The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 18, 1923, Page 1

[===] THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [miamm ESTABL ASHED 1873 - BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1923 PRICE FIVE CEN 73 PERISH IN SCHOOL FIRE BANDIT CAPTIVES ARE FACING DEATH 01s ramus wire our 1x 3 “envoy (BLAZE WHICH FOLLOWS CRASH AT [_ opsecr tesson To sPEEDERS | ATTACK JUDGE FOOTBALL STAR | guage swent UNL STROOPS. Final “Ultimatum” of Bandit | Which Follows the Crash, Chieftains Brought by ’ Parolled Frenchman NEW RAIDS ARE ore —" i Presiding Jurist Disqualifies “Chuck” Palmer Sine Athlete’ Himself on Filing of Held in Jail But Is Later | Affidavits Released IWILL DELAY TRIAL DENIES J Camden, S. C., May 18.—Kershaw county today counted the cost of the fire that last night destroyed the Cleveland school eight miles from here, at 73 known dead, men, women! and children and two missing, together with a dozen more or less seriously wounded, Five injured are in the hosptal here. Funeral services for the victims will be held jointly at 6 p.m. today near the ashes of the building where they met) their death. Announcement of the plan was made this morning by 2 committee appointed by Mayor Garrison of Camden, which is in charge of the arrangements. The plan also is to bury’ all at the same time and in the same grave. Y KNOWLEDGE ’ Town 90 Miles From Linching Attacked and New Cap- tives Are Taken DEMANDS ACTION. ping Boss” To Be Tried | es Opinion Mount Killed | Walter Higginbotham, “Whip- Minneapolis Lawyer Express- | | Under New Judge | Self or Is Still Alive WOULD AROLISH SYSTEM. — Chicago, May 18—-Charles “Chuek ANE UT ICHing oRy OH Tallahassee, May 18.— Palmer, star football player and eg Collapse of tk narrow, wooden “Drastic action” will follow un- lative investigation committee sonior at Northwestern university stairway leading from the — second less ‘the foreign captives held by | | prison camp brutalities sub- having beon held part of the time ‘STRUGGLE FOR floor where an entertainment. inei4 Chinese bandits are released im- mits report late today. ,Rec- | in a cell which he referred to as | | dent to the closing: of school was in| mediately, Dr. Jacob Schurmann, American minister to China, no- tified Chinese government of- fidals. He urged obtaining free- dom of the prisoners at once and to “talk terms” afterward. Relations between the Chinese government and representatives of foreign countries is described as a result, of the tion, | ommends enly that county con- ‘a dungeon since 1 A. M., ay | Roy Anderson, Chinese-born Amer ! progress caused many of the deaths| ! vict lease system and corporal {in connection with the states attor-' ican, who is acting as agent between a number of persons being crushed | punishment punishment be {ney’s investigation of the disap-/ the various government. representa Ba the debris. Others cut off from ! abolished and advi pearance of Leighton Mount, a fresh-; tives and the Chinese brigands who om escape in this way were burn- i ening laws on supervi of | man in 1921 was freed on his own! wrecked a train and are holding tour a to death while still others jumped| ! prisoners. i Yecognizance today vy Chief Justice! ists for ransom. | from windows | | McKinley, i | Palmer was directed to | “ross C 2 oe of | ret op. ave | mp Overturned i Cross City, Fla, May 18.—Trial of | return to court at 2 P. M., today. The fire was caused by the ov Walter Higginbotham, charged with} Investigation that gained impetus 5 . a an oil la ‘ rst degree murder growing out of! With the\detention of Palmer tod: jovernor Links Norwegian] ‘¢ing of an oil lamp on the stage : &! ‘centered on a stery told by Mrs during the commencement exercises| IN. the death of Martin Tabert of North Effort for Independence which were being witnessed by a Dakota in 4 " Violet Bachman, his former friend. | Dakota in a convict labor camp, was | J a ‘ crowd that jammed the room. Al | halted again today when the defen On the