 1992) the grand mmoned and drawn. Pkt discharged May 18, he indictmen neluded: Five in ments covering the mak- ing of “false reports to the state was jury The 22. insert bank”; cight Tues cover the “making of false state- nd entries in the books of Omaha, ~Neb., April 12.—Petitions requesting that the name of Henry Mich., automobile manufacturer, be placed on the pres idential prima ballot of the Pro- in Nebraska in 1921 were filed with the Secretary of State. The petitions contained more The gourt, passing over the first five points raised by attorneys for the defendants, took up the sixth: “Can all testimany of a large num- ber df witnesses be taken ‘en masse’ before a grand jury, relating to a large number of crimes, against 2 large number of different persons, without special reference to any specific charge, or any specific de- fendant, and. such testimony en nee be eonaldered. by the jury at nd ahi .| the close of the testimony, and in- ee Neclaraa:” n y number of persons, without vitiat- § the indictments so found?” =~ The court, stating the. first prop- osi was one of fact, quoted from the minutes of the grand jary and arrived at the conclusion, that ‘the number of matters considered at ‘one time, and: ‘Aloeananies La., April 12—Several; ious charges not specified. t Persons were injured, 15 houses| Answering the second tg wrecked and othtr damage was done | the court held that such action when a tornado strack Meridian, La,,|Vitiate the indictments. Ha eet sought Ay a or bye The Tiling of the petitions in Neb- raska was, the beginning of a na- | tional mobilization of the Progres- ive party of America, in support of | Henry Ford for president, Roy M. IN CYCLONE! a saw mill town, 30 miles south of here,. early today, . according to | jury, meager reports ‘reaching ‘here.