strength pf Mrs. Bucl{ | With Democratic Rise panie followed. | filed affidavits from two citizens ac-| M's charge that Palmer had told | Chief of Police H. E. Whittaker cusing Judge Mallovy fons; presi her all “about the Mount the, PAIR Aiespervon serait ROR teceeee oon os | Star athlete was eetzed at his fra Re . . ae lified himself and recessed the | {miunieado. in jail. Vulmer steadfast | ssa termined number of injured had been| . attribut- | ., gz until Governor Hardee could M Insti . opted | brought to the Camden hospital. hamo a newijddge toipreside, ‘:| Proposed to Establish Mixed’ ° nstinted Aid to Adop' Confusion at the scene was such] i, Chin 18—Ameri- ptives of the exn cand British x bandits will be shot next if the Chinese troops are | not withdrawn, according to the; “final ultimatum” of the bandits hrought from the mountain strong hold by Marcel Oliver Verube, a! ly denied the 's Jed him and repeated when confronted with Mrs. “rene one o} » pris s who, | i i 3! y ved i: he said, that it at first im ae if necadeas a cae? aie Judge Occupies Pulpit. 1 ermerly) Miss Violet Lawson, | Train Service Between | Sountey ! Urged aac gible’ to-pet the exact «lelaili; Gee Chinese bandits last night attack-| The setting of yesterday's procecd-| |“ Haas talks te Isa, aoe Bismarck andi Wiser i of May Speech disaster ed Tawenkow, « town 90 miles north | Little victims, with twisted frames and shattered limhs, face speeders ins presented an unusual sight, As) Jotul Abe, 1 leet Maw anything | peMmarck san pie | Hour after the disastan Jittlemne of Linching and seized a number of in Judge Walker's court in Chicago. ‘They silently protest against ing Jurist, convened court in the Neoncernibacencilerctalmani: eaten — | Grand Forks, May 18-—Praise for {formation had. come through “tos Lich ba an American news: fC TIEN BLD ERI Re Bie Sy Sen ol ructure erected when the Cross {Whether he would be released in! and an admonition to]such fragmentary reports man who was on the Shan: but a wilderness] time to pitch for Norhtwestern in aaa | United State i 3 yowi i ved disclosed that in some in- tu 1 , its baseball game with due : oo T ni citizens of rwegian ancestry to | received ome as Peking express train set COMPU SORY County: Auditors [potraln. a; somewiey sundown semis veraity tatiorrow. ea I ‘owns Want the vive unstinted loyalty to the United | stances pra ly whole families] the bandits near Suchow 12 days! tion, he found the first pew occupied es, was voiced by Governor R. A, | Who had gathered in the second 7 ‘0 but | ! To Meet May 22 iy i group of high school girls. | Other Developments | Present Passenger Service is “i7th | Story of the f ped before the rata | Nesta hore ‘lat Tighe ti me structure for a itivestavere: thkeniaint dhosanee é { “Immediately behind the girls at Ma oe sevelenments in’ ‘the/ To Be Maintained Of May address” before the Sons of } “School social” had been wiped out tung hills, has arrived in Shanghai! L LAW | Fargo, May 18.--A feature of the | native sons and o-ners from the ad-/ YOUN Pee ees vale suas a 8 from ‘Tsuo-Chwang with the — pre-4 annual convention of the North Da-| Joining counties of Taylor and La- aa Fhey StLMIngea eae “May Astranot Gases thaee. (sande : orth : | Mayette, Fletcher, an attorney of Minneapolis | The state railroad — commission | eee ous ene and iced After the overturning of the oil Ae at cereay eaeree a ae kota County Auditors’ association | Tse Sudo gccupied the pulpit, [YAO came here to make a personal will hold n hearing on Muy 2 at 9 ever proud of ‘their noble ancestry, |iamn on the stage inn incredibly he released in 10 days or two eek. convention which opens in Fargoj from there he ealled the names ot | vestigation of the student's disap. [a. Th, One The: DeUE NNO! The Oe ie ee athens coven bertoundi want. (cnet tine. ued? imayatructine amas Me quoted Marcer Verube, next Tueday, will be on an outing; prospective juross to sit in the mur-|fearance, | just before returning} to establish mixed train service be- | United State "ready and willing to | {mae of flames and from a merry Heeet en itee eee Take. Lingle Jas anteohnced, (MEr-cabe. home announced that he had talked |tween Bismarck and Wishek, it was|ing but ever ready and willing tol vathering of neighborhood iriendd cop Ue, 3 a” parole ce Wels Tab, ae Wns AAG with two students who saw Mount | announced today. Structure Soon Consumed contribute their full share to the ; Tetan ts vipers and relatives the hall was converted| fromthe bangles stronghold 8) 86yo | a laren Living More Than 6 2" business men will take the an. ! Ay Grison, ausiatant attorney 2M | alive after the class rush of Sept-! Under the petition, according to|glory and welfare of this country,” |inty «place of death, ican GRE Ie aes ant Ra Get | ; ; P 7 Mitors out to By aauay eas coeeteaas iterday\feoinMalls en join. | (mber 21, 1921. |Commissioner MeDonnell, the mlsed|) the AGovernor veld ants sud ere: the} 20, the meantime, without means okt suameiauslanaya an 6ay ret Hel Miles in Consolidated —, morning where the time will be spent cd Stafford Caldwell, of dacksonville,| “There is no question that Mount) train would teave Bismarck for the | evoted to liberty, respecting the | or stemming the blaze, those wi} cio ’ { e OES in fishing, boating and other rei aie i ‘el for the; either alive now or that he com-! south about :15 a, m, and return] constitution, obedient to law and {had escaped or who were attracted| the Chinese troops the bandits; Sehool District Exempt ation, ‘The party will return to kur-| und James R. Skelly, counsel fo mitted suicide," Mr. Fletcher suid,| about 5:45 p.m. ‘The present South | loyal to the flag which stands em-}to the f scene, could only stand. b. blematic of the ideals of our beloved |and see the flames complete. thel country and its institutions, may we {work of destruction helpless to aidJ during all the years prove worthy of | The “more seriously injured. wer our inheritance, appreciative of our! rushed to hospitals at nearby plac will kill one or two of us and send out the bodies.” He said negotiations bandits proceeding hing possible being done. prosecution. L. E, Wade, a state leg- | afternoon. r A a He indi ith the| [School children in a consolidated Tt is expected that virtually all the ; } RUDE SHASSIELINg aWi eB) DRY SEO ea i Perry, as counsel for the defense. | ith every- {School district living more than six | founty auditors of the state will at- | 5 ! : } Refuses to Plead }miles «from school have the edge of tend this convention. An elaborate) wiesinhotham when 4 rae go Frida ted his belief that author-|Soo passenger leaves at 11 the names of the two stu-|and returns at 4250 p: m. dents. | The railroad company, in urging My L, Mount, who testified as | its application, says that there is am, raigned. J \their city cousins. ‘Their, parents! program has been arranged inelud-| 4);. . M j that of her son a skeleton found un-|not much passenger business at this | Wonderful opportunities and everjos, or taken to their homes See, i lean’t he compelled to send them to, ing addresses by several prominent | ang Morning aetused.to ener plea der an Evanston pier, reported to/time\ of the year, and the proposed ready and willing to perform the du-|° ‘The death list reads like a hool, under North Dakota laws, ac- | state offigials. VoE not guilty bertiled Tie aac authorities that word had reached) change would give merchants be-| ties and discharge the obligations in-]of the families of the cbmmun conainrita aM eT, pe a then entered a protest. ‘her that the rocks supposed to have | tween Wishek and Bismarck 4d cident to citizenship in this glorious | amily after family was virtually ‘first ions,! land,” he said jWiped out and in almost every in Q neral, oii | covered the ‘skeleton, were being) freight service in both di b] | Mr. Thorpe’s opinion was made o A nk | removed. An investigation was| which they do not now h H < ‘i stance where parents are listed as {request of Huber D. McLellan, Fer-! | ordered. | People in several towns on the| Has Special Meaning. dead from one to four children per ‘ |g. i | The other development was a let-!South Soo already nave sent in pro- While the 17th of May is fraught ished. Among the dead is County | The opinion says: “Section 1342' ter received at the states attorney's | tests against the proposed change.| with special meaning to people of} Coroner Dixon and his young daugh: ; of the compiled laws of 1913, office signed Leighton Mount. It These include petitions bearing the| Norwegian birth and ancestry, “yet | tor, amended by’ chapter 206 of the § was on the stationery of a Minne! jase of 75 to 100 Napoleon and} since the event that is celebrated is} The teachers at the : school, all Mlontiiwalol Non Daves dor the polis hotel,/but authorities plac shek people and protests from/ but one of the many in the general } whom were saved, are Miss Olli year 1917, is the compulsory school | | little credence in it. | Kintyre, Braddock. growth of the spirit of freedom, it {1on, principal; Miss Esther : eu : Attendance law of this state. Such | Adjutant - General Fraser TPA ——— Braddock people urged as one|is but fitting and proper that some {und Miss Vula 2 Prosser, Condemns Conditions in Flor-| jay specities. when it. shall and. pues Eaniineaiation | Seale Giese Heights ana’ ; round of protest that many people|of the thoughts occasioned by the ! aa +4 A when it shall not upply, the latter! s ifrom that territory come to Bis-) celebration should be expressed in} ida Convict Camps as Dine stated An Weerealowing ite Perch 120 Feet Above | |marck hospitals, and in ease « sick} the lahguage of our adopted coun- | Atrocious uage: | All members of the legislature are} Missouri River H | patient is heing transported the pa- try,” the Governor said in anni | aan shen such transfer is fur-| invited to spend two days with tha : 2 jen wale ater Som eteaeh Sine ie addtess. : AO are | nished tHe compulsoxy attendance! y.4h p; i ; Sie sa ‘ pipe alld preg uacanNe yee St, Pauh May 18—The Putnam] tny shall apply to all. children of Nott! Dakota, National Guard in’ 4 pismarek citizen was amazed) |a mixed train. tory of Norway, including the story | Lumber company at no time coun-| school age living more than 2 1-2/¢#mp at Devils Lake, June 9-24. | to see an object moving on the ton-| | —~-— | of the Viking period and the discov- | ; tenanced, or knew anything about! niles and not to exceed six miles! Adjutant-Genesal Fraser today} most truss of the new bridge, 70 Paris, May 18—The health of An- | McHENRY PLANS POUK FARM | ery of America by Lief Erickson, and the alleged atroetties reported tol 4, school.’ | personally mailed mvitations to all| feet above the bridge roadway and| ddd Mega Poa Towner, N. D., May 18--Bids for, the expeditions into England, Scot- ' have caused the death of Martin Ta- 1 the legislators--162 of them—and{ 120 feet above the water. On look-| drew Bonar Law, according, to infor- | ie sate to McHenry county. of fh ion derived from persons in close compul-j said that many with whom he had | ing again, he discovered it was al mation derive ron PB E . ate we na eae had already assured him they| small boy. And then he saw three| Télation with the British prime min “This is specifi, and without am- biguity. This is the dn’ sory School attendance and the one which governs all school | Will be there. districts. It is, therefore, the op-| The letter of invitation says that; 0" the high truss with apparent) inion of this office that where aj“tents will be erected and cots and| #bandon. child of school age resides more|blankets provided for all members} One man fell srom the bridge; Needs of consumers for eastert than six miles from a school in afof the legislature, many of whom] When it was under construction, 70 S aste: i ‘ ees I rect eae tH hd orebee) URGLARS AT ‘Like T 2 coal if any, should be filled now t eansolidated “school district es have personally assured me they will See amiine Practical. all eel I | ike To Go Bareheaded? Well, You Must Be avoid a coal shortage and highe nly (andi then paranticannoeabateoras workmen on the highest points ofj Insane! :prices next winter, Herbert Hoover] 4} land, Ireland, France, Russia and tract of from 160 to 480 acres, for! Sicily, and culminating on May 17, D t N- use as a poor farm, will he rece 1814 in the drafting of a constitution, or four other boys climbing about ister, is so seriously affected that his |), the commissioners June | the relinquishment of Denmark's re. retirement appears to be only a mat-| i oar yeserves the right to reject am! fusal of Norway to be transferred ter of weeks, or even days. | bids, \ (Continued on Page 3.) bert, North Dakota, in the companys lumber camp at Clara, Fla, This is the definite statement of William O’Brien of St, Paul, presi- dent of the Putnam Lumber com- pany, just returned from Florida where a special «egislative subcom- mittee is investigating the cireum- stances of the death of Martin Ta- bert. Mr. O’Brien#w statement made Hoover Declares it Necessary to Avert Another Short- age Mt However, a proviso is contained on| HH Secretary of Commerce; declared it eneay eee sonal statement for} pelied to send such child to school.”| the invitations to the two lady mem.| the bridge wore life-belts to pro-| TO GET CAS | telegiaieg cent’ th: Gareecee wate u umber company. It is nei ts bers—Mrs, Minnie Craig of Benson| tect them if they , fe fell. Often the, | i ‘and the Board of Railroad Commi jsioners, Mr, Hoover says in hii jmessage to the railrond hoard: “Due to discussion of — railwa ‘rates and other matters lake coal his own personal statement, based PENSIONS PAID county and Miss Nellie Dougherty of | Wind at that height’is\almost enough! Wahpeton, N. D., May 18—Bur- on facts as they Rave come to bim| Grand Forks, N. D., May.48—Thel Ward county.‘ to sweep a man from the bridge.. | siars broke into the Wahpeton post- from his own investigations and in-} gum of $1,661.50 in pensions was paid “They'll have quarters in a down-| The danger of the practice is ap-| office early today and after several quigtes: 5 in G F : ils Lake,” the| Parent and especially with boys un-| ful attempts to crack the | Without any qualification, Mr. 65 mothe#: in Grand Forks coun-j town hotel at Devils Lake I teained In seaticg ateapaiciguee hs | umsecers pts ee : ty during April, 1923, as compared |General said. mal Ne | safe in the money order department, | li regres 4) O’Brien states he is unalterably op-|_>. citizen who called attention of The! i i i is not moving in sfficient volume: A 1,4 id to 56 hi in ‘' Id be guests June departed without obtaining any loot. | Ppt os posed to the convict lease system, as yeni ete aaa ai UD ate heh bf {Tribune to the incident urged that| “" aad it is vital for the protection of th well as the system of corporal pun- S 4 } parents warn their boys” against; i |Northwest States securing coal fro: ishment allowed under. the laws of. any such attempt and declared. that! Hy. GEN BEATS Florida, He hopes the publicity : Jauthorities ought to. watch the! i both aaateme nave recenty received SOUTH DAKOTANS COMING TON. D. —. jisse'sn’sundty to'rerent antes, © SARAZEN, U.S. _ [San Morel runaportaton 74 ° ag have ee J ' cting coal at lower docks wi rl Reem vin ele abolitidn by ‘the d beled Pier hee ae Teed eae Hye GOLF CHAMP: By NEA Service. and submit them to a line of ques- | be available between now and ‘Sep The Putnam Lumber company, Mr, : 10 H se ; RN hah | Benttle, May 18. sone AL visit | tioning that has a suspicious ring to tember than after that date. Uni O’Brien said does not use convict birdie pares " Leeds, England, May 18.—Walter | Seattle be sure to bring along your certain conditions in coal trade see: labor now, nor-did it, when it first eRe. W: Hagen, holder of the British open | hat. Otherwise a policeman is liable |‘ i to point tedhe neces started erationnt ee South ‘Dakota is coming into North | to speak from the same platform in BANKERS WILL | golf title, will meet R. C. Jolly of | to approach you cautiously and say| “Why have you no hat? lake docks that large tonnag should be moved through entire sea| yy for doc! companies being reinforced wi “For a comparatively short period] Dakota to learn how, to do it. New. Salem with the ‘Governor of ATT) NORTHWEST | Fox Grove, Englgnd, in the final | with a smile: _,| ,“Why are you walking around the definite undertakings on part \of time,” Mr, O'Brien said, “the Put-| 4 caravan of the sister state's. rep- | North Dakota, R. A. Nestos. \ D LOPMENT. match in the professional tourna-| “Come King, the Queen awaits] streets with your head naked? , |Purchasers. ‘It seems to me high nam Lumber company did employ a AD 91 P: The South Dakota bunch will leave EVE! | ment here. Hagen this afternoon de-! you!" 2 ‘ Those are dirty questions, aren’t | desirable that Your Body should giv \ convict gang whien worked. side by| "sentative business men and farm- | weroughlin on June 12 and visit four eee ' I teated Gene Sarazen, American open. For in the ABC's of Seattle police | they? _ | matter consideration especially. sr { side with free labor in the logging] ers, with the governor of that state | farms on the Flasher circuit—Wm.| Minot, N. D., May 18.—Develop- | champion, 3 to 1 in the semi-finals. | instruction, according to words attri-| Naturally the students are indig-|view to undertaking some organize i operations near Clara.” expected at the head, will visit the | Vogels, Lew Havens, Cotner. Bros. Northwipitern North buted to Chief Severyns, a hatless| nant, But when pressed for an ex-' steps to induce large consumers t Martin Tabert, in Mr. O’Brien’s be-| Flasher Holstein Dairy* Circuit on |.and Sawtell and. Stqwell, where din- | Dakota was: given impetus yesterday McTIGUE MATCHED. man walking on a’street is a likely | planation the chief replied: [make committments for consumptio lief, based on the opinion and testi-| June 12 and 13. ner will be served. On June 13 the} when the northwest group meeting} Chicago, May 18.—Mike McTigue, | candidate for an insane asylum. “Well, the cops have good reason and storage thus stimulating mony of Dr. Jones of Clara, Fla., and] From Flasher the majority of the party will go to New Salem. | of the bankers’ association adopted] conqueror of Battling Siki for the] Students of University of Wash-| for stopping, them. Bareheadedness movement, Any organized © moy others, died from pneumonia. “Dr.| caravan will continue into New Sa- Mans are being made by extension | a report Pepsin that the sec-| world’s light heavyweight champion-| ington are having their troubles. | is the first sign of insanity. We cap-|ment showki be undertaken in vi Jones of Clara is a highly reputable| lem for the annual picnic of the | workers of the Agricultural College | retary-treagurer of the association be | ship, was signed to box here June| They believe in conventions all right,| ture most of our lunaties in that | operation with dock companies. d an esteemed man in his com-| New Salem Holstein Breeder's Cir-| to enlist the greatest number that| authorized to draw. on the banks ot| 12, but his opponent has not-been| but can’t be” convinced that going | manner.” ' HERBERT HOOVER” Frvnien” Mr. O'Brien said, * and 1} cuit. ‘ ever made a dairy tour in North Da- | section of the state for fuhds to] selected.. Harry Greb, former Amer-| without a hat on a nice, sunshiny So-DO come to Seattle! You MUST $ d f have’ every reason to believe his There’ the Goyernor of South Da-| kota, for the tour of the two success- | aid’in the: publicity ‘and development | ican ight,,heavyweight champion is| day is exactly a crime. ‘ cone over! But bring along your statement.” kota, Wi H, MeMaster, is expected | ful ‘circuits. ©’ °/ sf wok ete 1 under consideration, a] Yt they claim’ cops will stop them ! hat \ ' *. . aaa SaeT First. passenger soe was into use in 4813.